Letters – Page 2

Letter of the week: Q!

June 13, 2015June 13, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This letter of the week was interesting to say the least, because not a lot of things start with the letter Q!

Queen was a previous obvious way to start off learning the letter, because she has heard of that example many more times then some of the others. She loved trying to dress like a queen, even though it is very similar to how a princess dresses in her eyes. She seemed to catch on that a Queen gets to wear “really big hats and big dresses” lol!

Q is also for quiet, which we probably need to practice more often. I tried to teach her that especially during nap time when she’s laying with mommy, we don’t talk until the nap is over, so we don’t lose track of our main focus…sleep. She has actually done pretty well with being quiet at certain times, and even is getting better at whispering! Score! We will see how well she does at church, but for now progress is progress. 🙂

One of the last main subjects that I touched on was that Q could also stand for quail! It’s kind of funny, because I am not really sure why so many examples of quail are in many of her baby learning activities instead of queen or any kind of easier word. A Quail is “a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes.” To say that we have probably never seen one in person, is probably an accurate statement. Whenever we would go out to a restaurant or somewhere in general where Q was present, Brielle would go “Q for quail”!

I really enjoyed this letter of the week, and Brielle picked up so fast which made it even more fun! I am very excited about next week which we will definitely be talking about Rochelle a lot! 🙂

Here are a few examples of what we did. We practiced tracing, choosing the correct letter on the fridge, finding Q on her little computer, reading books and finding the letter throughout the words, and just a lot of recognition with practice. 🙂

Q found on the fridge :) — Q found on the fridge 🙂

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Letter of the week: O!

May 30, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This letter of the week was a fun teaching week, since so many things start with O that she already loves! The letter O is kind of interesting in that it’s so hard to teach a toddler the difference between a circle and the letter O. I kept having to tell her when she is learning shapes it’s called a circle and when practicing the alphabet it’s called the letter O.

Octopus was one of the first things I started with, because she had just went to the ocean with my parents the week before and I shown her lots of different pictures of things she might see when she was there. Of course, teaching her that ocean started with the same letter, made her trip that much more fun! She was well prepared that O stood for those two things when she went with my parents! 🙂

Orange was also something that she loved to learn! She loves to peel oranges and those little nectarines are so fresh and in season right now that Brielle calls them baby oranges when she sees them. Papa taught her how to peel and orange and now that is one of her favorite things to do when she is helping in the kitchen is to “peel” things. Orange being a color made for some fun activities as well, since she has some pretty cute orange clothes for the summer and when she was coloring I would tell her “show me the orange crayon” and she would pick it up and say “right here!” so precious.

Oscar was a MAJOR thing with Brielle since that is the name of our Cat. She absolutely LOVES him to pieces, and it’s sad that he doesn’t exactly feel the same way towards her. So I made up the song “O is for Oscar, my favorite favorite pet” and she would sing it over and over again every time she saw him. We are already a new letter this week and she still will say the song! She seriously loves him, and I know one day, he will show her the same love in return. 🙂

I know this week was fun and I will leave you with a few cute pictures of the week, and definitely tune in for next week, since P is coming up! 🙂

tracing mommy's letter — tracing mommy’s letter

she will say "O is for scary Owl" — she will say “O is for scary Owl”

Brielle is very orderly! She has to do these her way.. even my hair! :) — Brielle is very orderly! She has to do these her way.. even my hair! 🙂

She picked the letter O out on her stickers and decided to trace them!

She picked O out on her computer! :) — She picked O out on her computer! 🙂

She ran from the fridge and put O in her little dog house and played the song for the letter! So cute.

Look at the letter O! Oscar, Octopus, Orange!

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Letter of the week: N

May 23, 2015May 23, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

WOW! I can’t even believe that we are already half way through the alphabet!! CRAZY how fast time is flying! I seriously think she is definitely picking up on a lot of them, she is even spelling words (sometimes in the right order, sometimes not) and I am shocked that she is including letters that we have not been over yet! My little girl is learning so much!

This week was interesting, because not a lot of fun things start with the letter N! So I had to get creative on what words I was really going focus on teaching her, and what things I think she would be most interested in learning. She loves animals and I could not come up with one!

First off, I started out by teaching her that Nana starts with the letter N! She absolutely loved it even more when I made it into a song and said “N-A-N-A spells your ____ and I taught her to say NANA!” So we would sing it periodically, and I even got to show Nana through video chat what we were working on before we saw her in person, and Nana was so excited!

Then I taught her that “no” starts with the letter N as well. So I would sign it (No) and I would say “what word did I sign? What letter does it start with?” She loves signing yes and no, and she loved that little activity. She is picking up on more signs which I am so excited about! 🙂

Behavior has been a big issue lately (you know, another one of those toddler stages) and I figured what better time than to just introduce her behavior with being nice with our letter of the week! I would say “Brielle, we have to be nice, do you know what letter nice starts with?” She would sometimes say it right, but some other times, she would say M! haha It was kind of hilarious.

I really wish I would have had more time to spend teaching that letter, but she seemed to pick it up pretty quickly! I am so glad that she is loving to still learn about the alphabet, and I can only hope that will retain at least half or more of all of the letters in the end! 🙂

Here are a few cute pictures from tracing, coloring, signing, and singing songs, and playing with the magnets on the fridge.

Nasty! (She really is obsessed with water!)

She found N on the fridge all by herself :) — She found N on the fridge all by herself 🙂

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Letter of the week: M

May 17, 2015May 18, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

Well this week was fun, since we recently went to the zoo, it was definitely easy for her to finish my sentence when I said “M is for…” and Brielle yells “monkey!”. It was definitely fun to teach her that some of her favorite things start with this exact letter. 🙂

Mommy was of course one of the first things/words that I taught her that started with the letter M. I mean come on, how many times a day does she say it?? It was probably about time that she figured out that it started with an M! She did get confused when she noticed that there were so many of the same letter in one word.. haha it was so cute!

Milk is commonly used in our house as well, so she was so happy when she saw that the it started with her letter of the week! She was like “look mommy Mmmmm for Milk” it was adorable. She definitely will recognize it when we are out and about as well, so that makes it a fun adventure when we run errands! 🙂

Move is another word that either she is using, or we are. She likes to see Nana and Papa’s “nake” (their stuffed animal snake) move (while she shuffles her feet side to side) and she loved showing me that M was for move! It was so precious to see her pick up on things this week.

Mickey Mouse, M&M’s, Mountain Lion are just a few of the examples that were given with the letter as well this week.

She also colored the letter, found the letter on the fridge, we practiced it on the wall, tracing, drawing a monkey (which to her is a bunch of zig-zags on a piece of paper lol), and when she draws the people in her family (I usually just draw mommy, daddy, lamar, rochelle, brielle and she likes to put all of her cousins, aunts, and uncles in their as well which is so precious!) and signing the letter we practiced a lot but I don’t think her it’s quite there yet! We will keep trying. 🙂

Brielle even is recognizing the letters more often, which is great because I know all of the hard work I am putting into teaching her with new different and creative ideas and I am always trying to come up with more. I can’t wait to see what next week brings! 🙂