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Letter of the week: V!

July 19, 2015July 19, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This week was so fun, because like I have mentioned before, Brielle picks up on the unique letters way better than the more common letters.

We started out with the example that V stood for vulture! I think to myself why I started with that, and honestly I have no clue because Brielle has never seen a vulture or even really been shown a lot of pictures, so that was definitely a learning experience for her. When she saw the pictures and the video on youtube of one, she immediately said that it was “scary” and added her cute little “rawr” every time we mention “V is for vulture”.

The next day (coincidentally) mom traded in her truck for a van and it seemed to work out perfectly with our letter of the week! So anytime she would see a van that looked like “Nana’s van” she would say “look mommy V for van!” and it was so cute! I think she thought I was saying B a lot of the times instead of V, and had to teach her the difference with my pronunciation and the way we say both of the letters to show her the difference between the two. She also learned the sign for V (which is the number 2), so I think she somehow correlated that there was 2 of anything when I asked “How many letters do you see that looked like this? (and I would be signing the letter V) and would say 2, even if there were 5 letter V’s on the picture!” haha

The last word that we mainly focused on was vegetables. I think for her the word sounds so different because the v practically blends in with the word, that it took her a while to understand that “vegetables start with the letter v”. She has definitely become a great helper in the kitchen with chopping up vegetables (or pretending to be) or cutting up fruit, that I knew she would benefit a lot from one of those play kitchens since she already has so much pretend food in a grocery cart that she pushes around the house. I found a great one for only $30 and she would love to go around telling me all about her vegetables and what she was going to cook for me, and how she was going to mix them together to “make it delicious” which I am guessing she has probably heard us say a few times, lol! It’s so cute to watch your kids use their imagination for play.

Overall, learning this week went well, and she caught on rather quickly. We also traced, cut out the letter, colored pictures, read stories, practiced her alphabet book and once she found the letter she would get a sticker, played a game where she would have to circle “all the letter v’s on the page” and she loved it. She is so smart, and we are getting rather close to the end of the alphabet! I can’t believe it!!

Here are a few pictures from this week:

She found the correct letter in her alphabet book!

Alphabet, Brielle, learning

Letter of the week: U!

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This week was fun, just because U is such a unique letter and there are only really a few good examples you can give when learning this letter of the alphabet.

Of course, we started out with U is for Umbrella. Umbrella’s are something that children usually don’t get to mess with, mainly because of the fact that there tiny little fingers can easily get pinched when opening or closing one. Brielle understood that we only use one when it’s raining outside, so she LOVED it when I got to show her how it opened/closed and how to clasp the little cover over it to make sure that it stayed close. The way she says umbrella is so cute as well, I loved when she would say “U is for umbrella!”

Unicorn is another example I used, knowing that it would come with a lot of questions. She kept them a horse and would say “look mommy it’s a U for horse!” So, in theory that really didn’t work well, but I fully believed in them when I was a kid and they are just so beautiful! I showed her so many pictures, and she would say “wow such a beautiful horse” lol! So, when I knew that example wouldn’t really stick, I went something more attainable.

Uniform was the last example I gave, because I knew with having my brother’s picture from when he was active duty in the Marine Corps, she would understand what it was. She loved to go around showing Nathan’s picture to Daddy, and to a few people through video chat as well. 🙂 So happy that both sides of our family have served/are serving in different branches of the military, so giving her examples of Shane’s brother, and Dad were pretty easy! So thankful that they have chosen to serve for this beautiful Country we live in!

We also still practiced tracing, of course learning in her games, playing puzzles, coloring, making blocks in the shape of the letter U, and doing her favorite alphabet activity which is going through her alphabet book (the one everyone made her from her 2nd birthday party) and finding the new letter of the week! She actually got like 12 or so letters correct the last time we flipped through it all, which is pretty awesome! 🙂

Here are a few pictures from the week: FYI I wish I had taken a picture of Brielle carrying around my brother’s picture! 🙂

trying to trace/draw the letter U on her own

"color only the letter u" — “color only the letter u”

Alphabet, Brielle

Letter of the week: T!

July 5, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This weeks teaching lasted me about 1 1/2 weeks due to me working so much and not being home to actually sit down and teach her the letter enough for her to learn it well.

We first started with T for turtle, since she thinks they are such cute animals, I knew she would love to know that turtles started with the letter T! We actually got to go to the Corpus Christi Aquarium and she saw a HUGE one, swimming in the water and she loved it! I think it was probably as big as she was, so that was definitely pretty neat!

T was also for tasty since she will try JUST about anything! I would ask her to tell me if something was tasty that starts with a T, and she would grab something that she loves to eat and tell me “that’s tasty!”. One thing that amazed me was much she has tried in her short little life of just being two years old. One of her favorite things when we go to restaurants to eat is the spicy salsa, and people are so amazed that she loves such spicy stuff at two years old. When my parents took her to out to eat when they were on vacation not to long ago, they ordered SUPER spicy/hot shrimp, and Brielle definitely loved it!

T is for twirling was the third thing that we focused on. Brielle loves to pretend to be a Princess, and they twirl a lot. So I would say “well Brielle, can you tell what the word twirl starts with?” and she would go “t for twirl” and she would spin, and spin, and spin.. haha! It was so cute to dress her in her poofy dresses/skirts and let her practice her new word to the fullest!

I think the last thing that I really focused on was teaching her that her toungue started with the letter T! She LOVED showing me her tongue, and had this weird thing where she would actually lick things using her tongue. She wouldalso say “T for tongue” and show me her food (which was definitely not the most appealing thing I have ever seen, haha!) . She actually asked her cousin Emma to show her, her tongue and they definitely touched tongues (GROSS!) lol! Hey, she is a toddler now so she gets away with crazy things, but they are so cute together.

Overall, this week and a half was a great learning experience and I cannot wait until we get to start learning the letter U!

We also did reading, writing, coloring books, puzzles, and tons of fun activities while learning this letter.

Here are some pictures from the week!

The letter T in her alphabet book from her birthday!

trying to write T! "down and across" — trying to write T! “down and across”

Alphabet, Brielle, Letters

Letter of the week: S!

June 27, 2015June 29, 2015by Sheridan JohnsonLeave a Comment

This week was fun in general, because I got to spend a lot of time just having fun with so many examples since the letter S is everywhere!

Of course, I taught her that Mommy’s first name Sheridan starts with the letter S! So we practiced spelling it and the way she says my name has got to be the most adorable thing, ever (it sounds like shur-den)! Sometimes I will even catch her now saying “my mommy Sheridan” lol. I then would let her find the letter S around the house and if she saw my name somehwere she would “look mommy S for Sheridan!”

S is incorporated into our daily learning time with shapes, and we focused a lot on them this week. She knew her basics like circle, square, star, etc., but I really wanted to focus on the unique ones like oval, hexagon, octagon, and rhombus. It didn’t take long before he picked them up and we even had apps on our little samsung note tablet that she would practice and got really good at! She also loved to see a stop say and say what it was, every.single.time we passed by one! 🙂

S is for sweet, which can be used in different ways like the way she is acting, or even her love for sweet tasting foods. If you asked her which one she would prefer, it would definitely be the foods. She loves her dessert, so since this week happened to be the week of her birthday, she got to tell Daddy what dessert she wanted, and she picked brownies and loved them! The way she acts lately at times, is at times, not so sweet. I was really trying to get her to understand that being sweet to others, will allow others the opportunity to be back to you, and well let’s just say it will require a lot more work and patience with that one.

S was also used in the example for swimming. My parents have taken her a lot to the San Marcos indoor pool, and she LOVES to swim! So they have taught her how to do starfish, and practice floating, along with some other skills that help her every day in the pool. She has gone almost every week since about May/June and she will continue to go probably until the pools close down for the summer. We got to take her to the splash pad as well and she had a blast, so water is a must for this girl of ours.

She also loved learning her favorite things such as singing, snakes, and stamps also started with the letter S!

Here are a few pictures of our letter of the week, I loved it!