This week with Lili and Gabi

Wow! This week flew by. It was a pretty laid back week compared to our busy schedule for our vacation last week. We are still working on our Now I'm Reading set. Lili just finished book #4 and received her sticker! She is still excited about learning to read and asks how to spell words all the time. Today we were out shopping and she spelled the store name off the building and asked what it spelled...PETCO!! We got 2 new fish :)

This week we...

• Made obstacle course/lines with rope. We had to follow the rope while doing different actions such as bouncing a ball or carrying an egg in a spoon (a play kitchen egg that is).
• Played a matching game with upper and lower case letters from our felt board. Lili has them all down except an occasional slip up with lower case b's, d's and p's. I think they all look to similar to her, she mixes them up sometimes.
• We made cardboard stencils of a circle, square, triangle and diamond and used the stencils to draw those shapes and color them.
• We did "magic" watercolor painting. We wrote on white paper with white crayons and then painted our paper to see the white crayon picture we drew appear.
• There is a new show on channel 11 called Dinosaur Train. Lili has always been a fan of dinosaurs but it has escalated. She loves the new show and playing the games for the show on PBS's website. Since Lili was finished with this weeks plans I added some dinosaur work for her at the end of the week. We printed out a dinosaur cut and paste project. It was a stegosaurus that we colored, cut and glued and it stands on its own. Then we collected all of Lili's play dinosaurs and set up the play-doh so Lili could make dinosaur foot prints in the play-doh. This was her favorite activity so far. She spent time doing this that morning and again in the afternoon. It was a hit! Here is a pic of her and her dinosaurs.

• We went to story hour at a local bookstore. We have been going for several weeks now on Friday mornings. They read a story, do a craft, play a game and have a snack. Lili has a great time and enjoys playing in the children's area of the store. They have toys!

Gabi is learning new things daily it seems now. She can get on and off Lili's ride on pony all my herself, she climbed up onto the couch all by herself and now wants to use spoons and forks by herself. She found a way to reach a cup of yogurt from the table while in her highchair and figured out the spoon very quickly. She finished off the yogurt. Most made it into her mouth but by the end she had also had a nice facial :) What a big girl!

That was our week. Time to plan next week. I need to add more to our plans for next week since Lili is speeding through everything. It is nice to be able to add to our schedule based on interests that pop up. Like the dinosaurs this week. I may add more dinosaur activities again since she is enjoying it so much. Thanks for reading!