Nov. 1-15, 2009

Another two week post here. I am getting a little behind. Gabi hasn't been sleeping well so instead of staying up and blogging I have been taking any sleep I can get. She is getting better so here I am at 11:30pm squeezing in an update on what we have been up to for the last 2 weeks.

• Lili has been writing her name so I thought I would use a fun and messy activity to see if I could spark an interest for her to write some other letters. We made chocolate pudding and spread some out on a plate and wrote letters and our names in the pudding with our fingers. I gave Gabi a small plate of pudding as well to dive into and boy did she! It was a mess, but a fun mess. Lili wrote her name over and over and drew some lines and circles but no interest in learning to write any other letters. Oh well, in time we will get there. The pudding was yummy :)
  

• Blue and red make PURPLE!!! Lili learned how to mix colors today. We used water with food coloring and mixed colors together to see what we would get. We made purple, orange, green and of course, black :) She had to see what would happen if she mixed all the colors together.

• We drew a life size Lili! I had Lili lay down on a large piece of paper and I traced around her. We drew her face and hair on it and labeled all of the parts of the body.
• Lili is really into "projects", as she calls them. Anything involving paper, markers, paint, stickers, etc...is a huge hit. Even after we are done with school for the day she will sometimes ask to do another project.
• We are getting started on addition and subtraction. Robb has been introducing this concept for a little while now. We have been doing math using toys such as cars, legos, etc... She is doing well and now learning the terms add, subtract, plus, minus and equals.
• We are learning our address. Grammy R. and Aunt Laurie sent Lili mail so she could see her name and address on the mail. Then we made pretend mail with different addresses for me and Gabi. Lili got to be the mail carrier and deliver the mail to the correct mail box. She had to match the address on the mail to the address on the mail boxes we made from empty tissue boxes. She had a blast being the mail carrier and hopefully it will help her learn her address. We are still working on our phone number as well.
• We tried a bubble painting activity that I saw online but had trouble getting it to work. Lili doesn't have a lot of patience with things that do not work out so she was done with it right when I started getting it to work a little. That is about all you can expect from a 3 year old.
• We traced our hands and colored them like turkeys for Thanksgiving. Lili enjoyed this. It was like a project! :)
• She is still reading her book set and we are on book #14 I believe. Only a few more to go in this set. Then I will have to look into the next level for her.

We are all still enjoying school and looking forward to more holiday activities coming up. I will be on the hunt for winter/Christmas "projects".