ABC's

So, as I mentioned in my last post, Emma is really picking up on her letter identification. She is impressing me with it, really. The last week we've done several things. On Emma's birthday we made her a princess crown with the foamy stickers and then we decorated other things with the stickers also. Great fine motor practice to peel the paper off the back and Alex was picking out letters to spell her name. One problem I am noticing is that while she always gets all the letters, they are sometimes backwards. I think that is normal, right? I just try to correct her and remind her that they go from left to right. She's been working in her workbooks tracing letters and we've had a lot of fun with the DoodlePros that Emma got for her birthday. We write a letter and then think of a word that starts with it, then they want me to draw a picture of it. That is interesting sometimes... but they seem satisfied with my art. We've done their speech homework... practicing past tense and using the pronoun 'she' and also sequencing events. We've continued talking about Spring and drawing suns, flowers, grass, trees, rain, etc. We have had fun getting to play outside lately, but now it is cooler and rainy and we are stuck inside. Nonnie got Emma garden tools and seeds for her birthday, so we are planning a gardening day sometime soon. On Saturday we are going to the UofA horse festival with Nonnie. The girls have been around horses a lot in their life, but it is great to see them in different situations and realize that they are used and appreciated in so many different ways. Tomorrow we are going to the DaySpring movie at the theater here in Siloam, they have quite a few friends that will be there also.