C Week ~ Day 2

You may notice that sometimes we do a lot of worksheets. While I, personally, am not much of a worksheet fan, Faith and Lily both love to do them, so we occassionally have days where we do a bunch. Sometimes I print things off the night before and leave them out on the kitchen table with the boxes of crayons, markers and pencils. My girls tend to be early risers and often ask first thing in the morning if they can color or draw, so this gives them something focused to do when we're working on a theme, and it's a way to find time to work on the theme when we're busy.    

                          

Faith is showing Lily how to trace the Cs.
I love watching her "teach" her little sister!

Today the girls came to the table in the morning to find a coloring and C tracing page. They told me what the pictures were and colored them. They also traced the Cs. The girls also made C Itsy Bitsy Books, which I had already cut and assembled for them. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of these. The only thing I disliked was that they wrote out the hard C sound as "cuh," which is incorrect. It is simply /k/. (no "uh"). But since I read it to the girls, I made the sound correctly, and then they copied me as they read it again and again.

Faith is tracing her Cs.

Today we had plans with our friends, so we went to cool off at the splash pad with our comrades.

At dinner we reviewed the sounds of C again, and I introduced the /ch/ digraph. We were having cheeseburger pasta, so it worked out well. I made a picture of C and H holding hands, and then we brainstormed a list of words. (Of course CH doesn't always say /ch/; it sometimes says /k/ like in Chrzanowski, so that makes things even more confusing!) Faith is really getting the hang of the different sounds of C (she tells me "hard C" whenever we say something starts with C and it makes the /k/ sound), and Abby needed a bit of a challenge to come up with more words.

Ignore the misspelled words! I was eating and trying to keep Caleb quiet while I wrote!

After dinner the girls were able to do a few more easy C-related projects. They used cotton balls to make Cs. They also made pictures of Larry the Cucumber. They colored and cut, and I was very impressed with how well Lily cut out her Larry body!

I love tactle projects like this.

Coloring the pieces of Larry.

Lily did such an impressive job of cutting!

Faith's Larry the Cucumber. She cut hers out, too.

At story time, we discovered something neat about the book Lily chose to read. On one side it had the word castle, and on the other side it had the word Cinderella. One side with a hard C, and one side with a soft C. She thought that was fabulous! We also read the C books one last time before bed.

Tomorrow we are off to the zoo, so I am sure we will be on the lookout for C animals! I also want to make a cat out of paper plates, but we'll see how wiped the kids are when we get home!

And despite the fact that my pictures show my children in their pajamas constantly, they do actually get dressed! After playing at the beach or on the slip and slide, they are usually covered in sand or mud and have baths before dinner. Plus, of course they do activities first thing in the morning before breakfast most days! :)