This is a simple holiday craft made out of left over party hats from M’s 3rd birthday. Sorry for the blurry photo! I haven’t quite got the hang of how to take no-flash night photos.
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Meeting Bob, our Elf on the Shelf!
Breakfast at our house this morning was anything but ordinary, thanks to our little surprise guest! This is the first year we have introduced Elf on the Shelf to M and little B, and his arrival was a big hit (well, for M at least). M decided to name him Bob; Not Buddy, or Sparkles, or Elvin, just Bob. So Bob showed up for breakfast bearing gifts of powdered doughnuts and fruit, and lots of hand-cut paper snowflakes!
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This week M and I have been working with the letter B and performing activities using buttons. He made a collage out of pictures with the initial /b/ sound, sorted buttons by size and shape, made a tactile letter B for his word-wall out of buttons, and played with a button snake to foster his fine-motor development.
Snowball Words
M has been working on spelling his name and a few small words such as ‘cat’, ‘dog’ and, more recently, ‘snow’. I thought it might be fun for him to do a tactile word-work activity using snowballs (small, balled-up pieces of a cotton ball).
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Last week the temperature was quite frigid and a thick blanket of snow covered the ground. When M opened the front door he was greeted by a couple of frosty friends…
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