V is for...

VALENTINE!! You knew I could not resist. I mean really, how many 'V' things are there to do a craft about?!?!?! To learn the letter V and have some craft-y fun, we used stamps, fun foam and glitter. I usually have a strict "no glitter" policy due to the fact that glitter stays for a LONG time, but it's Val Day!!! :)

First, here is Jacob gluing on his big lacy heart.
Then came the learning. The boys have been able to orally spell their name for a long, long time. They can recognize the 5 letters in both of their names and frequently see them on building, billboards, grocery shelves. I totally love to hear them see a letter they know - the teacher in me is happy! At Mardel the other day, Jacob said, "I starts with M for Mommy." Then Rylan chimed in, "And it has a R for me and D for Daddy. I am sad it has no J for you brother." I love those boys!

So here was the learning part...oh, another side note to all parents for small children. When you teach your child to write his/her name use ONLY ONE CAPITAL LETTER!!! The teacher in me gets up on my huge box of Tide could go on for hours, but I will simply say this in this forum, teach them correctly, so their teacher does not have to un-do it and teach re-teach the most important word in their little worlds - their name! :)

Back to my boys... I know they say the letters and recognize the letters of both their names, but I wanted to see if they could sequence them using lower case too. So on a big foam heart I wrote the capital letter and on smaller hearts I wrote one lower case letter per heart. We "mixed and fixed" their names several times before sticking the hearts down. They did pretty good - not mastered, but still fun for them.


And their beautiful "V is for Valentine" projects!