Beary and the Letter I

This week was Zachariah’s turn to bring home “Beary” the class teddy bear. Beary goes on a Bear Hunt every week to find the letter of the week. This week is Letter I. The following was entered into Zachariah’s class journal about our adventure!!

Zachariah was very excited to have beary as his VIP friend.

Shortly after arriving at our house, Zachariah and Beary sat down and watched Imagination Movers and played musical instruments together.

Then, we had a special “I” supper. Mommy made our chicken strips look like the letter I and then served us shaved Ice for our drink. Zachariah and Beary had blue ice.

After supper, Zachariah helped Beary find all the pictures in an I-Spy book.

After Daddy got home, Zachariah, Beary and Mommy went on a special adventure in the rain! First, we went to the Library to find books that started with the letter I...we found two books. An Island In The Soup and The Incredible Shrinking Teacher named Irma. Both books are very good books. Then we went to Borders to pick out a special book because Zachariah earned 5 happy heart stickers for obeying his mommy and Mrs. Janet! He picked out the book Curious George goes to an Ice Cream Shop. Zachariah wanted some ice cream, but it was too cold..so Mommy bought hot chocolate instead. Yum! Lastly, we stopped at Walmart to buy supplies for a special “I” cooking project for Tuesday.

After breakfast Tuesday morning, Zachariah and beary made an Island picture to help them learn about the letter I.

Thank you to No Time For Flashcards for this activity!

http://http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/

Then we made I shaped cookies for the whole class. Yummy!

Then We went outside to look for insects.

For lunch, mommy used an iron to make a grill cheese sandwich. She didn't even have to put it in a pan. She just wrapped the sandwich in wax paper and then ironed it. It was so cool.

After nap time, Mommy read us a book about Indians. She said we would learn more about Indians in November. She also taught us that pictures are also called illustrations.

She also found a few more I books on her bookshelf, I Love You the Purplest, I Heard Said the Bird, I'm a Little Teapot, and I Call My Hand Gentle. She saved these for our Tuesday night babysitter to read to us, before tucking us into bed!

Ps...I am 34 inches tall!

An Interesting Mom Experiment

 

I have not had much luck getting my kids to eat raw carrots. I have bought them in the past, offered them to the kids, and end up throwing them in with a roast because they would not eat them. They will eat them cooked. So I was shopping at Target the other day and saw…..

Hmmmm….Would this really work? They were selling for a little over a dollar…so I thought it would be a fun experiment to see if they would eat

“Lightning McQueen” carrots. I have seen the Disney characters on tasty items, apples, spaghetti o’s etc…but have never wanted to spend the extra money, because my kids will eat the generic items for a fraction of the cost. I will also add the movie “Cars” is the first movie that the boys would sit down and watch from start to finish. It totally holds their attention.

So did it work? You be the judge….

Levi, my more picky eater…normally won’t even taste something different…he ate most of his. Zachariah, dipped his and kept licking the ranch dressing off.  I didn’t take Ava’s picture b/c I didn’t buy one for her…and she kept saying “Cars…Mommy, where’s my Cars?” She did eat them too!

Blogging Vacation?

Well....not on purpose! And for those of you who are my facebook friends, this entry is old before its even written. I feel like I have not done much "blog worthy" lately. I finished up an interim job I have been working, helping with a consignment sale...and when ask what to do with my time...a facebook friend told me I should update my blog! LOL! So here goes....last weekend, we had family photos done. This is always a nightmare with 3 young ones...and I think back to my own childhood, my parents tried to get us photographed with the family dogs and cats. Crazy! However, one very special photographer captured some beautiful triple smiles:) She is a member of my Mops group. (Mothers of Preschoolers) who donated her time to take family pictures for our group. I am including some of my favorites in this post!

Kym’s blog is

http://portraitsbykym.blogspot.com/

After our session, I let the boys enjoy taking off their shoes and socks…and have some fun in the water! 

Meanwhile….Little Missy stayed put on the bridge!