Elegantly Simple Odds & Ends: {Bean} School

As a child being raised in an office {The Bean} has learned many useful skills like using a garage door opener to open the gate, how to drive the golf cart, how to sweep out a unit, and that she must be quiet while I'm on the phone. But a two year old can only take so many hours of watching TV and napping. Just like anyone else, she gets bored sitting around all day with nothing to do. So with back to school time came {Bean} School. Each week we will be working on the name and sound of each letter along with art and craft projects and some sort of experiment or sensory activity. She can already name most of the letters when I point to them which is why I decided to add the sounds.

Week 1 {Aa}
This was the first week so she was still excited to color with me rather then do it alone or make me do it alone. She always really enjoys painting so we did a little paint project. For our experiment we did a sparkly vinegar and baking soda volcano. I got the inspiration for this project {here}. At some point I would like to somehow match our activity to the letter of the week {like S for sparkly or V for volcano} but for now we'll stick with doing whatever we feel like at the time.

Earlier in the day she had gone with me to the doctor where we talked through the experience of them drawing my blood. So when she was painting she kept commenting on how the red paint looked like blood.

Thanks to the following for letting us take something from your closets!

http://preschoolpowolpackets.blogspot.com/

www.activitycoloringpages.com

http://www.jumbocoloring.info/index.html

Week 2 {Bb}

During {Bb} week we practiced the sound of the letter B more than the first week. She had picked up on the A sound so quickly and so well she kept saying it for B. We also talked about words that start with B. For our activity we made cloud sand (a homemade variation of moon sand that I found here.) {The Bean} LOVED the cloud sand but it turned out to be super messy. Luckily we did it outside although you could vacuum it up easy enough. We discussed how the sand felt {soft}, how it smelled {good}, how it looked {white}, and all on her own she discovered what it tasted like {yummy}. I only made a half batch since it uses a lot of flour but we were still able to save enough from being spread across the sidewalk to play with it another day.