It's Thursday!

Today we were gifted with a cool new (to us) educational toy by a family friend.

vtech alphabet picture desk

The Activities: (8 activities and 80 animations!)
-Learn Letters, Numbers and Shapes:  Says the name of the shape, number or letter.
-Find Letters, Numbers and Shapes:  Asks child to find a certain letter, etc.
-Learn Before and After:  Asks what comes before or after a letter, etc.
-Learn Some Words:  Introduces child to more than 60 words
-Learn the Pictures: Reinforces words and their beginning letters
-Missing Letter:  Practice spelling skills
-Spelling: Combine letters to make a word
-Music:  Press a Number Button for a musical note. The 10 numbers become a musical key pad.  Press a Shape Button to hear a melody ("The Alphabet Song", "If You're Happy", "The Bus Song",  "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly")  Press a Letter Button to hear funny sound effects.

It is a big hit with both kids. She also crocheted the kids two cats for Halloween, also a big hit!

Thanks A!

Last night after dinner we quickly ran out to find the perfect leaf for our project today.

Today we worked on our Autumn & Astronaut books. J narrated the facts he wanted to include in the book.

He also colored and helped construct an astronaut!

Of course we practiced writing the letter Aa & the number 1.

We reviewed our A words (which he remembered correctly!)

We practiced rhyming words and colored the pictures rojo and azul.

He also did a quick independent worksheet where he matched the capital letters with the lowercase letters.

You can find this worksheet here.

Caitlin wasn't into anything but the astronaut part, and even that was short lived.