Learning is fun: Letter H

Letter H was not our most popular craft. The girl who, just a few weeks ago, was absolutely in love with glue and sticking things to other things found the stuff totally offensive this week. She enjoyed tracing and watching me cut out her hands, she liked coloring the hands, but gluing them down she could have done without. Just when I think I've got her all figured out, she goes and changes her mind about something as simple as glue. That's just life with a toddler I guess.

Our letter H craft did give us a lot of opportunities to talk about colors and numbers, which proved quite fruitful. She knows all of her basic colors by this point and a few obscure ones as well. (I can't very well let her call her crocs "green" when they're so obviously teal. So I taught her to distinguish between the two. She's also pretty good at picking out coral and cranberry.) She recites the numbers 1 through 10 flawlessly, and can count to about six or seven. (And by counting, I mean actually pointing at individual pieces in a grouping of objects and numbering them correctly to determine how many there are.)

And since the point of this exercise was to learn more about the letter H, we talked about words that start with the "ha-ha" sound, like "hat" and "hug." But mostly, we were ha-ha-happy when this craft was completed. Next week we'll try to put less emphasis on the glue portion.