Learning is fun: Letter I

Now this craft was a big hit. I used lots of what I know Abby loves--crayons, foam and references to ice cream--and very little of what she (lately) doesn't: glue. And in the end, we had a product so exciting that she actually tried to take a bite. That's a slobber mark up by the top scoop of foam ice cream.

I tried to channel Abby's crayon energy into something fruitful, so I asked her to hunt for certain letters in the words "ice cream" and color them when she found them. She thought that was lots of fun.

I've been trying to focus more on number identification lately, so I incorporated that as well. Much like she did with letters when she was first learning them, Abby can tell you if she sees a number, she just doesn't know which number it is. (Except the number 4...she knows that one because she pays close attention when I change Caleb's size 4 diapers.) So I had her watch as I carefully numbered each scoop of ice cream and we practiced finding the numbers 1 through 3. She did pretty well with that exercise, although she was kind of disturbed by the fact that the cone didn't have a number as well. I made her count and tell me which number should be next, and when she correctly answered "four!" I added a number 4 to the cone before hanging up her craft on our alphabet wall in the playroom.

I think our Letter I craft successfully erased all her bad memories of the oh-so-sticky Letter H activity. Whew.