ABC All About Me!!!

No, this is not a post all about myself, but rather about our theme after Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We did several weeks using this theme; we focused on areas likes our names, our family, our friends, and what we want to be when we grow up. Rapunzel ended the unit wanting to be an artist and Monkey-Do is set on being a doctor! I am personally still trying to decide, maybe a ballerina!  Anyway, we all really did have fun; check out some of the highlights!

The girls used letter tiles to practice spelling names of friends and family members that I made up with their pictures.

We used play-dough to make our names.

After reading the story Chrysanthemum  about a little mouse with a very long name, we compared the lengths our our names using linking blocks.

This was my favorite name activity!  The girls each had a bowl of flower petals with letters from their names written on them.  They had to spell their name on each flower. The girls are glad their names are not as long as Chrysanthemums!

In honor of Chrysanthemum, we made peanut butter mouse cookies! 

For the last week of "All About Me" we read books and did activities about different jobs we might want to have when we grow up.  I could have done one job a week; there were so many fun activities that I wanted to girls to do, but for my sanity, I tried to keep it simple and we just did one job a day!  Here are some of our favorite jobs and activities.

We pretended to be bakers and flipped over cookies with color words on the back.   The girls had to read the word and then color their paper accordingly.  

                                     

We pretended to be mail carriers and sorted mail with different numbers of stamps.

While learning about dentists, we spun a spinner to fill a mouth with marshmallow teeth!

The girls used stick puppets to tell about the jobs they learned about and  why they liked and disliked each job.

                                     

Ok, so I did just have to laugh as I looked back over this post.  Everything looks so perfect and organized and peaceful!  Not at all the way it seemed when we were trying to get through the chaos of the first few weeks!  It is just like I said in my post "To blog or not to blog"; it is all about what you put in the post.  If you only show the good stuff, no one will have to know about how crazy it really was or how stressed out you really got.  But it is good for me to look at these pictures and realize that we are doing something right, that the girls are learning and having a good time and that there are moments of peace.  Sometimes, in the middle of a school day, amid all the craziness, I forget to stop and really enjoy what I am doing with my children.  I am glad the camera was able to catch these moment for me!