Week 12: Letters S-Z 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain days, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)  For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.

Letters S-Z

Monday:  Our focus letter for today is S.  I checked the library calendar and they don’t have discovery time this Monday, but they do the following week, so we again might not go into Ogden again, but we did just get at least one wonderful new book.  Plus my mom found one that she had that he also loves that I talked about last week.  We’ll also continue reading the kids dictionary for each letter(s) of the day.

How it Went:

So, we read in our kids dictionary some of the words that start with S.  We also read to other books the lift flap one I talked about last week and the pull out one from 2 weeks ago.  He really likes both of them.  They are short and can keep his attention and also have nice illustrations.

Tuesday:  We’ll stick with the same songs from the last 3 weeks.  Letters has been fun so far.  I think he’s really enjoyed them and he even likes to watch the videos of the other 2 songs.  Our focus letter is T.

How it Went:

We sang the traditional ABC song and then we watched the ABCD one.  He enjoyed it, not as much as last time, but he was pretty tired from not taking a nap, not to mention it was past his bedtime.  

Wednesday:  I think instead of doing the coloring page since he hasn’t been liking those as much lately, we’ll do the chalk for art.  This idea came semi-indirectly from the pin DIY alphabet games.  He really enjoyed that last week.  Today we’ll focus on U.

How it Went:

We did go play with chalk, but he was definitely more excited to be and play outside than he was about the chalk.  He played with it for about 5 minutes and then was done.  We drew a Unicorn since today the focus was U. We finished the alphabet! 

Thursday:  I think we’ll go back to our magnet board for the letters S-Z.  Our focus letter will be V.  I think of this more as a sensory idea than an activity, I think we’ll switch the fishing for letters in the tub idea to today and leave the magnet board for tomorrow.

How it Went:

Yesterday was a crazy busy day for me.  So, we didn’t get to this activity, nor did Lijah get a bath, so hopefully this will happen tomorrow, but if not Sunday will be the day.

Friday:  W is our focus letter today, but I think we’ll repeat the sensory idea with the fishing pole from last week.  Although I think we’ll switch Thursday and Fridays ideas.  I think the magnet board is more sensory, plus he almost always has baths on Thursdays.

How it Went:

I think we skipped T, but went over, U, V, and W, so today we read in the children’s encyclopedia about the letter T.  We didn’t do this activity either, this weekend is just busy.  Well, there’s always next week! :)  Hopefully we can catch up!

Saturday:  X, Y, and Z will be our focus letters for today.  So I was thinking I’ll try something zebra for his food, but again mostly what I found are cakes and cookies.  My little guy likes zebras because they are like horses.  So I may have to get creative on this one.  I was thinking I could use string cheese and stripes and he doesn’t eat anything black, so that’s as far as I’ve come.  I’ll add more as I think about it.

We may forgo this idea completely because we’ll be in Provo all day for a baby shower.

How it Went:

We definitely didn’t get this as I suspected.  Not to mention my little guy had an allergic reaction and threw up every 10-20 minutes for 4 or 5 hours. :(  We probably won’t do this one next week.

Week 11: Letters M-R 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain day, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)  For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.

Letters M-R

Monday:  We’re planning to go to the library to do something similar to circle time.  We may have some books to pick up or we may not, but we will be taking back some.  The books I requested are called 123 vs ABC and First ABC.  M will be our focus.  We’ll also read our 2 Monday books, 5 little Monkeys jumping on the bed and 5 Little Monkeys sitting in a tree since our focus is M and my little guy loves monkeys.

How it Went:

We didn’t end up going to the library.  We renewed books, so we didn’t have to take any back.  My little guy has been really grumpy at night, but won’t sleep longer than 1 ½ hours for a nap, so I think he needs 2 a day again.  So, we’ll read the books we already have and pick up the new ones this week sometime. We also read the books about the letters.  One is dictionary and we went over all of last weeks letters.  We talked specifically about the letter M and words that start with M in this book.  The other is Animal Alphabet.  The animals are in the shape of the letter they start with.  It’s written by Suse MacDonold.  We both really like this book.

Tuesday:  I think we’ll just keep going with the same ABC songs as before.  The original and then both of the ones on my Pinterest board Week 11: M-R.  We’ll be focusing on N this day.  To keep N our focus, we’ll probably take about things that start with the letter N.  We’re going to add a leprechaun song and search for gold for St. Patrick’s Day.

How it Went:

We learned about the letter N in our children’s dictionary book.  We sang the original ABC song.  We also listened to the animal ABC song.  We didn’t sing the Leprechaun song, I totally forgot about that.  We did a scavenger hunt for colors.  I wrote on each color things like, Roses are Red, Trees are Green, etc.  He found each of the colors by whatever object was that color.  At the end, he found a “pot” of gold!  He liked it because most of it was outside.  I think we’ll do it again next year! :)

Wednesday:  O is our focus.  I think we’ll do the coloring page for O.  I was going to switch it up the art activity,  but I think I’ll wait until he’s older and knows his letters better.  I like that he can practice the words that start with that letter.

How it Went:

We learned about the letter O from the children’s dictionary and talked about words that start with O.  We again read the Animal Alphabet book. He didn’t really color the picture, so we’ll finish it tomorrow.

Thursday:  Our focus today will be P.   It’s getting warmer here, so maybe we’ll break out the side walk chalk.  I can draw (not well) some things that start with the letter P.  I think he will like this activity, we’ve never used our own chalk before!  This idea came semi-indirectly from the pin DIY alphabet games.  We’re going to do the Shamrock painting activity for St. Patrick’s day.

How it Went:

He loved the chalk!  Way more than finishing his coloring page from yesterday.  He colored all the pictures and letters I drew for him.  We ran errands today and didn’t have time for the St. Patrick’s day activity, we’ll plan to do that tomorrow.  We also got 2 new books from the library!  One is a trace and lift the flaps which I love!  Lijah loves lift the flaps.  I think it will better help him to recognize the letters, but he’s still young, so I’m not pushing it.  The letters are more for an introduction than anything else.

Friday:  Today’s focus will be Q.  We’re going to do a sensory idea and our “bin” will be the bathtub.  We could either do glow in the dark letter to fish or just regular colored letters.  We may have to do both since some are missing.  We’ll fill the bathtub with water, put the letters in and either find the magnetic fishing pole my mom made or make a new one.  We’ll talk about some words that start with Q to keep our focus on that letter.  I modified the idea slightly.  This idea comes from 20 ABC Games for Boys.  I also liked the other one in the bathtub, alphabet soup, but we don’t have those ABC bathtub letter yet.  I’m also not sure he is ready to recognize the letters, maybe just say them, but it’s worth a test.  We completely forgot about the St. Patrick's Day activity from last week. Oh well, 1 activity for the holiday is just fine! :)

 Our makeshift fishing pole :)

How it Went:

He really loved our makeshift fishing pole, but couldn’t really figure it out.  We had him hold the magnet only to get the letters out and that worked out just fine.  We had him repeat the letters he pulled up and sometimes I would say a word that started with that letter.  We just used his leftover bath water.  He had fun with it and tried to get in the bathtub a couple of times. :)

Saturday:  We’ll be focusing on R today.  My first thought for food was make a bunny (rabbit) which wouldn’t be too hard, but he knows that animal as bunny, not rabbit.  Then I thought I could make a rhinoceros.  I looked up ideas, pretty difficult.  I thought of a simple way to make it, but then a rabbit might be better.  I could teach him that some animals have more than one name.  Plus, Easter’s coming up.  Next though, I could make a 4 leaf clover since next week is St. Patrick’s and we don’t have anything planned in regards to St. Patricks, but it doesn’t start with R.  Maybe we’ll do St. Patrick’s activities on Tuesday and Thursday and stick with a food bunny for Saturday.  It’s decided, the plan is to do something similar to the pin of the bunny on the board!

How it Went:

I forgot to do this in the morning and we maybe gone for dinner, so it may not happen.  I may need to improvise...we’ll see what happens.

Week 10: Letters G-L 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain day, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)  For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.

Letters G-L

Monday:  I think we’ll go to the library class, but probably not get anymore books because we already have 4 from the library that we can use.  Plus we have the picture dictionary.  Plus, I think the repetition of the books will help him learn better.  G will be our focus.

How it Went:

The library class went well, we learned about the letter E.  We picked up at book about numbers.  I don’t really love the ABC books we have right now.  I think I might request some new ones.  We have much better counting books.  Despite that, my little guy is still learning the ABC’s and saying them really well.  Monday was a busy day, we didn’t really focus on G.

Tuesday: I think we’ll do the ABC song again.  Maybe we’ll try the other one we didn’t do last week, which is the pic that just has ABCD on it, not the animal one.  H will be our focus.

How it Went:

We didn’t really focus on H.  I had 4 hrs of sleep the night before and my head felt fuzzy all day.  We did sing the ABC’s, but didn’t get to the other song.  Tomorrow or Thursday we should have time.

Wednesday: I is our focus today.  We’re going to do the same coloring page as last week, but for I instead of C.

  

How it Went:  

I couldn’t find the coloring page, so I need to print again. :(  We’ll plan to do it tomorrow.

Thursday: Our focus is J.  I think we’ll play with our blocks letters G to L and then maybe get them all out to build with, for our activity.  He started to like to build more.  Our blocks also have pictures on them that we can talk about, not just letters.  We may also talk about jumping because he loves it at least in his bed, on our bed, and on the couch.

How it Went:

We got a lot done this day.  We listened to the other ABC song from Tuesday.  He really liked it, we watched the whole thing through one and a half times.  That’s about 7 times of the song.  We also colored his I picture.  We practiced saying each of the words as well.  It was almost his bedtime, so he wasn’t so into coloring.  Not to mention he colored the day before.  We also played with the blocks.  I showed his the letters and the pictures that started with the same letter, ie. D = Dolphins.  We built them up a little, but again he was tired, so not really in the mood.

Friday: K will be our focus.  Last week we played with the letters A-F often on a magnet board, we may do that for our sensory again or go to the park and point out all the words we can see that start with K.  I don’t think there are too many words that start with K, so we’ll probably just do the magnet board activity again.

How it Went:

We didn’t do this yet, maybe on Monday.

Saturday:  L is our focus today.  For food, I’m planning to make the lion head with the carrots for the mane.  I found soo many cute ideas for food lions, but that one is the easiest for me to adapt to my son’s allergies.

How it Went:

I totally forgot about this since my husband and I went on a night away vacation on Friday, we may do this next week or we may not.  We’ll have to see how it goes since next week I’ve added extra activities because of St. Patrick’s Day.  If we don’t get to, we can always do it for zoo week! :)

Week 9: Letters A-F 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain day, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)  For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.

Letters A-F

Generally, I’ve seen people do a letter of the week, but for us that will take to long, so we’re going to try a letter of the day for 4 weeks.  Keep in mind, he turns 21 months this week, so I’m not expecting him to learn all the letters right now, more of an exposure and basis.  He recognizes some due to this awesome app called Endless Reader.  We just have the free version of  it, but he can recognize letters and put them in order and place words in the correct spot in a sentence.  I think as young as he is, it’s just the pattern, but I love it.  It also makes the sound of the letter when you move it to the correct spot.  I think we’ll eventually buy the whole app, but not now.  

Monday: We will be focusing on the Letter A.  We are going to do an overview of the letters and a review of the letters at the end of the 4 weeks.  So, I have a little magnet board that we are going to use for now to put all the letters on.  As he gets older, I think I will want oil drip pan from Walmart.  For now, we’ll just use what we already have.  We will also go to the library and from what I understand there isn’t a class this day, so we will go just to pick up and take back books.  To put the focus on A, I think we’ll point out things that begin with that letter around the house.  I’ll also have him repeat it several times.  The books we’ve reserved at the library are Alphabet Adventure, LMNO Peas, (those two are from the Pin 31 Days of ABC’s) and Animal ABC (I stumbled upon it while looking for a different book in the library database, my son loves animals, so I thought we would check it out.  We will also use some books we already have.

How it Went:

The weather was bad and we didn’t make it out to the library.  I don’t think they had the class going anyway.  We just used a dictionary since we didn’t get our books at the library.  We talked about words that start with A and B.  He likes to look at the pictures and repeat some of the words.  

Tuesday:  Today’s focus will be on the letter B.  Obviously we’ll sing the ABC song.  We’re also going to watch one of the songs pinned from Youtube (the one with the cute animated animals) and sing along with the other one pinned from Youtube (with the green hills, sun, clouds, and the letters ABCD).

How it Went:

We sang the ABC song.  We also read about C and D in the dictionary.  We aren’t going to make it to the library again because of the weather, hopefully tomorrow.

Wednesday:  C is our focus today.  We’re going to do the “C” coloring page.  The pin is called Letter Worksheets and Coloring pages.

 How it Went:

He had fun coloring and was able to repeat all of the words of the pictures that we colored.  We also read our library books and some from our dictionary again about E and F.  We practiced saying A-L and we are still practicing numbers.  He does better with letters than numbers.

Thursday:  D will be our focus.  After about two hours of searching.  We’re going to play dogs again.  I couldn’t really find any that I liked that would work for his age.  So our game/activity is pretending to be dogs.  He wants to play this all the time anyway.  He’ll randomly start barking.  In fact that’s how he woke me up the other day. :)

How it Went:

We played dogs and he just loved it!  He likes barking.  He loved the sniffing and panting!  We had fun!

Friday:  Focus - E  We’re going to do a sensory bin filled with things that start with the letter E. We could go on a park field trip and talk about all the things we see that begin with E, but I think the sensory bin will be more fun this time!

How it Went:  We went to the park and did a field trip and talked about visible things with the letter E.  He always has fun at the park! :)

Saturday: F- Focus :)  I’m going to do something really simple and just buy him some swedish fish and maybe put in a clear cup with blue jello.  I liked the cupcake idea, but it gets complicated when he can’t eat wheat, which includes pretzels.  He can have jello and swedish fish though! :)  I think he’ll like this “food” and we may do it again during ocean week!

How it Went:  So I meant to do make the food yesterday and forgot.  Today was my baby shower, who knew that that would last all day. :)  So I didn’t have time to make it or do it, so I might do it tomorrow!  So I made the jello and put swedish fish in it.  It looked weird, so I tasted it.  The swedish fish didn’t ruin the jello, but the swedish fish we’re definitely jello like.  Apparently swedish fish and jello don’t go together, so we’ll have to try something else next time.  Good thing to learn for Ocean week though!  We didn’t end up doing the activity until Monday of week 10 because the jello didn’t get done before bedtime.

Prep:  Pick up library books, buy blue jello and swedish fish, get and choose sensory bin items while he is napping, print C page.

Week 8: Numbers 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain days, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)  For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.

Numbers

I love 2 of the ideas from the pin 9 Early Counting Games.  I’m going to print the 5 cheeky monkeys.  I will also use the 3 Bears that I’ve already printed and colored for counting.  I think we’ll only work on 1-5 for now, but the time he is two, I think he’ll at least know 0-10, but we’ll see.  So far he can repeat the numbers, but I’ve seen no indication of understanding yet.

Monday:  If Lijah is feeling better than we’ll go to the library and pick up our books and take some back as well as stay for the 30 min “class” for toddlers.  The books we’re going to pick up are Counting Crocodiles by Judy Sierra, Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow, Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever.  That last book is checked out until next month, so we’ll read it later.  We also have a really good sensory numbers book.  It’s a touch and feel 1-10 that we’ll probably use.  If you want the name of it, just ask in the comments. :)

How it Went:

So we read a book I found out my mom has.  5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and the touch and feel one I mentioned above.  We also got Counting Crocodiles, but didn’t get a chance to read it today.  We did go to the library to pick up and drop off books.  We only did that because there wasn’t a class today, but we wouldn’t have gone even if there was because my little man has RSV.  We are avoiding little children for a little while longer.  Definitely not something we want to pass on.  He really liked the books, but my husband and I sang him the both the monkey songs (5 Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree and 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed) and he liked that way better.  He tries to mimic the motions we do with our hands.

Tuesday:  The songs we are going to sing are 5 Little Monkey Swinging in a Tree and 5 Green and Speckled Frogs.  I would love to make a little visual for this one as well like the one I pinned on my Week 8 Numbers Board.  If you don’t know how the songs go, both of those pins have the words at least.  The 9 Early Counting Games is the one that has the 5 cheeky monkeys (or 5 Little Monkeys as we sing it) to print.

How it Went:

We sang the same songs as yesterday and read the book about the monkeys jumping on the bed again as well as sang the song to it.  We didn’t do the Speckled Frogs song, but we may do it during the week, we’ll see.  We’re doing minimal activities since we are both still sick.

Wednesday:  The art activity,  I’m having a hard time choosing between Tape Resist Art and the Numbers Collage Craft.  The Tape Resist Art would be fun, but I don’t know if he’ll color enough by himself without help.  The Number Collage Craft is similar to Thursdays activity, but it sounds fun, maybe I’ll do both and the Number Collage Craft for Thursday.

 Before

After finger painting and pulling of the tape

How it Went:

So, we didn’t have paint tape or masking tape, so we used medical tape.  I wanted to do the number two, but didn’t know how to curve tape, so we went with the number 1.  He had a blast painting.  I’m not sure if you are suppose to remove the tape when the paint is dry or wet.  I removed part of it wet and the tape stuck to the paper. :(  The rest of it worked well though.  Next time, we’ll get the right kind of tape! :)  So we learned, have the right kind of tape and take the tape off when the picture is dry.

Thursday: For our activity I think I am going to have him count sticker numbers.  That is an idea from the pin 125 activities for learning and numbers, except enhance it and do the Numbers Collage Craft.

How it Went:

I cut out numbers on cardstock and then put stickers of the same number on each number.  We are just going to do on1-5 this week and when he gets those down, we’ll do more numbers.  He’ll copy us saying 1-5, but he doesn’t yet understand.  He repeated them really well the 2nd and 3rd time! :)  I wish I would have made the one a little bigger and all of them wider except the 5.  They aren't perfect, but they work!

Friday:  We could either field trip to the park and count things at the park or on our way there or do a sensory bin with foam numbers.  Maybe even a sensory bag with foam numbers and something else like marbles or something.  It may just depend on the weather.

How it Went:

We did the field trip to the park.  We mostly counted rocks and trees.  We did count his shoes though.  He had a fun time while learning a little bit.  Before he could say 4 really well, now he says 3 really well.  Go figure.  He’ll repeat 1-5 pretty well though.  :)

Saturday:  Instead of doing food in the shape of whatever we are studying, I’m probably going to help him count how many of each food he has on his plate.

How it Went:  

Instead of doing this for a meal, we counted his snack.  We counted to 10 a couple of times.  He says the numbers pretty well and sometimes he’ll say the next number!  He’s starting to recognize the pattern, so we’ll just keep practicing.

Week 7: Dogs 2015 Plan and How it Went

*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards.  Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain day, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme.  I hope that makes sense. :)

Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly.  Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week.  I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :)

Dogs

Monday:  We’ll be going to the library for the half hour “class” and to pick up our dog books.  I think he’s really going to like this week.  His favorite animals, go horse, dog, and then probably monkey.  I think we may just focus more on monkeys during jungle week or zoo week rather than do an entire week on them.  The books I’ve chosen are Spot Loves His Mommy and I’ll use some Clifford books I already have.  I wanted to use a couple from the Pin Fluffy, Playful, and Cuddly Books about Dogs, but the 3 I wanted to use the library doesn’t have. :(  We’ll also be getting the Emperor’s Clothes book from last week.

How it Went:

So my little guy is sick, we think with the croupe again. :(  So, I didn’t take him to the library, not something I want to pass on to other kids.  I went myself to pick up books.  We read Mommy Loves Spot.  We also watched an episode and a half a Clifford.  Lijah liked them, but poor guy was pretty tired and drained from coughing, etc.

Tuesday:  We’ll definitely be singing BINGO and I haven’t decided yet if we’ll sing the Hot Dog Hot Dog, Hot Diggity Dog song (we have it on the IPAD) or the Christmas 12 dogs one.  Either way, we’ll probably sing 2 songs only.

How it Went:

He liked the song BINGO.  He thought it was fun and tried to dance too, a little.  That’s pretty typical for this little guy.  He always dances to the Hot Dog Hot Dog song.  I sang the Hot Dog song to him while he was eating dinner.  He liked watch the Appisode at the same time as I sang it to him.  He thought it was funny.  We also read a Clifford book and the Emperor’s New Clothes.  

Wednesday:  I’m thinking we’ll do the paper plate Clifford art activity.

 We chose something easier since we're both sick.

How it Went:

I think we’ll just color a picture of a dog today, my little guy is sick and that art activity is a little more involved.  http://www.coloringpagespict.com/429-dog-coloring-pages/dog-coloring-pages is where we got our coloring page.  I saved it into downloads and printed it.  To find it, I types in free dog coloring pages to find more if you don’t like this one.  We chose this coloring page because we watched 101 Dalmatians last night.  We used colored pencils instead of crayons this time, I think he likes crayons better plus they’re easier to hold.

Thursday: The plan is to do the Pretend Play Dog Park activity.  That could definitely be a sensory activity also, but I think it will be fun to pretend to be dogs.  I think it will help him be a little less afraid of people pretending to be dogs.  For some reason that’s been scaring him lately.  It might also help him be less afraid of big dogs, hopefully. :)  We probably will not do the park part of it, but just do basic dog things.

How it Went:

We didn’t actually get to do this activity, so I plan to do it Friday.  We’re gone from 10:15 until 6:30 or so in Provo.  We also found out my little guy (and I probably) have RSV which has been going around like crazy.  SO we’re suppose to avoid kids for a week or two so we don’t pass it on.  It seems like he’s starting to get better.

Friday:  I was thinking we could go visit someone with a nice and friendly dog.  He has a love/fear relationship with them.  Otherwise, if that doesn’t work out, we’ll probably do the sensory bin idea.  We’ll probably modify our sensory activity because I don’t think we have any dogs to do the sensory bin idea.  We may just have to pretend.  I don’t want to visit anyone with a dog and pass on our sickness.  We may just forgo the sensory bin and just use Thursday idea for sensory.

How it Went:

He thought it was funny and not scary this time.  He even pretended with me a little bit.  I didn’t do as much as I would have had we both not been sick.  We mostly played on my bed.  He barked like a dog, but wouldn’t do the actions as much.

Saturday: Our plan is to the the wiener dog out of bananas and maybe use sprinkles for the eyes and nose.  My little guy’s favorite food is bananas, so he should enjoy this one.

How it Went:  He loved it, i don’t know if he understood that it was a dog, but he sure loves bananas.  He was weirded out a little by the sprinkles, but still ate them!