one mommy's journey to build better little boy (& girl!) brains
Once again I briefly abandoned blogging for a family trip. We actually headed back down to the San Diego area, but this time for a wedding reception.
As we flew, and I prefer to NOT be hated by the other passengers, I had to come up with some things for the boys to play with en route as well as while we were there, because I also prefer my extended family not to hate me. 
Continue reading “Over the rainbow, or at least San Diego- a DIY color sorting activity”
We’ve been focusing sporadically on Br’s (4 y/o) letter & phoneme (letter sounds) recognition, as seen here and here. We do “talk” about them a lot- trying to help Br isolate beginning sounds & rhyming games/songs, but generally pretty casually and as it organically comes up.
Today while we were in our backyard and I was trying to beat the dust out of our door mat*, Br pulled out some sidewalk chalk and started coloring on our pavers. I remembered reading this idea of Teach Mama’s this summer, and thought “hmm, can I throw some sneaky alphabet practice into this?” My door mat abuse could wait… Continue reading “Alphabet Hop…Run, Baseball”
Today was the first day where it actually felt like summer might end… bit overcast, occasional drizzle. Even though I am way behind in other posts that might be more exciting, it seemed fitting to highlight “summer’s bounty” in a post today. {whimsical sigh}
We had two small melons. Melons generally have two opposing destinies in our house: either being cut up immediately for yummy snacks, or being “neglected” in to a squishy how-can-I-get-this-out-of-the-house-with-out-it-dripping-rotten-fruit-guts walk of shame.
Luckily, even though we’d bought them a week or so before (which is heading into the territory of the second option), I was fresh off of writing my Montessori-in’ Up post & decided to use them as fine-motor skill practice! And eating… we had caught them in time to save them from their rotten-fruit-guts destiny. Continue reading “Cutting Melons- a summer memorial”
