Joan Ellen Cornell

I have been wanting to start some sort of structured "school" around here, and this week we finally started, and it's been lots of fun already!

I've been pinning ideas for a while now, and last Sunday I finally sat down and got organized.

I planned the week ahead.

I decided we'll work on two letters a week, a shape, a color (or two), and this week we're working on the numbers 1-5- counting them and recognizing what each looks like.

It's going so great thus far!

We spend about 10-20 minutes at a time, two or three times a day so far. It really depends on what we're doing in regards to how long he'll sit for.

When we're tracing letters and numbers, he doesn't last long- when we're painting and crafting I can get more time out of him.

This week we're learning about the letters A and B, red and green, circles, and numbers 1-5 (with the focus on number one).

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1- we used fingerprints to make leaves (circles)

2. I cut out tissue paper circles and he glued them to the big circle

3. we used different sized circles as stamps

4. I cut an apple in half and we used it as a stamp on a capital A