Little Bug wanted to make two giraffes. So we made a Mommy giraffe with my handprint and a baby giraffe with Little Bug’s handprint.

Little Bug wrote the capital and lowercase G all by herself. She was so proud!

We are working on number recognition. We played the Large Gumball Counting Game from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Each gumball has a number and a color. You can see the gumball machine with the number 4. Little Bug put four brown gumballs in that machine.

I was going to only put out 5 of the gumball machines, but when Little Bug saw there were more than five colors, she wanted them all out. I went with it and she ended up doing 8 out of the 10 gumball machines.

We went to the zoo and saw the giraffes! Little Bug got to feed them!

We played “Grocery Store” with fake dollar bills. This was easy to pull together. Just print the dollar bills, tape a price tag to some play food (I started with $1, $2 and $3), get out the play grocery cart and start playing!

We had a lot of fun with this!

She shopped for her items and then paid for them with the dollar bills.

When she ran out of money, she wanted more so I had her sell me some food to earn some more money!

Little Bug did an activity where she sorted the capital and lowercase Gs.

Little Bug was really into these activities and kept asking for more. I had planned to just do one, but we kept going! Next was a Gumball Size Sort activity. She put the gumball machine is size order – from biggest to smallest. I was impressed with how well she did this on her own. I thought she would need more help with this.

Then she worked on a Gumball Puzzle.

She wanted to do another puzzle after that so I went and got her big girl puzzle. It’s a jigsaw puzzle instead of the puzzles where each piece is separate.

I couldn’t resist this next activity when I found it here.

It’s called Glitter Germs!!

First, I read this book to Little Bug.

When I ordered the book I had no idea it was actually for school-aged children. The first part about the book (that germs are everywhere and germs spread from touching things, drinking after people, etc) was easy to understand so we just read that part.

Then, I put glitter on a paper plate (yes, I know glitter is evil but we took this activity outside and there was virtually no mess!) and told Little Bug that the glitter was germs!

I told her to touch the plate. She got “germs” all over her hands!

Then I had her touch some of her outside toys to see how germs transfer from our hands to objects.

She learned that only soap and water would wash away the glitter (germs)!

And…if it looks like Little Bug wears that pink flower dress everyday, she just about does!! It is her favorite dress right now!

- Elaine