A Week

Letter of the Week: A

Here's a random sampling of some of our learning tools from our first week!

We have a little "grab bag" of things that start with A, and this week, I had airplane, alligator, apple(s) and the "A" Block.  I picked up the little wooden cutouts at Michaels, but everything else was around our house anyway.

St. Anthony was our Saint of the week (he's Anni's patron Saint, so it was a good chance for her to get to know a little more about him.  We even found a coloring page for her to work on.)  We also had a virtue of the week that we just briefly touched on and a Bible verse of the week that we read every morning (Anni actually had it memorized by the end of the week... but she's got a crazy sharp memory like her Daddy!)

We did lots of singing (the 12 apostles song gets stuck in my head all day!) and lots of crafts.  We did the Angel craft from our Catholic Icing book:

 

Some apple stamping (that turned into handprints).  This one was so cute when she was all done that I ended up putting it in a frame in our hallway... instant art!

I was running out of steam and craftiness at the end of the week, but Anni was reeeeeeallly wanting to get crafty.  I ended up rolling out the butcher paper and tracing around her.  Then we pointed out body parts (hair, hands, heart, feet) and then she went to town coloring it.

 It was a good week.  I think Anni really thrived off of a little structure and some new knowledge.