La La La- We Love the Letter L!

Our L week was lovely!!

For the letter L we experimented with lemon art, and made lemonade!

After licking the lemon :o

Squeezing lemons for lemonade!

Daddy helped us learn about Libya.

Arthur made a lantern, and we did some science activities with the help of a flashlight. 

Arthur loved showing Stella some neat flashlight tricks!

I found these leaf cutouts at the craft store and brought them home thinking, 'I'm sure I can use these for something!" 

I used a couple of paper bags to make this bare tree on the back of our front door. Then to start our week Arthur decorated it with the leaves that I had written on.

 

Ta-da! Our letter L tree!

It's a good thing there is no end to fun ladybug activities!

I found this idea online and used some of the leaves to make a ladybug number matching game. The leaves were labeled 1-10 and each ladybug had a corresponding number of spots. Arthur helped the ladybugs find their way 'home' to their leaf.

Arthur's paper plate ladybug

This idea came from one of my favorite preschool sites: www.teachpreschool.org 

We read the book The Listening Walk, and then went on a listening walk of our own! The story is about a boy who goes on a walk with his Dad and listens to all the sounds they come across on the way. I made a listening walk checklist and each noise that we heard that matched our listed got checked off. 

I think Arthur's favorite part was getting to use a clipboard! 

We loved our lion crafts!

One of the days was all about LEAVES! We read Leafman by Lois Ehlert and some other great fiction books about leaves then we went on a leaf hunt around the neighborhood. 

We tried to collect as many different kinds of leaves we could. 

Stella was a big help of course!

We are lucky to have lots of big beautiful trees in the area that we live, with quite a selection of colors!

After we sorted the leaves and observed their different sizes and shapes and colors we did leaf rubbings and made some L leaf art.

This was definitely my favorite craft! Arthur made his own leafman- I love it! 

 

And finally, we painted our own leaf by covering it with syran wrap and squishing blobs of paint around! We hadn't done this type of painting before and as soon as Arthur started squishing the paint he said "Wow, this is so cool!"