Eggciting fun! :)

I have an enormous box of plastic eggs left over from last year.  We pulled them out and I got to work finding some uses for them!  First thing I did was to put a capital and lower case letter on each egg.  Capital on the top of the egg and lowercase on the bottom.  I initially used a Sharpie but it rubbed right off.  I then used stickers instead.  The girls practice matching the letter and saying the sounds.  Lila is a real pro at this!

Checking for a match

Yay!  I found one!

She found a match too!

 Once Sophia went to take a nap, Lila and I were able to do several more activities!  First up-put the eggs in alphabetical order.

I then had Lila sing the alphabet and point to each letter as she did it.  It was very interesting to watch the one to one correspondence when she got to "lmnop".  We had to go through it several times to show L M N O P were actually individual letters in the song and not "ellen memo".  She now gives Sophia lessons on it daily when she sings it.

Very proud

 Next up-scour the house for an item that starts with each letter of the alphabet.  It was a lot of fun and definitely more challenging than I was expecting!  Lila did a great job though and we were able to find everything except for Q.

girl, hat, ice cream, jingle bells...

 Lila has become very skilled in identifying letter sounds.  She took it upon herself to build some words while I was doing something else.  She yelled for me to come and see what she spelled.  I was pretty impressed! 

She told me that she spelled "giraffe".  Phonetically yes, she did!

She has gotten pretty good at the "at" family.

The next day we decided to do some measuring.  We measured a bunch of stuff around the house using our plastic eggs.  It was a lot of fun as you can see.  We recorded everything on our chart!

He was so mad at me for making him be still.  He desperately wanted to see what Lila was doing to him:)

This was the most entertaining!

Lila wrote the answers.