Black Sheep

This last week we worked on "Black Sheep". I thought I had a problem finding items for the white bin… and then I got to the black bin. Our black bin was pretty pathetic this week. But that's alright. :) He can say black ("back") and he still wants to call a sheep a "Baa baa". Cute. I'll take it while it lasts.

Here is our bin of black items!

 Reading the book!

 Exploring the black items!

 Here was our black sheep yogurt breakfast.

 Coloring with black crayons!

 I drew sheep on black paper and I hid them around the house. He LOVED finding them. We did this many many times.

 We practiced counting black sheep.

 We reviewed all of our colors by putting different colored paper on the ground and he would go stand on the color I said. He did relatively well with this. 

 Wearing dad's black socks. 

 He colored his sheep black.

 He glued black pieces of paper onto a sheep. He loved the gluing part the best.

 We made a black telescope to look at things on our walk. 

That was black sheep week! Moving onto our last week of the unit! YAY!

White Dog

This week we focused on "White Dog"! Jace calls a dog a "gog", which I found super adorable. All of his made-up words just make me smile. :) We had a very busy week with Matt gone on a business trip for half the week and spending time at my parents house and my sister's house to help pass the time. We still got in some "white" activities, which really, there aren't as many you can do with that color! haha.

Here is our white bin. We don't have many white toys… so I may have added q-tips, hangers, and cotton balls to the bin. :/

We ran around the house with our white cape on!

 We colored with white crayons and used white stickers. He preferred to put the stickers on his face and head.

 We used white chalk to write out our numbers while he played outside.

 We made a white dog (Thanks Kristin for the idea!) and we fed the dog white letters of the alphabet. 

 We ate a white dog sandwich.

 We read these 2 books about dogs.

 On a different day, we reviewed our animals using the cards and we fed them to the dog.

 We spent all of 3 seconds coloring our white dog with a white crayon.

 We went to Grammy and Papi's house to visit and see Kona! (He calls her "Arf" or "Ona")

 We ate a white dog yogurt lunch on a different day.

 We painted with white paint!

 And we made a white dog handprint??? Hahaha. What the heck is that?? Fail.

 He ate a white donut at Gigi's house while mom set up his cousin Dakota's baby shower. He told Gigi how he can say white. But I'm sure he would have said anything for a donut. 

That summed up our "white week"! Only 2 more weeks left in the unit!

Purple Cat

This week we focused on Purple Cat! Jace already recognized cats, and ironically purple was actually one of his first words! This was the first week that he seemed confident with the color of the week. Whenever I asked him what color is this? He would say purple. Based on the previous weeks and the reality that the cards I made for this unit are of no interest to Jace, I didn't even bother pulling them out. I may try them next week, but maybe a break from them for a while will peak his interest next time he sees them. While we did a lot of activities with Purple and cats, we also spent a little time on letters this week. I never planned on teaching Jace his letters so soon, but it is actually HIS biggest interest right now. He loves to sing the alphabet (his version) and point to letters and say their name. So going off his cues, I have been helping him with his letters. He has a few alphabet books that he keeps pulling out this week and an alphabet puzzle that he attempts to do. He also plays with a handful of magnetic letters on the fridge (most he threw away without me realizing it!)  Those are really the only toys he will play with currently. I realized that without teaching him he knows about 20 letters just from pointing to the letters while we have sung the alphabet in the past, and from the ABC you-tube videos I put on for him.   I may do some ABC units in the future, but for now, we are just having fun with letters and if he learns them, cool. Really, it's just what he wants to do, and it happens to be educational. Win!

Our purple bin!

We read this book!

 We played with the colored blocks and practiced sorting colors and saying the letters on the blocks.

 He thinks it is funny to put the color on the wrong pile and say "noooooo…." 

 And then he puts it on the right one and squeals!!!

 Pointing to the letters he knows. 

 Coloring with purple crayons, markers, and using purple stickers.

 We made a purple cat out of a footprint, and also a purple ghost to hang up for some fall decor. :) 

Here is his cat breakfast. Kinda looks like a pig with whiskers. Not my best. :)

 I made purple water to freeze into ice cubes. The water was purple going in, and it froze blue. Fail.

 Practiced counting bears!

 Sorting colors again.

 Stringing purple beads. With my help! 

 We painted a pumpkin using purple paint…. and white too. :)

We made a purple cat mask! Well…. I did. haha. He decided to wear it like a necklace. Cool.

That was our week!

Schnepf Farms

Last Sunday afternoon, we went to Schnepf Farms with the Ross family and the Vernon family. I have never been, but kids get in free under the age of 2, so I wanted to check it out while Jace still got in for free. :) It was actually a lot of fun! 

We started by watching a dog show where the dogs would do different tricks. Jumping through hoops, catching frizbees, etc. Jace clapped pretty much the entire time! I think he people watched more than actually watched the dog show, but he LOVED it! He was laughing and clapping. 

We went to the pumpkin patch where I had to grab some pics! :)

There was a tall slide that Matt took Jace down! It went pretty slow, so Jace went down it by himself a few times after! He liked it! Such a big boy!

There was a place for kids to jump, and so Matt took Jace on it! He loves to jump right now and has finally figured out how to get both feet off the ground. He had a blast doing this.

There was a petting zoo where Jace was able to pet some goats, or "goaks" as he called them. This may have been his favorite part. He really enjoyed checking out the goats. 

We then went on a hay ride around the farm. 

In middle of the hay ride, they stopped to let us get out to feed some deer that they had. 

It was a fun little fall activity! I could definitely see us going back sometime in the future!