G - ing it up on a Wednesday!

Yesterday, we started getting into the letter G.  We talked about giraffe facts from that links I posted on yesterday's blog.  They we made our Toilet Paper Giraffes http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mgiraffe.html.  Sure enough Kaden wanted to squeeze into his giraffe Halloween costume from 2 Halloweens ago.  We went on a Giraffe hunt around the house and sure enough we spotted 27 giraffe just in the upstairs portion of our home.  Kaden is obsessed with Giraffes!!!  Here are some pictures of last afternoons intro to G lesson.

 Kaden dressed in his costume that he wore when he was 1.5 yrs old pointing to the giraffe on the alphabet wall and holding his TP roll giraffe that he just made.

 Here are a 2/27of the giraffes we found on our Giraffe hunt upstairs.

Today, we talked more about the letter G.  We sang the G song.....what is this you may ask.....well ifpart of your day consists of watching Sesame street in the morning....ya know when the animated Cookie monster does the little dance and sings the letter of the day.   Here is how it went when we sang it...."ja ja ja ja ja ja ja Geee eeee, ja ja ja ja ja ja ja Geee eeee.  Giraffe is a word that starts with G."
    We were doing the soft G sounds this morning....tomorrow will be the hardg.  So, the soft G words we did in the G book we made were: Giraffe, Gerbil, Gymnist, Gingerbread.  The kids worked on tracing the letter G as they made this book.  http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp2.htm#g Then after they colored the mini pictures of these 4 words.  I had them match the mini pictures with the words to see if they could match strings of letters like that....they could!  Here are some pictures

 Kaden is reading his G book to me.