FB Month 29 - Day 5

We continue to sing the ABC song lots - Hannah especially loves to sing this to her heart's content. I decided that as Hannah now sings this beautifully we would do something different - so as we walked up to school this morning I said that when I said a particular letter I would chase them! This meant that they had to listen really carefully. James got this straight away. He then asked to have a go and being the little boy who loves to be chased he said A. I think we will play this again. I also put on the Jolly Phonics Utube which sings a tune to all the phonics sounds - she loved this. I need to try and remember the tunes!

Hannah listened to the Three Tenors today on Utube while I did the washing up. I t was SO funny because I started tuning into what she was doing and she was singing along in a kind of opera voice! I must try and get a video of this is she does it again.

We have meant to be learning to count to 5 in Spanish but I have neglected this - I think I do not trust my pronunciation! I managed to find a Utube that showed how to same the numbers in a child way so i will think we wil use this in future until I and Hannah have learned them. Today's tune was Jimmy Crack Corn and it has really made me laugh how much she has sung this - she LOVES it. I am not sure of the words but I don't think she gets them - I think she just loves the tune :-)

Untitled, a photo by emmajroy on Flickr.

For colouring time the guide said to draw a Q and P - once again Hannah was not interested but she did like to colour  over it with a highlighter. I loved the way Hannah naturally then led the table time. She decided she wanted to use the glue - so I cut up the pieces and she then stuck them on. She would say "I need a white or I need a pink" and then do glue circles. To check that they were stuck she would lift the paper! After this I drew some faces on the white ones and we chatted about the the different faces and what they looked like - sad, happy, angry etc. Hannah had a go at cutting herself but still finds this difficult. In our reading we had read Harold and Purple Crayon (twice at Hannah's request). I had some purple coloring pens ready for her to draw a picture but she chose not to.

While we were doing this we listened to the Blues. Hannah then decided she wanted to be a ballerina and dance. Thankfully I was able to record this because it was the sweetest and funniest thing ever!

In the evening I put out some bowls of different foods - crisps, sweets, tomatoes and an orange. We then had a chat about what was healthy and what was not healthy. Daddy then pretended to be My Unhealthy and Mummy pretended to be Mrs Healthy and Hannah had to choose who to give each bowl to. This was too hard but it was fun seeing Daddy pretending to be unhealthy with sore teeth, a fat tummy and feeling sad and tired.

Daddy being Mr Unhealthy!, a photo by emmajroy on Flickr.