The Letter A

The boys love to do crafts, but I am not the craftiest mom around, so I went in search of some help online and stumbled upon a fantastic website at http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/. I decided to use some of her crafts to start doing the letter of the week with the boys. We started with A and every week we'll learn all about a new letter through crafts, books, and some cooking!

The first craft we did was to make an alligator A. They were so cute! We also went to the library to check out some A books. Our favorite alligator books were Alligator Baby by Robert Munsch and Alligator Alphabet by Stella Blackstone. We also listened to "Don't Get Close to the Alligator" by Joe McDermott a lot!

The next day we made lowercase a apples and read Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington and Apple Trouble by Ragnhild Scamell. After school on Thursday, we made acorns using oatmeal and dry cereal and read Dot & Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh.
The boys both munched on their cinnamon cereal while doing this craft project!
Will was so excited to show Daddy his finished acorn.

They turned out so cute!

Then we moved into the kitchen to make apple crisp. My little helpers couldn't help munching the apples as we assembled everything.

Ready to put it in the oven.
Goofy little boys.
Yummy apple crisp!
Henry and I made an ant out of an egg carton when Will was at school on Friday. Add some googly eyes, six legs and two antennae, and you've got a cute ant!
On Friday, we decided to take a field trip. Can you see where we went? Will had been asking to go back to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston to look at the paintings, and since art begins with A, we decided it was a perfect fit!

Will and Henry looked for the letter A on the exterior wall and found two. Inside, we searched for apples and other A words. At home, we've been reading our art books; our favorites are Seen Art? by John Scieszka and Colors of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston by Caroline Desnoettes.

Our letter A week was a huge success! The boys and I had so much fun doing our craft projects, making apple crisp and visiting the museum and I can tell it's already helping Henry with his lowercase letters and sounds. We can't wait to start on B next week!