Letter 'L'

Today the letter 'L' was perfect to learn about. L is for LOVE. We are so excited about Valentine's Day tomorrow and Emma is finally old enough to understand why we have it and she was able to make valentines for her friends and family.
Today we wanted to tie in the Valentine theme with our lesson. First Emma colored the letter 'L' in her alphabet book. She then learned what sound 'l' makes and traced uppercase and lower case 'l'. She learned that Ladybugs started with this letter. We made a ladybug out of hearts, adding the 6 legs and antennas to it's cute heart face.
I read her a poem about a ladybug:

"Ladybug, ladybug
Fly away home,
Your house is on fire
and your
children are all gone;
All except one
and that's little Ann
And she has crept under
the warming pan."

We then went over the past letters she has learned so she won't forget them.

Emma and Ellie made the cutest valentines for the grandparents. We got a stick of gum and with twizzlers pull and peels we curled them at the top of the gum and made antennas. We then got two hearts together with heart stickers on the middle of the gum to make the wings. After adding more stickers and eyes, it was a Valentine Butterfly. The girls had a lot of fun making them...and eating most of them that they "messed up" on. lol.

Emma's first Scripture in Primary

Emma was so excited to give the scripture in primary. It took her about a week to be able to say the word "scripture" correctly. lol. We looked it up and would practice the scripture every night after family prayer. I thought she would be too shy, but she walked right up to the microphone and looked at me letting me know she was ready to give it. She read Psalms 82:6~ "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." she then said, "I am a child of God." She gave a big smile and then sat back down. I almost started crying right there. My little Emma is growing up so fast. I am so proud of her-singing in primary, and learning so much.

My visiting teacher is the primary pianist and tells me that when the kids start singing, Emma gets up and starts dancing, and once she does, the rest of the Sunbeams have to start dancing. Emma and I had a little talk about singing instead of dancing, but that dancing and standing up was okay only when her primary teacher or the chorister told her it was okay. We will see how next week goes.

And poor Ellie, she has only made it through one time of nursery. It is hard to have her not like it because Emma was so excited and never had a problem with us leaving her in there. We will drop her off (now Andrey does and it seems to go over better) and our wonderful teacher in there, Jamie, tries to get her to calm down and play, but usually after an hour of her crying, she will bring her back. I hope Ellie will warm up to nursery soon.

Letter K

Today we learned about the letter K. We colored our K in the alphabet coloring book and sang a song about Kangaroos (tune to "If you're happy and you know it"). We then traces big K and little k. Emma does a really good job at tracing letters. That seems to be her favorite part. It is fun to see her color and instead of coloring, she is writing her letters. Some letters are hard for her to remember, like 'D', 'G', and 'J'. We will keep practicing though. We then used beans (instead of popcorn Kernals cause Emma didn't like the color of them. Lol) and filled up the letter 'K'/'k'. That was a lot of fun to see her using glue and smaller objects. She has really good fine motor skills.

I told her a story about a Koala Bear and what they eat. She colored a koala bear and we put him together on a toilet paper roll.

We then ended by singing "Lets go fly a kite" and colored and made a kite. It's too cold to go outside with it, so she has been running around the house, attempting to make her little kite fly.
We love the letter K. And Emma thinks it's funny how big the Koala Bear's nose is.

Just for fun

Emma, my pretty princess...

Ellie loves accessorising (sp?). One cool chica...

Ellie is always so worn out...

HAWT!!! That's all I have to say. Lol...

Goofy Emma, obsessed with crossing her eyes...

Ellie, the one who hates being messy, but always seems to be the messiest...

Ellie has such a big heart and loves babies. She is ready to be a big sister...

Emma, our little dancer and singer. She's a rock star...

Emma, crossing her eyes...what can I say? lol...

Letter J

Emma wanted to do school on a Saturday, so we finished eating breakfast (thanks Andrey for making us yummy eggs) and got ready to learn about the letter 'J'. Emma colored her letter 'J' in her letter book. 'J' is for jet and a jackolantern. After coloring (with markers even-since she is 3 now...so she says), we traced the letter 'J' and little 'j'. Emma did a really good job. Each letter we have to make up a story so she will remember the letter. She remembers the letter 'J' bythinking that it's a cat's tail. I thought it was a cute way to remember. She then colored a letter J and colored hair, bow, eyes, eyebrows, lips, and a nose and put it together on the letter 'J' for a person-like the ones you see on Sesame Street. While she was doing that, I sang the "Jack and Jill" song and told her that story. We colored a page that had that story on it and she told me her own version of the story. Apparently, Jill pushed Jack down the hill. But Emma liked saying the letter 'J' in their names. We then learned some songs that had words using the letter 'J'. My favorite was:

(To the tune: "If you're happy and you know it...")

Oh, I wish I was a jiggling jellyfish.

Oh, I wish I was a jiggling jellyfish.

I would jiggle and I'd jive, with my friends I'd give high fives.

Oh, I wish I was a jiggling jellyfish.

I think I liked the song a little bit more than Emma. I would put actions to it and after the 5th time I was singing it and dancing in front of her, she gave me an annoyed look and said, "Okay, Mom, I think that's enough." Well, I'm soooo sorry. I told her. It was funny.

We had a lot of fun today learning about the letter 'J'.

"Oh I wish I was a jiggling jelly fish...."

Sisterly Love

Oh. My girls were so cute today. They usually do whatever they can to get each other mad, but today Emma was being so sweet. She dressed Ellie is a pretty "princess" dress and they played dress up all day-dancing and singing. And Ellie was sad so I went to check on her and there Emma was, hugging her and telling her, " It's ok Ellie, I am right here." It was so cute!

Silly Girls Part 2

Ellie copies everything that Emma does. We heard a "clunk, clunk" while we were getting dinner ready the other night and looked in the hallway to see Emma and Ellie trying to walk in "Daddy's" big boots. They would fall all over each other, laugh, help each other up, and then it would go from there. They are so funny.

We made cupcakes today for one of the young men in our ward. We felt bad that he was going to mutual on his birthday and wanted to make him feel loved, so the girls helped me...well Emma did anyway. She is the master "sprinklerer" as she calls it. Ellie helped in her own way...as the taste tester.