Handprint Butterfly Project With Christian

I love this boy and I love this picture of this boy.  He is so funny. I love that he is so excited.  He doesn't really take much to make him happy.  Usually he loves to be in whatever room I am in. I asked him if he wanted to go play on the swing set yesterday and he said no, because Ava wasn't home yet.  I guess he is def. not a loner. :)  He likes to be around people. 

So instead of doing the preschool curriculum I did with Ava and him last year, I decided to check him on his letters to see where he was.  He surprised the living life out of me as he knew and recognized almost all of the upper and lower case letters.  He even knew that little "c" was for cat, and big "C" is for Christian.  I decided, since he had seemed to absorb more from last year, than I had expected, I would do a few new things with him, and just experiment. 

My first adventure of an object lesson, we decided to study butterflies.  We got construction paper and traced his hands numerous times.  I cut them out and then he glued them on the blue paper in the form of a butterfly. I helped with the placement but for the most part, he did this.  While we were working together, we talked about butterflies and how they start out and how they go from caterpillars to butterflies.  He was really interested. I then looked up a few you tube videos of  a Caterpillar turning into a butterfly and he was hooked.  We went to the library the other day and got a few books on the topic and he is constantly looking at them and talking to himself about how they turn into a chrysalis.  It was a fun craft and educational at the same time. :)

I plan to end this week with an object lesson about our transformation from sinners to God's children. 

The Butterfly is a universal symbol of change, resurrection, transformation, celebration, young love and the soul.  So, I plan to explain to him that the caterpillar represents our birth and when we are growing up as children.  Then the Chrysalis represents our death to this world and even dying to ourselves.  Finally I want to point out to him how the beautiful butterfly represents our transformation into new Christian's and children of God after we ask Christ into our hearts and transform into the beautiful creature God intended us and created us to be.  I need to figure out a way to explain it, but that is how I will end the lesson on butterflies.

Literally Swimming Through Letter S Week

Well, it just so conveniently happened that Letter S week was the hottest week of the summer.  The Temps. were in the 90s to 100 all week.  So, of course, being the diligent mom I am, I had to SWIM everyday for S week.  Only because I had to though. :) 

Monday we started out with Swimming at my aunt and Uncles house.  We practiced swimming with our back packs on and then with them off.  Tuesday, we swam at Cowans Gap with My two sister in laws and their kids and then Wed. we went swimming at the Stoner's house with Cate and Abigail.  Thursday night we went to our neighbors across the street to swim and daddy got to go with us.  Finally on Saturday, Micah took the kids to Titus' house and they went swimming in his little pool.  I think, if you ask me, These two children of mine are pretty blessed to have had so many opportunities to go swimming on such a very hot week, and the fact that it was all in the name of Letter S week worked out great. ;)

This was swimming at the Stoners.

Swimming at Cowans Gap!!!  Fun times.  They went out in the "ocean" as Christian called it.  Ava called it he Ocean with little waves.  She told her Nana that something was wrong with the water since the waves were not working. :)

We practiced writing our letter S everyday and then we talked about the story of Sampson and we learned our verse.  The foods we ate were anything Sweet, S shaped  Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, sweet corn, sponge bob snacks, spaghettios, sugar  cookies, and we even got a Super Sour liquid candy thingy from our friend Heather Stiffler.

Hahahah, this was a vain attempt to keep the kids occupied while we were sitting at the vehicle repair shop.  It worked pretty good along with a stack of books we took along to read.  :)

 I had colored sugar my mom had made for me for Ava's b-day party last year and we never got to use it.  So, I had the kids fill some baby food jars up with Sugar art, instead of the sand art.  They had a blast with this idea and it was little to no preparation for me, thanks to my mother who put so much time into it before hand.  The kid loved this activity though I had a hard time getting Christian to actually put the sugar in the jars once he realized it was sugar and not sand. :)  I had to cut him off at one point because I was sure he was consuming more spoonfuls than he was getting into his jar.  :)

Making our fun sugar art.  The kids loved this activity, of course.  Thanks Nana!!!

We wen to visit Heather and Olivia Stiffler on Friday for awhile.  We took them a sweet sugary surprise of brownie bites and then we took them a another sugary surprise.   Ava and Christian each gave Heather one of their sugar jars and they were so proud of them. :)  The other really fun part at Heathers was that Heather had some little girl clothes she was giving Ava and so we had a surprise fashion show and she tried and modeled all the clothes for us so we could watch her SHOW.  She kept making us laugh as she posed and smiled all different ways.

These are the Super Sour Surprises that Heather gave the kids. :)  Their faces were priceless when they first tried them.  Heather got a picture but I missed it. 

Another fun activity we did was we made a shoe collage.  I had a few kohl's magazines and other magazines so I told them to go through and cut out lots of different shoes.  Then we glued them all onto a piece of paper and made a pretty collage.  Ava really enjoyed this activity since she enjoys shoes period.

We also went to Grandma and Pappy's house on Thursday to Husk, Cook, Cut-off, and Freeze 500 ears of sweet corn.  This was quite the undertaking and we were very tired after this job.  We came home and took a little SLEEP.

The kids used some of the boards and strings we had to practice sewing for S week too.  This was a fun activity and it occupied them for quite awhile.  Ava wants to learn to sew like her Nana  and Grandma.

Over all, it was a super swell week.  I am glad it is over and now we are starting on the next letter but I have to say, with all the swimming it entailed, S week was my absolute favorite Letter of all. :)

Rocking and Rolling for Letter R Week

We did some different stuff for Letter R week. We did alot that had nothing to do with the regular suggestoins on the cirriculum because I didn't have time to look ahead, so we just talked and worked with R alot on our own.  It was a REALLY fun week and letter.

The first morning we made Ropes of Rings with construction paper to count down the days Till our upcoming Beach Trip.  The kids did this all morning. They cut their own strips of paper for the most part and then glued, or taped, or stapled them together.  Christian got tired, of course, ;) so Ava promised to make his long for him.  However, she did tell him that she was going to make hers a little longer than his and this was a battle but hey, nothing like some good old sibling RIVALRY to start off our letter R week. :)

Since this seemed a bit harder for little man to figure out and he got bored, I revamped my lesson plan and drew the Letter R and had him cut it out and glue it on a Red piece of paper.  He did really well with this activty and he was so proud to show daddy when daddy got home.

Some of the activites we did was of course our memory verse.  The verse was Phillipians 4:4 and it says

Rejoice in teh Lord always, I say it again Rejoice.  We memorized this verse, talked about what it meant to rejoice and then we learned the song that goes with this verse. :)

We also worked with Rainbow colored Rice as one of our crafty ideas.  This was recommended in the cirriculim and we had so much fun with this one.  I had colored some rice awhile back and so I got it out and paper and glue and then we started our creations.  We made lots of doodles and designs and then at the end we made a RICE RAINBOW and a Red Rectangle out of Red Rice.  While we did this we discussed why God sent the rainbow, what it stood for and what promise it was to us.

Here is Ava with one of her random designs and Christian with his Red Rectangle. Ava says we should do this craft EVERY DAY.

Then since it was R week, we decided to have Cousin Renee over for a slumber party.  She was so much fun and the kids were hanging on her pretty much the entire time.  While Renee was with us we did lots of fun things like making a pinata for Reece's Birthday Party. :)

We ate Roman Noodles, or Ashlyn soup as they call it because their cousin Ashlyn eats it all the time.  We also had a Relaxing time of Reading where we sat and Read for a whole morning.  Maybe 45 minutes straight.  We talked about what Rest means and we started daily REST time just for the week of Letter R. This was not a welcomed activity by the two kiddos but mommy thourougly enjoyed this one. For our servive we offered a friend of ours a ride somewhere because their car had broken down, but she didn't take us up on the offer.  We talked about what it meant to be rewarded for doing good things and we used lots of M&Ms as a reward system that week.

The kids colored a picture of a rainbow and they also made a book of coloring pages with angry birds on them for Reece for his Birthday.  We practiced writing the letter R everyday and they did pretty good with getting that down.

It rained one day, so yes, I allowed them to go out and dance in the rain.  This was a highlight for them. They took out an umbrella for awhile and then decided to just dance and run in the rain, no shelter. :)

Finally, we thought for the ending of a great week, we would go to our cousin Reece's Five year B-day Party.  It was so fun and we had a blast and it was a perfect way to Rope in R Week.

Quizzing and Quilting our way through Q Week

This happened to be a little easier than I expected.  Q is a hard letter to teach and I was worried about how I was going to find enough things to do and also how I was going to find a way to explain how and why Q goes with U.  We explained that it had to do with the fact that Q was a bit shy so he travels with letter U for security.  Then we discussed all the fun Qu words. 

We talked about queens of course and how they are the mothers of Princesses.  This got their attention.   Then we read the story of Queen Esther and explained how awesome it is that God placed her in the right place at the right time, and then used her to save his people.  We talked about how God can do that for us too. Then we also did a devotional on a letter Q and we focused on the word Questions.  How we have so many questions and we don't always know the answers.  Then we talked about to many of our questions we can find the answers in the Bible. We made up a questionnaire and sent it to Nana, pappy, grandma, pappy, Micah and myself.  The kids had fun making the questionnaire and then reading the results.  Ava especially loved this project.

We worked with Quarters and talked about how things many pennies made a quarter, and how much a quarter was worth.  How many quarters it takes to make a dollar too.  Then we had a quarter toss with quarters and cups and we set it up like the dime toss at the carnival.  The kids thought this was so cool since we had just recently been there at the carnival and played this game.  Daddy even joined in and played along.

They had so much fun and daddy had a bum knee, so they brought out the quarter toss game to him. :)

Some of the foods we focused on were Quaker Oats oatmeal, and we made some Quick Quencher drink of orange juice, grape juice, and lemonade.  We used the recipe in the curriculum. 

Some of our activities were coloring a Q shaped as a quarterback for football. This was an activity Christian liked and he really enjoyed putting the face on the quarter back.  We also made a quilt page out of Apple Jacks and glue and this was a fun activity they did and ate while they worked.  Ava worked on patterns with the colors and Christian just pasted them on randomly.  They also practiced writing Qs on the dry eraser board and chalkboard. 

The best part of the week was the excuse we had to play the QUIET game over and over and over again.  you get the point.  This was a huge part of our week. :) I think we will play a game similar to this game on S week, but we shall change the name to the Silent game. :)  However, all said and done, we spent quality time together learning about Q.

Productive P Week

I have to say P week kind of was busy and at the end of two weeks, we still hadn't done everything we could with P for P weeks. :)  There is so many fun words and activities with P and the kids caught on to this one real quick. They realized pretty fast,  like the first day, that POPSICLE starts with p. . .so we had to eat at least one every day!!! Hmm, for that reason, it is good P week is over now. I did make Ava write the word Popsicle every day before she would get one. :)  Of course we practiced writing letter P numerous times anyway.

Ava's homework so she could have a Popsicle. :)

We made a picture for our pappys and we called them both to check on them as one of our P activities.  Some of the foods we ate were Pop tarts, Pancakes, Pasta, Popsicles, Peaches, and many more. 

We went to the Pet store to see Puppys and to learn about how we should take care of a puppy. This was a fun event and definitely made P week a favorite in my kids books.  They are trying to figure out how to make letter Q work for pet shop in some way.  I gotta love the creativity.  The pet shop was fun though, we got two little puppies out to see and pretty soon Ava had decided which one was HERS and Christian had decided which one was HIS.  They named them Angel and Nipper.  They were so in love with them that later on Ava and Pappy Sweethearts date consisted of McDonald's and then a trip to the Pet Shop to show Pappy her Precious Puppy.  All in the name of P week!!! Right?  While they were on the way to the pet shop, Ava asked Pappy if he knew where he was going.  He said he thought so and then she said, "well I will tell you how to get there, it is the door with the two fish painted on it."  Then he knew for sure. :)

The little puppy really liked to pull on Ava's Braids and the kids were so loud I kept having to tell them to Keep it down.  They were so excited.  Full of laughter and squeals. I can't wait till the day the time is right to get them a puppy.

Spending time with Pappy.  This worked out great that Pappy and Nana came home to visit right over P week.  He did take Ava on her promised Date Night and they had so much fun. 

Another activity we did was a Puzzle activity.  We sat for a good while and just put puzzles together.  Christian lost interest pretty quickly but Ava and I had the endurance for awhile. I was excited to see our end result. I can't wait till we can do the larger puzzles as a past time. :)

It doesn't look like much, but it was quite a bit actually. :)

Some of the things we discussed were our Pancreas and how our body uses it to help us function.  We discussed plants and why we need them.  Then we planted some sunflowers and watered the rest of our garden plants.  We discussed how People play, plan, and then we pretended to be purple people eaters. :)  Who knows, but they loved it.  Ava and Christian spent a lot of time in the pool in our back yard.  Ava played with her ponies in the pool and Christian just splashed around.  Then we even had friends over to join us in our Pool Party. :)

We had a PRINCESS PARTY with Cousins Alexis, Annika, and Natalie.  We had Pancakes & Chicken Gravy, Peaches, and Pink iced cupcakes for dessert.  They even made Pink Lemonade.  Then we decorated Princess Crowns with stickers and Grandma Hunsberger even got them all Presents or Party Favors.  The girls of course posed for Pictures and played princess dress up.  What a fun Party.

We also learned about what the word Prayer meant and we discussed why it is important to Pray to God and Petition God when we have a request.  We also talked about Police officers and what they do. How they are there to keep us safe and secure and we need to obey the rules so we don't get into trouble by the Police.  We also had a Pizza Party one night in our basement and we had so much fun.  The kids wanted to do it again the next night. :)

These were the highlights of our weeks.  We did have lots of fun and I think we may do P week at the end again, just because it was so much fun. 

Overjoyed With O Week

I think personally that O was a bit harder than some of the letters. In fact, I have had a harder time with all of the vowels.  However, we did what we could.  It ended up being a very full week of Opportunity. 

We started off with Psalm 8:1 "Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.  You have set Your glory above the Heavens."  Then we did a devotional / object lesson with an empty Jar. The jar was full of Oxygen and we need Oxygen.  We discussed how we need and use it and then went into how we Need God and Jesus and though we can't see them, we can be full with them.  We know they are there.  It worked out pretty descent.

Some of the activities we did were "the Not so Ordinary Orange" craft.  We took Oranges and a sharpie pen and decorated our Oranges.  We gave them faces, hair and even drew pictures on them.  The kids then peeled them on their OWN and we ate them. :)

Another activity we did was playing OUTSIDE everyday at some point.  We had fun because the weather granted us some fun play temperatures.  The kids took the Mail OUT to the mail box each day and went OUT to get the mail each day.  This made them feel important.

A few of the foods we ate were of course, Oranges, O shaped PBJ sandwiches, Oatmeal, and My favorite was Octopus Hotdogs.   I had the most fun making them and the kids laughed the entire time they ate them.  Then we followed that up with looking up some info on Octopuses :)  Then we went right into discussing the Ocean.  We talked about Octopuses all the way to Oil Spills and how it affects the Ocean animals.  Then we made a big OCEAN SCENE and hung in on the wall.  It was neat to see them drawing things they think live in the Ocean.  I love Ava's Octopuses.  Can you see them?

Another thing we discussed was the importance of Obedience.  It is important in all we do that we obey first God and then our parents and so on and so forth.  We worked on Obeying simple commands. :)  We shall see how that works in the future.


Christian's fish died also, so since it was O week, Micah wrote up an Obituary and we read it during the service of the fish's flushing.  Then we talked about what an obituary was.  Kind of hard to explain that one.

Can't think of anything else we did for O week other than the normal things.  We discussed and practiced opposites, practiced writing the letter O and drawing Ovals. :)  Ya know, all the not so original stuff. :)

Letter N Week

Letter N landed on the week that National Prayer Day was on.  We took this opportunity to pray on that specific day and we talked about prayer.  Then we discussed what it meant to be Needy and we went shopping to get toys for the Operation Christmas Boxes.  I used the word needy for lack of better N word terms but they got the point.  I did have to inform them though that it was not appropriate to go around and point the NEEDY people out.  They were doing it so innocently, like, "hey, that woman is needy because she is using a cane to walk and she needs it."  sweet and observant but not quite what I was trying to get across.   We had to tweak that a little.

We did a devotional on the value of Jesus love and how we should share it with others.  The object of the lesson was a Nickel and how we can spend it or save it or. . .give it to God and allow him to make more out of it and share it with more people.  The kids really liked this lesson and they also liked that they each got a nickel at the end. 

The Cat and the Hat show had a whole half hour on Birds and their nests and how they make them.  this worked perfectly for our week and the kids really were interested in this topic.  It just so happened Grandma Bumbaugh had two birds nests that were built this spring on the pillars of her porch so the kids had really gained quite an interest on this topic.  They colored some pictures of birds and their nests and they also cut pictures of bird nests out of magazines and glued them onto a collage.  Oh, and Ava decided to make her own birds nest.  She used dirt and water to make her mud and then added grass, stones, and some hair.  It is still sitting on our deck waiting for a mama to use it.  Ava asked me the other day, "I wonder how the mommy will get her babies and her eggs into our nest from her nest?"  Not sure how to explain that one.

One activity that was really a great exercise was Ava learning to write her full name.  She really did a pretty good job and she even sent a card to Nana for her birthday that she wrote on.  She practiced writing her Ns and she is getting pretty good at them.  Christian still always writes Letter I or Letter H when writing his letters. :)  We also called Nana numerous times that week since it was N week.

For our service we decided to call and invite Nanny over for a Nice Surprise.  We gave her a present that was a small Nurses angel pendant since she is Christian's Nurse and she is his angel all in one.  It also was Nurses Appreciation Week.  Then we gave her a back massage and a foot massage.  I think Christian more enjoyed tickling her feet than massaging them. :)

Of course for the Bible part of our lessons, we read the story of Noah and that is always one of the kids favorites.  We did a whole section on why we NEED plants in our lives and how to nurture a plant so it grows right.  We ate noodles a few meals that week and we invite our neighbor Jim over for a cookout but he had plans.  We did actually focus on the word Nap and why we Need Naps so we are not so cranky.  It ended up being a great week.


I almost forgot about the NEWS cast the kids put on.  They used their microphone and acted out a news cast.

Marvelous M Week

Letter M happens to be my favorite week. I bet it has something to do with the fact that it is for Micah, Michelle, and Mommy. :)  I love the activities that were suggested and we had fun adding on some of our own ideas for this week.  I was so excited the day we took eyeliner and drew make-up mustaches on our faces.  The kids couldn't stop laughing about this one and we had so much fun with this activity. I can't lie, I had quite a few laughs at this too. :)

The kids always love waving at our Mail Lady so we decided to do something special for her.  We tried hard to think what we could do and we decided on making "M shaped Marshmallows Munchy Treats for the Mail Lady.  She was so surprised and later even sent us a card thanking us for the treats.  I was so excited to see there faces as they gave her the treats.  They were so proud.  This activity gave us the opportunity to learn about mail and how it works and we sent some mail to our Cousin Mya.

Of course, we had to eat some ourselves too. 

Ava Made a pretty Candle Holder for her Grandma who's name is Margaret and she gave it to her for an Early Mother's Day Gift.  :)  This was a baby food jar with tissue paper pieces glued on like stain glass and then a candle in the jar.

We also went to a Music concert with the Bumbaugh Family and Christian got up and sang with them.  We learned alot about music this week too and played lots of musical instruments.  Ava even called her Nana and Pappy in Missouri and sang Music to them over the computer. :)

A few other activities we managed to pack into our schedules was the devotionals we learned and discussed such as the story of Moses and the story of Mary the Mother of Jesus.  Ava even dressed up like Mary the Mother of Jesus and acted out her own play.  Some of the stories we read were "Moon's Wish" and "Goodnight Moon", and "If you Give a Moose a Muffin."  We also discussed some things like our Muscles and how we all have them.  We talked about working our muscles and exercising.  We learned about the Months of the year and the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard." 

We went to the Municipal Memorial Park on Monday and the kids had a few hours of fun playing at the park.  Ava was able to climb the Monkey Bars all by herself this time and she was so proud. I told her it was because it was "M" week. :)

And here is a picture of Christian Monkeying around. 

Some of the foods we ate were Mac N' Cheese (or course everyday since it was M week) and marshmallow treats.  We painted some pictures of a Moon and a Mouse and then the kids cut out the pics of the moon, which they did good with.  We practiced writing our letter Ms and Pappy and Grandma took them to McDonalds for the end of the week.  We did lots more but these were the highlights.  Great times and good Memories. I think they got the Letter M down good. :)

Oh, yes and Ava came up with this one on her own, which I then told her she could do it all week long if she wanted.  She had me sit down and then got a towel and lotion and proceeded to Massage Mommy's Feet.  :) I love those kids.

Loving Life with Letter L Week

There is so much you can do with the Letter L, and we had so much fun.  My favorite thing we did was we made our own homemade Liquid Laundry Detergent and then we decorated our container up and called it Launder of Love and gave it to aunt Lori.  The kids enjoyed the rest of L week but this was my favorite. I was so impressed with this fun activity. :) 

We learned about "LOVING each other" and "why we shouldn't LIE" and "what does it mean to be LAZY".  We discussed the Bible story of Lazarus being raised from the dead and Daniel and the Lions Den.  We had a few discussions on why we should be happy with how we LOOK because that is the way God made us. :) 

For our science part we learned a lot about the Lungs in our body and what they do and why we need them.  This was so intriguing to Ava especially and she is still talking about them.  Another great activity we did, that was so fun and even Daddy joined in. . .we had a Laughing Session where we just sat together and all laughed as hard as we could at whatever came to our minds.  We all had tears in our eyes by the end of this laughing session. 

We drank Lemonade and ate L shaped PBJ sandwiches.  Lime Jello Jigglers was a hit, which we of course cut out as the letter L with L shaped cookie cutters.  Leftovers was also a meal one night, partially cause I needed an excuse not to cook. :)  We took a trip to the Library and we did an activity where we cut out Letter L to hang on our display door.  Of course we practiced writing letter L and learned our verse which was 1 Corinthians 13:4 and we colored a picture of a leaf. 

Ava and Christian's favorite part was taking a LOT of Lemon Lollipops to our friend Lilly.  We placed them in a small vase and took them along with a letter Ava wrote for Lilly.  Lilly's expression when she saw them was priceless.  She was squealing and jumping up and down for joy.  SOOOO cute.  :)  It is always fun to give to someone who is so very grateful and excited.  Then we stayed and played for the morning so the kids could get out some of their energy.

Last but not least, I always loved to play with colored water when I was little.  I decided to keep extra empty containers over time, rinse them out and fill them with some lightly colored LIQUIDS to play with .  They had fun and we talked about colors and mixing them together to make other colors.  :)  This entertained them for hours.

I really did Love L week.  The kids even started picking up on words that had the L sound in the word and not only at the beginning.  It is fun to see them Learning so much.

The Kicks of K Week

I had to laugh most of the way through K week. The kids kept calling it J week and even though they would get the sound right, they would name it wrong. It made me frustrated at first but then I just decided to go with it.  What the heck, J or K, they are close in the alphabet anyway and hey, Spring is here, so who cares?

We had some pretty good discussions over K week about Kindness, and Kindergarten, Kangaroos, and Kings.  A few of the videos we looked up on YouTube had kangaroos in them and the kids loved viewing and learning about the process of the kangaroo in the mama's pouch while she would have another baby in her belly at the same time.  :) We also watched some letter K videos on you tube on things that start with K.  This always is a fun part of our week cause they love to watch short clips of videos on YouTube. :)  It is also amazing all you can find.

We talked about King David and how he went from a shepherd boy to a KING, and a favored follower of God.  We even made a King out of a toilet paper roll and a king cut out pattern. Ava later decided this looked so much like King Peter the magnificent from Narnia, and he became a prince to her barbies. hahah.

The door is our showcase door and we hang everything to do with that letter on that door for the week.  Our verse was Hebrews 13:1  Keep Loving each other as brothers.  As you can see, we also printed out, and then the kids cut out on their own. . . the letter "K".  I was so impressed with their cutting skills.  Then Ava colored and cut out the rest of the eyes, crowns, and mouths.  :)  They glued them together and walla.  :) 

Of course, we did some things with Kites because spring is a great time for kites to begin with.  They used paint and scissors and glue and made their own kites. :)  Then they painted some ceramic kittens and sent them to our cool college Kids - Nate and Danielley.  The kids said that one kitten was Nate and one was Danielle.  Too funny. 

Some of our reading we read the Lion King, and a book on kittens.  We also looked over Keys for Kids book that I had when I was little.  Of course for food, we had Hershey Kisses and milk which Ava pointed out both have Ks in them.  We had "K" shaped PBJ sandwiches and we ate some chicken too.  They are learning to find the "k" sound within the word and not just at the beginning. :)

We decorated a box of Kleenex's for cousin Kelsey and delivered them.  She might have though we were crazy but she just smiled as the kiddos gave it to her with such great excitement.

They decorated them with all sorts of stickers. :)  Look how proud they are.

Another activity, one that I really enjoyed, was the kids cleaning my kitchen floor.  They were so sweet about it and we sang the letter K song as we worked. :)  We also talked about how the wicked step sisters made Cinderella do this type of work and even wicked had a K in it.  (OK, so I am a little obsessive.:)

Our service was sending Crafty Kit to College Kids Nate and Danielle. 

Showing off some of their crafty expertise.

And last but most definitely not LEAST. . I worked this out on purpose folks.  The highlight of the Letter K Week was KINDERGARTEN registration!!! I will be doing a blog on this all on it's own but yes, just to let it be known, Ava is going to Hamilton Heights next year and very excited. :) 

We had a lot of fun with Letter K week!!!