Our “N” week was a little different. I took a break from an organized set of activities focused on a book and instead inundated my son with numbers as part of our N studies. He often calls numbers ‘letters’ so I thought it would be good to do all we could with numbers.We looked for numbers everywhere we went – on gas station signs, speed limits, books, etc.
Our activities for the week were simple but fun – we read our book 10 in the Bed and counted down using acorns my son found at the park. Every time one of the animals fell out of the bed, my son took away an acorn and we practiced subtraction.
My son practiced his numbers with glue and sand – we made the numbers using glue and my son poured sand over the glue to make the numbers appear. Pretty simple!
We also played two fun Mickey games – one is a board game where my son matches the numbers on the board with the small game pieces that have numbers on them. He matched them all with no problem.
The other game uses his Thomas the Train flash cards and Mickey pieces on loan from my sister-in-law. We put one card on the floor and place the corresponding number of Mickey pieces on top of the card.
We read our N book, which included words such as nut, nutcracker, nightingale and the numbers nine, ninety and ninety-nine. He made the letter N out of beans (no specific reason for using beans – I considered using glitter but it’s not very popular at our house!)
Our Bible story for the week was about Nicodemus and we practiced John 3:16 together. We also listened to my son’s CD of Bible songs in the car and he asked repeatedly to hear the one about “a man named Nicodemus.” On to letter O!
