Showing posts with label Alpha Milk Caps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alpha Milk Caps. Show all posts

Sunday, April 28, 2013

No More Milk Caps

 When I first began doing Letter of the Week I started collecting milk and soda caps. I know that it sounds ridiculous but I had seen on many educational blogs and websites that they were using the caps for many learning purposes. I thought that I could as well. With the help of family and friends I collected so many caps it was ridiculous! I used the milk caps on a couple of learning occasions, here and here but I had only alphabetized the caps with the letters that I needed to use, the rest sat in a bag shoved in the craft closet. As I was beginning to add more and more letters to the caps I was also beginning to realize how much space they were really taking up and how little space I actually had! That's when I found these Counters from Eureka at $10.99 for two hundred, I couldn't pass them up! The milk caps are a fabulous idea, especially because they are free but when you have very little room, eleven dollars is very little to spare! So, I have moved onto a new concept and I have got to say, I like this so much better than the milk caps! Thank you to everyone who helped me save them but I am honestly thinking of pitching them all! I am so sorry, I just don't have enough room to store them! I have to consolidate. 



Next week is a new letter for Letter of the Week and a new book for the Book of the Week! Can you guess, by the letters below, what Vada will be studying next week? (Here's a hint, the letters below are not the letters 'd'.)


Monday, April 1, 2013

Preparing for the Letter of the Week

I am beginning "Letter of the Week" with Vada. A preschool curriculum created by Erika at Confessions of a Homeschooler. The whole family has actually pitched in to help in preparations  its been awesome! Justin went out and bought me white one inch binders for each letter as well as page protectors, laminating sheets and extra ink for the printer.

cell phone photo

Kiliegh and Jasmine have pitched in with the different cutting and laminating projects, which has been really nice of them both.



This kind of preparation work can be a little more than tedious and it can be down right boring, especially to kiddos but the girls have really come through for me, Jasmine especially. We've used this time to catch up on the current "gossips" of life in general as well as episodes of Bones on Netflix.



This week's letter is 'A'. 'A' is for "Apple".