G Stuff

G proved to be our most difficult letter yet; we had a hard time shaking the soft G sound. Also, the funky swirly lowercase G that some fonts use was almost unrecognizable to a 3 year old. I'm a little behind in posting this, so I can't remember all the good G books we did. Grown ups Get to Do All the Driving by William Steig was one.

Activities

Go Fish. The game. We learned it. It wasn't as successful as Uno, our current game of choice. (See here.)

Two-faced gorillas.



The template for this is here. I printed the yellow side on yellow paper rather than coloring it. We painted the black side black and left the smile white. Googly eyes for that googly effect. I tried to pull a child's psychology "Let's talk about our feelings" activity by asking Talmage what makes him sad and what makes him happy, but he just had fun making funny faces.

Shape Goose.

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Here's the template. This was kind of fun because the goose is made up of different shapes. Talmage knows his shapes pretty well, but it was a good review.

Giacometti Figures.

Okay, if I'm honest, we didn't do these for G week due to the soft G sound. But we did do this this week and I thought we should document it.

We made the base of the figures with pipe cleaners, heads with paper balls, and then covered them with tin foil. Had we used putty for the feet, they would have stood up.

G treasure hunt. garden, grass, glass, glue, glasses. The treasure was Mr. Goodbar.