Jesse Bear What Will You Wear?-- a B4FIAR book

 While Cailin and Delaney were away at Camp Timberidge, Liam and I rowed our way through our first book of the school year from 'Before Five in a Row".  I'll be using this book as our guide for his preschool/kindergarten studies.

He had so much fun practicing his cutting, gluing and coloring skills.

We talked about what Jesse Bear ate and other healthy foods.

 In the book Jesse Bear played in a sandbox....Liam quickly jumped on that as an idea for our activities.  He's been asking for sand to fill the turtle box for the past few months.  He finally got his wish.  It was so cute....we were loading the car after our purchases. I was walking away to place the cart in the stall and as I was coming back Liam was grinning so big and holding up his thumbs in the 'thumbs up' fashion.  He was Sooo excited.  Who knew a couple bags of sand could make him so happy.  (one week later, he's still just as happy too!).  Of course after a playing session in the sand box these two little ones were in great need of a bath!    As it turns out, Jesse Bear had a bath too! Hmmm, I wonder why? :)

 Math...this is Connor's passion and, he's eager to share his love of math with Liam.   I had Liam cut out some bear faces, then Connor hid them.  As Liam found the faces he added one to another till he got to six.  Afterward Connor read more to

 A game of rhyming words....we had the most fun with this game when we got silly and created our own nonsense words...Mommy-wommy, Liam-beeum....silly-nilly!

 I'm working with him on recognizing the alphabet and the sounds the letters make. Here we had a game of putting a clip on the letter that matches the first sound of the picture....s for sun, b for bath.

On Thursday, Brianne joined in the school fun with Susan, her therapist.  She's doing great with her fine motor skills.....and getting better every day with speech and gross motor skills.  She's now walking up to 8 or more steps, then pivoting and walking a few steps more before she falls down.

Even though day camp for the girls is over, we're not finished rowing this book.  I still have a few other activities planned, so stay tune for a few additions to this post.