Archive for the ‘Learning Time’ Category

Mommy drew rectangles on a sheet of construction paper and wrote the numbers 1-6 on one side and left the other side blank. I had to show mommy that I could recognize my numbers. I would tell Mommy what a number was and then I would use my do-a-dot and put the number of dots on the right hand side that matched the number on the left. I did a great job and got a sticker!

I learned how to connect the dots today. Mommy stuck some sticky dots on a piece of construction paper and I used a marker to draw lines and connect them. I’m getting really good at tracing and drawing lines.

I can count to 30, count my fingers and toes and anything you ask me to count. I’m learning how to write my numbers now. Mommy traced 3 umbrellas on a piece of construction paper and drew a big number 3. I colored the umbrellas, decorated them with ribbon, dots and a ladybug then practiced tracing the number 3. Mommy held my hand, helped me trace it the first time and then I did it all by myself a few times. I was really proud of myself; I like learning new things.

Mommy has been trying to teach me how to trace but I haven’t been very interested in it until today. We took a Ziploc bag, Mommy drew the letter “A” on it and we filled it with yellow and blue finger paint. I spent a lot of time tracing the letter with my finger. When I traced it I mixed the paint together and turned it from yellow and blue to green. I liked tracing and liked making the colors change. After I traced the letter I would pat the paint flat and trace it all over again. We talked about the letter “a” and words that started with it. I learned the word aardvark today, its a silly word and I laugh when I say it.

We started a new game today and it was fun! We glued some of our scrap paper to paper bags, mommy set them up and then I had to choose a bean bag and knock over the bag with the same color rectangle on it. Ethan was my personal cheer squad, he screamed and clapped every time I knocked a bag down. I was really good at it and wasn’t missing any of them by the time we finished.

Our bags and bean bags

Me knocking the bags down

Our second stop on my world tour is Yellow Waters which is in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. Today we went on a boat trip so we could go out and spot crocodiles. Yellow Waters Billabong is full of water lilies and lots of pretty birds.

Hi, my name is Georgie and I’m addicted to foamies. Each morning when Mommy pulls out our craft bag I start screaming “foamies foamies” at the top of my lungs and don’t want to play with anything else. Mommy tried to get me to paint today but I told her “no Mommy no paint want my foamies please”. I got my way and we played with foamies but she tricked me and made me learn. We used a sheet of foam paper and stuck some fish on then put on some air bubbles coming from each fish. I like counting the air bubbles; I’m good at counting.

My Fishy Bubble Count

Mommy and I started a new project this week, it’s called around the World with Georgie. We’re printing out pretty pictures from all over the world and sticking some of my foamies on them. We have a book to put them all in so we can go back and talk about them again when I’m a bit older.

We started our trip around the world at Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, in the red center of Australia. Uluru is the biggest free standing rock in the world and is very important to the Aboriginal people. Mommy has been there and its one of her favorite places; she said we’ll go see it in person when Boo and I are older.

My Travel Book and Our First Stop Uluru

We were looking for video’s of the fish in the ocean on YouTube and found a Jellyfish video. I like the Jellyfish, they are pretty and move slow. Mommy decided that since I liked the Jellyfish so much we could make our own. Mommy cut a paper plate in half and I glued some googly eyes on it and then drew a smile. Mommy cut some strips of white tissue paper for the tentacles and we glued them on the back. Mommy let me stick some of my foam fish on the tentacles. When we finished Mommy downloaded a song from Amazon called Jellyfish Jump and I jumped and danced with the Jellyfish we made!

Showing off my Jellyfish and Doing the Jellyfish Jump

“Do the jellyfish jump, do the jellyfish jump
Do the jellyfish jump and have yourselves a ball”

Yesterday we planted a little herb that we can watch grow. We are living in a townhouse this spring and don’t have a place to plant a garden so we planted an indoor one. Ethan and I were a big help!

Ethan inspected everything as it came out of the box

I inspected the stickers to make sure Mommy put them on all correctly then Ethan did a durability test.

I planted the seeds and Ethan planted some ketchup from our kitchen

We both put the rocks in and we were done!

Mommy highly recommends not turning your head for two seconds when doing this with a one year old. We put it in the window upstairs that gets the most sun and we’ll check on them every day to watch them grow. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we’ll have Parsley, Sage, Cilantro, Dill and Basil.