Letter of the Day

I should just change my name to Mia, I've been MIA for so long! Its been pretty stressful over here the past few weeks. With Justin going to Alaska and the baby's health and dealing with family problems it was easy to not get on and post. But I am back (for now) and have something fun to share!

The Letter of the Day!
Nope, not just for sesame street any more folks! We were wondering the schools and art supply isle at walmart and found notebook paper size magnetic white board for only 50 cents! So I grabbed it, there are SO many things I can do with that. And its been sitting in the walmart bag for the last few days. Until Sam was watching some leapfrog show today and it was teaching about letters. The only issue is I want him to have practical experience. Not to mention we have been having some minor behavior retraining going on here (more on that later) so an idea formed!

We now have the magnetic white board stuck on our front door and a tall laundry basket next to it. I write the letter of the day on the board and 1 word that starts with that letter. (Today is "S" so I wrote Sam) and his goal is to spend the day collecting "s" things. Snakes (stuffed ones) socks, shirts, soap, ect. but I want him to be a more abstract thinker. So I let him look in my fabric collection and pick out stripes, stars, skulls. I taught him about scabbards for his sword, and he came up with "sports drink" for my Gatorade. We found a reusable Safeway Sack that even had socks and shirts in it.

Now the goal is that at the end of the day he will have a basket full of things that start with the letter "s", if a tad abstractly. He gets points for the number of things he has placed in the basket and that translates into "behavior bucks" (I will make a post about this whole thing) and he gets to keep them in his wallet.

Remember, I would Love to hear from all of you out there in the real world about how this works for you, and if you have any ideas for ways to make it better. Any even other ideas for using the white board!