Letter Of The Week - R Is For Rootbeer Floats

This week we've been working with the letter R. Today Tristan made a rootbeer float. But, because you need vanilla ice cream for rootbeer floats, and we didn't have any, we made it instead.
So first, we had to make the vanilla ice cream.

What you'll need...

1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/2 Cup Milk
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
6 Tablespoons Rock Salt (I didn't have any rock salt so we just used regular salt)
1 Gallon Size Ziplock Bag
2 Pint Size Ziplock Bags
Ice

1. Fill the gallon size ziplock bag with ice, about 1/2 full and add the salt and seal it.


2. Mix the sugar, milk and vanilla in the small pint size bag and seal it.
Then place it in the 2nd pint size bag.
I recommend this because, the first time we tried this, the pint size bag broke, and the ice cream was very salty. So it's just an extra precaution.







3. Open up the large bag and put the small inside and seal the large bag



4. Shake the bag and you'll see the mixture in the small bags turn into ice cream.
(It'll take about 5 minutes of shaking)



Open the small bag, and place in a bowl





Tristan had to try a bite


Yummy!

Anyway....

Time to make the rootbeer float.
Put about half of the mixed ice cream in the bottom of a cup


Then pore some rootbeer in the cup


Then put the remaining ice cream in the cup.
Drink and enjoy.

Letter Of The Week - R Is For Rainbow

I know that St. Patrick's Day is done, but we're still working on the letter R, and rainbows. So today Tristan is working on writing the letter "R". He didn't do to bad, but to show him how good he did, I put a blue star on the really god R's. Below is his worksheet...which you can find here. First he colored the rainbow...

Then, with some help, he wrote his R's


After he wrote his R's, he made a hand print rainbow.
We used red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple construction paper,
marker and scissors.


Then, I drew his hand print on each color of construction paper.


After we drew the hand prints, I cut the hand prints out



Then Tristan glued them together




Finally, he had a hand print rainbow

Letter Of The Week - R Is For Rainbow

This week we're learning the letter "R". Again because St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow, so we're talking about rainbows. What we used...

The Letter R Template
Crepe Paper
Glue

Tristan took the crepe paper and ripped them in small pieces



Then he put glue on the letter R

After he got the glue on, he place the pieces of crepe on the "R"

Now we have a pretty R Rainbow

Letter Of The Week - S For Shamrock

I've decided to work with Tristan on some of his education. Tristan is 4 and a little slow on his speech, but he does know his ABC's and he can count to 30 with no help. But he needs to learn how to write them. So because St. Patrick's Day is just a week away, I decided to start with the letter S.

Here is what we used:
Green Finger Paint
Paper Plate
Yellow Construction Paper
Shamrock Print Out
Glue
Scissors

I printed out a shamrock which you can get from here.

I then had Tristan paint it green with finger paint.
I place some paint on a paper plate to make it easier for Tristan to use.









While we were waiting for the shamrock to dry, we grabbed the yellow piece of construction paper, and with Tristan's finger, wrote the letter S on the it.



After the shamrock was dry, we turned it over and put glue on the back



Tristan then flipped it over and placed it on the construction paper next to the letter S. Then tapping it in place.



Then it was finished