Cc is for...

At WeeCare we are learning...
Letter Cc
Number 1
Color Red
Shape Circle

We change letters each week and stay on the other concepts for 3 weeks.

Here are some of the fun, hands-on activities we played:
Letter Cc big book/song
"Every letter makes a sound Cc says" song
Driving around like CARS
Coloring a Cc is for CAT page (from Pinterest!)
Playing with CARS
RED big book/song
Coloring with RED crayons on Letter Cc page
Hide and Seek with 1 RED CIRCLE
Stamping CIRCLES with RED paint (using toilet paper rolls, plastic bottles from things before recycling them- process art for sure, and the kids had a BLAST)
Moses as a baby

We CALLED my brother- his uncle CODY in Portland.


...the much anticipated showing of the movie CARS!! So anticipated that we got an early start on it on letter Cc, making it our Saturday Family Movie Night! We built a CAVE to CUDDLE up in! We love our cuddle-up family movie night tradition!

During the afternoon, and while the pizza was cooking, we headed out for a walk. The weather has just been amazing! (The hints of Fall are upon us, and we are LOVING it!! I've already enjoyed my first Pumpkin coffee drink- Iced Frosted Pumpkin Coffee!!) On our walk, we hunted for CRICKETS (& grasshoppers). Mekele loves listening to them at night, when we relax on the patio. "Wistenn..." (listen). Sunday night and Monday, we got lots of time with Mekele's COUSINS- they live 2 minutes away in our neighborhood (definitely our favorite thing about our neighborhood! such a fun blessing! Its the best when family = best of friends!) His Aunt Amy made a quick mac & cheese dinner, but not regular, oh no... CARS mac & cheese! I love that family gets in to our Letter of the Week!! Monday day the COUSINS came back over to play because there was no school but my sister-in-law (teacher) still had in-service. The COUSINS, 4 & 6 years old, were all about Letter Cc! Throughout the day, they kept coming up with me things we should play and I would hear the "ccc" sound. We finished watching the last 20 minutes of CARS,

played CARS, CRASHING them, lining them up, estimating how many, and eventually COUNTING them. Our guessing game lasted all day and they wanted to play several different rounds with several different items :) The one they talked about a lot during the day was for "how many cars", Mekele's guess was "19", and low and behold, there WERE 19!!! Lucky guess, but now they think their little COUSIN is a little smarty! playing CAMERA..

Willfully sharing with his current favorite toy right now... this is huge! Praise God- I think he might be getting it! :)

For breakfast we all shared in COOKING muffins.

Then another little friend came over for a playdate, so we took our ginormous new box of sidewalk chalk (thanks aaron) to play out front while we waited for them to arrive. Mekele was happy to show his buddy where he could find his name in sidewalk chalk. We spent the rest of our pleasant morning until lunch outside under the back patio- playing bubbles, pouring and transfering in the water table, more playing CARS, sitting in the CARS chairs from my parents, and "just catching up on life." :)

Mekele was wiped out come nap time! So the big boys and I worked on our CRAYON project- peeling the paper off, sorting them into muffin tins, and COOKING them to make fun new giant CRAYONS. Most were all colors, but we made 1 Halloween one, 1 Christmas one, and 1 Valentines one for fun- I am still surprised by how much they were in to it!


And thanks to Mason, I finally got around to cleaning under the refrigerator and another big shelf. Several magnets had gone missing this year, and they were found with the help of my sweet nephew! He wanted to make matches!


We didn't get to bake CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES as I had planned and also had really wanted to get my CAR (and his little CARS) to the CAR wash for "CAR wash, Jr"