"H" week and Halloween

"H" is for Halloween
Appropriately enough, we celebrated Halloween at the beginning of "H" week!  When we dressed up for grandparents the day before, Gemma wore the monkey costume we had picked out together.  Then on Halloween she decided she wanted to be a dragon like last year!  This was the first time she was really and truly excited about dressing up...I wasn't about to squelch that excitement.  The monkey costume was pretty big, so it should make a good costume for her next year. 

Gemma was also sick early in the week, so we didn't do quite as many of our "H" activities.  Thankfully, she bounced back really quickly.

Some of our favorite "H" books were:

Hanna Hippo's Horrible Hiccups

P is for Pumpkin, God's HARVEST Alphabet (I like this autumn book so very much I really am tempted to just buy it for our home library)
Hush Little Baby (a sweet spin on the traditional song)

Hilda Must be Dancing

Harold and the Purple Crayon

The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse

"H" is for hats!
On Friday  we looked at the book "Zoe's Hats" and sang "My Hat it Has Three Corners", then we made our own hats.  Both kids had fun with this.  I let Gemma use my super-nifty tape-bracelet to tape the paper hat together and that worked really well!  I tell you, I think those things are about the greatest invention ever.  Kolbe is finally doing better with paints and markers (read: he mostly doesn't try to eat or throw them), so that has been a welcome change!

Gemma has also been using her scissors a lot lately.  She just cuts strips and random pieces, but I figure that's a good place to start.  Hopefully we can work on cutting lines and such here in the near future.  After an afternoon of very intense reminders to keep "thumb on top," she seems to have gotten that down.  Funny thing though, she switches between her right and left hand when she cuts.

I think that's all for this week!  I'm going to try to be a little more timely now with my Letter of the Week posts, and try to post them the Monday following each week.  And if you're curious, I do these as much for me as I do for others.  ;-D  I am looking forward to looking back on these in future years to jog my memory for ideas!!  Please feel free to share any ideas you have in the comments!  I'm always open for suggestions!!