Letter of the week- d

Our "A Letter A Week" finally continues again....

This week we are doing the letter "D".

'D' says "d, d, dragons !" Baby Reagan is borned in the year of Dragon and I thought it would be interesting to introduce him these cute baby dragons sticks I made for him.

I use them to introduce counting 1-3, with the help of the plastic cups below.

 and I pasted bright red dots stickers to represent the quantity

Then I slit a hole on the top of the cups for baby Reagan to insert the baby dragons while we count them together.

A fun way to teach my baby boy to recognize the numerals and its quantity 

 So now I moved on to counting number 1-5 and this time I used little ducks! 

D says "d" "d" "ducks."

 Velcro is used to stick the ducks onto the laminated hard paper. I input him the concept of addition (+1) and subtraction (-1) as I sing the song "5 Little Ducks went out one day, over the hills and far away...." Then I stick or pull out the ducklings one by one after I display the correct number above.

My 14 mths old began to love this activity now because he enjoys it whenever I sing to him and he loves pulling out the ducklings even more!

Now it's time to think of my next letter-of-the-week "E" !