J is for Jelly Jar Jumping

...or Jam or jump rope or Jack-in-the-Box...We did it all. Our book for the week was Bread and Jam for Frances. This is the classic tale of Frances the badger who likes bread and jam until that's all her mom serves her. I looked into making jelly or jam from scratch. I know it's doable but...it just wasn't going to happen. Maybe someone out there can convince me that it's easier than it sounds AND worth it. Instead, Adam and Daddy made bread together, and we made a point to have peanut butter and jelly (although I don't think a week goes by that we don't have peanut butter and jelly.)
The book has the added bonus that Frances likes to jump rope so we spent the week talking about both jelly and jumping. We tried jump rope and discovered that that's going to take some practice...and a better jump rope. But we still did a lot of jumping. Adam has learned a lot in gymnastics where there is a big focus on balance and coordination so he happily showed how well he can bounce on one foot and how he's learned to skip.
We also watched, and then continued to sing all week, a Sesame Street video that the older kids remember from their years of watching (we don't watch anymore but some of it sticks with you!) Sing! "J, J, jumping J, who'll join the jump with the jumping J..."
I also thought this would be a good week to review as J is the 10th letter of the alphabet. I filled a washed jelly jar with letters A-J, two of each, and Adam matched them all up. It's his jar of letters (I used Bananagrams tiles). He even went down the letters and said their sounds but when I tried to video him he told me that he's only able to do it one time so you'll just have to take my word that he knew all the sounds. I was impressed :) Here Adam practices writing the letter J on a white board. He wasn't very happy with it.He was much prouder of his fish drawing :)Adam also practices drawing his letters using cattails at the fountain by our library.And it's amazing what happens when you give a child a bag of straws and paper clips. This is his triangle. It then became a rectangle and then a hexagon. All on his own, he's learning his shapes.
Now that makes me want to jump!