C is for Cars...

 



Yesterday our plan originally was C is for Cheetah. So today we did our handprint activity for the letter so we can add it to our handprint book. Along with some practice making the letters we've been talking about the sounds they make so today while we wrote "C's" we also talked about how they sound (typically lol) and I had her guess some words that might start with "C". She's been doing really well with it so hopefully we can start to work with reading more words soon.



Then we moved on to our planned activity today which was race cars! I got this kit from KiwiCo and it has a few cars to put together and race and then a truck you can create a stamp out of. She helped me build all the little cars and make the stamp wheels and then we tested it out!



The stamp truck was pretty cool and she really loves stamps. She was also really interested in how it makes the pattern and what happens when you change up the shapes. I really like the Kiwi Co boxes but I have to say that between those and Sago Mini, she and I both prefer the Sago boxes. The cars and the track the cars in this set just weren't as colorful or interactive as the ones in her Sago carnival box. So we broke that one out and raced both sets.



The wood topper on this one was harder to pull out than her Sago one as well which made it difficult to get the cars moving and they just didn't go as far. I think for older kids this one would have been more fun. I do really love the more science themed ones though! They knock those out of the park. At any rate we had a really fun C is for cars day. ;) Tomorrow is cooking day! 

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