BFIAR - The Big Green Pocketbook

Millie Janalee and I are still moving right along through our books.  We are working on our third book now and enjoying it very much.  The last book we worked through from Before Five in a Row was The Big Green Pocketbook.  Millie Janalee is already obsessed with purses, so it didn't take much work at all to convince her this was a good book.  Ha!  The book is about a little girl who takes her green purse with her everywhere she and her mother go.  She fills the purse with all sorts of things from their day, but at the end of the day her purse is missing.  It was Millie Janalee to "found" the purse in the pictures at the very end.  She found it before I did and yelled, "OOOOOOHHH!  Puwse!"  She was so happy the little girl finally found her purse.  It was pretty cute.

We did a few activities throughout the week besides her taking her own purse everywhere we went.  We focused on the color green and circles.  Millie Janalee loves finding colors and shapes around us.  I pulled out the Do a Dot marker and the page for the letter A.  She spent some time dotting in the circles making a big "A" and little "a."

I'm biased, but I think she did a pretty good job for a 2 year old!

Green A

We also added our lower case "a" to the alphabet tree.  It took some time to make a decision on where she would place it.  And, in typical girl fashion...she did change her mind.  I helped give her a boost so she could reach her favorite spot. Right next to the big "A."  Quite opinionated, this girl.

Another day, after reading our book, we did some painting.  Ever since our "apple painting", Millie Janalee has been obsessed with paint.  So we took some yellow paint and blue paint, and I let Millie Janalee make green paint.

She was super focused and loved watching the colors mix.  She kept saying "GWEEN!  GWEEN!" as she mixed the two colors together.  Besides finding a few drops of green paint on our blinds later in the week, we made it out without much mess.  Ha!

Another day, we focused on circles.  Millie Janalee found all the circles in her little book we found at the Target $1 bin.  I thought I'd give it a shot letting her make her own circles.

Plus, I knew I would love looking back at her 2 year old attempt at tracing circles one day.  I've gotta say, she understood the circle-y concept.  Just not necessarily the tracing.  She loves to color in loops and circles now.

If you look closely, there are a couple circles that actually appear to be semi-traced.  :)

I pulled out the green Play Doh and showed her how to make circles.  It was a hit!

And before we finished for the day, I pulled out another Target $1 bin find.  Foam shapes.  I let Millie Janalee find all the circles. She piled them up. Then we found all the green stars.  We spent some time building all kinds of things with the blocks.  The most fun part is obviously knocking all the buildings down.  Ha!

You may remember that every day is not a big project day.  Some days we simply read the book.  Others we may count things or find objects in the pictures.  In this book, we found other people wearing glasses like Millie Janalee.  We found numbers written on price tags and addresses.  We counted flowers.  And, of course, we solved the mystery!  The purse was found.  But, I won't tell you where.  You'll just have to read it yourself to find out!  Hehe!

Another book, another memory for my baby and me.