Q Week

During the first full week of March, we learned about the letter Q.

We drove our train on the Q tracks. 

 We talked about being the queen.

 We practiced being quiet.

 We made quilts with scraps of scrapbook paper. 

 We talked about a bird called a quail. 

 We made the letter Q out of lots of things including our lacing beads. 

 We examined quarters

 and practiced tossing them into a metal bucket.  We loved the sound that they made. 

 We worked on our fine motor skills by placing Q-tips into our lacing beads. 

 B was queen of the castle that day.  :)

 We colored quilts. 

 Drove cars on the Q road.

 We painted with Q-tips. 

 We practiced cutting quilt lines with scissors.  This was the first time that Tater and B had used scissors. 

We read The Very Quiet Cricket.

 We worked on our fine motor skills by placing the quarters into tubes. 

 I challenged J to find a way to get the lacing beads back into the box without touching them with her fingers.  It didn't take her long to figure it out. 

 Q is for quick, just like the trains in this book.

 Snacking on a quilt in the sunshine.

 Putting the quilts in size order.

 J decided to stack the quarters on top of the quilts. 

 More fine motor practice by playing the correct number of clothespins on these counting quilt squares. 

 We did crayon rubbings of quarters.  This was way harder to do with preschoolers than what I originally thought. 

 A walk through the woods on a sunny day.

 We played with quintuplets.  It was hard work keeping them all fed and happy. 

 We loved My "q" Book. 

 We made designs like the ones we had seen on some of the quilts. 

 We painted with water.  (Not a q activity, but still fun in the warm sunshine.)

 We saw signs of spring when we went on our walks.

 A Q made out of cheese and a cracker. 

 We ended our Q week with a fun Q lunch:  Quesadillas!