As I mentioned, we've mostly been taking a hiatus from our letters during Lent, but I did decide to do letter "S" in conjunction with Spring/seeds, etc., since we were ready for "S" anyways. So we've spent the past couple weeks doing various letter "S" activities. One thing we ended up doing -- and it was one of those completely random, unplanned things that are sometimes the ones that turn out the best -- was "S" is for Sunflowers. Gemma wanted to paint something, so I said, "how about some sunflowers since we're on letter 'S'," and showed her how and got her started. At that point I remembered that I had checked out a copy of Camille and the Sunflowers -- a wonderful picture book that I would highly recommend about Vincent van Gogh -- so I ran and grabbed that and we read it (several times, Gemma really liked it) and it just ended up being a really cool activity that we both enjoyed. My hubby has a reproduction of van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at his office that he got when he was in Vietnam, so that made it extra special since it was a painting with which Gemma was at least a little familiar. This definitely made me excited to jump back in full-swing with our letters after Easter. 
As I mentioned, we've mostly been taking a hiatus from our letters during Lent, but I did decide to do letter "S" in conjunction with Spring/seeds, etc., since we were ready for "S" anyways. So we've spent the past couple weeks doing various letter "S" activities. One thing we ended up doing -- and it was one of those completely random, unplanned things that are sometimes the ones that turn out the best -- was "S" is for Sunflowers. Gemma wanted to paint something, so I said, "how about some sunflowers since we're on letter 'S'," and showed her how and got her started. At that point I remembered that I had checked out a copy of Camille and the Sunflowers -- a wonderful picture book that I would highly recommend about Vincent van Gogh -- so I ran and grabbed that and we read it (several times, Gemma really liked it) and it just ended up being a really cool activity that we both enjoyed. My hubby has a reproduction of van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at his office that he got when he was in Vietnam, so that made it extra special since it was a painting with which Gemma was at least a little familiar. This definitely made me excited to jump back in full-swing with our letters after Easter. 
