The Letter Bucket and Snack Sack

Each week in Mary's class, they study a "letter of the week." As part of this, the Letter Bucket comes home on Thursday afternoon with one student, who is to return it on Tuesday full of things from home that start with next week's letter. Mary was lucky enough to be the first to bring the letter bucket home. We spent this weekend collecting things around our house that start with the letter N.

I got a kick out of watching Mary find things and say, "d, d, doll. Nope, that doesn't start with the letter N." I have to admit that finding ordinary objects that start with the letter N is harder than you'd think. In the end, we made it work.

So, here's how we filled her bucket:

Neck tie
Nose - from Mr Potato Head
Nestle Crunch
Needle
Noodles (Nine of them)
9 (a magnet)
Nail
Navy Blue
Noah and Noah's Ark
Nursery Rhymes
Nisey (a picture of my Mom, Mary's grandma)
Neighborhood
Napkin
Night light
Nut and Bolt (the school doesn't allow edible nuts of any kind, so we sent the hardware)
Newspaper
And once the pieces have all been removed....NOTHING!

I'm sure I've forgotten a few, but this was a very fun assignment! I can't wait to do this again with Mary in about 8 weeks (maybe after Christmas break). She jumped up and down with joy this morning as she told her teacher how she'd filled the bucket with things that start with the letter N!

William was honored this week too, by being the one to bring snack. Today he served grapes and string cheese, which his friends gobbled up quickly. It's amazing what pride comes from serving others. I wonder if he was as favored as the boy who brought rice crispie treats, but I doubt William would have noticed even if his friends had rejected his snack. He was just proud to be there with his contribution. He had the grapes out of the Snack Sack and in his teacher's hands before he even made it past the door frame.

It's such a joy to witness their exuberance at these seemingly little things.