Preschool Week 3

C is 41 months old

We had a great week but our week was a little short so we will have to finish up some activities next week. On Monday we celebrated Labor Day and daddy was home so needless to say we did not get anything accomplished. Tuesday we had several friends over for an end of the summer water playdate.

Our Bible stories this week still centered around Creation. For some reason I don't have any pictures. But C worked on his creation book and added Adam and Eve and we talked about how on Day 7 God rested. We learned how God made a time for everything-Work, Fun and Rest. Our Bible Verse this week was There is A Time For Everything.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

Summer fun water playdate



Charlie made a little project for the Grandparents this week. He put tissue paper on contact paper cut into a heart shape. Then I wrote happy grandparent's day and Charlie traced his name and we added a picture of him and then sealed it with another piece of contact paper. They look great haniging in the window and the Grandparents love it!



C made a birthday card for his aunt Kristy. He had fun drawing the pictures. This is only the second time he has actually drawn pictures on a card for someone.

"Me I am Special"



This week C began an All About Me Book. He traced his name using glitter glue for the My Name is page, We cut out pictures of his favorite food for that page, He decorated the cover to look like him, Traced the words of his favorite colors and then made used dot painters to show his favorite colors and we made his handprint for the These are my hands page. We have several pages left to finish up next week. I got this idea from childcareland.com



Another page of the All about Me Book is to show what letters he knows. I cut the letters out and just asked him what each one was and I was quite surprised to see that he recognized all the upper case letters. Then I was even more surprised that when I stepped out of the room for a few minutes he began to put the letters in order. He put all of the letters in order from A-Z. It was Awesome!!




Our letter this week was M for Me. C glued Macaroni on the letter Mm and then brainstormed M words. He came up with a lot of great M words. We have some more M activities that we will complete next week.




On Saturday we vistited the Blue Ridge Parkway and we got to meet Reader Roo and Curious George. We got to have storytime with a Park Ranger and we also
got to take a cool hike. Meeting George was the hightlight of our week!

We had a great week!! We still have some M activites and Me I am special activites to finish up this week. I will post pictures next week. We are also going to begin our Apple theme next week!!

Tot-School Week 3

B is 17 months old

This week was a short week for us. On Monday we celebrated Labor Day and Daddy was home all day so we did not get a lot done. On Tuesday we had several friends over for a water playdate. We had tons of fun enjoying one of the last warm days of summer.

We made a little I love you banner for the Grandparents this week. We hope to see them all on Sunday and give them their little gift. I found this idea here.





B is my little athlete. He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES balls--any kind of balls. He will throw or kick a ball with me for more than 30 minutes at a time. He would do it all day if he could. He actually throws pretty well for a 17 month old and this week he has gotten to where he can catch the big Thomas ball when you throw it to him.





On Tuesday we had several friends over for a water playdate. It was a nice warm day and the kids all had a blast!! It was a great way to slowly end summer.

B has become a huge Thomas the Train fan over the last seveal weeks. This week he has carried around and looked at an old Thomas and Friends catalog. He loves it!!


B has played a lot this week with a Nursery Rhyme interactive books that sings the rhymes to him. This is the first time he has shown much interest in it.



B has this spider that lights up and sings and has numbers, shapes and colors on it as well as different animals. We spent some time working on the colors and shapes as well as singing the counting songs.



B also did some dot painting with the color orange. We then went through the house and picked out orange things.



B also worked on the number 5 for his number book. He painted his five and then put five stickers on it.



On Saturday we visited the Blue Ridge Parkway and we got to meet Curious George and Reader Roo. We also got to listen to a story read by a park ranger and hike a cool trail.



We had a really great week! I hate to see summer end but I love the cool crisp mornings of fall and I am looking forward to doing some apple activities next week.