Crazy Busy

Wow! These last few weeks have been crazy busy.  Since Charlie started first grade back in August life has been a whirl-wind.  We have had all the usual school stuff going on plus Brayden started preschool.  Brayden is in 4 year old preschool and I am so lucky to be his teacher right now.  I am filling in for a teacher that is on medical leave.  I am loving every minute of it.  I have the sweetest kids in my class and we are having so much fun.  So along with all the school stuff we have going on the boys began fall baseball and the new year of Team Kids at church has begun and is in full swing on Wednesdays nights.  So as you can tell we are just busy, busy, busy around here.

Some preschool activities

 

 

We have painted sun flowers using a paint stick for the stem, green construction paper leaves, and paper plates for the flower part with real sun flower seeds in the middle.  We made the letter S snakes and decorated them with foam glittery shapes for form an ab pattern.  We painted apples and  had fun with rhythm sticks.  We also had an apple taste test and graphed our results.  Our graph ended up all equal with 4 children liking each type of apple we tried the best.   We made little people to look like us to go with our Me I am special unit and we made name puzzles to go under our people.  We made robots with rectangles to go with the letter Rr.  We made the best smelling acorns using brown fingerpaint and cinnamon.  We played with shaving cream and practiced witing our names and drawing our families.  We also used the chalk-board easel to draw fun pictures on.  We began our year by reading The Kissing Hand.  We did several activities with this story and our favorite one was making a Chester the raccoon puppet.  We used our hands to make Chester's mask.

 

Family Activities

 

 Building with blocks.

Candy card for Grandparents day for Papaw and Grandma.

 

Teaching Grandma how to play the Leapster Explorer.

 

Dressing up and playing at home

 

Charlie's school Fall carnival.  Charlie won the cake walk while wearing his silly glasses.  They must be lucky glasses.

 

Hanging out and having fun with Papaw!!

 Lots of fun at the fall carnival!!!!

 



 Fall Baseball  Go Red Sox!!

 

 

Charlie's Star Wars Drawing

 

 

So as you can see life is crazy busy right now.  I would not trade it for anything--well maybe a little more sleep. I am so blessed to be living this wonderful life that I am living and I thank God daily for it.

Back on Track Preschool Raising Rock Stars

 I was soooo excited that we had finally gotten back to a routine ---- then we were hit with pneumonia.  C. had a major sinus infection and pneumonia.  He was not quite himself for well over a week so I finally decided to take him to the doctor.  I knew he did not feel great but I still debated the whole doctor thing because he did not seem that sick.  I am sooooo glad I took him.   So now things are slowly getting back to normal. 


I am using the Raising Rock Stars Curriculum but I am skipping around so the focus letter matches our theme.  The past couple of weeks our theme has been apples so we are doing Raising Rock Stars A unit. You can find it here.

B has had a lot of fun learning his Bible Verse.  He loved cutting it out and gluing it together.  It also reminded me that we still need to do some work on his cutting skills.

Family Apple Picking Trip-

B's preschool class took a field trip to a local farm.  He loved the baby cows and the chickens.

Play-doh fun!!!

B loves play-doh so we worked on numbers with our number cookie cutters.  He cut out all the numbers 0-9 and then put them in order then we practiced making the number 12-20. 

C likes the play-doh too.  He worked on making his sight words with it then he used the letter stampers from Lakeshore to stamp his words.

We still have some apple activities to complete so we will work on them next week.  We will also begin a unit on Fall that we will work on for a couple of weeks.

Preschool Week 5

C is 41 months old

We had a very busy week this week but we managed to get some Aa and apple activities done. We still have several to finish up but we will work on them next week.



C laced an apple and then added a leaf and a stem. He did a great job lacing. I think finally his fine motor skills are developing.





C is making a book about the seasons of the apple tree. It is from the Mailbox Magazine. I shrunk it to 60% in size. This week he did the winter page where he just colored the tree and put animals in the tree that use it for shelter in the winter. Then on the summer page he tore and glued green paper to make it look like leaves. We will do the Spring and Fall pages next week.



C brainstormed a list of Aa words and then he glued Apple Jacks on the Aa. He like that he got to eat some too.




C made an apple moasic. He really did a good job cutting even though he did not quite stay on my lines. He also put it back together without any help.


C made a stain glass apple this week using tissue paperr. It looks great hanging in our kitcher window.


C spent some time this week playing with his cars.



C made an apple with a worm coming out of it.


C worked on a worksheet where he sorted the capital A's from the lower case a's.

We really had a great week! We wanted to visit an apple orchard this week but we had a ton of rain at the beginning of the week and then we just ran out of time at the end of the week. Maybe we can get there next week.