Preschool Week 11

C is 43 months old

We finally had a somewhat normal week. We got back into the preschool routine. This week we focused on the letter Ss and Fall. We did Spiders, snakes, squirrels, and scarecrows. We also worked on recognizing numbers to 20 and making patterns. Our Bible story this week was Ruth and Naomi. We read the story from several different Preschool and Toddler Bibles. We also colored a picture of Ruth gathering the grain. Hopefully next week we will do some painting with grain or the tall grass that looks like grain.



We read this alphabet book that I got at the Christian Book Store and both of the boys just love it and we read it at least 15 times this week.




C made a spider out of the number 8. He put on 8 legs using pipe cleaners and tape. Then he decorated the front with wiggle eyes and sequins.


C did the S tracing and writing worksheet from starfall.com.



C turned an S into a snake and then put shapes on it in a pattern. His pattern was circle, circle, square--aab aab.



C put stars on Ss. We just used the foil stars from Walmart.



C played a game where he had to count out the number of acorns to match the number the squirrel was holding. The game was from 1-12. Thia idea came from kidsoup.com



We made squirrel headbands using coffe grounds to make the tail look fluffy. The boys loved these and wore them all week.




C created a squirrel. He cut out the squirrel and then painted glue all over it and then sprinkled coffee grounds on it to make it look fluffy. He then added a wiggle eye.



Tracing an acorn to work on fine motor skills.


Creating a scarecrow.




C spent some time playing with his Little People Farm. We had been talking about Harvest time with our Bible story of Ruth and Naomi so he said he was bringing in the Harvest. He also did a great job of playing and sharing with his brother with this actiity.




We created spider webs by weaving white yarn around a black paper plate that I had cut slits in. Then C added foam spiders to his web.




We made fall trees by painting our hand and arm brown and then using fall leaf colors and fingerprints to make the leaves. C said his tree looked just like the one outside of our kitchen window.

Preschool Week 10

C is 42 months old

Preschool this week was a little slow. We had a lot of things going on like playdates and company coming in so school was somewhat pushed to the side.






We rode the Great Pumpkin express and got to go to Charlie Brown Town and meet part of the gang. The train ride was sooooo much fun. Both of my boys had a blast.


We read the book the Pumpkin Patch Parable and we talked about how the farmer got all of the gooey, yucky stuff out of the pumpkin and then carved it and put a light in it to shine and then we talked about how God does that to us. He takes out all of our yuckies and puts a light in us to shine for Him. We made a little pumpkin out of a paper plate with all the yucky showing. For some reason I do not have a picture of that.



C had a lot of fun cleaning out the pumpkins so we could make a Jack-O-Lantern. He liked counting the seeds and we saved some of them for counting activites later on.




C had a great time using Starfall.com. He really enjoyed the create your own Jack-)-Lantern part of the site. It is just a wonderful site.




C decorated his pumpkin with wiggle eyes, pompoms and yarn. He really enjoyed this activity and it held his attention for a long time.

It was a very slow school week but we had lots of fun. And of course we ended our week trick-or treating with friends and family.

TOT-School weeks 9 and10

Tot-School Oct 20-30 B is 19 months old




I read the Pumpkin Patch Parable to B and his brother and we taled about how God is like the farmer. When we trust in him and follow him he will take out all of our yuckies and let our light shine. Then B made a pumpkin out of a paper plate, yarn, and pumpkin seeds. He made it to look like the inside of a gooey pumpkin.



B loved, loved, loved cleaning out the pumpkin so we could make it into a Jack-O-Lantern.


He had a lot of fun sticking foam halloween shapes on paper and also on his shirt and arms.



B had a lot of fun decorating a pumpkin with wigggle eyes, and pom poms.



He really got the hang of lacing while lacing a pumpkin.



He helped make Halloween cookies. He loves working in the kitchen.

Decorating his cookie.



He loved his Little People Farm Flip book. We are working an colors now and it is a great book for that.



We worked on the letter P and he glued popcorn on a p on a pumpkin.



He tore orange and black paper to make a jack-o-lantern. This was great for his fine motor skills.




B decorated his basket for Halloween that a friend gave him. He loved putting the stickers on it.



B is getting very good at stacking blocks but his favorite part is knocking them down!!





We had a great time riding the Great Pumpkin Express and we got to visit with Charlie Brown, Lucy and Snoopy. We also got to visit our local pumpkin patch and pick out our pumpkins and of course we had a wonderful time Trick-or-treating!!!

We had a very busy couple of weeks but we had lots of fun!!