Christmas Time, Hip Hip Hoorray!!!

Winter is here. It's quite cold.. I want to head South.
We all had the stomach flu this week. It has not been fun.
I think we are finally getting over it. Thank Heavens!!

For preschool we did the Owl Pack from Our Little Monkeys.
The girls loved putting together the 10 part puzzle the very most.
It was great to teach the numbers 1-10.
Of course I didn't get any pictures of them working with the pack.

We also put up the Christmas Tree and all the decorations. Which of course means the Elves are here!!
Many of you have probably heard about the Elf on the Shelf.
Well I think the tradition I grew up with is similar? maybe?

Our elves (yes there are many) show up and every night, after the Christmas tree is decorated, to watch you in your daily doings making sure you're being nice not naughty.  Then every night they go and report back to Santa and change to a new location in the house. We are up to three elves, they don't have names yet, (the girls are still a little to young to understand naming them) and I believe I have 12 elves total that will come visit us this year (that is if I don't get anymore, hehe).
This is a great fun thing for the young'uns. I loved it has a child and has a teenager, to be honest I was a bit disappointed when they quite showing up at my mom's house as I became a young adult. The magic was gone.

To be dead honest, the years that I left home, got married, and before I had toddlers, kinda stunk during Christmas time. The magic and wonder and amazement just wasn't there. It's coming back into my house and I LOVE IT!!!! I hope my children will keep the spirit and happiness of Christmas as long as I did, for I want it!

I also got some more sewing done this week! I finished up a carseat swaddler blanket for a friend who just had her baby boy.

I also worked on Millie girls Christmas stocking. Turning out way cute! I'm thinking maybe I should make one of these for all my girls. We will see. I did have a minor freak out moment with it though, I thought the light blue thread and turned lime green! Yes I was very worried, I'm thinking now it is the lighting in my house, cause it looks more blue and correct in better light. PHEW!!

Well I'm going to end it here. I've got to still get my week planned, menu planned, shopping trip planned. So when I'm awoken at 6 in the morning tomorrow I can hit the ground running. I love Sundays, the day of rest.

Hope you had a great week and a wonderful Sunday!

Laters.
Me.

T is for Turtle

T is for Turtle!!

We did this over the past two weeks.

Mostly because I was lazy. 

hehehehe.

All of our activites came from Letter of the Week program from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Here the girls (22 mnths & 3.5yrs) are coloring T is for turtle pages.

Here Daisy is doing turtle pre-writing.

This was probably her favorite this week.

Size Sorting.

Getting much better at this one.

I still have to do a lot of talking through it for them though.

Tt sorting.

She knows how to do this very well.

So she thinks she should trick me up and act like she doesn't and always puts the big T on the little t spot and visa versa.

Here in the picture I think she is telling me she needs the camera, not me.

This is my favorite this week.

Here is Daisy's first actual drawing!!!

If you can't tell it's a mermaid and a fish.

The straight lines at the bottom are her fin and then the lines on top are her hair. 

 Here is her other two mermaids she drew for me.

I think she did quite well. :)

In other news, the girls have discovered the joy of coloring. 

And they now think they should color all over EVERYTHING!!!

I've never had this problem.

But I suppose that is because Daisy never wanted to color until recently.

She was to busy jumping off of everything.

So I want to know....what's the best thing to take crayon off?

Oh and yes they help clean up the mess....they think its fun.....

I'm linking up to Tot School!

See what others have been up too!!

P is for Pumpkins

I'm apologizing in advance for the less then steller pictures.

I don't know what the deal was.

The week before Halloween we did a P is for Pumpkin week!

It was fun.

Daisy is 3.5 years, Page is 23 Months.

We did coloring pages.

Look at how well Daisy is tracing letters.

This is a VERY recent development.

How exciting!!

I helped Page with her tracing, But she does great too!

Daisy also did the tracing pages great! 

She loved doing them and would write, wipe, write, wipe, and on and on.

We also did pumpkin color matching. 

I'm working with Page to learn her colors.

It's pretty easy, especially with older sister giving her the answer. :)

We also made a pumpkin craft.

In other words, we drew some circles, cut them out, glued them down, cut the stems, glued them down and wrote P is for Pumpkins.

Lot of work for mom. 

But they enjoyed it!

Daisy also did all of her own circles and cut most of them out.

Truly I'm amazed, for a month ago, no way.

They also had lots of fun with Do-A-Dot pages.

They really enjoy making the letters.

They also like to just have free form dot painting.

Go figure.

They also got out the cupcake felt activity bag that we got from a swap hosted here.

Didn't they do really good at making their own cupcakes? Especially with no help from me!!

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We used the P is for Pumpkin from the Letter of the Week by Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Our Wildlife Week

In honor of hunting season we did a wildlife tot pack this week for preschool.
We used the pack from Our Little Monkeys.
The girls loved it, plus the knew what all the animals were, we see them all the time!

Daisy enjoyed doing the animal puzzles, animal matching, animal letter flashcards. She also had fun acting out what each animal was like.
 She also did very good on the tracing pages this week. Her pencil grip is getting better and her coordination is vastly improving. She also is retaining so much more information then I thought possible.  Guess I'm not setting my sight high enough.
Page is doing all these, but her attention span is now where long enough and she sometimes just wants to build with the blocks. So I let her! :)
We are also still reading Charlotte's Web and I have to say, each time they sit just a little bit longer and pay attention a little bit more. It's nice.

Sorry didn't get many pictures this week.
Dad com-endeared the camera to take pictures of his elk he got.

We are linking up to tot school.

A is for Apple

"The A says ahhh
The A says ahh
Every letter makes a sound the A says ahhh"

I've heard that song all week long.
Yes my girls LOVE the movie Leap Frog Letter Factory.

So as you can guess we learned about A this week.

Our week consisted of,
Aa sorting/matching.
Aa Do-a-dots, we actually got some bingo markers at the $1 Store, they did really good with them!
A is for Apple coloring page, Daisy actually traced the Aa for the first time! I'd say she did pretty darn good.
Apple pre-writing pages.
Read The adventures of Abby Alligator.
Mini Book Who Ran Away.
And A vocab cards.
Starfall.
And Letter Factory!!!

We also read 10 Apples up on Top by Dr. Suess and did apple print painting, drew a picture with 10 apples on our heads, and tried to have 10 apples...umm really 1 apple on  our head.

Our theme this month is Fall!

So we did a Fall tot book and had a fall themed sensory tub.

Also to go with our Fall theme we started reading Charlotte's Web.

They really enjoyed this week and so did I!

Next up L is for Leaves!!

Resources from these places.

Confessions of a Homeschooler

1+1+1=1

Counting Coconuts

Starfall

Linking to these parties.

Preschool Corner

Tot School

Z is for Zebra

The girls are 40 & 21 months

Z is for Zebra puZZle time.

Z is for Zebra graphing.

Z is for Zesty cows and dogs.

And little cowgirls herding them.

Z is for Zebra magnet page.

Oh but its funner to do it with stickers.

Z is for Zebra coloring page.

With pencils of course

Z is for 5 little princess's Zipping rocks in the creek.

Z is for ZZZZzzzzz.......

Which mom needs ASAP.

Night ya'll.

Party'z at these links.

Preschool Corner

Tot School

Resources from these links. (Not all shown!)

Confessions of a Homeschooler.

1+1+1=1

DLTK kids.

M is for Monkey

The girls are 20 months & 39 months.
We learned all about M this week.
Monkey, Moon, Mango, Motorcycle, Mailbox, Macaroni, Mouse, Moose, Milk, & Mirror.
Do-a- Dots, Coloring Pages, Monkey Building, Monkey Shape Matching.

Letter Mm Matching, Monkey Puzzles.
M&M Monkey Page, Playing with Cousins, Finger Painting.

We had lots of fun!!
Starfall, Letter Learning Factory, Reading books.
Thing I find very interesting, Miss Daisy--Doo won't tell me the what the "letter" name is example: M is M but she tells me M is Mmmm...The phonetic sound. Thats good right?

Daisy also colored in her kitty coloring book. I was amazed that she actually did specific coloring, she has never done this before! She has gone around all week, showing everyone what she has colored, and each part of the cat that she has colored. It's so cute!

We watched these videos and sung along!
5 little Monkey's Song
Veggie Tales Monkey Silly Song


Resources used from these places.
1+1+1=1
Confessions of A Homeschooler

 Linking Up to these parties.
Preschool Corner
Tot School

H is for Hippo

Oh man this week has been crazy busy!!
We did get a bit of schooling in.
The girls are 20 months and 39 months.
Our focus this week was the letter H.

 We did printables from COAH & 1+1+1=1.
Hippo puzzles,letter sort, size sort, Hh do-a-dot, cutting practice, H is for Hippo coloring page, H vocab cards, Hearts and Hands mini book,and read Hide-n-Seek Hippo.
I know I have more pics...but who knows where they are.

 The girls helped me lots around the house this week, with dishes, mopping, cleaning mirrors, ect.
We also had a blast playing in the sprinklers at Nama's house.

We also went to the park.
I go to the school playground, when school is out.
Best idea ever!!
Daisy did a lot of swinging and sliding, Page did lots of "hanging upside down", & Melody had tummy time! And Me I took pictures and tried to do the monkey bars.
Ya I'm outta shape...
So what did your kids do this week educationally?


Linking up here Tot School and Preschool Corner.

E is For Elephants

Right now the girls are 39 months & 20 months
This week we learned all about the Letter E.
Elephants, Envelopes, Eyes, Ears, Erasers, Eagles,.....
You get the point.
Anyways we had fun doing all these everyday.
Reading, Mini Book, and Vocab Cards.
I didn't do a sensory bin.
I was having a stressed kinda week.
I hate them kind.
Anyways, I for sure am going to get my act together and get another sensory bin ready for Letter H next week!
So a look at our week.

Monday & Tuesday

Did Playdough "E" Mats.
Read The Enormous Elephant Show.
Colored by number E is for Elephant.
Cut and Pasted Elephant Patterning Activity.
Sitckered our Do-a-dot Ee page.
Letter E craft.
Read mini book and reviewed vocab cards.
And Daisy informed me she was going to sleep outside like a dog.
What a girl.

Wednesday

We read Elmer the Elephant and did an art activity.
Summary~Elmer is a patchwork elephant and is always keeping the elephants laughing. One day he colors himself elephant color. Finds out it is boring.Then it rains and he becomes patchwork again. Elephants think it was the best joke ever. So they decide to celebrate it every year by coloring themselves all sorts of colors and Elmer goes Elephant color.~

This was a really cute story and the girls loved it.
Cousin Tanner was visiting so he got to join in the fun!
He and Daisy did the art activity, we used the cut and paste elephant from COAH.
Page was busy putting things in and out of her toy car so she didn't join in.
That's awesome though! Good fine motor for her!
Daisy and Tanner also wanted to play with the play dough.
So we pulled it out and played with it,
wrote our names,
and everyone we know names as well.
It was fun!
Side note-Tanner is a month away from being 5 years old, Daisy is 3 and a few months, it was amazing to see the difference in interpreting and responding to the activities between the two of them.
Makes me excited for more interaction has she gets older.
Even so with her sista's!
One day it won't just be me talking to myself....right?

 Thursday--out for a check up for Page.

She now has her totally awesome bull ridin' glove.
She gets to wear if for a whole year.
Lucky her.
At least it will stop the scarring from being terrible.

Friday--Zoo Theme Day.

We did activities more featured towards the zoo.
(usually we will do this on Thursday)
I think....
Anyways, we were going to do size sorting...but she just wanted to talk about the "baby".
We read "What is Tarzan?" Mini Book.
Vocab Cards from the Jungle and the Zoo
Read our E mini book and vocab cards.
Matched the lower case and upper case letters to do with our theme this month. (E, H, M, Z)
Did number and counting practice.
Page just like pulling the numbers off.
Velcro is SO awesome when your almost 2.
Watched a movie from the library on a musical tour of the San Diego Zoo.

Saturday

Today we did numerous counting activities with Elephant counting cards.
Practiced pre-writing.
An animal matching game.
Ee sort.
Read Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom and placed out Letter E onto our coconut tree. {idea from here}
Played with different letters (E, U, D, K) on starfall {girls LOVE this site}

Our Read-Aloud Book


Recent Purchase I love. Alphatales. I seen another mom blogger post about these books, so I checked them out and then proceeded to buy them. There is little cute/funny stories for each letter of the alphabet. Like I said this week we read The Enormous Elephant Show everyday. I'm very pleased with this purchase so far.

We used printables, ideas and resources from these places.
Homeschool Creations
Confessions of a Homeschooler
1+1+1=1
Itsy Bitsy Learners
Oopsey Daisy

As usual I'm linking up to these parties!
Preschool Corner
Tot-School