February highlights

 

It's been a while since I've posted a blog.  I have been under the weather a bit, but now that I am back, I thought I would just show some of the things the children did in February. 

Scripture

As far as scripture memory goes, K has been working on his verse for church, which is Psalm 46:10.  The kids and I have revisited Exodus 20:12, and I believe we will stay there for a bit.  In conjunction with that, we play a game called the "Obey Right Away" game, where I ask the children to perform a task, and they say yes ma'am and do it right away.  It has been helping with greater first time obedience because I was definitely slacking on enforcing that while I wasn't at 100%. 

The Mag Lab

We took the kids to what is like a science open house, which is designed to show kids of all ages fun things about science.  Here are the kids holding bubbles made using dry ice and dish soap.  They had a blast!  They loved it even  more because some of our best friends joined us.

K with his bubble

G with hers

 

 Valentine's Activities

We also made valentine's cards for their Dad, but I didn't take any pictures of those.  Additionally, we used the hearts in the photo below to work on addition and subtraction with K's ten frame. 

Counting activity using foam hearts, cupcke tins and numbers

Red sensory tub

 

M having fun with sensory tub



M and G having fun together

Other Activities

K and G building with blocks

 

K's writing work
 

 K has been doing a lot more writing and also writes one or two letters a month to his friend or family members.  Of course, we are always reading and visiting the library, which the children thoroughly enjoy.

Week in Review (July 2nd)

I love celebrating holidays!  There seems to be so much more excitement and anticipation leading up to them, and of course, we can't forget about the festivities.  We did a lot of 4th of July themed activities this week, many of which I address in this post.  This week, we focused on learning /beginning to memorize the pledge of allegiance, which is a work in progress.  We also counted the stars and stripes on our flag daily and talked about what they stood for. 
 The kids had fun with the new activities that were out. K didn't really want to be photographed this week, so I mostly have pictures of G with our activities. 

Water bead transfer

Do A Dot Flag

Red, white, and blue sensory tub - G counts the stars

A counting activity with homemade felt stars and number cards

 
We also spent some time reading a book we checked out from the library entitled A is for America: An American Alphabet.  I plan to continue to read this book throughout the month since it offers many opportunities to discuss our country's history with the kids. 

by Devin Scillian

K enjoyed the activities too along with some reading and a new Clifford book with a read along CD.  He's still excited about his reading "lessons" as well. 

Here is M enjoying his Melissa and Doug wooden trains.

We also had fun with hopscotch for the first time.  It was interesting, fun, and funny.  We've had a good week here at our home and out enjoying the 4th (although my husband, M and I may have been the only ones to really appreciate the fireworks)!

4th of July (Independence Day) activities

Here are some of the activities we are doing this week as we celebrate our country:

A transferring activity using some star shaped ice trays and blue water beads

A pouring activity using navy beans

Printable do a dot american flag, from Simply Montessori. 


Play with a Red, white and blue sensory bin

This tub contains the following:
whtie and blue poms
star shaped ice tray (came in a pack of two from walmart)
Red, white and silver bead necklaces (from Michael's)
Felt red stars (I cut out of red felt I had on hand)
Clear and blue bottle tops
A red plastic spoon
Red small cup
Applesauce cup

I would like to get some more poms for this tub.

I will post pictures of the kids and these activities inour weekly wrap up. 

Happy 4th of July!

The Kid Created Sensory Tub

For name sake, I will call this sensory tub the pom tub.  This tub came together through the play of my children.  My daughter G was having a great time preparing "breakfast" and "cake" for the family with a couple of crafting sticks and some of the pink and white poms in her previous tub, so I decided to put the rest of the package of poms in a tub for her. 

Then, K added the blue "gems," which I had put out for another activity (that particular activity didn't get a great deal of action).  And finally the bottle tops somehow made it into the mix.  Just this past week, M has started to engage with this bin, outside of his usual empty it onto the floor routine.  He likes to use his stacking cups to put the poms in and then stir them with the craft stick or attempt to move them with the spoon like his big sister does (I do have to keep a close eye on him because he tries to put the bottle tops in his mouth).  This is mostly a G and M tub; K only plays when his sister and brother are playing with it.

G cooking us up a little something

M transferring poms into his stacking cups

This week, I purchased a couple of those sectioned serving plates (the ones where you can put dip in the middle) for $1 and G has enjoyed incorporating the plate for sorting purposes.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of her while she was doing this, but I will try to get some as she continues enjoying the tub =).