all of Me by Molly Bang

Itty Bitty Bookworm

We painted on brown paper bags like our author/illustrator of the week, Molly Bang.

They painted self portraits.

Other Preschool Learning

Patterns

 Fun Turkey songs for Thanksgiving

 Dot Painting the letter K

 Preparing our Kisses Countdown to Christmas

We worked on color patterns, counting to 25, cutting, and tying.  We made a long chain of kisses by wrapping the kisses in saran wrap and tying a string between each kiss.  Beginning Dec 1 they will get to eat 1 kiss to count down to Christmas.

 Other Fun

Caleb and Hannah sang 4 songs at our Thanksgiving service at church with the 4 and 5 year old Sonshine Choir.

  

And as usual, we did MUCH more than this, but this is all I have time to post about at the moment.

The Little Scarecrow Boy

We had a really fun week learning about scarecrows.  We had some great books and really fun songs.  Reading, singing, and crafts are always our favorite part of the day.  We always begin with these activities because at ages 4 and 5 if we never make it to our bookwork that day, no big deal, reading, singing, creating and playing are MUCH MORE IMPORTANT and they are learning so much in the process.  Since I continue to be behind on posts (this is our post for what we did Nov 1-6) I will mostly just share some pictures from the week and a few highlights.  We do so much more than I write about hear of course.  

ITTY BITTY BOOKWORM

I came SO CLOSE to making a switch from using ITTY BITTY BOOKWORM, I'm glad I didn't.  I just love the books, crafts, and songs we get from this curriculum.

We painted a corn field- WITH CORN!  The kids LOVED this!  We have been painting a ton lately and are quickly running out of paint.  I have to stock back up immediately.  

We collected hay from our fall decorations to make a house of hay that went along with our story this week.  The kids thought this was FABULOUS!

McRuffy Phonics- Kindergarten

Caleb continues to do well with his spelling tests and handwriting and INSISTS that I write "PERFECT" on EVERY paper.  

McRuffy Math- First Grade

Math continues to go well too.  We have been working on counting from 200-300, skip counting by twos, fives, and tens, adding two-digit numbers, creating tables, and reading and writing number words. 

Preschool

Hannah hs developed a major passion for coloring!  She carries coloring books and crayons, markers, or pens with her everywhere.  She is constantly begging Mommy and Daddy to color with her.  

Physical Education

We go to a preschool gym class every Friday that the kids LOVE.  They are the oldest kids there but they have a blast every week.  This week was a special treat- Daddy got to go with us.

Other Fun Stuff

I had a fabulous 50% off coupon for Steede's Dairy Farm.  This new farm is only 20 minutes from our house and was SO MUCH FUN.  The weather was perfect and it wasn't crowded so we let the kids play and play for hours.

Two Little Trains

We are still hard at it with all of our school work, but I just haven't been snapping as many pictures and don't seem to be finding much time to blog.  Again, I am still hoping to return to our full posts, but for  now enjoy this one picture from our week about trains.  Caleb and Hannah made train whistles- they work!  And they are VERY LOUD!

Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree

I am way behind on posts so for now I am just posting a few pictures from our week (two weeks ago).  Hopefully we will get back to more detailed blogging soon.

Caleb and Hannah drew pictures of trees then colored and cut out monkeys to hang in the tree.  This is Caleb's  

They also made paper plate monkey faces.  This is Hannah's.

A few Trick-or-Treat favorites...