i love you all the sunshine
I love princesses and I love building with LEGO bricks, so we’re trying something new for school: Princess School! We’re starting with Rapunzel, and we’re going to engineer a tower for her out of big blocks.
I also practiced retelling the story.
And here is another LEGO creation I want to share! March 27, 2017
We learned a lot about the human body. We colored the organs inside of a paper Me!
For preschool one day, we read a very silly story about a skeleton. We then made our own skeleton out of q-tips!
I love making the skeleton so much that I wanted to make another one….this time for a monster!
First we read a silly book about a lazy bear and a clever rabbit. The rabbit grew vegetables and tricked the bear out of them because some vegetables only grew under ground and some grew above ground.
We learned which vegetables grew each place.
We practiced counting.
Then we played with vegetable puppets.
Me (and even Paul!) loved pretending that the cucumber and tomato were from Veggie Tales!
So much fun!!
In the book Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, Monica is a little girl who dreams of dancing with the moon. The father goes on a ladder to get the moon but it is too big for him to carry down the ladder. So, Monica and her father wait until the moon gets smaller, which it eventually does. Then the father goes back up and gets the moon for her. Then Monica can dance with the moon!
Of course, there are a lot of things scientifically inaccurate about this, but it is a story that introduces to kids the concept that the moon changes over the course of a month. We learned about the moon phases and made our own moons.
Then Caroline delighted in dancing with the moon!
Paul danced with the moon too, but mostly I think he was being a stand-in for Mom to test the lights.
Mary was a happy watcher.
But then she started to wonder: “Can I Dance with the Moon too?”
Nope, Caroline beat her to the moon!
Monica and Caroline: Moon Dancers
Caroline loves mamas and babies so I made an animal activity based on the book Are You My Mother?. I made some activity pages. We draw a line to match mother and baby. And we cut and pasted items (such as a snort and a puppy) on a chart: alive or not alive.
We played a matching game with the moms and baby animals. (Caroline’s favorite was the mom and baby human set!).
I also made a barnyard slider match activity.
Laundry day equals hermit crab day! I love acting like a hermit crab by crawling under the laundry basket. Mom decided to make it in to a learning game for me too!
We cut out the various animals that hermit crab welcomes on to his shell.
As we read A House for Hermit Crab, I ran over to put the picture on the “shell,” aka the laundry basket.
Once it was read, it was time to be the hermit crab!
I loved playing this game.
Mom also made a cut-and-paste activity to practice ordinal counting and put hermit crabs’ friends in order, the same order they appear in the book. I noticed right away that the pictures appeared in the wrong order, so I cut them out and glue them where they belonged!
In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, we balanced like The Cat in the Hat!
I loved saying “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me now!” just like the Cat in the Hat did.
We balanced books and the toys (from the I Can Do That! game).
I was so excited to go play in the snow. It was very deep!
I play with friends at the LZHN co-op in May 2015.
I helps cook my favorite, GRANOLA, with my Mama and brother. May 2015
We made a game out of a huge egg carton. I drop a penny, then we figure out what letter it landed on and find the alphabet card for it. Fun! June 2015
I made a cool creation out of marshmallows and toothpicks at the library. June 2015
A friend gave us a recipe for “Wacky Cake,” which required mixing the ingredients with our hands. I loved getting messy while cooking! June 2015
We found a feather on the ground one day so I practice painting with it. We talked about how in the old days, people used feathers for making quill pens. July 2015
