tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46573872564493566692024-03-06T22:33:55.748-05:00Diapers to DiplomasBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-84436152402717770542013-11-16T20:37:00.003-05:002013-11-16T20:51:57.198-05:00BzzCampaign: Carton SmartYay! My first Bzz Campaign came in the mail and it was full of pantry items that usually come in a can but have been produced in a box instead. I was given Tomato Basil and Chicken Noodle soups, turkey gravy, tomato sauce and (my personal favorite) Thai Style Chicken broth!<br />
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I was most excited that the chicken broth came with a recipe on the back of the box, and that it sounded delicious! I wasn't disappointed - chicken, shrimp, noodles, red peppers, cabbage, onions, carrots... it was so good! I would definitely buy this broth again - it was full of flavor and smelled amazing. The only negative thing was that I had to add another box of regular chicken stock just to give the soup enough juice to cook the noodles. A second box of the thai chicken broth would have really given a huge boost of flavor, but it was still really good. Thanks to Bzz Agent for letting me try this campaign!<br />
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32 oz Chicken Soup for the Soup Thai Style Chicken Broth</div>
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1 T oil</div>
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1 lb chicken cut into 1 inch pieces</div>
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8 oz peeled and deveined shrimp, split</div>
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1 medium onion, sliced</div>
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1 red bell pepper, cut into matchsticks</div>
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1 cup sliced carrots</div>
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3 cups Nappa or white cabbage cut 1/2 inch thick</div>
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3 oz vermicelli pasta or rice noodles</div>
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Heat oil in 4 quart pot over high heat. Add chicken and shrimp and saute lightly for 2 minutes. Add onions, garlic, red pepper, carrots, cabbage, salt and broth. Mix all ingredients. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Simmer covered on the stove over low heat for 10 minute. Add pasta and mix. Simmer for 5 minutes longer and serve. Enjoy!</div>
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<i>July 1-5, 2013</i></div>
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<i>O and E: almost 5!</i></div>
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I've been letting the boys pick the theme of the week (within reason) and this week they really wanted to learn about farm animals. One of the best strategies I've had lately for getting them both invested in what we're doing is to let them choose a specific thing within the theme as their own individual focus. Eli chose a horse as his animal of the week and Owen chose a pig. They both created a tiny book about their animal, used it for their number of the week and wrote a Can/Have/Are chart about it. Worked like a charm!</div>
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<b>LANGUAGE ARTS:</b></div>
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We used a set of nouns and adjectives several different ways this week. (Don't you love it when you can reuse a material?!) They sorted them into nouns vs adjectives, sorted them into syllable piles, matched a noun and a verb to make a Mad Lib and draw a picture and put them into alphabetical order in their writing notebooks. </div>
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I found a cute scrambled sentence game on Teachers Pay Teachers. They sorted into the right color/pattern, then made the words make the most sense. They chose their favorite silly sentence, wrote it in their writing notebook and drew a picture of it.<br />
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They LOVE anything that incorporates a magnifying glass, so these I Spy sight words pages are great! I found a cut and paste middle vowel page too (both on TpT).<br />
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These tiny books are probably my favorite thing to do with the boys. They get to use their imaginations, practice writing and spelling, draw, learn sentence structure and remember facts all in the same activity. Many times we'll space it out and complete a few pages a day until they put it all together at the end of the week. </div>
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Owen's Pig Facts: A baby pig is called a piglet. Piglets go Oink Oink. Piglets live on the farm. Do pigs like to roll in the mud? Yes!</div>
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Eli's Horse Facts: A baby horse is called a foal. Horses run fast. Horses like to eat grass. Horses find bulls. (Not sure where that one came from!) </div>
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<b>SCIENCE:</b></div>
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Can/Have/Are charts about their individual animals. They had to come up with three for each column. Eli's been really into making hats lately - here he is sporting his 'horse hat' : )</div>
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Today's Number. They wrote down the number of legs that 'their animal' has. Then showed it in tally marks, drew a shape with that many sides, wrote the number and tally marks for one more and one less than their number, spelled their number and drew a picture of their animal.<br />
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Next theme: Planets!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-23298704981088752892013-07-05T16:45:00.002-04:002013-07-05T16:46:46.318-04:00Theme: Dinosaurs!<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #000033; font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: center;">
Dinosaurs</div>
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O and E: 4.75 years old</div>
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Dinosaurs was such a fun theme that we covered it for two weeks! </div>
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I hid LOTS of CVC words in Easter eggs (dino eggs) around the house. The boys raced around to find them, then record them in the right column based on the middle vowel sound. We used the same list of words several times throughout the week - separating into long vowels and short vowels, practicing ABC order and counting syllables. The spinner game was used to record real vs. nonsense words - great practice reading, writing, defining and taking turns! We used the words Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus to make as many words as we could (like Boggle). I couldn't believe how many they made on their own! Other times we would give a clue and they would guess the word and then spell it on their own. Lastly, color by sight word.</div>
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I used the Easter eggs again and hid slips of paper with triceratops on them and the numbers from 5-100 counting by 5s. They found them, colored them in on their hundreds chart, then said each number and put the triceratops in the right order. This was our first attempt at counting by 5s. We filled in a Dental Digits page and created a dino head with their chosen number of teeth. They loved this one! They created their own patterns for the spikes on a dinosaur's back and also sorted math sentences into =10 vs not=10. We practiced writing teen numbers and counting starting at 10 too.<br />
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I saw a great idea on Pinterest to use playdoh and just let it dry out to make your own fossils. So much easier than all that fuss with sand! After they had totally dried out I gave them to the boys and they had to find the toy dinosaurs that matched each fossil. They wanted to make their own fossils for the rest of the week. I couldn't believe how much they loved this! We made a Venn diagram for T-Rex vs Brachiosaurus, labeled parts of dinosaurs and filled in bubble charts for Velociraptor and Stegosaurus after reading non-fiction books about each specific dinosaur. These little guys know more about dinosaurs that I thought was possible!</div>
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This theme was well worth spending two weeks on. Next week's theme is Down on the Farm!</div>
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O and E: 4.75 years old</div>
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June 10-14, 2013</div>
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We did a lot of writing this week, which I have realized is Owen's least favorite thing to do. I've had to get really creative about how I present the activity. We played Rainbow Roll while writing words from Pete the Cat (Pete, cat, song, love, good, along, what, all, white, etc). Basically anything that turns writing into a game is a winner. We made a sequence strip of Pete's trip down the street and drew pictures for each of the activity. The paper I found on Pinterest didn't seem to have enough boxes though, so we had to consolidate some of the pages. They both picked a color and wrote a story about how Pete's shoes changed colors and then cut and taped together their own Pete's. I love these! They each wrote two pages to go in our own Pete book - Owen's pages turned Pete's shoes Green (from grass) and Pink, Blue, Purple and Green (from gummi bears). Eli's turned wet (from ocean water) and brown and white (from oreos). We practiced writing color sight words and reading number sight words (the color by number page), and telling the difference between real and nonsense words. So much to do!</div>
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After reading Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons we did a sorting activity based on shape, color and size of our buttons. The boys made up their own color patterns for Pete's shoes too by following the instructions for the type of pattern (AB, ABC, etc)</div>
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With all this talk about colors, we had a playdough color mixing afternoon. They loved watching the colors turn into a new color. We've done this before with water, but this seemed a little more magical to them. After that I drew venn diagram type circles on their page and they colored the combinations that they had mixed.<br />
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I can see why so many people love Pete the Cat! Next week we're starting a two week theme on Dinosaurs!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-44723384308949567902013-06-08T10:12:00.000-04:002013-06-10T10:13:50.524-04:00FIAR - Owl Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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June 3 - 7, 2013</div>
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O and E: 4.5 years old</div>
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This was hands down one of my favorite weeks yet! Between Pinterest, the manual, blogs and Teachers Pay Teachers, there are TONS of owl activities to keep learning fun and interesting. We couldn't even get to everything that I wanted to do, but it was a full week!</div>
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In addition to Owl Moon, these were in our book basket this week:</div>
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We did <i>a lot </i>this week with similes. These first few pages are from The Peanut Gallery and were adorable. I made up the I AM page and was so proud of their hard work writing and creating and reading. Their answers totally captured their personalities and interests. We made an OW Sentence book and an Owl Bag book. For that, we made a list of five owl facts and I wrote them on paper. The boys chose which four they wanted to write and then drew a picture to go with each sentence. They decorated the front to look like an Owl and were so proud of their finished products! We took a first look at nouns this week. They categorized them into Who, What, Where and When based on an activity I found online, but I think next time I would cut out the When category since it's not really a noun. I wrote the words on little Owls and they had to read them and put them in the right category. Not bad for their first time. We also did a "I'm wise as an Owl page."</div>
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I made a quick Owl Patterning page and started the first four patterns for them to finish. Since they are getting so good at this I left the last line blank for them to create their own pattern. Great job boys! We started a Roll and Color Owl page but didn't get around to finishing the game so I didn't take a picture : )<br />
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We made a graphic organizer for Owls using the Are, Have, Can approach. They came up with a lot more answers than they had room to write ; ) We talked about nocturnal animals, who is nocturnal and what features they have that make them suited for nighttime activity.</div>
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<b>ART:</b><br />
I found <i>so many </i>adorable owl art activities and didn't end up doing any of them! In the end, it was more important to work in spelling, writing and reading than painting, so I had to let go of all my grand plans for handprints and paper plates ; ) We did make owl masks and had a super cute owl lunch though.<br />
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We're taking a FIAR break next week to do Pete the Cat - the boys are so excited!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-92218304774297002202013-06-01T09:17:00.000-04:002013-06-10T09:19:17.777-04:00FIAR - Harold and the Purple Crayon<div style="text-align: center;">
Five in a Row - Harold and His Purple Crayon</div>
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O and E: 4.5 years old</div>
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We took a little break from FIAR while the boys finished up their school year in PreK 4, but now that they're home all week we're back in full swing! Harold was a great book to start back with because there is such an element of creativity and imagination. Here was our week:<br />
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<b>LANGUAGE ARTS:</b><br />
The boys completed the How and Why word pages in their Sight Words workbooks. Their spelling words this week were based on the word Crayon (play, bay, day, gray, pray, stay, sway, today, okay...) and Boy (Boy, joy, toy, ahoy). We practiced writing them in purple shaving cream on the table, which they loved! I wrote a (fairly long!) sentence on the wipe board that they had to read and then copy into their writing notebooks - The ship in the bay will sway today and the boy will say Ahoy!<br />
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I found a Shades of Purple page on Pinterest that we tried but all of our colors ended up like a black/brown/blood color. Weird! Maybe our food coloring is just too dark?! We also did a color experiment using colored water and paper towels. The blue and red water travelled up the paper towels and when it mixed together in the middle glass it turned purple. The middle glass started empty, so it was really cool to watch it fill up and change colors. They wrote 'Will red and blue make purple?' in the writing notebooks when we started the experiment and then went back to write Yes!<br />
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We made a Shades of Purple quilt using all the purple crayons and markers we could find. Then we ordered them from lightest to darkest, which the boys then wanted to do with the whole rainbow of colors! I unrolled a large piece of paper and they drew the story in order. I couldn't believe how well they remembered every detail! We read Harold's Circus this week too, which they also wanted to draw. Little kid artwork might be my favorite thing of all time. If you haven't read that book, we thought it was just as great as Harold and the Purple Crayon. I found Crayola books in the Dollar Spot at Target called Squiggles and Giggles. It was perfect for this week! They turned lines and I turned splotches into other pictures - for $1, it was a great find!! What week on purple would be complete without making a Purple Berry Pie? Delicious!<br />
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We put the Harold story disc on Dallas because of the city that he drew and because that's the closest city to us. Why not!</div>
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Owl Moon is next week. I can't wait - there are so many possibilities for learning with an owl theme!</div>
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Five in a Row - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel</div>
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April 29 - May 3, 2013</div>
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O and E: 4.5 years old</div>
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** Because this blog is just my personal way of keeping track of our activities so I can do them again with younger siblings I am not going to link to everything that I used. If you'd like the link to anything specific, just let me know!**</div>
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That said, here's a link to <a href="http://pinterest.com/bfoxy1/fiar-ideas/" style="color: #7f7f7f; text-decoration: none;">my Pinterest board</a> for lots of my inspirations for the week</div>
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Preschool is coming to an end and it feels like the weeks are just flying by. It's hard to fit in everything that I have planned with the boys, but we're making it work as best we can. Once we don't have weekly commitments over the summer I think our rows will go a little smoother - but maybe that's just a pipe dream!</div>
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This was our first week for the boys to retell the story in their own words. It was so funny how they would remember certain sentences word for word, then skip whole chunks of the story and move onto another part. I typed up their stories and then they drew a part of the story on the page. Our spelling words this week were the -IKE family (Mike, bike, pike, spike, like, strike) and their journal prompt was to write one thing they would like to do 'better and faster' like Mike and Mary Ann. Owen's was 'I would like to run better and faster than Blake' (his cousin) and Eli's was 'I would like to swim better and faster than bull sharks' (his obsession!). We concentrated on Long I vs. Short I sounds, made a little book where they had to read the sentence and fill the dump truck with that many rocks, and made a little book about squares.</div>
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I found some great construction themed pages on Teachers Pay Teachers for this week! We used a construction cone page to practice patterning and used a page with directions and trucks to practice ordinal positioning. I also cut up several pieces of construction paper and the boys had to put them together like a puzzle to make squares. We went through magazines to find pictures of square items and made a collage. We played a dice game (not pictured) where you would roll the dice and use that number of blocks to build a skyscraper. The person with the tallest building wins!</div>
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I saw an idea about steam power that we tried and was a total bust. We made pinwheels out of paper and then let a tea kettle get to a boil so it would shoot steam out of the spout. It's supposed to turn the pinwheel, but we couldn't get them to spin! We used 'wind power' instead and just blew them : ) We did watch 'The Way Things Work' about Steam Power though, so hopefully that helped explain it better than a failed science experiment!</div>
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While looking for my ideas for the week I came across a picture of this cake and knew we had to make one. I used my chocolate zucchini cake recipe (on my Pinterest board), chocolate frosting and mini chocolate chips - delicious!! We also made bulldozers and drew the picture around the machine and watched the Bob the Builder movie when he meets the real life machines.</div>
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What boy doesn't love big machines?! They loved this row! I wonder how Madeline will go next week? ; )</div>
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** Because this blog is just my personal way of keeping track of our activities so I can do them again with younger siblings I am not going to link to everything that I used. If you'd like the link to anything specific, just let me know!**</div>
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That said, here's a link to <a href="http://pinterest.com/bfoxy1/fiar-ideas/">my Pinterest board</a> <span style="color: #000033;">for lots of my inspirations for the week</span></div>
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I ended up sticking with this book for two weeks because there are SO MANY great apple activities for PreK and Kindergarten out there. I'm using FIAR as a jumping off theme for the week but going much deeper than the manual does in reading, writing, spelling and math. Here's what we did!</div>
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Apples in the Basket books (from TpT) were great for reading numbers and colors as well as following directions ("I see six green apples" and they had to draw six green apples in the basket). Then they assembled them in numerical order and we turned it into a book. They <i>love </i>little books! Their spelling words for this week were from the -AKE family (make, bake, cake, shake, Blake...) and from the -AP family (apple, cap, happy, Pappy, trap...). They played I Have, Who Has (from TpT) with an apple theme. We also made an Apple Poem book (Pinterest) and stamped the star from the inside of the apple.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our big science activities this week were diagramming the life cycle of an apple tree (see to tree to blossom to apple to seed), writing words that describe apples using our senses (red, cold, crunchy, yummy, hard, sweet, etc), labeling the parts of an apple and making our first Venn diagram (which they did GREAT with!). We compared apples and bananas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made an apple pattern page for them by printing a page of apple outlines and coloring in the first four apples in a pattern, then they finished the page. We also made pie graphs this week! Since they are twins and I wanted them to each have their own data to collect we used Favorite Pies and Favorite Pizza (Pie) Toppings. We called 20 friends and family members and they had to ask them what their favorite was, then circle it on our data sheet. I drew the pie graph segments and we counted the totals and colored in the appropriate number of segments to represent the results. Then we made apple pie and pizza for dinner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made a separate story disc for each ingredient in the story rather than just moving one story disc around on the map. They also colored the flags for Italy, France, Sri Lanka, Jamaica and England from Crayola.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No week is complete without a little art project. Green paint on a paper plate and some apple stickers. I love how they drew all their brothers holding apples too : )</span><br />
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Five in a Row - Make Way for Ducklings</div>
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Well, if last week was a challenge because of trying to fit everything in while the boys still went to preschool, this week was even worse because <i>all six of us </i>got a stomach virus! We did what we could (which still turned out to be a lot!) and the boys learned tons about ducks. It's so funny to hear them use words like 'preen' and 'molt' correctly! Here was our week:<br />
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We located MA on the map and added our story disc. We also talked about maps and they drew a map of our neighborhood with hubby (he's WAY better at stuff like that!) and we wrote a thank you note to my parents for the Easter package they sent us. We talked about gratitude like the ducks showed to the policemen in the story.</div>
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We did the Ducks Don't Get Wet experiment from the back of that book. I cut two ducks out of a paper bag and they painted one duck with vegetable oil and the other we left alone. We dripped water on the non-oiled duck first, then the oiled to see the difference. They thought it was so cool! We also made a graphic organizer for Ducks (Can, Have, Like), labeled the parts of a duck and went to a duck pond near our house to record the sights, sounds, smells and feel of things around the pond.<br />
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(See: Ducks, Turtles; Hear: Water (there's a fountain there), dogs, tweets; Smell: bread; Feel: wind, sun)</div>
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Our spelling words this week were from the -UCK and -ACK families. There were a lot! I'm really liking this method because it gives the boys practice with rhyming and also uses a lot of repetition to reinforce the spelling pattern. Duck, cluck, yuck, buck, luck, stuck, pluck, cluck, truck, quack, back, jack, sack, track, shack, smack, cracker, black, rack... for lots of these I'll give them a clue and they have to guess the word, then spell it too. The copy work was a sentence from the story (from Homeschool Share), we played Rhyming Concentration (though it turned into just matching the rhyming words while they were already face up!) and this week was their first introduction to ABC order. They did great with it! First I wrote the names of the eight ducklings on paper, then they lined up our alphabet magnets and put each duck name under the right letter. That seemed a little too easy for them so I gave them the cards from Concentration and they put those in ABC order too! We made Duck Color Words books and played I Have, Who Has with short U words (like duck). The final thing we did this week was to write five duck facts that they learned.</div>
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We had leftover peanuts from the Rangers game this weekend so they were put to good use feeding the ducks we found from all over the house. We grouped first (How many peanuts can each duck have if we have 8 ducks and 24 peanuts?) and we learned how to count by twos (counting the pile of peanuts and counting the feet of the ducks). We practiced counting by twos every time we read Make Way for Ducklings when the ducks were all lined up and we could see all their feet. We also played a game using positional words (top/bottom, high/low, over/under, in/out, above/below, between/beside) using a duck as the prop. One person would hide the duck and then have to give positional word clues to the other people finding the duck (it's above your shoulders, it's under something yellow, etc)</div>
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We made Red Light Green Light signals and played the game all sorts of ways (waddling, running, hopping, walking, backwards), colored a color-by-number duck page and made paper plate ducks. I'm a <a href="http://diapers-to-diplomas.blogspot.com/search/label/Paper%20Plate%20Crafts">little obsessed</a> with paper plate crafts ; )</div>
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You can't row this book without a field trip to a duck pond! Meet Mr. and Mrs. Mallard!</div>
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We're rowing How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World next week (maybe the next TWO weeks - there's so much I want to do!!) As always, if you want the source of any of these materials, just leave me a comment! Here's a link to my <a href="http://pinterest.com/bfoxy1/fiar-ideas/">Pinterest board</a> that has most of these links.</div>
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<b>Five in a Row - The Tale of Peter Rabbit</b></div>
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April 1-5, 2013</div>
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O and E: 4.5 years old</div>
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** Because this blog is just my personal way of keeping track of our activities so I can do them again with younger siblings I am not going to link to everything that I used. If you'd like the link to anything specific, just let me know!**</div>
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That said, here's a link to <a href="http://pinterest.com/bfoxy1/fiar-ideas/">my Pinterest board</a> for lots of my inspirations for the week</div>
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This was our first row and it went great! The boys are still in preschool two days a week so it was a bit of a challenge to fit in everything that I wanted to do, but we managed to do just about everything and have a fun time doing it! I found so many great ideas on Pinterest and other blogs of families who row that the possibilities were almost endless. Here's what we came up with...</div>
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<b>SOCIAL STUDIES:</b></div>
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Locating England on the world map, coloring Union Jack flags and talking about rules and why we have them. Just like Peter's mom told him to stay out of Mr. McGregor's garden so he wouldn't be put in a pie like his father, we have rules to protect us and keep everything/everyone functioning like it should.</div>
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<b>SCIENCE:</b></div>
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I can't believe all the science we built into this week! We started with the celery experiment and the boys wrote their conclusions in their journals. We did a graphic organizer for rabbits and plants, labeled the parts of a plant, read A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Meyer, planted our own basil and cilantro plants ($1 Spot at Target!) and wrote the steps to planting seeds.</div>
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<b>LANGUAGE ARTS:</b></div>
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The copy work came from the first sentence in the book from the Peter Rabbit lapbook on HSS. We used -UN as the word family this week for spelling words (run, fun, bun, spun, sun, funny, bunny, runny, sunny, stun, etc) and worked together to come up with a list of vegetables that Peter could have eaten in the garden. Then they chose five of them to write and draw on their paper. After reading this story five times I started to notice how many adjectives were in the story (brass buttons, white cat, old Mrs. Rabbit, brown bread, young cabbages, etc) so I wrote up a quick list of the adjectives and nouns to match as they listened to the story. [There were a few worksheets that I had to create on my own from ideas I saw online, but this is one of the only activities that I made up this week.]</div>
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Carrot patterning (I colored the first four carrots and they had to finish the pattern (AABB, ABAB, ABCABC, ABBA)), planning a new garden for Mr. McGregor using Unifex cubes and some parameters on spacing and addition using carrots. We played with these a couple different ways: matching up the tops and bottoms while looking at all the pieces together, giving each boy six green tops and putting out one carrot at a time. They had to figure out the answer and see if they had it in their hand. Then we played the reverse - they had the equations and I would put out an answer and they had to see which equation matched the answer. They got pretty fast by the end! </div>
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We talked about the Fruit of the Spirit and the Parable of the Seeds this week - how it's important to have strong roots of faith in Jesus so you aren't blown over by the things of this world.</div>
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I printed off some Peter Rabbit coloring pages and let the boys find that image in the story to watercolor. They really did a great job matching the colors! We also made carrot muffins this week which have already disappeared - just substitute carrots for zucchini in your favorite recipe. Just as good if not better!</div>
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If you have any questions on where I found any of these resources just leave me a comment! We are rowing Make Way for Ducklings next week - should be fun!</div>
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Day 15: Chocolate covered pretzels for our friends, teachers and neighbors - delicious and so simple! Dipping the ends of pretzel rods is so much easier than dipping entire pretzels and I think they are just as pretty. I bought white, yellow and orange chocolate pieces and fall themed sprinkles and the end result was so pretty!</div>
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Day 16: Dylan's footprint turkey. I painted the boys hands to turn into turkeys too, but I haven't been able to convince them to decorate them yet. Guess that's for another day!<br />
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Day 17: Sorting people vs. food cutting and gluing activity from <a href="http://mamasmonkeys.blogspot.com/p/preschool-printables.html">Mama's Monkeys</a>. I can't believe how much better the boys are at cutting since they started preschool this year.<br />
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Day 18: Delivering the Thanksgiving bags that our church collected and distributing them to families in need (not pictured)Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-23302729536271817352012-11-14T20:57:00.000-05:002012-11-14T20:58:09.350-05:00Thankful in November: Day 11 to 14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Day 11: Kool-aid coloring pages! We used a cornucopia coloring page and outlined it with glue, then sprinkled different colors of kool-aid over the different fruits. They smelled so good!</div>
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Day 12: Color by number cornucopias from 3dinosaurs.com. She has a ton of great printables (many of which we'll be doing in the coming days). We turned it into a dice game and they colored in the items that matched the number they rolled. They aren't great at staying in the lines, but at least they are getting better at staying on task the whole time.<br />
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Day 13: Follow the directions Thanksgiving coloring page. It was a 'find the circle with the pilgrim hat and color it green' kind of game and they seemed to like it. We had to change it up a little towards the end and only do outlines (it took almost an hour to do this game!) but we made it to the end!<br />
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Day 14: We made treat bags for their preschool friends (found the idea on Pinterest). They are filled with bugles and Runts and look like tiny cornucopias!<br />
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Day 7: Scarecrow dice game (not pictured). 1+1+1=1 has a great Fall Tot Pack with tons of cute scarecrow and leaf activities. We had already done many of her coloring games a couple days ago so we tried out the dice-and-graphing game and they loved it.</div>
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Day 8: Paint StripTurkeys (idea from <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2011/11/thanksgiving-printable-pack-free/">here</a>)! How cute are these little guys?! I was at Walmart and grabbed a selection of paint strips for the boys to choose from, rounded the tops, cut out a beak and a gobble and let them go to work creating their turkey heads. After that part was finished we asked them what they are thankful for and wrote each person/thing on a strip and drew a little picture to go along with it. It's held together with a brad and a bent in half pipecleaner is the legs. These might be my favorite craft so far : )</div>
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Day 9: Number puzzles. These are from <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/dschurma/thanksgiving-preschool-pack">here</a>, <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2011/11/thanksgiving-printable-pack-free/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.2teachingmommies.com/2011/10/pumpkins-expanded.html">here</a>. I cut all the strips out and mixed them up, then the boys had to find their pieces and put them in the right order. I helped with the glue, but the big boys did the rest and I helped Garrett to finish.<br />
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Day 10: Filling Thanksgiving bags for families at our church (not pictured). We wrote a little note and filled the bags with all the goodies needed for a yummy Thanksgiving meal!<br />
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Day 5: <a href="http://crisscrossapplesaucelearning.blogspot.com/2011/11/color-by-number-turkey.html">Color by Number turkeys</a> and a <a href="http://happyhomefairy.com/2011/11/18/gobbling-good-snacks/">peanut butter turkey snack</a>!</div>
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Color by Number pages are becoming increasingly more popular with the boys these days, especially Owen. I have to get a little more creative with Eli, letting him use the easel, or pretending to race him to color a certain space or rolling dice to decide what color to use next, but the end products turn out great and they are so proud of their work.</div>
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Day 6: Scarecrows! We used a Color by Number page, a leaf coloring page and a 1-20 maze today, all from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/">here</a>. There are so many cute resources available!</div>
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Day 3: Homemade applesauce and Apple Cider Caramel Cookies. The boys were excellent caramel unwrappers and cookie stuffers! (Great fine motor skill practice ; ))</div>
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Day 4: Painted apple cores and a roll-an-apple game from Mama Jenn's blog. We play this game in so many different ways - each person chooses a row and tries to fill it first, everyone gets four caramels and we all try to roll the same color, everyone works together to try to fill the whole page and the person who rolls the last apple color wins. So simple, and they love it!</div>
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I'm so excited to get back into daily activities with the boys - especially Thanksgiving activities! I found so many great things to do, treats to make and games to play on Pinterest, and then came up with a few of my own to fill in the blanks. We have the next 28 days planned and the first 2 already under our belts - and some super cute art to show for it. Play along with us this month, and be sure to leave a comment if you're doing something fun too!</div>
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Day 1: T is for Turkey (added bonus, T is the letter of the week at preschool this week)</div>
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Day 2: Tie Dye Turkeys. You can't mess this up! No matter how much or little the kids colored the coffee filter, they all turned out beautiful! The water ran the colors together quickly and they were practically dry by the time we were done assembling the turkey bodies. I think I'll tweak this later in the month and use their footprints for the turkey bodies.</div>
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Our Halloween in pictures! We had a themed breakfast, lunch and dinner, painted jack-o-lantern paper plates, played a roll-a-bat game and pumpkin bowling and made Halloween funfetti cupcakes for a snack. It was a full but fun day! </div>
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I'm really going to try to get back to posting more frequently (and not taking another 5 months off!), so I'm planning a month full of turkey/fall/thankful activities for November. Stay tuned! For now, here are my little guys all dressed up (and dressed down!) for Halloween!</div>
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Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-74406394293117787642012-05-31T13:23:00.003-04:002012-05-31T13:24:20.607-04:00Tot School - Zz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>Tot School - Zz is for Zebras!</i></div>
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This has been the craziest month ever! My big goal was to finish the alphabet before the baby was born, and I did, about 3 days early! In addition to that, a water pipe burst in our house, we got in a car accident on the way to the hospital, and my sister and her three kids came to visit the day after we came home from the hospital. That's right - 7 kids five and under for almost a week. Crazy!<br />
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Despite it all, we managed to finish the Letter Z with a few zebra activities added in. We used marbles rolled in black paint to make zebra striped Zs and our paper plate craft was a zebra face. The worksheets this week were mostly from education.com and moneysavingmom.com.</div>
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This is who I get to spend my day snuggling up with!<br />
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<i>Owen and Eli: 44 months old</i></div>
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We started this week tracing all three boys on butcher paper so they could draw 'you.' We tried to match their pictures to their clothes, and Owen even drew the monkey that was on his pj's!</div>
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<a href="http://a-heart4home.blogspot.com/p/lowercase-color-by-number-alphabet.html">Color by number</a>, <a href="http://www.education.com/slideshow/get-ready-reading-all-about-alphabet/reading-all-about-letter-a/">Get Ready for Reading</a>, and <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/08/z-handwriting-worksheets.html">Handwriting Worksheets</a>...<br />
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Our paper plate craft this week was making yo-yos with yarn, paper plates and paint. They turned out pretty cute!<br />
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PS - I didn't take a picture of our library books this week, but I got a few on the sense of taste and we talked a lot about yummy and yucky foods. We also went to a preschool yoga class and did lots of yoga moves all week.<br />
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One letter left! Next week is Zz for Zebra and then we're going to review the ABCs and do some themed activities (zoo animals, etc) until the baby comes! Less than 4 weeks to go!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-91834758123531848042012-04-29T11:02:00.002-04:002012-04-29T11:03:26.756-04:00Tot School - Xx<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Owen and Eli: 43 months old</i></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Our handprint craft this week was really easy and turned out really cute! The snack this week was a bust - for some reason my white chocolate wouldn't melt, it just kind of turned into a messy clump. The had fun assembling the pretzel sticks and mini marshmellows though. The finished snack should look like </span><a href="http://inspireco.blogspot.com/2011/10/dem-bones.html" style="text-align: left;">this</a><span style="text-align: left;">.</span><br />
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Our printables this week are all from <a href="http://education.com/">education.com</a>, <a href="http://a-heart4home.blogspot.com/p/free-printables.html">A Heart for Home</a> and <a href="http://moneysavingmom.com/">MoneySavingMom.com</a>. We only had three days this week for school because we took off for Sea World for our last weekend trip before the baby comes. We kept it a surprise until we pulled into the parking lot - the boys were SO excited!<br />
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<i>Tot School - W is for Weather, Whales and Watermelon</i></div>
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<i>Owen and Eli: 43 months old</i></div>
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There are loads of fun weather related science experiments on Pinterest! We had a pretty mixed bag for weather in Texas this week too, so it worked out well to talk about rain, clouds, wind, sun, tornadoes and fog. We watched some YouTube videos on tornadoes, and then made our own tornado in a jar using water, dish soap, vinegar, food coloring and glitter (for the debris). Pretty cool!</div>
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We found objects around the house and yard that they hypothesized whether or not they would be able to blow away using straws and their own wind (ie - their breath). All three of them loved this game and they raced their objects across the floor. It only got gross when they tried <i>really </i>hard to blow a heavy object and ended up spitting through the straw!<br />
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We 'painted clouds' using shaving cream on the table and practiced writing our Ws in the foam.<br />
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We made 'rain in a jar' using water, shaving cream and food coloring. Next time I'll make them choose just one color at a time - several colors at once gets really dirty looking and murky.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">We made frost in a tin can too using shaved ice, water and salt. We ended up having to put it in the freezer to get the frost effect. I think this experiment would work better when the house is a little colder. We used our magnifying glasses to check out the frost crystals up close.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">We talked a lot about seasons and the weather that usually comes with each season. I let them each choose a picture of a tree in a certain season to draw a picture of what you might do outside then (ie - building a snowman in the winter). I love the differences in my twins! The first picture is what Eli did with his winter tree. He turned it over and drew a 'watermelon machine' that shoots out watermelons. Owen's is the middle picture, where he meticulously colored each branch and the dirt brown and the grass green, then drew a man walking in the leaves. The third picture is Garrett's, who loves practicing pulling every cap off the markers and drawing one line with each color. He's only 20 months - I can't expect much!</span><br />
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Our whale activities were mostly printables, like the alphabet tracing pages from <a href="http://moneysavingmom.com/">MoneySavingMom.com</a>, the color by number from <a href="http://education.com/">education.com</a> (notice the difference again in their coloring personalities!) and the preschool reading pages from <a href="http://education.com/">education.com</a>.<br />
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And of course, you can't learn about W without eating a watermelon snack! We made paper plates into watermelons and tried another color by letter page too, with the same result again from Eli. What am I going to do with this kid!? ; )</div>
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Only three letters to go! Next week we're learning about X is for X-Ray and Fox. Stay tuned! Click <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2012/04/tot-school-letter-ii-2/">here</a> to see what other Tot School kids learned this week.Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-24383383088524084102012-04-15T16:00:00.002-04:002012-04-15T16:04:06.343-04:00Tot School - Vv<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Tot School - V is for Volcanoes and Vegetables</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Owen and Eli: 43 months old</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9cdFSW3MT2UUxS1K5XIua_Ur7fWiu-T3X_U7BZpdGXpqgn_uy7fzuhjxmiM7xY7OuCGJiciPo-q43G8-RBfYktALu0Fo_yodZfuRapoLcif8h15c-a9FS80IykwDeBBdG58AVoCcNcM/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9cdFSW3MT2UUxS1K5XIua_Ur7fWiu-T3X_U7BZpdGXpqgn_uy7fzuhjxmiM7xY7OuCGJiciPo-q43G8-RBfYktALu0Fo_yodZfuRapoLcif8h15c-a9FS80IykwDeBBdG58AVoCcNcM/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our two main activities this week dealt with volcanoes - a science experiment to make erupting volcanoes using playdoh, a glass jar, baking soda and vinegar, and a handprint craft using torn paper and a red handprint for the lava. 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(Confession: most of these were <i>way </i>too many words for storytime, so they used them as picture books instead!) We watched several YouTube videos of volcanoes erupting too, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Zbj7S22zs">this one</a> was our favorite.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dMWuIbc0J2IVNLGGcKqzTIvQhIKfGxjz2MF16Oee4k6QKhJfThVjqHxW734ax5ZWeYzSLRgeHRQo4gJVydwnNQ4eosywZWnH2EojP6NKN5DzM735aYii4BXNiexqcQd5YktAHeruQYU/s1600/IMG_0615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dMWuIbc0J2IVNLGGcKqzTIvQhIKfGxjz2MF16Oee4k6QKhJfThVjqHxW734ax5ZWeYzSLRgeHRQo4gJVydwnNQ4eosywZWnH2EojP6NKN5DzM735aYii4BXNiexqcQd5YktAHeruQYU/s320/IMG_0615.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2012/04/tot-school-happy-3rd-birthday/">here</a> for other Tot School ideas!</div>Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-62019191258318396012012-04-07T15:57:00.000-04:002012-04-07T15:57:30.670-04:00Tot School - Uu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Tot School - Letter U is for Up!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Owen and Eli: 43 months old</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuYocDJlJbxSOPdWOVTPS6NUg6mjTRvn_cXzj1Sse-qh5hYyhPzYkEU_KCUIPQuVRW1w-2ru8twyvOtY6dikTa7hobm-DB7wN7HTy_-Vna-KeIq11r423AHpSeKeVsHSV1imC_T0Dr7c/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuYocDJlJbxSOPdWOVTPS6NUg6mjTRvn_cXzj1Sse-qh5hYyhPzYkEU_KCUIPQuVRW1w-2ru8twyvOtY6dikTa7hobm-DB7wN7HTy_-Vna-KeIq11r423AHpSeKeVsHSV1imC_T0Dr7c/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For the letter U, we read all sorts of books about balloons and hot air balloons. I had taken several others out of the library too, but quickly learned my lesson to 'not judge a book by its cover' when The Purple Balloon's first page read 'Dying isn't easy.' Yikes! I'm not sure my three year olds are ready for the harsh reality of life and death! Needless to say, that one went back to the library pretty quickly!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JbfroeRcHaXfNYr_mwCjMZ33MuCGFUdF6hGSY4EwDi6jNopr4gD5s_fI5QCy_-In4dEd8mShvjO5XCDcCuuuGcWEmAcf0P966wz_K8iWmVj3YN_n5K6KS6jLrk8Ie72rU_znKaWYCIU/s1600/IMG_0479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JbfroeRcHaXfNYr_mwCjMZ33MuCGFUdF6hGSY4EwDi6jNopr4gD5s_fI5QCy_-In4dEd8mShvjO5XCDcCuuuGcWEmAcf0P966wz_K8iWmVj3YN_n5K6KS6jLrk8Ie72rU_znKaWYCIU/s1600/IMG_0479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JbfroeRcHaXfNYr_mwCjMZ33MuCGFUdF6hGSY4EwDi6jNopr4gD5s_fI5QCy_-In4dEd8mShvjO5XCDcCuuuGcWEmAcf0P966wz_K8iWmVj3YN_n5K6KS6jLrk8Ie72rU_znKaWYCIU/s320/IMG_0479.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">I thought it would be fun to make our own hot air balloons, so I picked up a couple balloons from the floral department and we created them using yarn, tape and baskets made of construction paper. They really floated!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgUxKRHs-bgo9VhpPfgwHJuYq5t0cWq9RUy8PO_ORrCnrAHS_57asJQ5IPJg8SKDO881g4-JwOpTxBZ-uau9YIoNWQO69JDBKMWyPjS2UWs83GmKPJZCHbvy9dG6D_Ho16EsX1dszBuA/s1600/IMG_0319.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgUxKRHs-bgo9VhpPfgwHJuYq5t0cWq9RUy8PO_ORrCnrAHS_57asJQ5IPJg8SKDO881g4-JwOpTxBZ-uau9YIoNWQO69JDBKMWyPjS2UWs83GmKPJZCHbvy9dG6D_Ho16EsX1dszBuA/s320/IMG_0319.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpBXZVf8B7hxVW_LsIQr8Us6MYyoUEKD24-c8u_2aHOnKJGMh8jYyLJHwOO2TNmSOqn3HRX5-oUivbbA4uQTwA9Hn8HM_vMWbv0z_j0tzTKKk3gvL77ZYFOVCedHMdPLNIdKzWs_lqZA/s1600/IMG_0341.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpBXZVf8B7hxVW_LsIQr8Us6MYyoUEKD24-c8u_2aHOnKJGMh8jYyLJHwOO2TNmSOqn3HRX5-oUivbbA4uQTwA9Hn8HM_vMWbv0z_j0tzTKKk3gvL77ZYFOVCedHMdPLNIdKzWs_lqZA/s320/IMG_0341.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAdG-ElnrVkUJ2PyPxf5rN5ExvlGvxVOwrHvfVZWkMaWu1WeilyNxib83BF1vHxgEz3hHbG802g8fmiw-ycUS_9bcZEyTYgHWz5RmNmgZoLpivShHZ_R_g4rsvFqqMApMStyoXos4vWM/s1600/IMG_0325.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAdG-ElnrVkUJ2PyPxf5rN5ExvlGvxVOwrHvfVZWkMaWu1WeilyNxib83BF1vHxgEz3hHbG802g8fmiw-ycUS_9bcZEyTYgHWz5RmNmgZoLpivShHZ_R_g4rsvFqqMApMStyoXos4vWM/s320/IMG_0325.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbknfkH5OF6axvU6hoiYQYyNrUwWdXBXv7iLNxno6F1YRf8GBYKtk0AvlKkwVeekuMd5_1OyirTDSX6m3D4905TGIb_MCr9CRSRsBea04cvfsqUc82fGcS6nWcs6Mn4AVu_MaXTrAEvE/s1600/IMG_0345.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbknfkH5OF6axvU6hoiYQYyNrUwWdXBXv7iLNxno6F1YRf8GBYKtk0AvlKkwVeekuMd5_1OyirTDSX6m3D4905TGIb_MCr9CRSRsBea04cvfsqUc82fGcS6nWcs6Mn4AVu_MaXTrAEvE/s320/IMG_0345.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Our paper plate craft was sponge painting hot air balloons. They chose their colors and the layout, sponged it all on, glued it in place and drew the strings to connect the balloons to the baskets.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIKTh98ijyZl6OlRangeVXd1MBdwHduUtNJjw32yocu4Gi-JPIEtxoKXqW0B9u7d37CThUZMDR6kvtlLEdNPDEJ9EbyAzidXg-Qy59kFjk7QcfINWA-Bu3kYuwfOF2Wbde_Cps9D7USE/s1600/IMG_0347.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIKTh98ijyZl6OlRangeVXd1MBdwHduUtNJjw32yocu4Gi-JPIEtxoKXqW0B9u7d37CThUZMDR6kvtlLEdNPDEJ9EbyAzidXg-Qy59kFjk7QcfINWA-Bu3kYuwfOF2Wbde_Cps9D7USE/s320/IMG_0347.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjiulwwScpfeVzXY1JTLJBuHsoytQD0Q2LsWF3bXAHukvuxJc2eTurtAKI5Kljc8eaBj4n1BNaWYfrBTHX0p6kSykWaPo5D-kIqtHSpE0WifNwL89mG8juzAWrEcrrVa_tF-5ntFRGB0/s1600/IMG_0358.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjiulwwScpfeVzXY1JTLJBuHsoytQD0Q2LsWF3bXAHukvuxJc2eTurtAKI5Kljc8eaBj4n1BNaWYfrBTHX0p6kSykWaPo5D-kIqtHSpE0WifNwL89mG8juzAWrEcrrVa_tF-5ntFRGB0/s320/IMG_0358.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Owen has been really into color by number lately. He worked on the second picture for almost an hour! This was the point in the week when I realized just how different my twins are... Owen focused and followed the directions, Eli 'made a giant squid to eat all the U's' and then put socks on his hands and feet to 'scuba dive' on the carpet. Crazy kids!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJUzA7fLSxWkPP027Hsfu0ghurEs5vQxU98pnTsDr1i5WVlc_901kMGOoHSLFlBSRjAe2cjMuR3JiAz5W7b4dXzG_AMDtz_ZEqvck2toJssAVgl7YOZYN5W3WyGBdgUXejvZjUSFTvmI/s1600/IMG_0349.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJUzA7fLSxWkPP027Hsfu0ghurEs5vQxU98pnTsDr1i5WVlc_901kMGOoHSLFlBSRjAe2cjMuR3JiAz5W7b4dXzG_AMDtz_ZEqvck2toJssAVgl7YOZYN5W3WyGBdgUXejvZjUSFTvmI/s320/IMG_0349.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRk49JVywl2IMwI_iWQnfNqNcAGU3GkkelT6zzJZeXc8aMrW6w9YNdyKYBlWjeatBxi0x89JyLrYQYi0YXVer3P7FOJWJji-Yx6k8zX0h139L2E1CVLeWl1yeU7BxNQcCaDiZ7QAwYR9Q/s1600/IMG_0355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRk49JVywl2IMwI_iWQnfNqNcAGU3GkkelT6zzJZeXc8aMrW6w9YNdyKYBlWjeatBxi0x89JyLrYQYi0YXVer3P7FOJWJji-Yx6k8zX0h139L2E1CVLeWl1yeU7BxNQcCaDiZ7QAwYR9Q/s320/IMG_0355.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAw13eiYuRWm-HSd44Die5mHVkIx48tGqAfTW5H1CqPjrAGMwVruUUCFdmVs3VqJGYJjFu4mLP4OEvzT7YIJ8Nbh0Xv1ZAi5T__QEzyH2aNT9fmv_Mbn3cKXjyWXKBBtLQU7tHnix5oE/s1600/IMG_0353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAw13eiYuRWm-HSd44Die5mHVkIx48tGqAfTW5H1CqPjrAGMwVruUUCFdmVs3VqJGYJjFu4mLP4OEvzT7YIJ8Nbh0Xv1ZAi5T__QEzyH2aNT9fmv_Mbn3cKXjyWXKBBtLQU7tHnix5oE/s320/IMG_0353.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNHJejS-s8wPs6vIgSv5uuN-cuWylWGRUlgZScvwFfLtlfif1NGMCacPJ6eWcFiNMMME_kZIDO__DleX5RY4wAmZMAh74MiH3ShvFXrVQ3DZqYcXqsrtEAns0YxbdDmlNIU6b7f1GCJ0/s1600/IMG_0481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNHJejS-s8wPs6vIgSv5uuN-cuWylWGRUlgZScvwFfLtlfif1NGMCacPJ6eWcFiNMMME_kZIDO__DleX5RY4wAmZMAh74MiH3ShvFXrVQ3DZqYcXqsrtEAns0YxbdDmlNIU6b7f1GCJ0/s320/IMG_0481.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Even though Eli hasn't been into coloring, he's been really into writing and spelling lately. He wants to write his name and Owen's name everywhere, and this week he wanted to write 'Jesus'. You can see it on the bottom of his page (completely backwards)!<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSi7zVYam5L1M3rBeODjbX3-owVZF5Y-Gj8BLvXfcSOTpu-7Ipa436at2CSlAbnvdL8y4XVKKkNWPYtcajRocpfriWWN6dRZm5Wg2kGQw7A69FG_5GMuDpn0iJ0M6wo5Vvn8b3uwAmPVQ/s1600/IMG_0352.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSi7zVYam5L1M3rBeODjbX3-owVZF5Y-Gj8BLvXfcSOTpu-7Ipa436at2CSlAbnvdL8y4XVKKkNWPYtcajRocpfriWWN6dRZm5Wg2kGQw7A69FG_5GMuDpn0iJ0M6wo5Vvn8b3uwAmPVQ/s320/IMG_0352.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pji7_fchtlSbQ7DddtXbDa0dV1wYjZXqsFZj4YnM9Ra46G3NRTh6BmO-slNrMXPoMAQRmrBvO3_PwiSbF37xePDTasFgzv3QgMJzk-tp9bDZc-ZBHNj_2sh_ghwuoE4UO2HXOft1y7c/s1600/IMG_0482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pji7_fchtlSbQ7DddtXbDa0dV1wYjZXqsFZj4YnM9Ra46G3NRTh6BmO-slNrMXPoMAQRmrBvO3_PwiSbF37xePDTasFgzv3QgMJzk-tp9bDZc-ZBHNj_2sh_ghwuoE4UO2HXOft1y7c/s320/IMG_0482.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> Click <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/">here</a> to see what others were up to this week in Tot School!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-61116694305052002352012-04-01T10:57:00.000-04:002012-04-01T10:57:31.207-04:00Tot School - Tt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tot School - Tt is for Trains and Tractors</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Owen and Eli: 42 months old</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDFYr_m7NYYRg3fz25erlwKvskDAs21bSwZc-Rip9eAVsKZdXYb6nzOIc11Fq7-Ny2DOmqia5xkZwUwNLIw-XPSZGtNtCIID5Yvod7XUjzIr0jO_8uWPwL2q2RP6nekIIFA00kbiSmK8/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDFYr_m7NYYRg3fz25erlwKvskDAs21bSwZc-Rip9eAVsKZdXYb6nzOIc11Fq7-Ny2DOmqia5xkZwUwNLIw-XPSZGtNtCIID5Yvod7XUjzIr0jO_8uWPwL2q2RP6nekIIFA00kbiSmK8/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Only a couple worksheets this week to keep practicing writing - mostly from <a href="http://education.com/">education.com</a>. The color by number page is from Homeschool Creations. There were tons of cute train printables out there but I thought that I'd give them (and my printer!) a break this week from tons of worksheets. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrThwld3GynG9fk068QUgpHq7rfVUXW0z4VF4sGGPw0j81BasR59fe9RHhdBDMzwqWk03cAt0lcWqIXzOzsxkuWBwcnVCfU-_oHUvy2KMjWe4jcPFxoqAvqLcp7CS2Ty-MPS7VEUqE14/s1600/IMG_0220.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrThwld3GynG9fk068QUgpHq7rfVUXW0z4VF4sGGPw0j81BasR59fe9RHhdBDMzwqWk03cAt0lcWqIXzOzsxkuWBwcnVCfU-_oHUvy2KMjWe4jcPFxoqAvqLcp7CS2Ty-MPS7VEUqE14/s320/IMG_0220.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujnd0S-euDj4XRk0mq2xATG8kde0yE2B3Y2KNQe4Ao2eo2nHnhyphenhypheno6U4EDsQVnn0S4qHz5Z4aIFNVwj9yU8jEWTKkqiN4jMuLPWWQMlpUDjBswnmZ7KRNQxd803IGWQo6WtM7_8qgzxmw/s1600/IMG_0292.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujnd0S-euDj4XRk0mq2xATG8kde0yE2B3Y2KNQe4Ao2eo2nHnhyphenhypheno6U4EDsQVnn0S4qHz5Z4aIFNVwj9yU8jEWTKkqiN4jMuLPWWQMlpUDjBswnmZ7KRNQxd803IGWQo6WtM7_8qgzxmw/s320/IMG_0292.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3uQe81UU1R2PcpZg7jFccCfFQ4zMizgzrFWxGI6I7_L3y5rab_N_JBpJ6bG4lg1eOCCNtGXHIlcR_Hsf7fmBguVgs4TAwzJ3BdfIakT5gzA8aW9oA9HTjBoHf7z335i939yebAP_jZw/s1600/IMG_0293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3uQe81UU1R2PcpZg7jFccCfFQ4zMizgzrFWxGI6I7_L3y5rab_N_JBpJ6bG4lg1eOCCNtGXHIlcR_Hsf7fmBguVgs4TAwzJ3BdfIakT5gzA8aW9oA9HTjBoHf7z335i939yebAP_jZw/s320/IMG_0293.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our tractor footprint craft for the art wall in the playroom! They think it's so funny that they made the pig drive the tractor : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaKDHrOLMnzpTVdS5114-_ZDHDotRx3uHGUDkwyXtAvRauqPbFhKF65P2nhwJeMhW8llCvhyQ41dWd_ulJNo-UA0slDOgLgN1IyfrpvkHVCFHrYvcjHMtEVCOVMpqSmSKODxM9XKDrY_U/s1600/IMG_0226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaKDHrOLMnzpTVdS5114-_ZDHDotRx3uHGUDkwyXtAvRauqPbFhKF65P2nhwJeMhW8llCvhyQ41dWd_ulJNo-UA0slDOgLgN1IyfrpvkHVCFHrYvcjHMtEVCOVMpqSmSKODxM9XKDrY_U/s320/IMG_0226.JPG" width="213" /></a></div> Lots of playing with trains this week...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnc6YCXFl6bCJYFyzRbw3Geg7l2JKeXtjOJcFtmS-209ADu1mtbE6aPlB2N5REBgnXu7zOKaqW32N50ZMhRGwsTxTd8R6ajODC4trdNMghwKoglLjlSPLj8sn8ZqZyuPuYJK85OCtvrlM/s1600/IMG_0317.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnc6YCXFl6bCJYFyzRbw3Geg7l2JKeXtjOJcFtmS-209ADu1mtbE6aPlB2N5REBgnXu7zOKaqW32N50ZMhRGwsTxTd8R6ajODC4trdNMghwKoglLjlSPLj8sn8ZqZyuPuYJK85OCtvrlM/s320/IMG_0317.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Hope y'all had a great week at <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/">Tot School</a> too! 6 letters to go!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063070371327783480noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4657387256449356669.post-29797152210433827072012-03-25T14:51:00.001-04:002012-03-25T14:52:27.918-04:00Tot School - Ss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tot School: Ss is for Spiders, Sunflowers and Snails!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Owen and Eli: 42 months old</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPs7LKDnr1tZnzS0lzjTsHrH1E5mIpBUaFk79fPx1PKkUrK8wvAHlJfRtkXICMK9ebk4OmWhAZj1CEVgXXpduEl9J1gQUIE3UUxhY0FocXbMXXdbeDtDH1CW0XPv4JP0qev3j1vUs8dE/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPs7LKDnr1tZnzS0lzjTsHrH1E5mIpBUaFk79fPx1PKkUrK8wvAHlJfRtkXICMK9ebk4OmWhAZj1CEVgXXpduEl9J1gQUIE3UUxhY0FocXbMXXdbeDtDH1CW0XPv4JP0qev3j1vUs8dE/s1600/TotSchool2.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Lots of crafts this week, with lots of great Ss themed words. <a href="http://education.com/">Education.com</a> continues to have great printables for their skill level and <a href="http://2teachingmommies.com/">2teachingmommies.com</a> has a great expanded Spiders pack to download. We used the spinner game, the prewriting pages and the numbers 11-20 puzzle this week.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenQPAQ55Lgki74YQAnMgeWqL046kg7UJ7nlIYdO654dlx1-Q9SfFLpOboU0Wn3qmZWVNnyvHPOnMoi8wOgS1Z2j_9p2koIPbAA1vW88Su65DdBF_sunmZReAwVm0jHfpy0fxUuWclXpE/s1600/IMG_0213.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenQPAQ55Lgki74YQAnMgeWqL046kg7UJ7nlIYdO654dlx1-Q9SfFLpOboU0Wn3qmZWVNnyvHPOnMoi8wOgS1Z2j_9p2koIPbAA1vW88Su65DdBF_sunmZReAwVm0jHfpy0fxUuWclXpE/s320/IMG_0213.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnW4SHMa6Iz5IYH7MYEJFFPydnW8pFPQXvuvasAYXtl96Pq3q9YZKTaeG1DzuDlhwpCfuhEtFpep3DG9PnYSsm4VQCgZnRC_dinhR5OM1LXUdxru51DkZ98gHIghNmWrePJhrVL3mGAE/s1600/IMG_0214.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnW4SHMa6Iz5IYH7MYEJFFPydnW8pFPQXvuvasAYXtl96Pq3q9YZKTaeG1DzuDlhwpCfuhEtFpep3DG9PnYSsm4VQCgZnRC_dinhR5OM1LXUdxru51DkZ98gHIghNmWrePJhrVL3mGAE/s320/IMG_0214.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkomc7l1u84-nebpcUgirEeWhd3FDwAodHTfRY5cweUoVFB4khslJDA6paNRWU46S7qOqUUH33CZPtKQ4zwnpACjcL-8O1qjshrCQRfCVLrqE1TnWDE3RpHX0r8ktBtTyUn2PJbJGDcjU/s1600/IMG_0196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkomc7l1u84-nebpcUgirEeWhd3FDwAodHTfRY5cweUoVFB4khslJDA6paNRWU46S7qOqUUH33CZPtKQ4zwnpACjcL-8O1qjshrCQRfCVLrqE1TnWDE3RpHX0r8ktBtTyUn2PJbJGDcjU/s320/IMG_0196.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I thought it would be fun to incorporate a lacing activity to make a spider web. I cut the center of a paper plate out, then added 10 hole punches and randomly assigned them numbers. I purposely gave them <i>way </i>more yarn than they needed, so there was a lot of pulling to get the yarn all the way through, but it opened up the conversation for how God made spiders special and that they are much more equipped to spinning webs than we'll ever be!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_e1JDiZJi0YW5MXXNanyzql1Z0OGcLhkYcqACrtPPddxXFQCtR4a-jU-KtXHdMScKSMHjXXVkwT5GOWIrRSZXTSNZhrqNAQICksCgAW8ix-kzLadgBYeK2JGU8JDL1lhtsyBHh9y_SXs/s1600/IMG_0200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_e1JDiZJi0YW5MXXNanyzql1Z0OGcLhkYcqACrtPPddxXFQCtR4a-jU-KtXHdMScKSMHjXXVkwT5GOWIrRSZXTSNZhrqNAQICksCgAW8ix-kzLadgBYeK2JGU8JDL1lhtsyBHh9y_SXs/s320/IMG_0200.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVD8helDAXEk3pLdaM4kg7gRbD0g987K_G7eZe4zy00_LvY_LzjQdCbmP6PHx0sgW6BRVLClc5ab0gPJ4EkaLaWnqty8Dg2YG9yfoSU2Zct9pqnCz1-EZhovIwXfn7TvahS8BrweQTtFk/s1600/IMG_0201.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVD8helDAXEk3pLdaM4kg7gRbD0g987K_G7eZe4zy00_LvY_LzjQdCbmP6PHx0sgW6BRVLClc5ab0gPJ4EkaLaWnqty8Dg2YG9yfoSU2Zct9pqnCz1-EZhovIwXfn7TvahS8BrweQTtFk/s320/IMG_0201.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">This week was a big adjustment for me in giving the boys a lot more 'free reign' over their art wall projects. They've been very interested in cutting with scissors, so I drew them two leaves on foam paper and they cut them out for their sunflowers, they colored in the stem and they cut all the tissue paper and chose their colors for their snails. I had been telling them where certain parts go that needed to be glued, etc, but this week I just let them go for it and I <i>love </i>how they turned out! That'll teach me for being a control freak ; )</div><br />
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I was surprised at some of the toys that sank, and the fact that even a rock, if placed inside a plastic Easter egg, will float. The original idea is from <a href="http://homeschoolcreations.com/">Homeschoolcreations.com</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2HM9e5b0q60lbsoM2nX4-K9fo1lLHNwbTw2vPXIxkrjGvTultBwmkolrM17ZMcJL-hzF8DQuyZhMz0x8PigINpNi7QVcec-lvXuZ2xxyBusl_c5nmAmvbnGzOA-Sqn2MhFt2GRzCRfBo/s1600/IMG_0203.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2HM9e5b0q60lbsoM2nX4-K9fo1lLHNwbTw2vPXIxkrjGvTultBwmkolrM17ZMcJL-hzF8DQuyZhMz0x8PigINpNi7QVcec-lvXuZ2xxyBusl_c5nmAmvbnGzOA-Sqn2MhFt2GRzCRfBo/s320/IMG_0203.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXctGdWHqANf-KMk2Mh_VuDd1vIqXPfTIp85gi8xTExCjFs5W-TGRf0b8KMkMSWE-096RbVNenwVWFTIhXFjsu7SsvknI7_LCVg2POFzTcI7hxbk6o-asciroiBa5PKk3myHZ6jdnVRQ/s1600/IMG_0210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXctGdWHqANf-KMk2Mh_VuDd1vIqXPfTIp85gi8xTExCjFs5W-TGRf0b8KMkMSWE-096RbVNenwVWFTIhXFjsu7SsvknI7_LCVg2POFzTcI7hxbk6o-asciroiBa5PKk3myHZ6jdnVRQ/s320/IMG_0210.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Only 7 letters to go! 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