Fall Fun Part 1

~Bella is 34 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 16 months~

So now that Fall is here, I have TONS of things to do with the kids from all my years teaching in daycare.  So I'm super excited to work on stuff with them :)

So what is fall without a little Pumpkin buying :)  We will hopefully be making it to a pumpkin patch soon, but for now we went to a local farmers market.  

Some of the Pumpkins were perfect for holding...

Some of the pumpkins were pretty Big!

So after seeing pumpkins we painted some!

Bella worked really hard at staying in the lines!

Then I had some pumpkin learning aids that we went over

Bella worked on a Pumpkin Learning Pack also.

Cutting practice

Letter P dot work.

Find letter P

What begins with P

Alphabet maze

Which is different

Counting and finding the corresponding number.  She then glued them on.

More Pattern work

Then we worked on listening skills and finding 1st, 2nd, etc.

Shadow Matching.

Pre writing practice.

What color is the Pumpkin Book.

How many Pumpkins.  I would put a number in the corner and
she would have to count the correct amount of pumpkins.

Then she did some Shape Matching

Then we got out the dot markers and worked on the colors Orange, Yellow and Red.  They also worked on taking turns as the dotted each color on their tree to make leaves.

And of course it sometimes is way more fun just to screw the cap on :)

Then we got out some Pom Poms and our new trays.

Then they each got a turn with the tweezers to manipulate the pom poms.

The we turned the trays over and stuck the pom poms in the trays that way!

Resources:

http://mamasmonkeys.blogspot.com/2012/10/3-day-freebie-pumpkin-patch-preschool.html

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.

Letter K and Painting

~Bella is 32 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 16 months~

So for our letter work, we are now on K.  Because of our break from letters because of the move, Bella had a refreshed desire to work!

So excited about the progress on this activity.  Before this was difficult for her and now she is doing well and enjoys doing it.

Then she did her letter poke work.  She used a thumb tack to poke her letter...

Then we did Big and Small sorting.  This was hard for her and Big and Little K look very similar...

She worked on some prewriting skills.  I worked very closely on this with her to help her understand and focus on doing it correctly...

And since K is for Kite, she color matched the kite with the string...

Then she worked on a puzzle.  She looked at the computer to see what the puzzle looked like completed.  We started to focus more on doing puzzles.

Then one day she went to Nanna's house to play.  Nanna is a kindergarten teacher and she got all these fun things for learning for Bella.  They worked on it together.  It was all Bella could talk about when she came home!

Then we played a farm animal memory match game a couple days.

After getting these awesome foam blocks from Nanna, we worked with them at home.  She used them to count...

And eventually went to building with them...

Then we did some Wikki Stick work.  She has definitely gotten better at this since that last time we played with them.

For our art project with the twins, we did Dot art again...  No eating of the dot paint this time tho!

After Dot Paints got boring we went to finger painting...

The twins were a little shocked that I was letting them make such messes! hehe

Once they got over the initial "Can you believe momma is letting us get all messy like this!!!!"  

They started to paint the paper...

The we played with popsicle sticks and cans again with holes in the lids...

And while the twins were busy Bella was allowed to play with her Melissa and Doug magnetic dolls.  She is really loving these lately but the twins are too little for them, so she loves every opportunity she gets to play with them!

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/03/prek-letter-k.html

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.