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 J and Teeny Tots

~Bella is 31 months~

~Twins are 13 months~

So we managed to get in some letter work this week.  Not as much as I would have liked, but it will do.  It is the summer time right?  So we are on letter J now.  We did "J" for Jelly Bean.

Here she did her little and big "J" sorting...

Then we did some Dot art...

Patterns with Jelly Beans...

Then she matched colors and shapes...

For numbers, the jelly beans had dots on one side that she had to count and find the matching number...

Then we did some of the beloved Play dough!

TEENY TOT SCHOOL

For the twins we first worked with counting bears and cut up toilet paper tubes.  They really liked this activity.  They would stack the tubes, put the bears in the tubes, watch the bears fall out of the tubes...

Next we used popsicle sticks.  My original idea was to have them put them into an ice cube tray I have that are cylindrical.  This was NOT interesting to them...

So I revamped the activity and gave them old formula cans with holes pocked in the lids.  They LOVED this activity.  They in fact could not get enough of it!

Bella even enjoyed doing this activity with her brother and sister...

However, Bella thought the pretzels from her snack would be a better choice to put in the ice cube trays :)

We also did some pre-writing work (really its just drawing lol)

For the first time, I taped a huge piece of paper to the table and gave everyone some crayons to work with.  This was an O.K. activity.  The twins just always wanna eat the crayons! lol

So the next way we tried drawing was with dry erase markers.  "SHE GAVE THEM MARKERS?!?!?!"  lol yes I did :) 

And you know what they did MUCH better with the markers then the crayons!  I have no clue why.  But they hardly every put them in their mouths!

Then we got out the dollhouse.  We haven't played with this for a while, as the twins were always frustrating Bella with it.  But this time they all played very nicely.

And the girls played like typical girls.....

And Caiden???

Well he was typical boy :)

And a little Fourth of July cuteness for you :)

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/05/j-is-for-jelly-bean-alternative.html

Letter I and more!

~Bella is 30 months~

For our letter we are working on "I".  We haven't done dot art in a while so I brought that back out.

Then we did something new.  She laid on a carpet and I gave her a push pin and she had to poke her letter "I."  She didn't love this activity but she did like it and want to do it.












Then she worked on pattern work again for "I" is for inchworm...

Then she had to match the inchworms that had numbers on them to the leaf that had the same number of wholes.

Next she worked on writing her "I"

She did some water painting on her chalkboard...

I have a ton of file folder games that I had made when I was teaching in a daycare.  So I finally pulled one out. Here she had to match the colored bone with the correct dog bowl.

For some shape work, she used magnetic pom poms to trace shapes.

I just love her smile while learning :)

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/12/letter-i-for-inchworm.html