My Last Baby is in Kindergarten

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October 23, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Alex is movin’ on up! He’s pretty officially doing Kindergarten work now. He was getting so bored! I’m accommodating. No holding back!

So I printed out the Raising Rock Stars Kindergarten letter A pages and he went to town.

He knew the pictures that started with A just fine and colored them.

He practiced the sign for A and chose the correct picture at the bottom. So proud of my boy!

I love that it has Bible verses for each letter!

He cut out his verse and glued it in order with very little help. He recited it to me!

He still loves cutting and gluing. It’s his favorite activity!

Do A Dot markers with his letter A maze. He loves dot markers!

He’s so careful with tracing!

He loves his apps. His new favorites are Gappy’s First Words and Mystery Letters.

Kindergarten is bittersweet since this is my last child!

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Montessori 2.5 Years

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September 11, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

My son had lots of fun this summer!

He went to preschool nature camp with Dad at Ogden Nature Center.

We learned fun stuff at library Dig Into Reading sessions. We learned about other countries, history, language, art, animals, and more!

Alex made mashed potatoes almost all by himself. That cool knife? They’re over here. We have 2 of that one and 2 of this knife and the kids love them!

Alex still loves Tot School and Animal ABCs and Raising Rock Stars Preschool.

He’s snuggly and likes to watch the iPad with sister

He gets so excited when our cat, Sinéad, allows him to pet her.

Alex helped in the garden lots. He helped dig up our potatoes.

He likes to help Liz with science. They do experiments together. He dropped the antacid tablets in the water/vinegar solutions to learn about concentration

A rare moment of peace between these two

Watching Tori play Reading Kingdom

Alex has a lot of freedom. I try to make sure he’s learning by all the everyday things we do. I want him to love learning and never get discouraged or frustrated. We limit our seatwork since he’s an active little boy!

Check out our Logic of English review…

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Tot School Summer

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July 10, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Alex helps Dad in the garden.

Alex picked me a pepper.

He has a stack of papers by his table. He picks and chooses what he wants to do. Some are from past lessons. We’re on H, but he’s doing the cutting page from E.

Alex loves these dry erase books that I pulled out from the storage closet. I bought him a new set of Crayola crayons and markers for it!

Alex still loves his shapes and matching math cards. Check out our review.

Wooden geometric shapes and here’s a similar clear plastic 3D volume set

Alex has been listening in while we read Charlotte’s Web. I found these fun printables that are perfect for his ability level! He loves it.

He would not follow directions on his letter H All About Reading page. Blue! Not red! Booger!

More dry erase fun! We like The Board Dudes and Priddy Wipe Clean.

Building letters. How to Build an A. He just started liking this activity. The book shows how to use the foam pieces to build letters.

Kate and Alex play with magnets and this awesome printable flag page. Check out other patriotic and US History ideas on my Pinterest board.

Alex was thrilled when I came home with this new desk from the thrift store. I loved his excitement and pride in having a big boy desk!

Alex is really loving school time lately!

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Preschool Letter D

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April 17, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Alex has been so good at wanting to do school lately! Although we’ve been having defiance issues.

He finished up an Easter tracing page.

We got this fun balance game from church for Easter and the kids love it.

Matching rhyming words with All About Reading pre-level 1

Counting dinosaurs…and a little crazy with the glue stick. Dinosaur printables from Letter of the Week at Confessions of a Homeschooler

Tracing D’s with Raising Rock Stars Preschool

Wikki Stix letter cards…I had to help him, but I was so happy he tried to do it himself first!

measuring the verse. and, oh, how this verse was played out this week! {still is}

Do all things without complaining and disputing.
Philippians 2:14

And now we measure random things. at random times. randomly.

Adding stickers to the Ziggy board!

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C is for Cat

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April 1, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We’re a cat family.

Our beloved Seamus passed away too close to Christmas 2010. He was the best kitty ever. He was a bobtail.

And here is our big boy, Rubeus. He claimed me when he jumped in my van and curled up in my lap as his home. I love him. He missed Seamus so we got him Sinead, but it will never be the same. He passed away in April 2018.

Here is our baby beauty, Sinead. She’s petite and delicate and we delight in her antics. She’s full grown and still the size of a kitten!

The latest addition to our family is Dionysus.

In honor of cats…

We’re working on this fun Cats Preschool Pack this week!

Check out these fun Pinterest Boards for more inspiration.

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Tot School Valentine

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February 19, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Alex is almost 3 years old! just a little over a month away…

Alex sorted candy hearts by color. Tori watched for a chance to eat some.

He told me here, rather matter of fact: “I won’t color if you take a picture.” Touché.

Behold the cuteness of this rascal. And that superb tracing before he cut it out!

Monkey pattern matching. He’s sure smart and has no trouble with preschool work! He’s not even three yet and I can barely keep him interested in most work that his sisters begged for more at this age. He certainly needs handwriting work. He love to cut and paste and he just started liking coloring pictures. I often can’t tell if he’s bored, frustrated, or just plain ornery.

groundhog shadow experiment. The girls and Alex loved this one. A flashlight + a groundhog cutout + a dark room=awesome.

playing his trucks app from Duck Duck Moose. every little boy’s dream!

wowsers, the boy is SPELLING already with this Montessori Crossword app.

He loves it!

and….drumroll please!

Look who we have here!

Liz even dressed appropriately for the occasion!

Ziggy from All About Reading!

Alex is in love!

He’s loving the program so far. He’s only done a couple lessons from the pre-level, but we have a winner!

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Snowy Preschool

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January 5, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

We got a bit of snow last week. Almost up to Dad’s knees!

Helping Dad remove the hideous pink and blue flowered wallpaper!

rolling the winter clothing die and putting stickers on the chart is a favorite!

Alex really liked using Bananagrams to spell winter clothing words.

from Winter Fun Tot Pack

I tried to make it simple and lay out one card and the letters for that card.

He wanted all the cards and all the letters all out. I was super impressed.

Cutting out his jellyfish for letter J – from Animals ABCs

pasting on his jellyfish for the letter J craft – from Animal ABCs

To the right of our calendar is Alex’s theme board for the letter J.

He likes his Lauri ABC puzzles. He usually hammers in the letters.

Dad took Alex to the local nature center for a preschool winter class. They made snow paint with salt. They colored snowflake pictures.

And….

Oh my, just look at him in his little snowshoes!

Tonight before bed, Alex got so excited that it was essential oil time: “Ya gonna rub the oils on my foots?!” as I rubbed his “foots” with Thieves oil, he sighed like it was heaven: “Aaaaah!”

He is precious. and hilarious.

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October Montessori Works

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October 8, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Bubba loved our Halloween sensory bin.

Thank you, Walmart and Target! There are oodles of fun little things at their dollar spots right now!

Our October Tot School and Montessori Works:

Halloween Sensory Bin!

He copied my pattern with erasers and beads

Then he wanted to “stack” them

Sorting apples and leaves. He also told me their colors.

Coloring a pumpkin page from the Letter of the Week curriculum

Sorting hot and cold for fire safety

Matching shadow leaves. He thought this was great. Did he want to do it again? Nope.

Pin pushing a pumpkin page. How do you like that alliteration?

Floam. He wasn’t sure what to do with this.

Matching shapes. I named them for him. He knew most of them.

Words with Tots app. The only thing I don’t like about this one is their picture of a chimpanzee: they call it a monkey.

Dot painting an A with apples

Scarecrow tot pack. He did this letter maze finding all the S’s! I was impressed.

He loved cutting these fall leaves on their lines.

He was so happy with himself doing his school work.

He woke Daddy up super early this weekend and demanded to do his schoolwork. He cried when Daddy told him it was still dark and too early. It must’ve been before 5 AM! That’s my boy.

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Letter H Work

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September 4, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We are totally doing delight=driven school with this one. Otherwise, he runs wild and refuses to do anything productive.

Alex is still obsessed with Hungry Hippos and Perfection games. We play those LOTS.

H is for Hippos with Animal ABC Tot School.

He’s coloring the hippos. He’s doing more paperwork than the last few weeks. Still not very interested. Once in a while he will do it.

He does really like cutting and pasting though.

He’s saying “hippo” and showing me his H.

Here are all the letters Alex has completed on our clothesline.

He’s beginning to show interest in writing and reading now and I guess since he knows all the alphabet and their sounds, we’ll be moving on at his pace!

He was writing letters on his little magnet pad and we were quite excited.

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