Spring Celebrations

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April 23, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our review of this past week…

Here is my monkey who climbed a rock wall in about 2.5 seconds.

Not to be outdone, sister quickly followed suit.

Our neighborhood had a really cool Easter egg hunt. It was like trick or treating. Everyone put plastic eggs or treats on their front lawn and the kids went around a-hunting.

Loved it! Yes, my eldest has bunny ears on…

Our Christian Passover meal…with Bible reading.

Our butterfly release…We got to say bye to our butterflies!

Love the delight in her expression here!

Happy spring!

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Preschool Letter U

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April 2, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Letter U for umbrella.

What’s in the box? Yes, we do workboxes.

I put the girls’ individual work in their official workboxes, but these things the girls share, so I put these in cube shelves.

Umbrella activities magnets and tray

Patterns

Snap beads for tactile fun

Puzzle and size sorting

Unifix cubes and cards

Letter building with How to Build an A book set.

Wikki Stix and letter U card

Bottle cap letters and cards

Cuisenaire rods and matching cards

We had fun with the Letter U!

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March Preschool

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March 12, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

It’s March already and we’re so ready for spring!

Almost all the snow is melted and it’s been gorgeous the past few days!

We love our sensory bins. Here’s our March one with green and yellow lentils and shamrock stickers with gold and green glitter puffs. I am excited that I found this mini Montessori wooden rainbow. We all love it.

Tori and Katie practice their writing. We did K for kites this week. I get most of our preschool curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler and 1+1+1=1. I also use the writing pages from Homegrown Hearts. I’m still waiting for those March winds to try to fly the kites I bought…

Victoria turned 5 years old on Thursday. She got a Hello Kitty bowling ball from my parents and, of course, we had to go test it out. Love her stance, eh? I think she could go pro!

For her birthday dinner, she requested Texas Roadhouse. Here she is in the birthday saddle. Yeehaw!

Happy Spring!

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Painting Snow

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March 4, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 7 Comments

We’ve all been rather under the weather around here last week, so we didn’t do a whole lot of preschool.

Painting Snow Art Time

Here are the girls painting snow.

We used liquid watercolors.

That was a big hit! They loved that!

They had lots of fun playing with colors in the snow.

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Preschool Presidents’ Day Log Cabin

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February 18, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Tori and Katie made little log cabins out of pretzels.

I found the printable at TeacherFileBox.com. We’re looking for some paper people to print to add to their pictures…

Here are the cabins so far…I layered a half sheet of blue construction paper on green for a landscape. We glued teeny tiny pom poms for flowers, cotton balls for clouds, and used dot paint for the sun, but that didn’t turn out so pretty so we’re going to add some other paint to make it more yellow later.

We worked on sorting animals. Here is our new bulletin board to go along with Expedition Earth.

I found a great lapbook at File Folder Fun. They struggled with this concept, so we’re going to work on it lots.

Expedition Earth Animal Geography Curriculum

They pulled out the felts playsets and played with that for quite a while. I buy them up at thrift stores and consignment shops.

We also finished up the letter Z. They worked on anatomy science with Big Sister Lizzie and loved it. I got a mini bulletin board set of the Food Pyramid and I made a board of some of it and a lapbook with the food sorting. We’re going to work on healthy eating habits this week.

We enjoyed watching snow and birds. We went to the Wild Birds and bought 3 new feeders and 3 bags of birdseed and we’ve laughed at these guys fluttering around. Not sure what they are cuz I’m from the East and these western and mountain birds are sure different! I think it’s a type of phoebe or junco…I need to buy a new bird ID book! We also have lots of sparrows and chickadees. They haven’t discovered the other feeders yet..

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Preschool Valentine Trays

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February 12, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Our Valentine Preschool Trays

Here is our letter tray with little trinkets to identify the initial letter: M or N, that we worked on the last couple weeks…

Here is a fine motor transfer activity. They snuck and ate a few candy hearts in the transfer process.

This one was little heart boxes with candy hearts inside and they could eat them with the chopsticks.

Here is our rainbow rice and pasta in bins with heart spoons and scoops. I need to make lots more I am told.

Here are the little dears loving on each other and looking cuter than usual. :)

We did work on the Letter Z this week from Raising Rock Stars Preschool and Confessions of a Homeschooler along with Valentine’s activities from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler, along with Homeschool Share and Christian Preschool Printables.

They were little troopers as we took many of our more portable activities with us to two dental appointments for Elizabeth (she’s getting braces soon!). They worked diligently in the waiting rooms and were little angels. We did phonics and crafts from our a Beka curriculum too. We got lots of lovey books from the library (and are reading them and will maybe do a lapbook or two from Homeschool Share). They love playing on the iPods and get so excited with their games. We made Valentines for Daddy, Grandpa and Grandma, friends at church, and for a Valentine’s party on Monday afternoon. We’ll decorate our table and have a lovely meal later on, with candles and all!

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Preschool Letter N

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February 4, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Our Chinese New Year indoor “picnic” since it’s 26 degrees out.

We worked on Letter N for Nests this week. Yes, I realize there is no rhyme nor reason to the order I am doing our letters.

I started out with Raising Rock Stars and got sidetracked somewhere along the way. I’m trying to work the themes with the appropriate weeks and holidays, I guess.

I’m saving K for Kites for March, for instance.

I had a hard time getting any good pictures because I was either interacting with the girls, mediating arguments between the girls, or dealing with the baby.

Alex is almost ready for Tiny Tot School! He turned 10 months old on the 1st of February and he’s wanting some action now.

We enjoyed lots of music this week. We listen to Christian music and hymns. We love world music like Putamayo Kids.

We really love our new geography songs that go along with our curriculum.

We also have been getting some fun CDs from the library, such as Beethoven’s Wig. It is hilarious!

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Preschool Letter M

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January 22, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We did M for Monkeys this week. I found these cute finger puppets at DLTK and we did 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and the Monkeys Teasing the Alligator.

See our cool alligator? Big hit!

We got our monkey lessons from Confessions of a Homeschooler and a great monkey tot book from Carisa.

We got some great writing worksheets over at Home Grown Hearts.

We also went bowling, went to church, had an ice skating lesson, and went to story time at the local library.

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Ice Skating

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January 8, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

This week, we learned about new beginnings for the new year. We did a snow theme. We worked on the Letter S for snow and snowmen.

We started ice skating lessons!

Tori LOVED it and was mad when it was over and we had to leave.

Katie did NOT like it. Here she is, wondering when she can quit.

We made some snowflake ornaments for our bulletin board.

We got many activities from Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. Our Bible theme verse is the same as last year’s: Psalm 51:7. We did some fun snowman word recognition mats.