Preschool Week 11

Preschool Week 11

Bible: We did 2 chapters this week from the Jesus Storybook Bible.  The First, called "God to the Rescue" tells the story of God speaking to Moses in the burning bush, and then of Moses speaking to Pharaoh.  So of course we made our own burning bush pictures. 

The bushes.

Fingerprint fire.

Of course washing up is just as much fun.

Ethan's Burning Bush

Hannah's Burning Bush

Our second story called "God Makes a Way" and tells the story of Moses leading Gods people out of Egypt.  I filled a zip bag with aloe tinted blue so that Hannah and Ethan could retell the story using their little people.

(Jesus Storybook Bible )

Reading:  This week we read from the "20th Century Children's Book Treasury" as well as the "Flip Flap Body Book".  The Flip Flap Body body book has a whole section on pregnancy and the developing baby.


(Sonlight P3/4)   

Language Arts and Handwriting:  The Letter J

Hannah and Ethan both found this letter more difficult then some of letter done in the past.  I think it's the curve at the end that made it confusing.  

To give Ethan some extra help I drew the J using water and had him trace over it a bit and then added in the chalk.  He like this and it helped.

Cutting and gluing J sound words.

 (AAR pre-1)

 (HWT)

Math:  First we played a dice game.  It's very simple and fun.  Roll the dice and add a counter to the chart.  Each person has a different colored counter and there is a limited number of spots on the chart.   If you roll a number that has no spots left then then you move on to the next person.  When the chart is full of counters we count up to see who had the most counters on the board.

With our bears we followed the lesson from our book on comparisons.  We sorted and played with the bears using the words small, smaller, and smallest, or large, larger, and largest.

I love watching them learn together.

(Compare Bears Maths)
(Montessori at Home(Math Section)

Art: Painting with scrapers. 

 I grabbed these paint scrapers for $2 and knew the kids would love them.  There are 4 different scrapers and each one has and different edge, creating it's own unique pattern through the paint.

Science: Sound Eggs.

I filled several plastic eggs with different items.  You can see the variety of items on the tray (cereal, money, pom poms, bells, counters, beads etc).  Anything little and made out of a variety of materials would work.

The aim of the game was for Hannah and Ethan to identify the item by its sound when shaken in the egg.  One of the first ones I did was the bell because it's super easy to identify. Pom poms don't make any noise so it stumped them a bit.

Finally, I gave them a chance to make some of their own.  I love this picture of Hannah trying to secretly fill her egg.

What followed was a lot of filling, shaking, and the occasional spraying.  Every so often Ethan would fill his egg so full that it would burst open when he shook it, sending the contents everywhere. :D

(PEEP and the Big WideWorld Explorer's Guide)

Just For Fun:

Hannah, Ethan, and Ben

Baby Boy Update

I thought since it had been a little while, I would take a quick update on how our baby boy is doing.  He is growing very well, and at 31 weeks he is measuring ahead at 32 weeks.  I had a ultrasound last week to check his size and presentation.  The Technician guesstimates he weight almost 4.5 lbs. Then she smiled and said it's not an exact size and can be off by a pound or two.  He may be my biggest baby but I guess we will need to wait and see.  He also happens to be lying in a Frank Breech position (hands, feet, and head up) which is ins't ideal and I am hoping he flips quickly.  I don't like him way up under my ribs either.

Profile, with both his feet.

Preschool Week 10

Preschool Week 10

Bible: This week we read the story of Joseph from our Jesus Storybook bible called "The Forgiving Prince".  I had a really hard time choosing the craft for the week because it meant focusing on one part of the story which is quite long.  If you do a quick google search of Joseph crafts you will easily understand my dilemma.  I ended up picking what I thought Hannah and Ethan would enjoy the most, so they decorated their own robes for Joseph.

The template I printed off from here.

(Jesus Storybook Bible )

Reading:  Anything and Everything.

(Sonlight P3/4)   

Language Arts and Handwriting:  We practiced the letter I.  This is a favorite letter of both Hannah and Ethan.  I not sure why, probably because it is all straight lines.

Putting together wooden letters.

Printing with chalk.

I don`t know these are called but they had to color all the I`s 

and find the hidden picture of an Iguana.

 (AAR pre-1)

 (HWT)

Math:  We worked on patterns using our bear counters.

Making patterns with their dot markers, a BIG hit.

They also worked on some beginning addition work with out pom pom magnets and a cookie sheet.

(Compare Bears Maths)
(Montessori at Home(Math Section)

Art:  Fall art with the abundance of falling leaves all around us.

With the collected leaves they tried leaf rubbings and collages.

Science: To go along with our study of sound, we played "Follow the Sound" (Hide and Seek).  One person hides with something noisy (we used a pair of rhythm sticks but anything that makes noise would work), once they found their hiding spot they banged their sticks together.  The finders (me and whoever was not hiding) had to follow the sound to locate the hider.  We played this for a LONG time and eventually switched to a bell to make it harder. 

(PEEP and the Big WideWorld Explorer's Guide)

Just For Fun: Play dough with a lettuce knife.  Hannah enjoyed pretending to be a chef.

Slicing, mincing and chopping.

Ethan sliced for a little while and then moved on to playing with the play dough with his hands.

Wordless Wednesday- Science World