4th of July

 Our 4th of July wreath we made using a straw wreath, felt squares and pins!

 Sweet Js

 Jenni was excited about her new skirt I made. :)

 

Happy 4th!

Week 32 of Pre-K

 Jenni working on her Bible verse

Bible Verse: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

Math

 Jenni reviewing the date (Monday, April 16th, 2012, etc.)

 Going over the days of the week - Sweet J still forgets Thursday

 Working on counting money - pennies and dimes

 Adding by 0, 1 and 2

 Counting by fives and learning about nickels

Ordering numbers by 10's, 10-100

 Counting money game

Explode the Code

Reading, writing and spelling skills

 J's first spelling test!

 (The penny is used to space out words.)

 We are about finished with Explode the Code, Book 1. The final pages include "spelling tests." I said the word aloud, and Jenni sounded the word out and wrote the letters.

Jenni likes to make sure that she is doing her "best handwriting" and enjoys writing notes to Eric for him to find in his lunchbox at work or to give him when he returns home. She also enjoys opening her little girl Bible and practicing her "best handwriting" by writing sentences onto paper to practice.

Science
"Naked Egg" Experiment

J filled the cups with vinegar.

Watching the bubbles appearing on top of the eggs...

 After the vinegar dissolved the shell - took about 2-3 days.

The naked egg without its shell is quite bouncy. Jenni bounced it in the pan until it "popped" and then had fun from there. :)

To see many more activities to do with an egg, click here.

Arts & Crafts
Fruit Loop Necklace

 Joshua started putting the fruit loops on his pipe cleaner...

 ...but soon found out it was easier (and faster) to just eat the fruit loops from the bowl. :)

Skip Counting with Felt

 Jenni is learning how to skip count - by 2's, 5's, 10's, and 100's.

In the Sky Play Mat

This play mat measures 9x12 inches and is simply made with blue and white felt and Wonder Under. Joshua can enjoy this play mat using his miniature air travel collectibles I found here.

Train Play Mat

Joshua's train play mat measures 12x12 inches and is simply made with green and black felt and Wonder Under. Joshua loves his trains so I think he'll enjoy having a miniature play mat to enjoy at home and even while we wait for Jenni during her ballet classes.

Car Play Mat

I was inspired to make Joshua a car play mat after seeing this idea here. Joshua's play mat measures 12x12 inches and is simply made with felt and Wonder Under. In his little town he has a house, a pond with nearby swings, a beach, and a forest. Lots of fun adventures for a little boy :)

Felt Tic Tac Toe

I made a Tic Tac Toe game board with X and O pieces for our Fall Party (and future game nights). I made five X and five O game pieces using felt. I first cut out ten X and ten O pieces. For each game piece, I sandwiched batting in the middle of the top and bottom piece (bottom O, batting, top O) and sewed around the pieces. Next I cut a large piece of brown felt and sewed around the perimeter. Then I cut four long strips of light brown felt, 1 inch wide, and sewed those to the brown felt, completing our Tic Tac Toe board.

Alphabet Fun - Letter Cc

Jenni is 4 years, 2 months

We concentrated while learning about the letter Cc. Here is some of what we did...

Bible Verse:
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (Colossians 3:20)

Books:
The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Commercials (by Stan & Jan Berenstain)
Calvin Can't Fly (by Jennifer Berne)
Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys (by H.A. Rey) (The first book about Curious George)
Clap Your Hands (by Lorinda Bryan Cauley)
Clifford's Halloween (by Norman Bridwell)
Clip-Clop (by Nicola Smee)
The Curious Garden (by Peter Brown)
Curious George at the Baseball Game (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Curious George Goes Camping (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Curious George Takes a Train (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Curious George Visits the Library (by Margret & H.A. Rey)
Dora Saves Crystal Kingdom (by Molly Reisner)
D.W.'s Library Card (by Marc Brown)
Have You Seen My Cat? (by Eric Carle)
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle (by Eric Carle)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (by Eric Carle)

C is for Cleaning, Carving and Coloring our Pumpkin!

 I love this girl!

 And we love fall!

 J started by washing the pumpkin off. It still had some dirt on it :)

 Then we scooped out the inside of the pumpkin.

 Carving the pumpkin face.

J used paints to color designs onto the pumpkin.

C is for The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Ordering - J put the caterpillars in order from smallest to largest and then repeated with butterflies.

 Story Sequencing - Jenni put the cards in order as they appeared in the story from beginning to end.

Caterpillar Name - On each circle J wrote one letter that spells out her name. Then we taped the back from end to end.

Counting Bears

We love our counting bears! Joshua is enjoying them too! J worked on counting to 20. Joshua is working on putting the red bear into the red cup, etc.

Counting Cookies

 Our growing girl ready to use our cookies!

 J first put the numbers in order from 0 to 10 and then she matched the chocolate chip cookies with the numeral.

Then we set up different addition problems for her to solve and she continued practicing reading the math sentence (one plus three equals four).

For more of what we did this week you can click here.