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.

Cinderella and Prince Charming

Last month Jenni and I began brainstorming costumes for her and Joshua. One of our ideas was Dora and Boots. After a couple of weeks thinking about being Dora, Jenni told me that she is already Dora any time we are in the car and she pulls out her map to tell me which way to go (a frequent game on car rides). So I asked Jenni J what her next idea was. She wanted to be a princess. The first princess that came to mind was Cinderella and immediately I thought of Prince Charming for Joshua. Jenni was happily on board, and since our little man is 1 1/2 years old, he's automatically on board too :)

Without having a pattern to go by, I spent the next several days drawing patterns using a dress of Jenni's and a button down shirt and pants of Joshua's as guides. We purchased the fabric and trim details and I got to work sewing! Jenni's Cinderella dress came together quite nicely - perfect for twirling! Joshua's Prince Charming costume was a bit more complicated but I love how it turned out! Jenni kept asking if Joshua would dance with her when they both had their costumes on, just like Prince Charming danced with Cinderella :) Jenni loves her sweet, satiny ball gown and Joshua enjoys dressing up with his sister.
Sweet babies. Sweet memories :)

Pumpkin Patch 2011

 

 

We look forward to our annual trips to the pumpkin patch each October. Jenni enjoys looking at all the pumpkins, feeding the animals, the hay rides, pony rides, slides, etc. Joshua enjoys walking through the pumpkins and being outdoors. Such beautiful weather this time of year!

Week 13 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart..." (Mark 12:30)
Math

 

We are still using our felt leaves and pumpkins to practice numbers 0-20 :)

We also read a few fun math books: 

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar written by Masaichiro & Mitsumasa Anno

The Greedy Triangle written by Marilyn Burns (J really enjoyed this one)

Pigs will be Pigs: Fun With Math and Money written by Amy Axelrod

Go for THE CODE

 This particular day Jenni wanted to pretend she was a pirate during school time.

I love her imagination :)

 

This week in THE CODE Jenni reviewed the letter Ll, the sound /l/ and practiced writing the letter Ll. J also reviewed the other letters and sounds and practiced writing.

Reading

We are using The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading and enjoying the process.

Science

We are using Mudpies to Magnets for our science activities. For this activity I cut coffee filters into wide strips and dropped two colors of food coloring onto one end of each of the coffee filter strips. We let the food coloring dry and then placed one coffee filter strip into a jar filled halfway with water. We placed the coffee filter into the water and observed it falling in the water and the two colors slowly mixing to become one color. (Red and yellow food coloring change into orange water, etc.)

The ABC Bunny (Before Five in a Row)

 This week we rowed The ABC Bunny. We read the story each day, did the supplemental activities in the B4FIAR manual, and worked on the lapbook activities found here and here.

Here, Jenni matched the animal to it's name. This was a good activity for J to practice sounding out words.

 Jenni traced the lines from the bunny to the lettuce.

After tracing the lines, Jenni practiced cutting straight lines.

 Jenni thought sorting through the insects/non-insects was hilarious.

Jenni also went through the animal classification cards. She studied the picture, the name of the animal and an interesting fact of each.

Brother

Joshua had a relaxing week learning alongside Jenni :)