Well, hello blog.

So I am a weeeee bit behind over here on this blog. Yikes. Although I have not been blogging, we have been doing preschool and it has been so fun. We did move our schoolroom upstairs. Previously, it was in our playroom which was distracting and any play date we had with buddies school stuff got misplaced every single time. So upstairs we went. Our guests have lost their room. We never have guests so it works. But a few pictures of our February....

We have been doing some Reading Lessons from "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons". We go VERY slowly and sometimes I break the lessons up into two parts. But here she is sounding out the words and matching them to the picture. A little heart puzzle....

Hollis mastered her colors and now we have moved on to shapes. We go slow and have been learning and sorting triangles, squares, and circles. 

I have started making some monthly math centers for our preschool. This one is measuring. Here she is measuring the toothbrush with her tooth ruler. In this set, there are Valentine monsters to measure and President Lincoln to measure. We also do Count the Room. It is a favorite. Both are available in my store. 

Sorting the mail with those shapes!!! 

Learning about different presidents from our flashcards found in the Dollar Spot at Target. This surprisingly held their attention for a long time?!?!

Roll and Race.....another monthly math center I have started creating. They love it. Roll the cube, graph the picture rolled, and see which picture wins. It is also found in my store. 

A little Valentine Craft: Love Bugs.
They are so not into crafts anymore. Tear. Tear. But they did want to do this one. 

Reviewing her alphabet. Pointy fingers always help. This chart came from the Dollar Tree and had been torn in a few places. I also didn't like some of the pictures they paired with each letter (giraffe for Gg). So I made a new set. It is a freebie in my store. I will try and post a picture of it in the schoolroom! 

Shape Mazes!
This was hard for her but she loves anything to do with writing, drawing, and pens/markers.
She ended up just finding the shapes without actually doing the mazes. Marin loved the mazes as well!! 

Leaf Frog Letter Factory!
We love this little letters. Hollis just uses whatever letters she wants and plugs them in and listens to the songs. 

 Name Writing practice....Marin hates writing and Hollis loves it. Of course. But we practice writing our names every day. 

I made some little sight word books for Marin to practice reading the sight words she is learning. They aren't up in my store yet but hope to finish them soon. 

Play Doh!!! They were making letter cookies. 

 Our little artist!! 

A little peek at the new alphabet chart. 

Scrolling through Pinterest. Ha!
Not school related...but funny.  

Spot It! is a part of my Rhyme Time pack. But she looks at the big picture and then decides with of the smaller pictures rhymes. She put a heart marker on the correct rhyme. 

Hollis used the number charts from 1+1+1 and counted hearts. 

Her first dot to dot. She made a groundhog and was pretty proud of it! 

 

 We read a groundhog's day book and then make a cute little puppet. This puppet still makes appearances in our puppet shows.