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. 

Letters Qq, Rr, Ss, and Tt....

So, we are moved in but still in crazy land as we unpack and get settled. Plus it's hotter than he-double hockey stick and we are busy playing in the water outside. :o) So we are flying through the end of the alphabet so we can do some summer stuff! 

Letter Qq- QUEEN
She had to wear her Minnie sunglasses to make her shape queen. 

Adding the sequins....

We did a little shape painting/quilt thing too but I didn't take pictures. Oops. So...we moved on to letter Rr....

ROCK Monsters! She really had fun with this one. 

She painted them fun colors then...

added a lot of eyes! 

 She painted a rainbow as well but I (again) didn't have my camera around. And then we skipped Ss and went straight to Tt because...

I left my Pinterest page up on the computer and she loved the button tree.  So....we made it. :o)
We used pom poms instead of buttons because I can't find our buttons. Either way, she had fun. And
she already loves Pinterest. :o) 

 Hollis had her own little pom pom activity. She put pom poms in the ice cube tray. She is getting so big. If Marin gets a "project", Hollis sits up in her chair and waits for her project as well. So precious.

Then we went back to the letter Ss and made a sun out of tissue paper, paint and her handprint.

 And, of course, Hollis had her sun project. I so wish I had a front view of her coloring with her marker. She is HILARIOUS. Her concentration look is pretty darn cute.

She still wants to eat the marker most of the time. 

Our busy girls.

Letter Gg

So far for the letter Gg we have done.....

A little GEOMETRY.
M is really into glue these days so we glued pictures to their matching shapes. 

Our completed Geometry project!

This was really supposed to be ghost stamping but it ended up being Halloween stamping. :o) 

Then my favorite Gg activity so far....playing GROCERY STORE. We had so much fun. I loved watching her play pretend. I've got to do more of this stuff with her!

Bagging my milk...

Scanning my watermelon and eggs.

Our little grocery store....

More glueing for the girl.
She glued pictures that start with Gg on the big G.

I found some little ghost "flashcards" with pictures of g words. The real idea of the game is to sort them in groups of soft g and hard g. But we just used them for vocabulary and language. She likes to point so we laid out the pictures and she would point to them as I said them.

We are going to do some Good Night, Gorilla stuff and then we will be moving on to the letter Hh!