Whoa!! I feel like I just got off a crazy roller coaster ride. It's been a super busy week. I mentioned in this post that we celebrated two birthdays, and a sick (possibly teething) baby. Well, on top of all that we hosted a huge boxing party. My husband is really into boxing and is a huge Mayweather fan so it was fitting. We had about 30 people here on Saturday. It was loud, messy, and down right fantastically fun.
Even with all the planning and prep work, I still managed to squeeze in some preschool time. Here are some of our highlights from the last 2 weeks.
Theme: All About Me
Letter: Gg
Sight Word: is
Focus: My Feelings/ My Birthday
We continue to follow the Zoomin' Movin Alphabet. It's perfect for my little guys, whom are obsessed with all things that go. It's free from Royal Baloo. While, I don't do everything that comes with each unit, I use it as a guide to help with my planning.
I like to do sensory activities with the boys, so when I saw this grape sensory idea on Play Learn Love, I knew I had to try it. I started by laying down some plastic to cover the floor, then grabbing an old bin, last, I gave each little one a container of grapes to harvest. This took a lot of patience for them. Bear lost interest in it pretty quickly so I took over his container. Ace, who loves all things messy, moved quickly knowing that he would soon have the time of his life stomping and squishing grapes.
Bear played in the grapes for a bit, but he is not as interested in sensory play as Ace. I'm trying to get him more and more interested in things like this. At one point he disappeared and returned with his fire truck and just drove his little truck through the grapes.
Once upon a time, Ace couldn't stand getting his hands dirty or icky. Now, He'd swim in messy sticky stuff if I'd let him... hmmm.
CJ had fun exploring in the grapes too. While the boys played we talked about the sound that g makes, and other words that start with g.
Love these baby feet.
I was really excited to get our new Melissa and Doug letter stamp set. We have a few stamps the boys like to play with, but I really wanted a full upper and lower case set, and a non-toxic pad. I gave Ace some of his sight word cards and he practiced stamping them. Bear is obsessed with the letter B so he did a lot of B and G stamping.
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| These pictures are really dark, typically my back doors give great light, but not on a dark and stormy afternoon. |
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| By the way, the sight word cards come from the Zoomin' Movin' Alphabet Units. |
Using salt on a tray was a great sensory activity for Bear. He was able to get his hands "messy" then quickly dust them off if he wanted. I let the boys do what ever they want in their salt, and just allow teachable moments to occur. Bear typically asks me to write a B, although today he asked for an A.
Ace was drawing different types of faces (happy, sad) because we had been discussing feelings.
I made a feelings lapbook for the boys to explore. The printables came from 1+1+1=1, you can download them for free here.
I was really excited to use the sight words Ace knows in sentences. He was so proud of himself for reading them. Of course he had to make some of his own. It was interesting watching him put the cards down. He first began just laying the in random order and telling me his own sentence (even if it didn't match what was actually on the table). I started to rearrange his sentences so they would make sense and I think we both got a little frustrated. Him, because I was messing up his sentences, and me because I wanted him to make sentences that made sense. We compromised in the end and I told him he could make "silly" sentences (thanks mom for the good idea!). He was totally okay with that. I find that I am constantly struggling with balancing fun, creativity, and learning. It's helpful to keep reminding myself he is only 4.
We finished out our week by decorating cupcakes. I had this activity planned for the afternoon of Bears birthday since we weren't having a party or anything. My hubs decided to take the day off so we spent a great day as a family eating pizza and visiting Chuck E Cheese. We ended up doing this activity in the evening and Bear was burnt out, so it ended up just being Ace. In hindsight I should have just saved it for the next day. Oh well.
As always, thanks for reading!!
Leiah
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