March Madness

 

We joined a homeschool group and they meet once a month and usually have a theme and a craft.  This is from the St. Patrick’s Day meeting.

Having a snack after making leprechaun traps.

Sitting in on the big kid’s science experiment growing crystals.

Working on our curriculum.  Landmark Freedom Baptist Curriculum k-3.

Wiggles learned the number 1 and the letter A.

Having fun with all of his flashcards.

At the Easter homeschool group meeting.  They were to put stickers on their cross to tell the story of Easter.

Working hard.

Wiggle’s story of Easter.

Fabulous Fridays (a few days late)

We did our LHTH work this morning and all was fun. It called for us to say in different voices...I'm mad, I'm sad, I'm glad...and so on with different emotions. We were learning about Cain and Abel. I brought out an emotion exercise that really helped us to visualize and understand emotional faces to go along with my different exclamations.

Wiggle Worm really liked this exercise and had fun making the scared face as well as the surprised face.Here is the exercise up close and below is an up close of the "scared" face.

If you would like to get a copy of this file. I downloaded it from childcareland.com. Here is a link to the file. http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/feelingsfacesc.pdf

We actually finished Tot School for the day after this and went to a Reruns are Fun sale at our mall. They fill the old Service Merchandise with items that are in good used condition and I made some real finds besides clothing.

$4 chalkboard and dry erase board with stand
$4 Melissa and Doug animal sounds puzzle
$4 Montessori n Such parts of the grasshopper puzzle
$3 Dress the elephant magnetic dress up
$4 Pound the ball toy
$3 Crayola paint sponges and rollers (butterfly, leaf, house...)

Later, when I was trying to do the dishes and the rugrats were all away at sleepovers, Wiggle Worm was very much under foot. He didn't know what to do without his siblings. I took down the beads and pipe cleaners and he stayed occupied for a while.
Then I took out the tongs, pom-poms, and pinch bowls for the first time. He really stayed at this for a while and got the hang of the tongs pretty good. And he practiced color matching at the same time. I showed him once and let him be. He was doing it wrong at first but corrected himself naturally. I almost corrected him but it must not have been comfortable or working well the way he was doing it wrong and he corrected himself. He once again switched back and forth between left and right several times. Left is dominant though.
While our official Tot School time ended @ 10 am Friday morning. We did several more things during the day.

Fabulous Fridays

We got off to a rocky start by having to go to Walmart after dropping off the rugrats at school. Wiggle Worm was in no mood to sit in a buggy or to walk "with" me. The one good thing out of the trip is that I found this really neat placemat with pooh that I thought would be perfect for sorting our colors (it was only $2.97).
So while I was unloading the bags, I set Wiggle Worm down with his new toy and voila...



We also did our LHTH reading and activities. This was a fun one with cheerios. He loved it but I have to admit getting the cheerios to stay on the little drop of glue was kind of hard for his stubby little fingers. He could get it on there but everytime he pulled his finger up after placing the cheerio on the glue the cheerio would come up too.

Our finished A

What could be more fun than a project that you can eat the supplies when finished. We had an impromptu snack of cheerios and capri sun for all of our hard work.