The one in which there is a trip to the Pumpkin Patch and two parties.....

Ryleigh went with Daddy, Granny and Grandad to a pumpkin patch (nursery)...Braeden kind of slept through the entire pumpkin patch experience... Ryleigh by the tractor wheel...Ryleigh as a pumpkin...

Ryleigh driving the tractor...

To Celebrate two of our friends 1st Birthdays....we went to a Halloween Themed Birthday party...Ryleigh and Braeden...super excited for pictures....

Gotta Love the Group Pictures....

Here's a close up of Braeden....I was getting the feeling he was not digging the outfit....

Braeden...much happier...now that he has a phone again...

Ryleigh playing pin the nose on the pumpkin....

For Dance class this week, the girls dressed up in their costumes...
here is Ryleigh with one of her friends Elena...

Ryleigh with her friends Teagan and Elena...

Stay Tuned for More fun Costumed Activity Pictures......

School Daze...Hello "Hh".....

TOTSCHOOL
Braeden is 14 months... and was pretty difficult to photograph this week.... he has picked up his speed while walking...in between a jog and a run....he also has a habit of coming straight at me when the camera is pointed at him...see the picture below... his new favorite games of the week are telephone (with one of our un-charged ones)...and chase...where he will goad his sister into chasing him...she really doesn't need much convincing though... they will play this for a good hour...running and screaming back and forth... sometimes stopping so Braeden can stick the phone up at me to say "hello".....

Braeden's new words this week are "hi" and "head"....coincidentally both h- words for our h- week...

Braeden...with his new friend the phone...

PRESCHOOL
Ryleigh is 41 Months... we had a short week this week...with only two days of actual school time...I opted to take a nap with Ryleigh on Tuesday....

I downloaded some pumpkin, squirrel and acorn templates from file folder fun and turned them into alphabet file folder games...I laminated them for durability...and I love my laminator and use it whenever possible...
Ryleigh matching Capital and Lower case pumpkins....
Ryleigh matching squirrel lower case letters with their capital letter acorns.

Ryleigh working on her alphabet book....

Ryleigh practicing her scissor skills....

Ryleigh working on a number match...I laminated them so they can be reused...on the back is 6-10. They can be found on my printables page...

For our stART project this week, I drew a pumpkin in white crayon and had the girls use watercolor to "find the surprise"...since they did not know what the picture was of... to see the whole post go here...

The girls loved working on these number cards from 1+1+1=1....I laminated them and had them use dry erase markers....

Our sight word of the week was "go".... here Ryleigh is underlining the word in her emergent reader from Hubbards Cupboard (Halloween Themed)...

Ryleigh working on our Letter of the Week craft....

"h" is for house.....

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To find more Hh projects check out the Attached Mama...

stART - The Great Big Pumpkin

A Story + Art = a great stART!!!

For our story this week, we read Care Bears, The Great Big Pumpkin....I pretty much LOVE all that is Care Bear...so obviously I thought this book was adorable.... The Care Bears get ready for a Halloween party by getting their costumes ready (three of them go as stars) and picking out their pumpkins....For our project this week, we made magically appearing pumpkins... With white crayon I drew a jack-o-lantern on each of the girl's paper. (Without telling them what was on them)... Then they used watercolor to paint the paper and reveal the surprise... I have done this project (well similar- not with pumpkins) a few times and Ryleigh loves finding out what the picture is...

Ryleigh starting to watercolor...it was here that she decided it was a pumpkin....even though you can't actually see it yet...

Midway through the project... with a little brush it takes awhile...

The finished pumpkins... Ryleigh's is on the bottom...

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School Daze....Gg is for guitar...

Ryleigh is 41 Months and Braeden is 14 Months

TOT SCHOOL
This week Braeden has mastered another sign ("poopy")...so he now knows about 5...also...he has been working on his speed when walking and getting into mischief....his favorite activity is trying to make his sister laugh...

PRESCHOOL
We did Letter Gg this week (for guitar), Number 5, Green, Hexagon and reviewed our 7 sight words.... Ryleigh is doing really well with her Spanish numbers and can fluently recognize 1-10, even when out of order...

Braeden playing with the magnadoodle...he LOVES this toy...here he is testing the tip of the pen...trying to figure out how it is writing on the board...Braeden playing with the kitchen set...

Braeden...waiting patiently..ish...for Ryleigh to build something tall enough for him to knock down...

Ryleigh working on "Gg" in her alphabet book...

Ryleigh working on a color by number from Confessions of a Homeschooler...

Ryleigh and Teagan both loved doing the bingo markers with this printable from Homeschool Creations...

Ryleigh working on her numbers....I got this printable from making learning fun...I laminated them and have had the girls use both clothespins and dry-erase markers on them while counting...

For fine motor practice, the girls transferred pebbles into pumpkins again...they really like this activity...

As I was unloading the dishwasher I heard...pit pat...pitter pit pat....and then a splash...and then massive giggling... I turned around and Braeden had emptied his entire cup of water onto the kiddie table...and was happily splashing in it....and squealing with delight... it was the funniest thing.... this is the clearest picture that I got...his little hands were moving quite fast!

Ryleigh playing with the oversized blocks.... she made up stories to go with her buildings...very cute...

Braeden had a great time building with the blocks...and really liked knocking down the buildings that Ryleigh and I built...Ryleigh built things specifically for him to knock down...

Braeden...unamused that I am taking his picture...again...

The girls have been working on sight words for a while (they are up to 7)... so this week we did some review and played BINGO ...sort of... I was surprised that they found the majority of them without any card prompts....

For our stART project this week, they did "fancy" painting...with containers...

For a fine motor practice, I had the girls put stars on the outlines of "G" and "g"... Ryleigh was not so into this one this week...

Braeden and Anna working on farm puzzles...

The girls worked on a color by number Halloween scene that I made...available in my printables...

We used these fun sticker counting sheets from Confessions of a Homeschooler...since we were doing "Gg" this week...we used goldfish instead of stickers.... yummy!

This week for our Letter of the Week, we did g is for guitar....I tried to come up with something fun for g...Ryleigh working on the gluing on the "strings"....

The finished guitar....

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To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
To find more Gg projects check out the Attached Mama...
To see more alphabet projects check out Best toddler Toys

Some fun fall printables....

Color by Number

Roll and Color