Our First Week back in 2013

We always start the beginning of the week putting our alpha pictures in our books... and going through our letter bin...

To celebrate the start of Winter .... school ended before break before Winter really started... We read The Mitten.... our craft to go along with the book was to lace up cardstock mittens...put all the animals inside the mitten... and then decorated them with glitter....

The finished mittens...

We made these yummy Snow Shovel Cookies... recipe found here... They are chocolate chip cookies...with pretzels...dipped in white chocolate...

Our Letter of the week "l".... we made "l" is for "l"ollipops!

We did an experiment to see which solution would do the best job to clean a dirty penny. I got the experiment from here.  We used vinegar and salt (1/2 C vinegar to 2 teaspoons salt), water and soap, and water.

Turns out the vinegar and salt made the pennies shiny and new looking.... but make sure to rinse them off... or they turn green!

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School Daze.... I is for Ice cream....even in the winter

Braeden is 29 Months and Ryleigh is 57 months (4 1/2 yrs)

Here are some of the highlights from classes this week... we also did reading, alpha books, math, geography, Spanish, Baking (Whatcha Making Wednesdays)... along with some other activities...

Practicing fine motor transfers with over-sized tweezers... Braeden started with his fingers...

All the kids loved this project.... and repeated it over and over again...

Braeden finished the project by actually using the tweezers (and loving them!)

Working on putting on the sprinkles for our letter craft...

The finished "I" is for Ice Cream....

One of the books that we read this week was The Mitten by Jan Brett...
The kids made snowflake prints to go with it...

Cutting the foam into interesting shapes (snowflakes)...

Dipping the stamp (snowflake)... into the paint...

Smooshing the painted snowflake on the paper...

Ryleigh's finished snowflakes...

Working on playing quarter notes...

Practicing Wet, Dry, Try with Handwriting without tears... so far... no tears :-)

After class is over, the kids enjoy playing in our new playroom
(the other part of the basement)

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School Daze.... A New Year begins....

Ryleigh is 4 1/2 yrs and Braeden is 28 Months

Although we have yet to have snow this winter (YAY!!!) We have started our winter theme in Tot School and K4.... Here are some of the things we did this week....

Our Winter Sensory Bin.... this is way messier than I anticipated and will be changed out sooner than later...

Handwriting without tears.... wet, dry, try....

K4 doing a high low game with kinderbach...

The girls practiced their math skills....Braeden working on his alpha book...

Both classes worked on some fine motor skills with sticker snowmen...

Braeden really liked this activity...

We started our Road Trip across America from Confessions of a Homeschooler...
this week we did CT...

One of the books we read this week (we read one a class)... was My Red Mittens...

For the project (both classes), we made handprints in red mittens.... this worked really well for Tot School, as our color of the week was RED...The finished mittens (some of them)....

Tot School did Letter H...is for Handprint....

Where I am linking up:
For more great stART posts check out A Mommy's Adventures!
For more fun projects check out ABC and 123... Red Ted Art ... JDaniel4's Mom... and
To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; Mom 2 lil Posh Divas and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

Alphabet Crafts.... and some other fun activities...

Here we are....back from break... I am not really sure where the year has gone... I seem to have skipped blogging about the majority of our school projects... between teaching the two grades, Music and private lessons, Sunday School.... and running a full time business... blogging seems to be suffering... hopefully this year I catch up... but if not... you can always check in on my facebook page.... (become a fan today!- click the button on the side of the blog)....

Tot School has been working on the Letter of the week crafts.... and adding their Letter to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree... For the most part, these crafts are very similar to the ones that Ryleigh did when she was in Tot school....

A is for Alligator...
Gluing on Stripes...

B is for Bee....

K4 using erasers (yes this picture is from October).... for patterns and more than/less than....

C is for Clock...

Sorting money....

K4 getting ready for story-time... I will have to do a separate post showing our new school room and some of our routines this year...

D is for Dog...

Tot School working with some big tweezers to transfer into ice cube trays...

Gluing pieces of his E...

E is for Envelope....

Checking out some slides under the microscope...

F is for Fingerprints...

Gluing beans, lentils, tissue paper, etc.... onto his G...

G is for Garden.....

One of Braeden's favorite activities.... building with blocks...any kind of blocks....

Where I am linking up:

For more fun projects check out ABC and 123.... and
To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; Mom 2 lil Posh Divas and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.