Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

We went on our first field trip to an apple orchard! When we arrived at the apple orchard it started sprinkling.  Then a bit more than a sprinkle.  We grabbed our umbrella and jackets and continued to walk to the apple tree.  It was warm and the rain drops were small.  We decided to stay.    When we turned down the first row of trees the rain stopped and the sun pushed it's way through the clouds. We were blessed with a dry sky the rest of our time.  There was a lot of open space the boys enjoyed running through.   With apples on the ground and slick grass from the rain the boys did fall often.  It was adorable, as if they were toddlers again.  They didn't fall hard, nor get hurt.  All the falls were soft.  They popped back up and would run again. There were also plenty of bad apples on the ground to observe bugs. The boys really enjoyed choosing which apples to pick, reaching up and grabbing them and cra...

  Nutrition I simply took some scrap paper wrote 'Nutrition' on it and taped it on the folder.  This is how I titled all of the folders.  Inside the folder on the left I wrote the different activities there are for the folder.  Example:  Matching Categorizing Grouping Reading Spanish I put all the magnets in a zip open Ziploc bag and labeled it. I printed out double sheets of the food groups from American Heart Association. I colored and cut one and left the other for matching. I cut construction paper in half and labeled the top with one food group for categorizing.  This is great for older kids who have to choose from all the foods and group correctly. For reading I divided a paper into 9 sections.  On the top I wrote the English name of the food and the bottom the Spanish name. For more file folder games click  here !

The end of last week I did not find time to blog.  I was really exhausted from some extra stress and went to bed early most nights.  So today is a recap blog. Friday:  I realized last week that Friday's needed to be more activity based. So Thursday after the kids were in bed I set up an Excellent Store With items from our 'E' song bag     Athena wanted to wait for Spencer to play store and busied herself with the story board first thing.    Athena rang up (math practice), wrote receipts (great handwriting practice), and bagged groceries for the customers.  Spencer took a turn cashing out too.  Thursday's we don't have preschool but I did have the kids finish putting together their E books.  I stapled them and put them in the reading station on Friday.   We sat for a little while and looked at pictures of Elephants while I read some cool facts about them from National Ge...