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

Bible The second half of the week we took our understanding of Mary and Martha a bit further by acting it out.  Putting on their shoes per say. The Dragons used the felt board for a retelling. They also used puppets to act out the story.  We continued to focus on our bible verse as well.  We played a matching game and did a simple craft.  I printed out 2 sets of the bible verse and cut each word out.  We used the pieces for a matching game.   After all the matches were found all the pieces were put back in the middle face up.   The Dragons then put the verse together in the right order from start to finish and glued it onto a blue piece of paper. Blue Little Dragon colored his blue dinosaurs for his color book. Many of our activities incorporated blue without the sole focus being on blue. Alphabet To decorate the letter o printout the dragons used bottle caps.  This was a really fun activity, a new way to pain...

Our St. Patrick's Day Activites A close family member had a double mastectomy on Friday so everyone in the family is doing what they can to help out.  My duty today was babysitting. Once I knew I would have the kids' cousins over on St. Patrick's day I started planning.  Oh my were we going to have fun! (Spencer was not over for the festivities because it was not my weekend :(, although tomorrow he will get a chance to participate in the activities.) I gave the girls and Isaiah until lunch time to play dress up or whatever it is they play *chuckle* while I got the activities ready. Graphing Fruitloops I poured about half a cup of Fruitloops into the cups and gave the girls paper to sort/graph the colors they had in their cups.  Isaiah sorted his colors but lost interest in the activity quickly and made his way over to the dinosaurs.    Emma started by dumping all the Fruitloops out ...