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

Completing all the daily activities I have planned has been more difficult this week then last.  I have been feeling so tired.  Not lazy tired, I can't force my eyes open even with  coffee tired.  I don't usually sleep more then 6 hours a night but the last 3 days I have been getting at least 10. It will be three weeks on Monday since we have seen Athena.  Emotions are high.  We are trying to continue living normally but everything is a reminder.  Jerry has continually attempted to communicate with the bm and is not making progress. :(. I am continuing to pray for both Athena and her bm. Praying to get through this week. Tuesday Spencer said he did not want to do preschool after breakfast.  I told him I had some activities planned for us to do together but we could watch a show first then complete our lessons.  As I said above I have been really tired. My little dragons new favorite show is Numbers Ahoy.   It is educational and co...

Whew! My days have seemed so busy to me but when I sit down to blog and write it all down it seems like less. Silly how putting things into words doesn't always capture the events in the day. For this post I am going to combine yesterday's and today's preschool lessons. Stations Reading station: With new library books the kids haven't seen.  I have been keeping them pretty busy so they have not had a lot of time to spend reading.  Rock counting:  I pulled out the bag of rocks I bought months ago and haven't used and decided I was going to figure out a way to use them as a station.  I put them in the red tray and set out two 10 spot tiki green ice trays next to it.  I wrote the numbers 10 and 20 on papers and taped them in front of the trays.  The instructions were to sort or group the rocks into these numbers using the ice trays or the red tray.  Rubber Band Geo Board: This came with this weeks discovery pack from our local library.  My ...