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

When we were finishing the letter t we were also starting our Halloween crafts.   I am posting this well after Halloween but as we all know life happens.  We had a 2 birthdays, a week visit from out of town family, and other personal stress.  I am glad to see that it is coming to a close and I am finding time again to blog.  I have a ton of catching up to do.  I may have stopped blogging but preschool continued. We have been keeping busy with preschool work but unfortunately due to sharing a phone for a period of time I am short on pictures.  I use pictures to help me remember all the things we did in preschool.  Because of the lack of pictures there may be some things I forget.   Crafts Starry Night Materials Star prints (you can find here .) 2 Popsicle sticks or small craft sticks Cardstock Little Dragon glued on the sticks and cut the line in the paper for the tent opening.  Inside the tent is the letter t Little Drag...

Here is our weekly activity review... Monday we spent the day at the park. It was such a nice day outside so we gathered up some balls and the Frisbee and headed to the park. I wanted to get some learning in so the kids and I came up with a game to play where we could have fun and learn at the same time. The game was Ball Tag. The rules were to throw the ball at someone and if you hit them they had to go to the 'dungeon' and count to 20.  After the kids were counting to 20 so fast the were saying it in one breath we practiced counting by 2's and then by 5's. There was a lot of running around too for exercise. Tuesday we reviewed the story of Abram and Lot  and sang songs.    Athena is retelling the story here.  On the board I wrote the message 'Families support each other'. We used the capital G to represent God.  Athena requested that Lot be represented by Mickey mouse.  The giraffe represented Lots heard. I don't have bible s...

For this summer I have been trying to do an activity a day then letting the kids play the rest of the day.  :) I downloaded a calendar from Motherhood on a Dime with ideas that I have been referencing when I don't have any. Mostly I only have to substitute the days there are outdoor activities because it has been raining and grey for a week.  :/ Monday we played with story cards for over an hour! I found this picture on google images to give you idea of what the cards look like Story cards are double sided picture cards.  You can play the game in a variety of ways.  We played this two different ways. First I dealt each person 5 cards.  1 player starts the story and then everyone takes a turn laying down a card using it in the story.   I allowed a couple sentences per card for the kids. Second we put the stack of cards in the middle of the table.  Each turn we would pick up the top card and have to add what we pulled to the story.  ...