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

Sugar isn't good for just tasting but also touching!  Sugar Sensory Tray To make this tray I used regular sugar and some extra pink sprinkles I had on hand to make it bit more fitting for the current season.  Our main use for this tray was letter practice  but once we were done with that it was all hands in! And of course some toys in too! Little Dragon liked mixing the pink and white to make pretty pictures He also enjoyed feeling the grains between is fingers This tray will be out  for the week for fun and some learning.  The great thing about sugar trays is they can be used to practice shapes, letters, numbers, and sight words.           Thanks for checking out my blog! If you enjoyed it please                                   ...

 Great for fine motor skills practice are the dot pictures from many packets I see online.  There are so many different themes for the dot pictures and there are many different ways to use them.  I have used them a couple different ways and have not found one that The Dragons dislike. This time we used the Letter A is for Alligator themed dot page with pom poms and clothes pins The idea was to clamp a pom pom with the clothespin and release on one of the dots Little Dragon was having some trouble opening the clothes pins But he kept trying and finally got it open and picked up a pom pom!  The picture is blurry but you can see his excitement!  I set two clothespins on the tray just in case someone wanted to help out (like Doll Dragon)  Together they were able to complete the page feeling achieved!   :)

Let's begin! I am so excited to start this year of preschool.  I was very excited last year but this year I did my own lesson planning and am excited to see how it turns out. This is our first week, week 1!  Here already.  We had a very busy summer with Jerry spending time in the hospital and recovery time from West Nile Virus and moving across town spur of the moment.  I am also going to be busy with wedding planning until October so I may not finish my whole daily lesson plan due to planning a wedding. I counted out the weeks so week 9 (of preschool lessons) is the week of Halloween. I will be skipping a week in October for my honey moon. Start We started preschool on Labor Day due to the above information so Doll Dragon was home for about 45 minutes of our preschool lesson before spending time with other family members. So to start of the day, and probably most days, we will be doing some movement activity.   Day 1 I had a playlist ready for si...