Weekly Wrap Up

This week we focused on:

• Kindness
• Colors
• Tracing letters
• Literature through a lot of reading 
• Making Smoothies in the kitchen together

Early, early one morning ( and I do mean early as my boys are early risers!), I found these two cuddled up together reading a book together in the glider! I quickly grabbed the camera to take a snapshot as this is just too precious of them!

We made peach, banana, and strawberry smoothies together for a morning snack. I am trying to allow them both to be more helpful in the kitchen. This time we used frozen fruit, a little juice and yogurt! The boys loved their smoothies and I feel great serving it to them as I know they are eating a healthy snack. It's a win-win!

JP poured the juice.

And CA added the yogurt. I love his smile here!

This week I made a Preschool Notebook for JP with a lot of activities in sheet protectors. He seemed excited about it.

Here he is beginning to work on some of the activities.

I had a theme planned to work on the four seasons of the year, but when JP's interest switched to all things Peter Pan this week I switched the plans to adapt to him. He loved the activities in the Peter Pan Preschool Pack at Homeschool Creations.

This graphing activity in the preschool pack was a huge hit!

CA also worked on a color activity that I also found at Homeschool Creations.

I also taught CA how to sort the silverware while unloading the dishwasher this week. He LOVED it! He was so excited that when the Daddy got home he ran out to tell him, "I helped Mommy today!!!!! Mommy, what did I help you do? What it called?" I explained that he sorted the silverware! So sweet!

Linked up to these great parties!

Thanksgiving Week Fun!

We had a great week getting ready for Thanksgiving! The boys seem to be enjoying our "preschool stuff" more and more! In fact today, Friday, JP asked "Mommy, can we do preschool stuff" which is what I usually call our fun activities. So of course I said yes, even though it being the day after Thanksgiving I didn't have anything planned, I improvised!

My Goals for this week were:
-Read the rest of our Thanksgiving books
-Work on fine motor skills
-JP work on scissor cutting more
-Ultimately just enjoy our time together

So here is a glimpse into our week:

I recently bought a new bulletin board that I love! I love displaying all of the boys' work in one place. So fun!

I found some cutting practice pages online somewhere, please forgive me for not remembering where. They were great for JP!

JP cutting! I love that tongue out when he is concentrating.

We reviewed colors again with CA.

His face describes it all, he proudly does his work.

At this moment, JP was getting frustrated with his cutting and took a reading break! 

We also worked on transferring, sorting and counting beans.

 

Notice the tongue again! I love it!

 For fine motor skill practice I had CA put as many stickers on his paper as he wanted. He loved this!

 

 We worked on a Thanksgiving Preschool Add On Pack from Lawteedah 

Shadow matching

More cutting practice

Matching Thanksgiving pictures

Working on Small, medium and large

 The Daddy was able to be home with us more this week so I handed the camera to him!

High Five! Great job! With more shadow matching. 

He got a match and was so excited!!!

 We also sang a lot of turkey songs and rhymes together. This one was our favorite.

I’m a little Turkey
Tune: I’m a Little Tea Pot
I’m a little turkey
Short and fat
Thanksgiving Day is coming
What do you think of that?
I had better run as fast as I can
Or your mommy will roast me in a pan!

I found it at Playing with Words. We sang it all week and JP could sing it all alone, which of course I thought was great! Here he is singing for you. He gets one rhyming word off, but that is ok.

More fine motor skills work with pipe cleaners and beads to make bracelets.

 And a little more sorting by color.

All in all we had a great week together getting ready for "turkey day". Here are my biggest blessings in which I am very grateful for! I am feel immensely blessed to be this man's wife and these boys' Mommy!

I hope your Thanksgiving week and Day was very blessed!

I am linking up to Preschool Corner this week. Feel free to hop over there and see what other awesome mommies are doing with their "littles" . I get tons of ideas from these awesome ladies!

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Trina