Trying out some of the "STart" projects...
We read Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and made an owl puppet with cut-outs of her hand prints and a paper bag.
We read an all time favorite book....The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. Then for our "STart" project we made puppets of all the characters in the story and put on a puppet show of the story.
Another "STart" project. We read Mr. Cookie Baker by Monica Wellington. Our first activity was to make a giant puff paint cookie. We made the puff paint with shaving cream, white glue, and brown paint. Put 3/4 cup of shaving cream and 1/4 cup of white glue into a bowl and mix
Add in some brown paint, Mix well. We made a chocolate chip puff paint cookie.
Our 2nd activity from the book was to be bakers and open our own bakery. We rolled out our cookie dough (paper cut into cookie shapes), cut out the cookies, baked and decorated them. We took turns being the baker and running the store while the other was the customers buying cookies. We also got in some math with counting cookies for the order and counting money to pay for the cookies. Both of these activities were big hits!
I never would have guessed this but Lili actually likes worksheets. She is doing really well with her math worksheets.
We did slow things down for some extra fun around Christmas. We baked cookies and decorated them. We of course ate a "few" but saved some for santa. Skills used in baking with mommy...measuring/math, motor skills (pouring/stirring) and following directions, that definitely counts :)
A fun art activity...making our annual ornaments. Gabi painted the tree, daddy painted the snowman, mommy painted the reindeer, and Lili painted the mitten.
Our 1st gingerbread house was FUN! And delicious! :)
After Christmas we started doing sound-matching sheets. I bought a book called Irresistible sound-matching sheets and lessons that build phonemic awareness from Scholastic.
First story book we used was Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Very cute story! Then we matched Rhyming words to main words from the story. Then we matched beginning sounds and syllables. Lili caught on real quick to it except for the syllables. That was tough. We will continue with these activities to build her skills.
On January 5th Lili started her first "out of home" class. She is taking a dance class at Promise Dance Academy. She loves the class! They have a recital in June as well. She did really well on the first day and had no problem leaving me and Gabi in the waiting room and listening to her teacher.
Lili received several preschool-kindergarten workbooks for her birthday and enjoys doing them so we have done a handful of pages already. They help us figure out what concepts she completely gets and which ones we need to work on.
We have been discussing jobs. We made a list of different jobs people do. What daddy does, what mommy does and many others like a...doctor, dentist, chef, waiter, police officer, fireman, mail carrier, nurse, cashier, teacher, etc...
Jan. 13th Lili turned 4 years old!! and that day she finished books #19 and #20 in her level 1 reading program. yay!! I printed her an award for reading all those books and we will be starting level 2 soon.
We recently made an art project about the moon. We first covered our black paper with glittery stars and then a big round moon. We also cut out a black circle to cover the moon to show a half moon and a cresent moon. Lili has an interest in learning about outer space now. Note to self to add some planet activities to our schedule.
With all the snow we have been getting we decided to make a cotton ball snowman for our art project last Friday. We covered our snowman in fluffy "snowy" cottonballs and dressed him up with a hat, scarf and pipe. We also got a chance earlier this month to get out in the snow and build a real snowman. We had a blast! I haven't built a snowman in at least 20 years, wow! We also made snow angels and threw some snowballs. Finished it off with a cup of hot cocoa, Mmmm....
