Sept 5 - 9

Sweet Boy
Pat-a-cake
Painting with paint brush
Kumon Tracing with our finger
Brushing our teeth (Montessori Practical Life)
Clapping to music
Read Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boyton and named the animals in the pictures.

Angel Girl
Our Before Five in a Row book was Goodnight Moon.  We did art, animal classification game, memory practice using the pictures, learned Hey Diddle Diddle, and read Goldielocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett.
Montessori work this week was opening and closing doors, especially the front door because Angel Girl told me she didn't know how to close it the other day.
We did free play with our C-rods.
We made popsicles and talked about liquids and solids.
We also made some shape cutouts that we traced to practice our shapes with.

Week of May 31 - June 4

Angel Girl (toddler)

Monday

Read "Spring is Here" (theme, pre-reading)

Have Angel Girl glue green leaves onto a brown tree (theme, art)

Tuesday

Read a yellow book. Sort out yellow items from a bag of toys. (color)

Sing "Spring is Here" (theme, music)

Wednesday

Kumon tracing book (pre-writing)

Talk about Spring, baby animals, flowers, bugs, trees (theme)

Thursday

Glue alumninum foil over star outline to make a shiny star (shape)

Use tissue paper to make a tulip (theme, art)

Friday

Matching game using bird outline, variation 1 with dots, variation 2 with shapes, variation 3 with colors, variation 4 with letters (theme, math, color, pre-reading, shapes)

Shaving Cream Art (J4F)

Sweet Boy (baby)

Book: Good night moon (read before naps and bed)

Game: Different Textures - touch and feel different textures of material

Nursery Rhyme: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

May Week 3

Angel Girl (Toddler)

(So I kinda skipped week 2...daddy was away on a business trip and it was enough just to be together).

Monday

Thumprint Ants (activity from week 1 left over) (theme, art)

Letter A trace and letter book (theme, prereading)

Tuesday

Isty Bitsy Spider (music, movement)

Sort out blue items from a basket (color)

Wednesday

Sing the Ants Go Marching with different movements like jumping, skipping, hopping (theme, movement)

Talk about ants. Write down one of the sentences that Angel Girl says, add this to a nature journal. (theme, prewriting, science)

Thursday

Counting raisins for ants on a log up to 5 (theme, math)

Use body to make different types of circles (shape, movement)

Friday

Moving like and ant to music (theme, movement, music)

Make magnetic maze for "ant" to get to a cookie. (theme, just 4 fun)

Sweet Boy (Baby)

Reading I Love You Forever by Robert Musch

Playing Pop Goes the Weasel.

Hearing I Had a Little Nut.

Manners - Please and Thank You

Angel Girl is good at saying please and thank you. Sidenote: Angel Girl says Thank you in sign language most of the time, and slowly it has evolved to blowing a kiss which I am not ready to give up yet.

I googled some ideas though for helping her remember to say please and thank you. Here are my favorites: (from this site)

o Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
• When my grandpa gives me something,
• I say "thank you".
• When my grandma gives me something,
• I say "thank you".
• I can see it makes them happy
• When I say it so politely
• Yes, good manners mean to always
• say "thank you"!

o Sung to: "I'm a Little Teapot"
• I have super manners. Yes, I do.
• I can say "Please," and "Thank You," too.
• When I play with friends, I like to share.
• That's the way I show I care!

o Sung to: "Frere Jacques"
• Please and Thank You
• Please and Thank You
• Sounds so nice
• Sounds so nice
• Manners are important
• Manners are important
• Be Polite
• Be Polite

I may incorporate these songs into our day to help her remember these words, especially since she loves to sing.

singing video

So some of the songs that we enjoy are:
Popcorn Popping
Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam
Pop Goes the Weasel
Old MacDonald
ABC's
Twinkle Twinkle
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Baa Baa Black Sheep

What are some other great Pre-school songs?

Dance Party

So today for our arts activity we had a dance party. The focus was noticing moods in music. For this activity I just turned Itunes and had is shuffle the music. Then we started dancing. It was interesting to watch Angel Girl try to copy my moves and how I moved. When I picked up baby boy she picked up her baby doll to dance with. The first time we had a dance party was hard because I worried about looking funny but really my kids don't care how I look they just love to groove to the beat. Its also a great rainy day activity!