We spent this weekend making homemade playdough. So much fun…pumpkin and lavender.
Getting ready to start
Stirring the ingredients
Adding food coloring for the orange pumpkin
The girls made pumpkins from the playdough
Tiny pumpkin patch
Making the lavendar playdough
Lavender flower made by E
Today it is time to shy away from the norm and GET MESSY. Thanks to some ideas from Pintrest and Cindy, I went to $1 Tree and picked up a few things, came home, and we got messy. Playing with shaving cream never gets old, it doesn’t matter how old you’re not (we all have an inner child in us).
M lined up her dinosaurs for a parade
Then I brought in the shaving cream and the dinosaurs immediately went “swimming”.
M started scooping it up and tried to show me how she could make a snowball, silly girl…
This week we are working on the letter “D” and our main focus is dinosaurs. Today, she used modeling clay to make tracks of her dinosaurs and then ended up doing the horse, dog, dolphin, and all the animals in her basket. I missed pictures of this, but maybe I can grab a few tomorrow.
I did a name evaluation today…every month there is a name evaluation to see how the child is progressing. See if you can notice a difference 
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Seeing as we have only really focused on how to spell her name, I am proud of this progression in just a months time. Funny how much I don’t even realize she is looking at things until I have her do things like this. I showed her each letter that we use to spell her name with the caterpillar and she made each one with great deliberation.
Later, she had to mark the pictures that she heard the “d” sound in. She is doing quite well with this activity.
Today, instead of coloring the pictures, I had her use her foam letters and mark them that way. I am amazed at her ability to learn and retain different information even at this young age.
Silly firefighter in heels. I guess that’s how the girls get it done these days LOL. These pictures are for some family members who go out every day and keep the community safe the best they know how.
M decided it was my birthday and made me two bean cupcakes out of the bean bin and then used the other blocks as candles. Sweet girl.
Instead of using the droppers to squirt water into the little bucket, she decided it was her medicine 
This weekend, I was able to put my Pop Chef to use with the kids. They had so much fun making shapes and then eating them.
M had fun making hearts….
K decided to make stars and butterflies…
Then she got silly
T is our more focused one
We had a lot of fun this weekend going to the park and eating watermelon.
Last week Meghan had an introduction to the letter “D” with dinosaur sizing. She caught on to this activity and did very well. She then had the opportunity to match her farm animals while we sang Old McDonald had a farm…these are file folder games that I found.
I will now share pictures of her art project that she made for her 2nd mom (our neighbor).
Painting an owl.
It actually turned out looking very cute. I am going to let her make another one to hang on our refrigerator 
