Fun, Fabulous, Friday!!!

Gotta love those days that you feel like you could conquer the world.  Today, was definitely one of those days. We started the letter “B”, did a handprint wreath, made bubble art, and we were able to make cupcakes and decorate them for her 3rd birthday party tomorrow.  Definitely feel like we accomplished a lot. 

Here is our day in picture form…

 

Toaster streudel B with an A for review…

 

 

 

Bubble art…we put food coloring in the bubbles and then our daughter and the neighbor’s daughter blew bubbles onto the paper to create a color collage.

Fruit painting

I love having a curriculum that gives me ideas, but also having resources that allow me to do things with Meghan much cheaper than buying a bunch of supplies myself.  Today, she did apple paintings and had a BLAST. One picture definitely was not enough, she did a total of five and would have kept going.  I love to hear her re-tell daddy and her babies the things that we worked on. Here are a few things from our day today.

Get ready to read

I found this link from Homeschool for Free….  I am learning that reading to my daughter can be a lot of fun.  I hope some of my friends can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.

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Not creative at all

I do not have a creative idea about me.  As you follow our progress this year, please do not think that any games or craft is original because they will not be . I have always struggled to be creative, but I am thankful for friends, websites, blogs, and a curriculum to help me.  As we move on to the letter “B” tomorrow (mommy is excited), I am thinking about the creative possibilities. We can make bees, bears, bubbles, baskets, boats, oh the list goes on. I think my biggest problem as I am catching on to this “preschool thing”, is not overwhelming our daughter with my ideas.  I have to remember to keep it simple, but fun. 

Not everyone agrees

In my one week of “formally” working with Meghan, I have learned that not everyone agrees with what I am doing.  I care to a degree, but when I have an almost 3-year old begging me to do “homework”, I’m not going to tell her no.  I have involved the neighbor children with her learning, so there are times she doesn’t even know she is learning.  This allows her to have fun, learn, the neighbor children to be involved with her, and move forward with life.

I have loved working with her during the day, and listen to her being so excited to tell daddy what she did that day.  She lights up like a firefly when he comes home and becomes excited as a new puppy to show him her accomplishments.  My days do not always go as planned, but as long as she is having fun…I really do not care.  I am thankful for a really good friend who keeps me in check and helps to remind me that what I am doing is not wrong, and Meghan has time. 

Letter A

Today as part of our curriculum, we made snack and had fun playing in the sensory tub.  We were looking for things that began with “A” and the letters themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

She had a blast finding the objects and laying them out.  She has put them back in, buried them, and relocates them most of the day.

 

For snack time, it was apple sandwiches to go along with the letter “A” we are working on.  I let her spread the peanut butter and then place the top on her sandwich.  To my surprise, she ate the entire thing and LOVED it.  A great healthy snack.

 

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From singing to writing!

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If you follow the above link, it is a small part of our day now that we started school.  Having a lot of the supplies, I went ahead and started a little early as I am sure there will be points of taking longer breaks than expected or struggle points along the way.  She did a great job though with ABC song. 

Here is a link to her writing her letter A for the first time.  Thank you to Homeschool Creations, we just used them a little differently today. 

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She loved starting her day today, and is looking forward to new things every day. 

 

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Fishing and crafts

     Our fishing trip today was a lot of fun at times.  It holds some pretty specific memories, that’s for sure.  For starters, the place we went has NO BATHROOM, so when the 2-year old states she needs to go potty, well, there is only one place .  I found a clean rock and sat her on it like a toilet seat…seemed to work pretty well. 

    Next, we got the fishing rods ready while Meghan ate some lunch and off to fishing we went.  Daddy decided to go out in the water and quickly found that the mud, was more like quick sand and became stuck.  Quite humorous, so we had to go retrieve his stuff so he could get himself unstuck. 

Just the little things…

Sometimes in life, it’s just the little things that can make a mama proud.  Due to starting our adventure, I have rearranged our toy room to accommodate some new furniture…

 

This starts our toy room tour

 

 

 

 

 

New shelving units to help sort out our chaos.