Saturday, June 22, 2013

My Little Preschooler

Jackson it not in official preschool until August, but he is clearly getting more bored and wanting more structured play at home. Luckily my amazing friend Jen has written this curriculum for doing preschool and home and we are following along. Here's the blog if you're interested: http://orchardhomeschool.org/

We did our first week at home and Jack took all of one day to love our morning circle time. It is nice to start the day together with time to talk and listen to the kids. This week was all about patience and we learned about a lot of bible characters who had to be patient. Here's our Noah's Arc banana boat snack

 And making our fruit loop rainbows. It's fun that he is actually mature enough for crafts. He understands the directions and will work hard on it. In the past he's not been interested at all.




 Learning about caterpillars waiting to become butterflies!
 Before he burst out.
 Cosette participates in circle time too, but she tends to run around and be crazy. I do the snacks and crafts with Jack when she naps. She got cacooned too, but the video cut out before she got her butterfly wings. But you can see she's very interested.
 We made our own Very Hungry Caterpillar. Jack had to pair up the foods to feed him. A big hit.

 We had to go off script and add butterfly wings.
So proud of him for learning his memory verse! "Be Patient, bearing with one another in love." I think this is the sweetest video ever. Melts my heart.
Saying his morning prayers


Thursday, June 13, 2013

Puzzles

Can't believe how big this kid is getting. He's doing his bigger kid puzzles 90% himself with almost no help. It's so cool to see him work on it again and again until he masters it. The 3+ toys are perfect now!