Today's Work

Today we did some more clean up in our classroom.. stacking the desks to give us more space to play... since we don't need those for awhile yet. lol If I could I think I would just put them in the attic to make more space for the kids in there right now. Then again we still have Adam's bed in there also and he shows no signs of leaving his crib any time soon. lol We also did several pages of a Carebears Preschool Workbook. Reagan wanted to do more, and I had to explain to here that we couldn't because she prefers to scribble than try to follow lines and the rest of the pages require her to trace numbers and then to write them herself.. which she simply can't do. She also enjoy a raisin and Cheerio snack with her pattern books for each. Those sure are a lot of fun! We still have some problems with putting the real raisins on top of the pictures or raisins, instead of mimicking those patters at first... but it all works out! I'm hoping to do some more Thanksgiving projects and such over the next week and a half. Guess I better get started on that! Check back to see what we've done!

Busy Little Beaver

Goodness does Reagan ever love her school work! Today we did schoolwork during BOTH of Adam's naps. During his first nap she did the rest of the beading projects for Adam's family birthday favors. Then we did a page of practicing writing letters... the letter "A" today. After that Reagan completed 9 pages of her Barney workbook, practicing counting, colors, and shapes! Adam woke up and we all had lunch. Then this afternoon when he took his second nap Reagan played her Dragon Tales computer game, working on matching, memory, counting, color recognition, comparing and contrasting, and more! Hopefully we'll get the countdown calendar she wants to make done this afternoon. We're counting down to Adam's birthday at her request!

Just Like School

Just like going to school!
(She did NOT want her picture taken, but she looked so cute with her backpack and lunch box!)

As I am trying to get a job, the reality of our kids possibly ending up in public school after all is setting in. There is a local Montessori school that I really like, but Reagan wouldn't be able to start going to school for kindergarten for another 3 years (Fall 2011) because of when her birthday falls. Sadly I think she'd get really bored of preschool after 3 years.

Penguin Parade

One of our recent projects that I hadn't yet managed to get posted. We learned about penguins!! We read Your Big Back Yard, which had a section about penguins, then did a craft project and a cooking project that were listed in the back of the issue. Reagan made a penguin, and then helped make iceberg cookies (meringues.) The recipe only had them flavored with vanilla, but since I have so many different extracts, I let her choose which flavor she might like to add. She chose root beer! So we had root beer float meringues. Yum!

Reagan made favors for her brother's family birthday party on Thanksgiving. We got wooden beaded necklace kits, and she strung most of the beads herself. She's very excited about Adam's coming birthday, and we've been doing a lot of fun learning projects related to it. We were at the dollar store yesterday getting some party supplies for Adam's friends party, and I have her enough money to pick out one thing to give Adam as a gift for his birthday. She decided on the type of item first, and then was choosing the specific design. She told me which she liked, ut picked a different one telling me that Adam would like that one best. She was very specific that we had to put it away when we got home, because Adam had to wait until his birthday for her to give it to him.

Of Mice and Barney

This week Reagan started playing her Dragon Tales computer game. At first she was just doing the work, but mommy was working the mouse. As she showed some interest we worked on one of the activities that gave her good mouse practice without failing at an activity for lack of mouse control. She picked it up very quickly, and can now navigate her way around the game and do most of the activities on her own until she gets fatigued. She's doing so well with it! The game is actually rated for ages 4-6, and there are a couple things that are challenging for her, but nothing she can't do! We probably should have started out with one of her other games that are more targeted to her age group, but this is the one she really wanted to do!

Yesterday we did school work, and did 6 pages form her Barney workbook by special request. We covered shapes and colors... all things that she knows, but she had a great time practicing. And worked on a new skill of actually drawing some shapes other than circles.