Wonderful Wednesday! Today was a very pleasant day! The littles were busy as usual. Joey is really enjoying is workboxes! Today he did all 6 boxes! I laminated them last night and added the velcro.
Our story for today was Seed Magic by Jane Buchanan, this is where I planned our activities from. I read through it, pray on it too and then write down ideas for each area.
Here is our sensory box, before the littles (and big N ;) got into it! N didn't realize I had it all set up and went digging while talking to me! I had originally wanted actual plastic birds for in here, but I forgot when I was out on Tuesday. I remembered Tuesday night when I was looking through my plans, getting things ready for Wednesday. So, I took these bird templates I had printed, cut them out of foam and here we have our birds!
Here's K.. I had seed shaped brown paper with green, orange, light brown and purple paint, they used fake feather's for painting. K, of course, loved this! J took a look, but he didn't paint today. He did work very hard on his workboxes a little later. We do them, for now, while K naps.
I had to add this pic in here! Miss A is in to collecting Monster High dolls. Well, my darling hubby now checks out the doll section every time he goes and is learning which ones are "rare" and tough to find. He's recently bought her two that were tough to find. So, this one, he couldn't leave there because he knew she didn't have it, but he didn't know that it was one of those "rare" ones. We gave it to her as an early birthday gift (which isn't until May!). This was in the late morning, so our school day had already begun. He had also been our grocery shopping, as you can see by all of the food on the table!
More pics of little K enjoying her painting time! J was being silly and sneaking past while I was taking these pics of her, but he wouldn't get in the picture!
I added in these two of her in the chair, she went over and got a chair, I guess her legs were tired with all that standing! She does spend a bit of time here at our easel.
I snatched this picture as quickly as I could. K visited our writing/literacy center today. We had blank seed packets for decorating. She got right into this activity too, but then, after I took this picture, she ripped one of the packets! Thankfully they're just for fun and not really going to be holding seeds!
Here is J doing box number 1. I had found a door hanger with a verse for Parable of a Sower. He asked where the picture of Jesus was! I guess he thought the picture I had had in there Monday was Jesus scattering the seeds. So, after he finished this, we printed off one with "Jesus". :)
This was box number 2's work. It's a worksheet I laminated. It has a black and white picture of seeds packets and then the letter S. I got this from homeschoolcreations.com. I like to laminate them, more fun and I can put them in the literacy center boxes with a dry erase marker too, so it can serve two purposes! He enjoyed this too. If you look closely, he's not holding the marker in the correct position. I've showed him and told him the correct way. I tell him "this way will help you move the marker/pencil/crayon better. Sometimes he uses it, sometimes he doesn't. He did the same with scissors (not too long ago) and now, not only does he hold them correctly, but he cuts great! I love to watch them develop these skills! So awesome!!
This letter Oo page along with letters Pp, Qq, Rr and Ss were in box 3. This is for an alphabet book I'm gong to put together. I didn't plan on him doing all of these,but he wanted to!! He was so neat with the glue bottle for this first set of letters! He oh so carefully placed the CheeriO's onto the paper.
This is where J started to put glue on his paper. I didn't even think about it at first, it was so awesome seeing him doing this and so excited about it! We just wiped off what he put on.
Here he is with Pp. We didn't need glue for this one, although he did try it, then realized, even though I had just said it (he didn't take my word for it), they stick on their own because they are stickers! They are little pumpkin stickers! Again, he did a very nice job placing them!
Here is Qq, a "river" of glue and pieces of q-tips! He covered the entire letters with glue, then added the Q-tips. So.. mommy learned something today too! J is not ready for glue bottles..yet :) A teacher I worked with taught her kinders "a dab ull do you ya!".. he didn't hear that!! He "needed" to fill the whole letter in. I don't have a pic for Rr and Ss. For R we had rice, but he chose the "seeds" I had planned for S (actually dried beans). So, I quickly found a sheet of sunflowers that I copied, pasted, printed and cut apart for him to add to his Ss page. The other letters also contained "rivers" of glue! We had to full bottles..not one empty and one almost empty! :) He had fun..so oh well!!
This was box/drawer 4. I put the rest of his seasonal pictures work in here from Monday, he hadn't finished. He finished gluing them on, then I wrote his name and the word winter in pencil for him to trace. Again with the fist hold. He'll get it.. when he's ready!
This was also in the box. It's a sheet from homeschoolcreations.com the garden theme. I gave him the choice to cut or trace, he chose trace. K was up from her nap by this time and wanting to some stuff too! I have things in her box, but it was getting late. I'll work them in the next two days for her. Still figuring out schedules with workboxes!
K found a glue stick and pictures, so she did some "work"too. This gave J his "space" to finish box number 4.
This was box number 5. I put a couple of pages of a garden lapbook in here for him. He tried making his own picture of a garden, ended up scribbling it out..did't like it. So I said would you like me to find and print a garden picture out for you. He said yes, so I did. We also have a seed picture in here. He attached little pictures of the seeds packets for the seeds we planted, then added a seed in each picture. He did two today, he'll do two tomorrow!
Box number 6 had a page I made up. I had done it Monday, very quickly. I had 9 boxes, a number in each one. I also drew a oval for each number. He was to draw the number of ovals that was in each box. He really wasn't into this and was tired. We spoke at bath time about it. I asked him "they weren't much fun were they?" He said no and then told me what he did in them (wrote lines). I told him that was okay and we'll do something else tomorrow.
That's it for our Wednesday!
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