Playdate Fun

Zad enjoyed so much having his friend Ben over to play today!!!

Its Time to Learn about....Triangles

Yummy Breakfast---Triangle Shaped Cinnamon Toast

Yummy Snack- Triangle Cheese Cracker Face


Yummy Lunch- Ham and Cheese Sandwich cut into Triangles. (no picture...sorry!)

Fun Artwork.....Blue Sea with Triangle Fish Swimming away from the Triangle Sailboat


Fun Creative Playtime....Cutting out figures that have a triangle in them with Playdough....A House, Christmas Tree. In doing this I learned LJ doesn't like to mix his playdough colors.

Heart Day....Lots of Love and RED!

I love Valentine's Day! My sweet Daddy would send me flowers to my school every year! My husband has big shoes to fill....and he does a good job filling them...although the ways will not be posted! I have had so much fun planning for today.

Our day started with Valentine Gifts at Breakfast...this helped entertain them while...









Daddy made Heart Pancakes....or Happy Cakes as ZAD called them......



After our breakfast, we started our first craft for the day. Painting with Red paint and then adding glue to our picture and finding red things to glue to our paint. I found out I needed more red things for them to glue.



ZAD, and AND. had fun sorting colors into the heart pans, but LJD would have no part of this activity:(





He did decide to take part however in the eating of Heart Jello and pizza.

Noah's Boat was a Floating Zoo!

We having been celebrating all week the people and the things we love! And we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the animals God made! As I was walking through the Zoo yesterday...I couldn't help but think of Noah and how very amazing that all these animals fit on that Ark. God's creation is so wonderful and beautiful.








The kids also enjoyed their red food day in the muffin tins! I That you Muffin Tin Mama for this great idea!!! If you are looking for a way to get your toddler to eat lunch....this has done the trick for us! The Red lunch of the week included, Red cherry 7 up, Dried Cranberries Heart Chocolate, Ravioli,Red Apples and Red yogurt

Valentine Party at Preschool

I just wanted to post a few pictures from the boys preschool Valentine Party. I left my camera with their teachers for the day and appreciate them taking a few pictures for me! Z's teacher caught him with a cupcake! LJ's teacher caught him passing out his Valentine's. (Mommy found mini playdough with round stickers for the top)

Am I Still a Teacher? YES!

I am often ask the question, “Are you still teaching?” I think to myself..yes, I am but my students are much younger. I was recently inspired by some of my very creative teacher buddies who are also “teacher moms” now to start doing with my own children what I would be doing if I were still in the “classroom.”

Thus the idea of circle day evolved.......

We woke up this morning and made Circle Friend Pancakes. Our poor men to do not have arms or feet...because the boys were much too excited to get them in their tummys.

We then moved onto pouring circle macaroni into various plastic circle containers. We then practiced putting the macaroni on a pipecleaner. After the macaroni grew tired....we counted circle cotton balls into our containers. LJ was so sweet to help his sister fill her container. Then, it was snack time, so we put circle crackers into circle snack containers.

Which we took with us to the library for “circle story time”

We then came home for our circle lunch. All circle foods in circles,
(round crackers, m&m's, round cheese, yougurt, round pineapple slice, round mini hotdogs)

Then all 3 kids...slept for 3 hours!!!

After nap time, the kids went outside and poured water into their circle pan and enjoyed exploring with mixing colors together. (Food coloring in the water) This activity engaged them for at least 30 minutes!!!

Next, the boys jumped and played with circle hula hoops. Ava enjoyed crawling from hoop to hoop.


And our last activity for the day....is making circle pizza for dinner.


And at the end of the day....I poured a bucket of cookie cutters on the floor and ask the boys to find a cirlce....and they did. They are probably like “enough with the circles mom!”
Ava was also imitating the word circle by the end of the day.

This was a fun fun day....next week....we'll have “heart day!

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