Handy Manny Day

I am so excited about this post because it all came together without a whole lot of planning.

Last May, I downloaded the Handy Manny Lapbook from Carisa’s site and put it in my “H” folder for our Summer Learning.

I had told my mom ahead of time that we would be having H is for Handy Manny day on Friday. She had the boys matching T-shirts and a few books ready for them when we arrived!

On Thursday, my sister in law and myself hit a local consignment sale and I found the above toy. I was THRILLED to say the least. The truck turns into Manny’s workshop with all the tools.

So we started our day playing with the Handy Manny toy and reading a Handy Manny book.

Then the kids settled down one at a time to work on the lapbook.

Zach and Ava are matching the “toy tools” with the tools on the page of the lapbook and the coloring them the correct color. (I am also teaching them the word in Spanish as they color…but that is not primary task)

(This is Levi doing the same thing, he was out with Nana earlier)

Levi working on putting the letters of his name in the correct order.

We also played a “round” of Handy Manny Dominoes:) Thanks Nana for all the fun toys to make today special.

H is for Nana’s House!

Well our week at Nana’s House is the perfect time to learn all about the letter H!!

I brought our “learning bag” along for the trip…and have done all of my basic letter activities that I do with each letter every week.You can take a peek here if you are a new reader. http://triplesmiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/triplesmiles-hard-at-work-day-1.html

Today we took advantage of Nana’s Play dough table to help us learn about letter H.

H is for Heart, Hand and Hat!!

We also had a fun fun fun picnic lunch with our Lifelong friends…The Hills! They have an AMAZING play fort and sandbox for hours of fun! Mommy actually got sit, eat her lunch, AND visit with her friends today! Amazing!

Here is a peek at a few other fun things we have been doing at Nana’s house this week!

Riding Papa’s Tractor

Picking Corn!

Playing Trains…

Having fun with Cousin Colton

Coming Up Next….H is for Handy Manny!

Movie In The Park

On the 2nd day of our Chattanooga adventure we found out that a local park was hosting a Movie in the Park. This was tons of fun and a first for us! Before the movie we enjoyed a carousel ride and fun play time in the city’s spray park!

Taking My Show On The Road

Triple Smiles is on the road…..our final destination is a week with Nana and Papa in Tennessee.

First we had a blast visiting with 2nd and 3rd cousins in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

First let me give you some background. My paternal grandmother lives in Chattanooga. I have been taken to Chattanooga literally all my life to visit her, and as an adult now, I always make it priority to visit her when I am on this side of the country. She is 93 years old now.

Chattanooga has also usually been the common “meeting place” to visit with my cousin Amber who lives in Atlanta. Amber and I are the only girl cousins on the Liner side..and have always been very close cousins. However; it wasn’t until Amber and I both had kids that we both fell in love with the city of Chattanooga. It is a charming town with TONS of things to do with little ones. So this year we decided to make a weekend of the charming city instead of our normal 2-3 hour visit at the Children’s Museum once or twice a year.

We did actually start our adventure at the Children’s Museum. My aunt is always kind enough to secure admission for us:) They had a cool snake for us to look at and touch this time.

Ava enjoyed learning about static electricity.

Next, we headed up Look Out Mountain on the Incline Railway.

Amazing view at the top.

All 6 kids….seated oldest to youngest 5,4,3,3,2,1

Our next adventure took us to the historic Chattanooga Choo Choo….

They had a darling little candy store.

All the kids choose the same candy…different colors of course!

The price tag was just right at $1 each!

This was a cute shot I snagged as the boys

were teaching their 3rd cousin to play “Match”

“Match” is a game they made up one day at the breakfast table. Basically when both have something that is alike. They put the items together and say “Match”

Stay tuned for more of our Chattanooga Adventure……