First Day of Preschool 2010

I can’t believe all 3 of my Triple Smiles are old enough for preschool. WOW! The children are blessed to be able to attend a Christian Preschool near our home 2 days a week. I do love love love my days with my children, but I have been looking forward to this site all summer….

The boys went last year but today was Ava’s debut in Preschool:)

She did cry when I left her, but when I went back by her room to check on her after dropping the boys in their classes….this is the site I saw:)

She was already busy working on this masterpiece…..

I LOVE that her school is not afraid to let 2’s paint..and in the first 5 minutes!

While I was getting Ava settled, Levi rushed ahead to his classroom. By the time I caught up with him, he had already settled himself in nicely…..and this is the site I saw in his classroom…his teacher had out a train for him to play with this morning!

Levi created this masterpiece today with a golf ball.

Zachariah is in Pre-K 4 this year and his teacher had a sign in sheet for him to sign when he arrived.

Poor guy has a long name to learn to write! Mom is helping him for now:)

Zachariah painted a masterpiece too today!

Trash Day

I don’t know about your house…..but my little Triple Smiles love TRASH DAY! They rush to see the beloved Trash Truck every Friday take away our trash.

So I was thrilled to find this post on the Totally Tots site this week.

http://totallytots.blogspot.com/2010/08/once-upon-book-trashy-town.html

It was the perfect low key Friday Trash Day Celebration Activity!

First, I took the kids to the Library to find the book Trashy Town. This is an adorable story about a trashman named Mr. Gilly.

We found the story on You Tube…and followed along in our library book. You can take a sneak peek at our story below…

Then we colored a picture of a Trash Truck….

….and our picture wouldn’t be complete without….

TRASH!

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Ironically, our Trash Truck missed our street today and didn’t come until almost 7pm!

Precious Soccer Star

I am almost an official “Soccer Mom.” Zachariah’s first real soccer practice is tomorrow. In prep for this very important event he has been practicing in the back yard a lot lately. Here are some shots I got of his practice today! I know I am his mom, but I think we’ve got a STAR on our hands:)

We can’t wait to cheer for you Zachariah!!!

I LOVE these precious little feet!

More Math….and Fine Motor

Just a quick post to share a fun number Math activity I found on Carisa’s site.

http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/06/preschool-printables-pom-pom-numbers.html

The kids were given a set of numbers with the matching number of colored dots on each card. They had to find the match and then glue pom poms to match the number of pompoms with the correct color. For example, the number 1 had 1 blue dot on it and they then had to find another number 1 and glue 1 blue pom pom on it:)

This was more challenging for them that I thought it would be. The 3 of them worked together on it and had fun doing it!

Did you know squeezing a glue bottle strengthens fine motor skills? Something I learned in a parent training I went to at The Handwriting Clinic in Plano. http://www.thehandwritingclinic.com/

Today we went to meet the kids teachers at their preschool. Zach’s teacher won my heart immediately when she gave each kid a box of spaghetti and scissors to take home for the weekend!

Marvelous Math….

I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front lately.

It has taken me quite a while to settle back in our routine from being out of town for so long. I have also been working hard to get all my kids stuff ready to sell at a few upcoming consignment sales.

I also started teaching Zachariah to read! A friend of mine shared with me a gold nugget in the book
Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons For those of you who may not know, I have an Elementary Reading Degree, but I had never heard of this book in any of my training. I actually ran into my Reading professor at church the other day. She had never heard of it either. We are on lesson 5 now, and I think…. the book is FABULOUS! I love it, the lessons are short, easy and more than anything He is enjoying the lessons together.

Lastly, I thought I’d take a change of pace and share a few Math lessons in the upcoming blogs.

And as always, Carisa from 1 +1 +1 =1 is a huge help in my planning http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/06/preschool-printables-how-many.html

This is a fun way for the kids to count and then recognize the number they have counted.

Zach cutting out his cards. I highlighted the “cutting line” in yellow guide his scissors.

Zach clipping his clothes pin on the numberthat matches the number he counted.

Today I sat down and taught this activity, but this is totally an activity they can do on their own now.

PS….Also found out by doing this activity with Ava she knew all her numbers 1-10…CRAZY and YES I’m totally PRAISING THE LORD….b.c her Mama was quite Math challenged in her day. LOL.

Stay Tuned for “Some and Some More” Math!!!