Halloween Week

Circle Time

• Review Learning Board
• Sight word(s)
• Count with Number posters
• Say ABC's with poster
• Calendar and weather

Memorization

• Five Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate

Stories

• Vunce upon a time by Seibold and Siobhan Vivian
• Bats to the Rescue! by Rosemary Contreras
• Little Owl Lost by Chris Haulton
• Disney Princesses Sweet and Spooky Halloween by Melissa Lagonegro
• The Berenstain Bears and the Prize pumpkin by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• Clifford's first Halloween by Norman Birdwell

Music

• Five Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate

Language Activities

• Make Halloween sounds (Ghost, witch, cat, bats, squeaky door)
• O is for Owl worksheets
• Pumpkin patch Matching Upper and Lower case ABC's
• P is for Pumpkin worksheets
• Alexa write a book for Halloween

 Fine Motor

• Make Ghost (Kleenex, cotton ball, and markers to draw face)
• Ghost feet (white paint for feet and black paper)
• Make an owl, hand prints wings, stick to sit on
• Pumpkin stencil (Place pumpkins on orange paper and paint over with black paint)
• Window Ghost (made with contact paper and steamer pieces)
• Q- tip Skeleton

Learning Games

• Ghost puzzle
• Owls play at night
• Play tic tac toe with candy corn pieces
• Frankenstein Math
• Make rice krispies, make cut outs, then frost them

Alexa loves this game and later I plan to make more for different holidays!

We had a play date with one of Alexa's best friends and made them

Katie's are on the left and Alexa's are on the right

Gross Motor

• Run around like a ghost and pretend to scare mommy, vise versa
• Nature walk to find a good stick for art project
• KinderCooks, Gym time, and story time (Halloween thyme)
• Field trip to Pumpkin Patch (feed and pet animals, hay ride, find a pumpkin)
• CARVE PUMPKINS!!!

Mommy carved the Cinderella pumpkin later with her  :)

Fall/ Autumn

This week I want to mainly just do crafts since Halloween was coming up here shortly!

And when I look around the house there was nothing besides the window clings 

for decor. for Halloween.

Circle Time

• Review Learning Board
• Sight word(s)
• Count with Number posters
• Say ABC's with poster
• Calendar and weather

Memorization

• Itsy Bitsy Spider with Actions

Stories

• Fall Leaves by Mary Packard
• When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger
• Clifford's First Autumn by Norman Birdwell
• Arthur Jumps into fall by Marc Brown
• Easy as Apple Pie by Karen Gray Ruelle
• Ten Red Apples by Virginia Miller
• Wild America Squirrels by Lee Jacobs
• Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinell
• Scarecrow by Michael Rox

Music

• Where is Pumpkin? (..Hiding under Red leaf) YouTube video found
• Itsy Bitsy Spider with Actions

Language Activities

• Sort Leaves by BIG, small, colors
• My Apple Book
• Squirrel Games (Number Matching, Maze to Nuts, Patterns)
• Dot to dot spider web
• Make scarecrow face and play out a story
• Apples can be.. (yummy, red, green, ect.)

Fine Motor

• Leaf prints
• Hand print tree with leaves falling and some apples
• Feather paint a squirrel outline
• Weave a spider web on popsicle sticks
• Wrap yarn (dipped in glue) around a balloon. Once dry pop balloon. SPIDER WEB then add spiders.
• Marble Roll Spider web, paint spider on it then.
• Hand print Spiders (use hand prints to make spiders, then add googly eyes, and cut out.

Learning Games

• Tic Tac Toe with candy corn as pieces.
• Taste test all different kinds of Apples and find a favorite
• Make Apple Crisp with extra Apple pieces. YUMMY!!
• Make Mummies (pigs in a blanket)

 Gross Motor

• Rake Leaves then jump in them.
• Nature Walk and talk about fall, and the leaves changing colors, and about the colder weather.
• Red Apple, Green Apple (red light, green light)
• Act like a Squirrel (use a towel)
• Walk on a spider web (painters tap on the floor to make a web. Put objects in between to pick up or walk over)

Creating an Art work display

  So on Thursday night I stopped at Goodwill in the hunt for a picture frame that was really tall and skinny... Well must have been my night because I found one for $5!! Perfect!

  So I brought it home and got to work on this project I HAD to make to display Alexa's art work. :)  I went into the bin with the wrapping paper and pulled out the green wrapping paper. I wrapped the glass with it and put it back into the frame. Then I grabbed some clothes pins and added some flowers to them by hot gluing them on just to make sure one wont fall off. Then I put the clothes pins out a wire and hot glued the wire to the frame on both sides.

  It LOOKS AMAZING!!  and even better with Alexa's art work hang up on it!  It makes me smile even more every time I look at it! This whole project cost me $5! I already had everything else at home, just had to put it all together. This may have been one of the best $5 I have ever spent!

KinderCooks class!

  Wednesday was another day for Cooking class and I don't think I have seen a little girl move so fast in the morning to get ready in time to leave!

  At Cooking class they made biscuits with meat filling inside. They tasted sooo good! They took the biscuits and cut them in half then put lunch meat and hot dogs inside and cooked them in the oven.

Alexa ate one right away with her class and then saved one for me, such a sweet girl!

  After Cooking class it was Story time! Today they read stories about farms and farm animals. Turned out great because just last week we learned about farms and farm animals! So Alexa was well prepared and knew all the answers as she yelled them out to the teacher. :)

 

  After Story time the teacher announced that there was open gym time! Nothing better for getting those wiggles out!

Swimming Lessons!!!!!

  On this last Tuesday night Alexa started SWIMMING LESSONS!!  She had so much fun and was super excited about them. She kept asking all day before class of how much longer till she got to go.
  We finally got there and Alexa found her class! She was a little shy at first but warmed up really fast to her teacher once she got to jump into the water a few times.
  They walked on top of a mat and then jumped into the water a few times. Then they got to ride the mat to the other end of the pool kicking away! Next they got to swim on their bellies, kick, and blow bubbles all at the same time. The final practice the class got to do was swimming on their back and kicking. 

  After swimming lessons Alexa was a bouncing ball of energy!! She was super excited about swimming class and said she wants to come back again! Then she started to get even more excited (which at this point I did not think was possible) because COOKING CLASS WAS TOMORROW!!!  YAY!!!!  :)

Farms and Farm Animals

We went on a trip to see family this past week/weekend, so some areas are not filled with activities. We also have been starting new classes to begin, and have been very busy with that.

Circle Time

• Review Learning Board
• Sight word(s)
• Count with Number posters
• Say ABC's with poster
• Calendar and weather

Memorization

• Hey, Diddle diddle
• The Three Little Pigs 
•  She also called family and read the stories to them!

Stories

• We had story time at the Library on Wednesday
• The Wild Little Horse by Ashley Wolff
• The cow loves cookies by Karma Wilson
• Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cronin
• Faraway Farm by Ian Whybrow
• Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri's
• Tiny on the Farm by Cari Meister
• Are you a Horse? by Andy Rash
• The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone

Music

• Old McDonald had a farm

Language Activities

• Discuss what types of things we enjoy that we have because of animals.. Look around house
• Dot to Dot Horse
• F is for Farm
• Number 4

Fine Motor

• Cow outline- finger paint spots on the cow and decorate background
• Draw a picture of riding a horse
• Cut Chickens and chicks out and glue them in sets of 4.
• Make the three little pigs houses and use sticks, spaghetti (straw), red rectangles (bricks), finger stamp pigs also.

 Learning Games

• Milk a cow with a latex glove

Gross Motor

• She went outside and helped Grandpa a lot feed the horses treats on the 4-wheeler.

Pizza day at KinderCooks and a NEW class

Yesterday was such a full day that we hardly spent anytime at home. We started the morning off going to KinderCooks class and made their own pizzas. They got to eat their pizza in class and then take home whatever they didn't eat in class to share with their mommy's (it turned out pretty good). During cooking class Heather (Caleb's mom) and I sit and chat, which is SOO great to have another mom to talk too and share stuff about homeschooling our preschoolers. She is such a sweet mom and I always look forward to cooking classes now just to have some girl talk time. Right after Cooking she went straight to Reading Time in the Library and they read books on Apples and then got to taste three different types of apples and 'vote' on which was the best one. Alexa said that her favorite was the red and green apples and her friend Caleb said he liked all the apples the same. Kids are too funny!

After Reading Time we went into the Library and picked out some books and movies to bring home. We spent a good almost half and hour in the library between mommy looking for books and Alexa playing with the play pizza there and sharing with all the other little boys and girls there. Finally we left the Library and finished our errands and got home around 2pm.

We started working on her homework for the night as soon as we got home. She did such a great job! We practiced our dot to dot ABC's and coloring skills a lot, and talked about our theme and animal for the day.

Later that same day I took Munchkin to a new class that I had heard about from Caleb's mom. The class is called Cubbies and is held at a Church in my neighborhood. In the Cubbies class they start off with worship/singing with all the other clubs (they separate between ages for different 'clubs').  Then the Cubbies go to their own check-in/Bible Story Time.  After the story, it's Game Time!  The Cubbies end the evening by rotating to snack, crafts and Bible Verses.  It's a full hour and a half of fun and connecting with God, other Cubbies. I decided that this would probably be a good idea for Alexa to be in, due to the fact that at our Church she is only there every other week to learn about our faith. Here in Cubbies, she will learn all the basics about the Bible and be able to learn with other children. They are Christian base but non-denominational. She said she had a lot of fun there with everyone and wants to go back again! Which is great because this class is also free!

I am so blessed to be able to find these activities for Alexa that are cheap or free. Being a Homeschooling mom is a bit scary but these activities are helping so much and really making it easy for Alexa also. Next week she will again start another class.. :D