Tot School Week 9- Letter V and More!

V is for VALENTINE:

We made handprint valentine's from some easy molding clay that I bought at Hobby Lobby.

 

I have never made salt dough ornments myself- I remember doing them as a child.  The recipe I found didn't turn out too well though... Scarlett put all the ingredients together...

and stirred... did I mention she loves to do this??

  

And rolled (look at her concentration! ha ha!

And put all the cute little heart cutters in the dough-she had fun trying fit as many as she could in the dough.

 

Then we put them in the oven-- when they came out they were cracked... and not pretty at all- so we ended up throwing them away and not getting to paint them (luckily because we have had LOTS going on, Scarlett forgot about painting them.) But I wanted to paint them too! Hopefully I can find a better recipe next time.  :(

  

Next, Scarlett worked on counting snowflakes and putting the clip on the correct number of snowflakes that she counted.  She was having a hard time pinching the clips- look at this face!!

  

Some of the cards had LOTS of snowflakes (they were laminated) and so we were able to use a dry erase marker and she marked the snowflakes off as she counted them- this helped her keep track much easier!

  

Worked on cutting - I have her cut copies from our Kumon cutting book so that I can keep reusing the book for my other little munchkins!

  

On Thursday we had THURSDAY PRESCHOOL PLAYDATE with a few friends- it was our second one!! We talked about lots of words that start with V and the Creation Story-- They had soooo much fun- Check out my blog about it! :)

 Finally, we made little Groundhog Day crowns... got the idea from a blog but can't remember where?! Lily and Scarlett really LOVED wearing them though- Scarlett wore hers to library story time- LOL!

 

Happy Belated Groundhogs day, Early Valentine's day and every day in between!!! ;)

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Day 2: More Letter T (with Aunt Claire)

Today (the second day) I have something last minute I am going to do with my hubby... so... I am going to do something that I am hoping Scarlett will like- I invited her Aunt Claire over to do her pre-k workboxes! yay!
We will see how it goes... but since this isn't a formal class setting I think it will be just great! But poor Aunt Claire has to juggle little Lily (1 year old) and Scarlett too. Since she doesn't have any little ones of her own yet it will be an experience! LOL
Here are the pics of what will be in today's workboxes- Lot of stuff from Confessions of Homeschooler this week- One of my FAVE blogs!
Here is what is in each workbox today! (Maybe I'll get lucky and Aunt Claire will take photos of the girls working in each box today as well- fingers crossed.... )



Box 1- Turtle Floor Mats- today she will mostly likely just find the color shell that her aunt calls out... we are just beginning to recognize numbers. (from Confessions of Homeschooler)


Box 2: Writing activity- tracing the dotted lines... and on the last page there is a quick cutting activity as well (Confessions of a Homeschooler)



Montessori Activity- Make a pipe cleaner bracelet- sting the oval pony beads on the pipe cleaner (she will love this one!)

Box 4: Size sorting with Turtles- small, medium, and large.... (thanks to Confessions of a Homeschooler)

Turkey Match Folder Game- from File Folder Fun- just registered there and have only begun to search this site- but looks good so far!

Leaf Rubbings... who can go wrong with this? :) Scarlett went out and found some "pretty leaves" yesterday. Today she will put the leaf under the paper and rub a crayon on top of the paper to make a leaf picture on the paper-MAGIC!! lol