Harvest Time Preschool - Week Three

Harvest Time Week Three
Primary Book: The Rusty, Trusty Tractor 
Enrichment Book: Tractor (MACHINES AT WORK) 
Activities: Tracks in the Mud
Field Trip Idea: Lawn Mower Store
Art: Children’s Games 
Poem: Little Boy Blue 
Flower Fairies: Mallow Fairy & Coloring Page

Watercolors! Tavin said his painting was of an anteater. The finished painting actually did look like an anteater. 

Tracks in the "mud." I just mixed up our good 'ole Melissa and Doug paint into the muddiest color I could. We gathered up a few things from around the house that we thought would be fun to roll in the paint.

The monster trucks and tractor were excellent choices for making tracks. Both kids started out so clean.

They both decided that their feet would make good tracks, and they did.

Matilda sat in the paint, which also made good tracks.

I found the Annie's farm shaped pasta at Hy-Vee. Perfect for our tractor theme week. We also just love anything Annie's! (I couldn't resist showing a picture of them, they're cute.)

Fun with scissors. Tavin isn't concerned with being very precise yet. He just wants to cut the paper into as many little pieces as he can.

More Do-A-Dot markers! This week was the letter "M." I think the blue marker will run out first. He usually picks the blue.

Here we are at the Tractor Supply Store. Our main field trip of the week. Benjamin and his mom, Lindsay, met us at the Tractor store. Tractor Supply has some pretty neato toys. Hmmm, what to pick?

Here they are having fun with the cones. 

       They stacked and unstacked the cones and re-arranged the cones in a few different ways. 

Tavin always enjoys sitting on a lawnmower.

This lawnmower must have had some interesting buttons.

The tire section was rather entertaining too. The kids bounced and rolled the little tires around. The employees didn't seem to mind us but they probably thought we were way too easily amused.

We switched Kindermusik classes. The class we were in only had kiddos Matilda's age. We didn't think that was best for Tavin. They were kind enough to let us switch to an older age group even with Matilda. In the new class the kiddos are more Tavin's age. Matilda seems to hold her own just fine.

We still visited the library this week, of course. In fact, I started referring to Before Five in a Row for book ideas to get from the library. It's fun to check out random books but they can be hit or miss. FIAR's books have been a huge hit at our house. Highly recommend them.

Matilda had a birthday! She's TWO now! Time flies. She had her two year check-up already. She's doing great! Long and lean. Surprise, surprise.