Winter Wonderland Preschool - Week Eight

Primary Book: Gregory's Shadow

Enrichment Book: Groundhog Day

Activity: Shadow Portrait

Nature Study: Winter Warmth

Art: Peaceable Kingdom

Poem: Stopping by the Woods

Flower Fairy: Mallow Fairy

Ted was gone for the whole week! We tried to keep ourselves occupied. We had some fun even with Matilda not feeling well. We watched more videos than usual...but I tried to make sure they were educational. Veggie Tales at least has good lessons. We also watched the Leap Frog Letter Factory several times. Very good video for learning your letters and their sounds and the kids love it!

Saturday we did some crafts from our new Kiwi Crate kit. 

Sunday we went to church. I helped out in the nursery as best I could with both kiddos being a little clingy. Grandpa Jerry and Grandma Sandy came over after church and brought us milk, bananas and presents from our cousins Jay, Liz and Mia from California. The kids got musical instruments! How cool! A clarinet and a saxophone!

Monday we baked bread and had some scissor practice. Tuesday was story time at the library. That was the day Matilda came down with a fever of 102.6! We stayed home for the next couple days and just got lots of rest. We played when we had energy.

Tavin working on his polar bear paws from the Polar Bear Expedition craft from Kiwi Crate.

Making the ears.

All done! Grr!

Matilda putting together the ears for her polar bear.

Lacing up her first paw. She hasn't finished her polor bear craft. Something distracted her from finishing it and we haven't gone back to it yet.

Tavin playing his clarinet.

I gave them their own ingredients while we (I) made bread. They looked at everything closely...the yeast, the salt, the flour, etc.

They stirred their dry ingredients...

added water...

and of course tasted it all.

They have been rather interested (Tavin especially) in our medical encyclopedia's lately. Tavin flips through the pages and asks me what is in the pictures. Cousin Piper broke her leg this last week which got him interested about bones and casts. Tavin was quite concerned about Piper. 

Paper, stencils, markers, scissors. They both enjoy cutting straws. It is a fun way to learn how to use scissors. Tavin has gotten pretty good at using scissors but still doesn't care much for carefully cutting things out, just cutting things up. Matilda was very determined to figure it out. She has gotten pretty good at cutting up the straws.

Both kids love to play with coins. Matilda has taken an interest in lining anything and everything up. Coins are no exception.

Mini sandbox fun.

Mighty Mind game.

Tavin said, "We're building a science museum." 

Fun with broccoli and veggie dip.