Circus Week!!!!

       What a fun week for us!  I was at a loss at what to do for a weekly theme. So I called the husband and he said Circus. I went in search and found some AMAZING things. Pin Board HERE and the main preschool pack this time came from Here at Home School Connections and Here at Confessions of a Homeschooler. QC has been gravitating towards more writing and coloring and less crafts. So I am accommodating as much as I can. I have a few idea's in mind after reading a new post from 1+1+1=1 for tot boxes and I think this may be something we can work with during those times when LT is not wanting to be away from my arms.

        QC has fallen in love with the prewriting exercises so I made sure that we had them every day we did school.

Bingo Paint pictures are also something he loves to do.

Coloring 

We attempted to use scissors this week. He did ok if I held the paper but being the independent boy he is that didn't fly long. We will try again in a month or so.

The glue projects. QC got to try out glue sticks for the first time this week and they were an instant hit. He really liked the no mess aspect and being able to do it all by himself. We did several projects this week with glue. A few puzzles and a category worksheet.

Finally at the end of the week we had a fun day and made a clown!

Pom Poms, googly eyes and some paint. He had a blast dipping them into the glue and putting the hair on there. 

Next week: Robots!

Farm Week

This week we are doing Farm as our theme: See Pin Board HERE.

Dice and Graph was such a hit last week we had to do it again!

I was really impressed with how well he did this one. My help was by asking him which was the small one and then he would stick them on. I was proud of this one.

A few color cut and put together pages. QC loves these and they really come in handy while I am cooking or cleaning. 

This one was hard for QC. I need to get out and find him some left handed scissors soon.

He loves putting the puzzles together. I didn't follow the lines each time since I wanted him to have more of a challenge on putting them together.

Easy week and we are learning together what is best of QC. He seems to love the cut and glue things like these projects best so I am revamping and will start back up in a few weeks. 

Leap Pad 2 Crayola game has been played constantly as QC isn't feeling all that great and I noticed that without my guidance he is finally starting to figure out his colors! 

Silly Monsters!

The Pinboard for this theme is HERE.

  QC is having the scary monsters middle of the night wakings. With me already getting up once or twice a night with LT this is wearing this mom out! So we are going to make monsters fun!

We got our printables from 1+1+1=1 and 2 Teaching Mommies this week.

 

QC had lots of fun matching his monsters with the dice and filling in the squares! 

Working on pre writing as well. This is Day one practice! 

Shape Monsters! This one was for fun and to help with learning shapes. We counted as QC added the eyes and worked on fine motor skills with the little eyes. QC likes to put things in rows.

And the Dot Picture! He really get's excited for these.

We made a hand monster!

We reused a container to make a Sad monster.

he really didn't like paint and glue on his hands

Mix and Match Monsters!

This one was lots of fun, I colored one of the 3 monsters and QC did the other two. Then I cut them out let him pick how they were to go together and glue them on another piece of paper. LT was having a crying morning so it was nice to have a craft QC could work on by himself (minus the cutting). 

You can get/see the templates HERE 

We did school in the living room today as it is a bit warm in the kitchen where we normally do it. Love the flexibility of homeschooling!

We made monsters with play dough.

TP roll monsters. 

Working on sorting sizes. QC did really good at this one. 

Next Week: Farm Animals!