Catching up.

  I have been so busy lately the blog has suffered. We have still been doing school. QC has found a love of work books and I have been using more learn while play applications while I was working on our new website and revamping a few things with school work. Themes are going to be longer than a week and more busy work with a few crafts mixed in. QC received a 3 month subscription to Kiwi Crate so we are also going to be working on those crafts. Our first box had activities with water. One of which we will be adapting for our theme work as well! QC has been working on counting everything from the stairs, to cars,and books.
    We didn't do a lot of pictures but I will share a few. You can always see videos and all of our pictures on our Facebook page HERE.

Our first long theme will be all about Fall! 

This is my favorite season and we are excited to get to work. Did lots of printing, got some books, picked out some books and ideas galore! Can't wait to start sharing our fun.

Pond Theme

We had a lot of fun this week "playing at the pond".  We used THIS printable pack from Homeschool Creations.

  QC loves to practice writing now so I make sure to have one or two pages for him to work with each day.

Learned to word  my instructions better after this one.

Told him to write his words, not trace all the letters so he 

wrote his words and then colored. 

We did a few sorting activities and a dot paint activity

This weeks big thing each day was the blue rice!!! This is something I hadn't done before because I really hate stepping on dry rice. But it was worth it. Had I let him he would have played for hours just with the rice. ( Perfect for prepping meals!)

I used THESE instructions.

While I was looking for new things for QC at the dollar store I found this:

He is excited to get to do his new workbook. Unfortunately there wasn't much for the sensory bins since they had all the school supplies. Will have to stop by again in a few weeks in hopes of stocking up.

To round out this theme we went to the lake to cool off on a hot day this weekend!

This was LT's first time in the lake, he didn't hate it or love it. He did like splashing

with daddy!

QC was terrified with the water last year but this year he had a lot of fun and only 

panicked a few times. 

Next week: Football Theme!

Robots!

  Papa Perz helped me come up with a new theme. I was having a block on what I wanted to do. So Robots! Pin board HERE . Homeschool Creations has some wonderful preschool packs that for right now QC is loving! We used the Robot Preschool Pack for this week.  There is currently construction going on along our sidewalks so school was interesting to say the least since QC was more interested in the diggers and dump trucks than in doing his work. We moved school time to supper prep time for the week and this coming week with more construction we will be taking a break and just working with our Tot Book from 1+1+1=1!

The work:
QC loves these puzzles and I am more than happy to let him work on them. He is mastering the glue stick and putting the numbers in sequence.

Writing: This is quickly becoming something QC looks forward to and is getting great at. He still needs mom to steady the pencil when it's more curved letters. I am thinking I need to get shorter pencils for writing time.

I was so proud on how well his did with his R's

Dot paint- Oh how he loves it! He asks to do more constantly. 

We didn't follow the instructions on this one and instead did dot paint on the R's he could find.

Probably a good 8 months ago while at the dollar store I saw these robot erasers. I got them because the might come in handy down the road. They did and were fun for matching, searching for the colors, and counting. I need to get back to the store and find more eraser sets.

Coloring is always a good thing for me to have the few minutes to start a meal or drink my coffee.

This page! I got to teach an impromptu lesson on primary and secondary colors. QC was coloring with his blue and red and noticed the change to purple. So I used this opportunity and showed him how the different colors mix. He was really into this and seeing that little face light up over it was enough to remind me why I am so much in love with homeschooling!

Next week off and then we will be doing a theme on:  The Pond!

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!