Valentine's week fun!!

We took a break from the alphabet this week to celebrate the Valentine's Day holiday. We of course read books, but we also played games and did some learning along the way! We began with hearts on Monday. We did patterns and counting.

On Tuesday we did a Cupid maze and then tried shooting q-tip love arrows. That night we played guys vs girls for points. The girls won of course!

I found Ronan and Scruffy just hanging around...

On Wednesday we made love bug hats and did upper and lower case letter matching with the letters we've done so far.

Love these bugs!!

That night we played a team "I spy" game. Ronan didn't last long but Kieryn enjoyed it.

Also, Wednesday was the start of Lent so we made our Easter prayer chain countdown. Each day of Lent we take a moment to pray for a family member or friend.

On Thursday we made Valentine's Day sugar cookies. While the dough was chilling we did some math/counting and painted a special Valentine's card.

Then we made cookies!

On Friday we did a candy heart color match and shape match game.

Then over the weekend we relaxed and enjoyed Valentine's Day with Grandma and Grandpa Haug. Kieryn and Ronan exchanged Valentine's...

And after naps we did our annual scavenger hunt to give the kids our Valentine's!

They had a blast!

Happy Valentine's Day from us to you!!

Until next time...

Simply spectacular!

We had a super week with letter s! We began on Monday with tracing and string shaping to practice our new letter.

Then we did an s workout, complete with actions (skipping, squatting, shuffling, spinning, sitting, and stomping) and emotions (sad, smiling, silly, scared, serious, and surprised). You roll the dice and perform the two together. The kids really had fun with this one!

Then Ronan got a bit silly with his socks!

On Tuesday we did matching with animals that begin with the s sound.

We practiced snipping with our scissors...

And once everything was snipped we practiced sizes and putting things in order small to big and short to tall.

The next thing was to make sock puppets but when I opened the silly socks the kids had more fun sock skating! We saved puppets for later that day!

That afternoon we did straw snipping and used string to make a necklace. We practiced patterning with the necklace.

On Wednesday Kieryn laid claim on my latest crocheted scarf! Now she has two! Maybe my next one will actually "be mine" to wear...

For our lesson we started off making "sugar" cookies... While they baked we did tracing and talked about strangers. Those that are safe (green for "go" to for help) and stay away (red for stop and find Mommy and Daddy). 

Sadly we didn't get the 1-3 inches of snow that was forecasted for this day... Would have made the lesson more "sweet" since we talked about snow and all winter things starting with s.

When the cookies were cool, we added some sprinkles!

On Thursday we began with tracing and talked about summer and things in that season starting with s...

We did a quick spider addition/counting sheet and then loaded the kids in the car to drive to a SURPRISE!

We went swimming!! The kids loved it and have asked daily to go back! Luckily Grandma was off work so she got to join in the fun!

On Friday we started with a shape match...

Had a snack while clipping the picture that started with the s sound...

And unscrambled the letters of their names. I was shocked when Ronan did his all by himself!

We ended the lesson with singing! We used spiders to help with a few songs!

We played outside for a short time and did exploring in Grandpa's sheds! The kids are loving the farm life!

Stay Stupendous! Until next time...