Our Week

We finally have Internet...yay! It has been one week without Internet and you don't really know how much you use it until you lose it. This has been our week...

G is for giraffe, we made a giraffe growth chart and put it up on the wall to measure how tall J is. The funny thing about this was about 3 days after we hung it up, J asked me to measure her again to see if she grew alot more!

I made some homemade finger paints and J finger painted fish for our pond. The pond finally is looking like a pond.

I found this dry erasable mat at Target and here J is practicing writing her alphabet. I am now seeing her write more and more letters when she draws her pictures. It is pretty neat to see that.

Here we are playing a froggy game using plastic frogs as markers. I laminated this game sheet and on the back (always trying to have a 2 for 1 deal because I don't want to waste laminating materials) there is a dog game. Since it is laminated, I can write letters or math problems and we can play this over and over again. This fits with our pond unit.

We are working on shapes and patterns. J is using her pattern blocks to make the shape of a dragonfly.

I found these great printable scissor skill worksheets. These will help J learn to cut with her scissors. She has to follow and cut on the lines. We will be doing this more often to help build up her hand muscles.

This is a handwriting practice sheet. By doing these, J will be able to write her letters smoothly. I didn't laminate this one, instead I placed the sheet into a page protector and gave J a dry erase marker. The page protector allows the marker to erase and you will be able to reuse the worksheet. I found these here.

Here J is painting her family. I just love the long legs!

Keke has been learning how to make balloon animals and face painting. Don't sit still here at my house or she will paint your face! She wants to practice because she has joined a high school group who will be doing balloon animals and face painting for different functions. In fact, next week she will be face painting refugee children here in the city to bring alittle fun for them. She is looking forward to it and she is getting very good. You should see her detailed face painting. The mustache was J's idea.

This week, Kaleb got a new high chair and is learning how to eat from a spoon. This was only his second time but he seems to be getting the hang of it. The high chair was pricey but I know he will get some good use out of it. And J loves it because he become her audience with no where for him to go. He is at her mercy at whatever she wants to play. Yesterday, she brought out the hand puppets and started a little show. He doesn't mind though, he loves her and is always smiling at her.

This week, we will be working on the letter H, our pond unit, finishing up our mitten unit. Keke will be taking mid term exams and Kaleb will be working with the spoon. Hopefully, we will have Internet all week but we are getting around to changing our Internet and phone accounts which may mean no Internet until they decided to hook it up. Smile:)