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Monday, September 13, 2010

A- "A Friend Loves at all Times"

We have started to prep Hunter for Preschool. Follow the steps of many of my fabulous mommy friends, we chose to use The Letter of Week Curriculum. I debated many time just coming up with my curriculum after all its what I went to school for, but I have so little time left after working all day that I decided its best just to use this and add my own touches! We had lots of fun this week and no I don't expect him to grasp everything but we are making him aware of little things around him and having fun while we do it! Having this curriculum basically gives me a place to start when I am think about what fun things we will do this week.

Week 1
Theme: Cow
Vocabulary Word: Calf
Letter: A
Number: 1
Shape: Square
Color: Blue
Verse: "A Friend Loves at all Times" Proverbs 17:17
September's Bible Story: Samson


We started Monday off with a bang! We made some science happen in the kitchen by making sugar cookies. Hunter loves mixing it all together and watching each ingredient disappear and meld into something else. After the dough was made we rolled it out like "play dough" and used cookie cutters to make squares, 1's and A's. Then we painted them blue! I have to say this was my favorite part I had never painted cookies before. Plus painting works on the fine motor skills. Here are some pictures of our fun...





Unfortunately the camera on my phone broke and Dad was away with camera. So I wont be able to show you the rest of our fun. We played the farm animal file folder game many times and also had some fun with some lacing cards in the shape of an A, a 1, and a square. All of our lace up cards were blue, although Hunter still sometimes thought they were green which means go don't you know! We did more painting this time of cows on paper. On Wednesday we had out little friend Craven over and we really tried hard to practice "a friend loves at all times" but its hard when he is chewing on your choo choo's. As some of you know Hunter loves peanut butter sandwiches and he likes them cut into shapes even more so of course this week his peanut butter sandwich looked like a 1, an A, and a square. Friday I had the day off and we went to the critter barn to get a close up of a cow and a calf! While we were there Hunter got to milk a goat!! He thought it was terrific! "Mom i squeeze like this and milk comes out!" Makes me a little nervous about what he is going to think of me breastfeeding his brother. We only touched a little on Samson so far we know he is strong and has long hair. This is the story he will be working on with Ms. Beth at church and I would prefer to reinforce what he is learning there each weekend then pounce too much information on him. Dad came home Saturday about 5 mins before I was going to take him to class so we let him hang out with Dad and Samson will have to continue next week. We have one more cow craft to do yet and that is to glue black and white squares into the shape of a cow. Hopefully we can squeeze that in tonight before we are onto the Jungle and week number 2!