Showing posts with label thursday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thursday. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ready, Set...Go!

Today we had a blast with cars. Before we started with the cars we read our THE book; Which I got from kindergarten crayons (love this site by the way) we started sight words, doing 1 a month or until they get it! They are doing OK with it. I think it might be a little early for it but all well!

It has been a while since we have painted so I got the paints out again. I saw this idea here. It looked so fun I had to try it. We started with 2 different colors one line of it on each side of the paper, then used the cars to mix the paint.They started out not sure about it...




But in the end they all got mixed around! After cleaning up the cars and the cookie sheets we went out on the lawn and played a little Red light Green light.
They didn't quite understand the motive behind this one. But they liked just running around during Green light and stopping for red. It was a fun game.

I thought this was funny! They are trying  to run the neighbor's dog over with the lawnmower! Maybe that will keep that dog on its own side of the fence!

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Numbers

Today we worked on our numbers. I started us out with drawing a hopscotch board on the cement with sidewalk chalk. We went over the number together and then lined up and the side. I'd call out a number and they would go and search for it.

Sometimes they got confused.....
 I think I called 4 for that one above.
 But they did have fun.
 After I had them go inside and I gave them 10 skittles each. We counted them and then they could eat 1 skittle, and counted again. They REALLY loved the eating part! Soon I hope Austin will get better at counting but I think today helped it out!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Rock pets


 I saw this idea on the Martha Stewart site and thought it looked fun and cheap to do. Rock pets. First we went and search out for THE best rocks, and then choose out colors. Add Paint, paint and paint.



While we waited for them to dry, Corinne taught the boys about sinking and floating with a lava rock and a regular rock.

They loved throwing them in and seeing what would happen. After the paint dried we used e6000 glue and put out pets together. Sadly this was right when we had to leave so I never got the finished picture but Austin's duck turned out awesome we just need to paint little face on it.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Kids thursday activity part 2



 Week 5 (March)

The next week I decided on something simple since the last activity was so big. I brought some lunch bags stencils and colored pencils and crayons and more BEANS! haha! So we had them decorate the paper bag then filled them with beans. I tried to get them to dance and make sounds to music but they were not in the mood for that one! They LOVED to use the stencils even though they had a bit of a hard time with them.



 Austin did like to throw his up in the air until he broke his...

Our little spectator
 Week 6 (March)

 This week we focused on counting. I brought cups and but different number of dots. Then they needed to put the right number of  fuzzy's into the cups. It was amazing to hear them count and know how many went in each one.


Week 7 (April)

Baby Animal Days! We have a historical farm near were we live and every year they have a baby animal days were you come and see and pet the babies at a price. Luckily, my husbands parents volunteer there so we were able to get in free and then we divided the remainder of the cost between us, it wasn't too bad except for the weather. As many of you have heard and seen Utah was been having some crazy weather. I think a little more odd than normal. So it was raining the day we went. But it was a good thing we went when we did.it started snowing on the way home and hail storms. The rest of the weekends got worse and they even had to close down the animal days due to the cold.
 We had to wait around for a little bit to wait for Rochelle, who was nice enough to come and bring us our tickets to get in from mom and dad. So here is Andrew, yes Andrew was able to take some time off of school to come with us, waiting in the lobby
Aren't kids funny where they decide to play?

 Austin's choo choo train. For those of you the know my son Austin you know he is obsessive with trains. In fact he didn't want to look at the majority of the animal because we want to watch the train that kept going around in the circle.
 Now if you look at the train you can see Andrew is on it but guess who didn't want to go on the train?!?! Austin. I couldn't believe it! He was happy to watch Daimian and Gavin with daddy go on the train without us and wave at them. Kids can be frustrating...
After seeing the baby bears

Gavin ready to call it a day...and we did.
 The kids were so cold by the end of it but it was fun. So fun everyone fell asleep in the car on the way home. :) I love it when that happens!
Week 8 (April)
Egg Olympics
Andrew's family like to have egg Olympic for Easter instead of the egg hunt. It last longer and gives you a good reason to cook so many eggs. I decided to try it out toddler style. First I had they decorate their eggs with stickers and crayons here are the winner
They each did 2 eggs. First we played the classic balance the egg on the spoon. They did an awesome job of this!

Then we did the roll the egg on the floor with our nose or hand. They decided hand was easier


Next we did the wrestling game. This one is hard to explain but you have 2 components with a hard boiled egg each. then with wrist together you count to 3 then knock the eggs into each other. if you egg cracks your out. it was fun. Next we switched to plastic eggs and ahve the who can throw the farthest and make it into the bucket games.



Everyone had a blast, and I was excited it went over well with the little ones. We even had a closing ceremony.
The beautiful sounds of the toilet band. :)

Week 9 (April today)
We went outside and enjoyed the little bit of sunshine by playing on the tramp and watching and "helping" the neighbors with the garden. Another easy and entertaining time together. With lots of talking which is always a plus!