Quite Frustrated

I had an extensive post done on 'Cc for Caterpillar' and when I hit publish, it said the page could not be displayed and it did not save it.  I had trouble yesterday too.  Not impressed with Blogger at the moment!  (except for the fact that its free)

Wordless Wednesday

Some Recent Pictures

I bought them a real sprinkler (we had just been laying the hose on the ground and letting it spray up) but they weren't too sure about it.

Play-doh with Amarah.

Miss Alyssa, who turns 1 tomorrow!

Dress up!

Fun with the sand box and sand table.

Camping out in the dining room and watching Curious George.

A super fun activity I saw on a blog:  Put shaving cream in a styrofoam egg container (because it floats) and then add food coloring and let them 'paint'!!  They loved it!  You can do it with paint brushes or your fingers.  Lots of bathtime fun and it wipes right off!

Swinging with Reed.

He loved the sprinkler!  He didn't even blink when water hit his face.  The girls just watched him for awhile.  Maybe his courage will rub off on them!

Ava and Reed sharing a snack.

Reed in the tunnel!

Library Story Hour.

There are so many cool phone apps!

=)

There's Definite Potential Here...

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Reading

Bb is for Butterfly

Last week we focused on the letter Bb.  

We made butterfly wings using a butterfly-making (decorating) kit I found on clearance at Hobby Lobby.  We had fun using glitter glue and rhinestones to decorate them!

Ava's finished product.

Gracie's.

Mine.  =)

Then I tied some string onto them so the girls could wear them.

We used round stickers on the do-a-dot pages.

We did a cut-and-paste activity.  Ava went the extra mile by cutting strips of 'long grass' for the butterfly.

Matching up the lowercase and uppercase Bb's.

Size sorting.

Another lowercase and uppercase matching game.

Letter Hunt worksheet.  Circle all the Bb's!

'Bb for Banana' sign language papers.

I found some neat Maze books at Dollar General for $1.  They do them with pencils so I can erase them and use again.

We worked on our dry-erase books.  I've been having them use markers but I've just discovered the dry-erase CRAYONS!!  They work just as good, easily wipe off with a wet cloth, and I don't have to worry about their clothes!

We caught a butterfly!

Amarah was over at the time so she got to share in our excitement.

Alyssa watched the excitement from the comfort of her private pool. 

(the water table!)

We used the paint markers on the do-a-dot pages as well.

We rented a couple of butterfly books from the library and several about Bears. 

Their favorite was 'Baby Duck's New Friend.'

Lacing letters.

A few tracing worksheets.

Poke pages.

Gracie drew a B!

Complete the pattern.

We made banana bread!

Gracie insisted on doing the egg herself.

She was unpleasantly surprised that it got on her hands.

Flour everywhere!

 

The finished product!  (minus half the muffins)

Yum!!

We are currently working on Cc for Caterpillar!