I saw it on Pinterest- Zap!

Here is a fun and quite simple math game that I found on Pinterest.

Materials:

• Scissors
• Liquid glue (I used Elmers clear school glue)
• Popsicle sticks
• Pencil
• Paper
• A non see through cup or container

Prep:

• write several math equations for your child's level on to paper.
• cut each equation and glue it on to the end of a stick.
• On a few of the sticks write ZAP!
• Place all of the stick in the cup pointed down.

How to play:

1 player at a time chooses a stick.  If they answer the equation correctly they keep the stick. If they answer incorrectly the stick goes back into the cup.  If you pull a ZAP! stick all of your sticks go back into the cup.  The first player to 10 sticks wins.

What great ideas have you followed through with from Pinterest this week?  It doesn't have to be a learning activity it could be a recipe... or a refashion... Link up!

Indoor P.E.- Big Ball

Well the weather outside is starting to become frightful... so I have been searching for creative indoor P.E. ideas. Today I brought out the big ball.

He-man!  How long can you hold the ball up on your head?

Front crawl isn't just for swimming.

We'll probably do some more practice with balancing. :)

What P.E. activities are you doing indoors?

The Get Dressed Challenge!

*Deep Breath*  I can do this... I will get dressed and let that lead me to being a better wife, mother and homemaker.  Wanna join with me?  Click the button at the top and link up. :)

What My Child is Reading!

It's been a week of quite silly books at our house.
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff

 Oh the zany things that can happen when you offer treat food to animals.  Just like if you give a  Moose a Muffin or If You give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake be prepared for it to turn into a full day of events :)

There's a Bear in the Bath by Nanette Newman

If you are not up on the etiquette of having a bear as a guest in your house just let Jam (Yes that is the bears name because his mother loved Jam more than anything in the worl until she had a baby cub of her own.  Then she loved him more than anything in the world and named him Jam.) teach you how to be polite to your bear friends when they come over.

The True Story of The Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

Yup our family is into backwards versions of fairytales.  You see the wolf wasn't really trying to blow down the poor little pig's house.  Really he had a cold and one of his big sneezes caused the house to be blown apart.

Read more to find out the truth in The True Story of The Three Little Pigs.

Check out what other folks are reading over at Mouse Grows Mouse Learns.

Preschool Corner Letter L

Welcome to our lovely letter L edition of Preschool Corner.
We have lot to share.
Hudson really likes using ink pads to stamp and print.  Using a DLTK L Template we created Lego L's.

 

I printed and laminated a set of sequencing leaves from Childcareland.com .

We stacked them from biggest on the bottom to smallest on the top.

 We lined them up in order of size and we counted them just for a little extra number practice.

A really fun P.E. idea was to set up daddy's ladder in the basement and practice climbing up and down.

I love the library.  We checked out Tawny The Scrawny Lion on CD and listened to it at home quite a few times.

 

See the CD player in the baby swing? 

We did some practice tracing different sorts of lines. I printed these work sheets from DLTK. (Love that website.)

A great activity that we did was make lazy lemonade. (I'll post the recipe at the bottom).

Washing the lemons.

Putting them in the blender.

 Straining the mixture

 

Tasting the lemony goodness.

 

Lazy Lemonade Recipe

4 lemons

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of water

Wash and quarter the lemons.  Toss them into the blender (skin and all) with the rest of the ingredients.  Blend well. Strain into a 2 liter pitcher.  Fill the rest of the pitcher with water.  Stir and enjoy.

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Week in Review-Poky Little Puppy

Well this week has been sometimes successful and sometimes not so much. We actually couldn't find the Poky Little Puppy book to read it one day this week. We did do a lot of fun projects however. We made paper plate puppies on Thursday with big floppy ears. They are quite cute!
Saturday we made dairy free rice pudding. Hudson loved it. In fact he has asked to eat it for every meal. (Not that I let him of course).
Hope you all had a charming weekend!



Dairy Free Pudding
2 cups water
1 cup brown rice, rinsed
1 1/4 cups soy milk, rice milk, or other non-dairy milk of choice
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup brown rice syrup or maple syrup
1 t. vanilla
1/2 t. cinnamon
1/4 t. ground ginger
1/8 t. ground nutmeg

In a medium saucepan, place the water, and bring to a boil. Add the rice, cover, reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 35 minutes or until all of the water has been absorbed. Add the remaining ingredients, stir well to combine, and continue to cook the mixture over low heat until all of the liquid has been absorbed. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and place the pudding in the refrigerator to chill. Top individual servings with a little additional cinnamon before serving, if desired.

Serves 3-4

The Poky Little Puppy

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Ephesians 6:1 (Our memory verse to go along with The Poky Little Puppy)
I waited until today to post about our home preschool unit study (notice I am picking up lingo) this week because we started the week off with a two part project. We are reading The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey. I remember having this book read to me when I was a little girl. It is so special to now share it with my son.
So on Monday we ventured out into the "wide wide world"(really just our block) and took pictures of the amazing things we saw. Tuesday we made an accordion book with the pictures we took. I wrote what Hudson said about each of the pictures underneath and then laminated the book for durability. The outdoor adventure was more fun for Hudson, however, he is also enjoying looking at his book as well. Come back at the end of the week to see the other fun activities we do.

Week in Review

What a fun week we have had. As I posted on Monday our home preschool theme was Carrot Soup by John Segal. On Monday we began with a seed experiment. None of the seeds we found in the kitchen have sprouted yet but hopefully will soon.
Tuesday we had a grand adventure painting with vegetables. Celery, carrots, broccoli and potatoes became our paint brushes as we created some very unique place mats. Wednesday we took a break. Our plan was to make Carrot soup that day, but it just didn't happen. Thursday we flipped our place mats over and created a fruits and vegetables collage on the other side. (Craig my husband will be laminating them shortly). Friday we decided to do a tried and true experiment. We cut the end off of some leafy celery and put it in a jar of blue colored water.
Stay tuned for next weeks unit study...