L if for Leaves!

I wasn't going to start on the Letter L until next week, but the kids took a lot of interest in the leaves today. They noticed that the front yard was completely covered.  
Today, the kids glued on leaves to a big letter L.  Again, my camera wasn't cooperating with me, but I was able to get pictures of their final artwork!

 Talia's L

Kara's L

Tomorrow, everyone is going to have a bag that will go home with them.  They can fill it up with leaves and bring it back with them for next week!

Today was a special snuggly day.  The kids wanted to cuddle with each other, especially Luke!

We will start our Letter L box this week, so if you have anything that starts with L, please bring it in!

Thank you!

Fall Tree (Friday)

Better late than never!  I have been having trouble posting on here and uploading pictures.   It looks like everything is coming back again!  This is what I wrote on Friday that didn't post!


Today, we made our fall tree.  The kids colored in a trunk.  Then, they finger-stamped the different colors of leaves for their tree.  Unfortunately, my camera stopped working, but I was able to get one picture!

All the other pictures came out black! I was so disappointed!  
We read The Richard Scarry Big Book of ABCs.  There were so many pictures to look at!  We sat for a long time looking at all the different things that started with F!

F is for Food

Today we read "Fox's Adventure in Alphabet Town".  I love our local library and their alphabet book selections.  The kids recognized The Alphabet Town Series, from reading the A one.  They knew to look for things that start with the letter F.  This is the part of teaching that just makes me so ecstatic!  


I wanted to work on their gluing skills so today we made a collage using pictures from magazines (pre-cut by me).  They used regular glue sticks and I taught them to put it on in  circular motion. They had a blast!!!!  

 Kara

Talia

Here they are showing off their artwork for me!

 Talia

Kara

Here is a picture of their final work:

 Talia

Kara

Afterwards, we practiced cutting with scissors on some old magazines.

I went along and took pictures of the kids in center.  Every time I tried to take a picture of Luke, he would see me and automatically lay down on the little baby doll blanket.  I'm thinking it's time I make him one! haha!

Talia likes going in the quiet area and play with the electronic ABC game.

We had another great day!

Letter F box

So far our letter F box has the following:

farmer 

flowers 

 french fries

fox 

 fork

 frog

 fish

flute 

fishing rod 

 Kara found a toy french fry in her room

 Talia brought in pink feathers

Talia brought in a flashlight

We will be exploring the Letter F all this week, so don't forget to bring things that start with F! 

Thank you

F is for Fall

Fall is finally here! What a great week to start learning about the Letter F.  

Today we read "My 'f' Book".  Then we collected things from around the house to fill our Letter F box.  
Our project for the day was to glue on feathers.  They had a lot of fun doing so!

 Kara making her F out of feathers

 Talia making her f out of feathers

Here are their finished artwork!  P.S.  Luke would not let me take his picture making a project, but instead, he wanted me to take a picture of him laying down on a baby doll blanket, and so I did! :)

Luke's feathers

 Talia's feathers

Kara's feathers

Then, the kids picked play-dough for their free art activity.  They really love play-dough! I don't blame them, we all relax and have a great time, even I do!

 Kara made an F

Talia likes to break the play dough into tiny pieces

 Luke loves to feel the play-dough!

He learned how to make circles today!

We had a great time!  They were all so exhausted, they all napped extra long! 

Except my daughter, of course! :)

See you tomorrow!

Apple Pie

Today was a fun day!  We all made an apple pie together.  We read "The Apple Pie Tree" by Zoe Hall.  This is one of my favorite books!  It shows the different stages of an apple tree and then the kids, in the book, make an apple pie with the apples.   Of course, we made our version of an apple pie too.  I love this recipe because it is really kid friendly!


I turned the small convection oven on to 400 degrees.
First I prepped the apples (5 large, peeled and cut) ahead of time.  We added 1 tablespoon of sugar to the apples to make them more juicy.  We all took a turn stirring the apples and sugar mix.

 Kara

 Patrick

 Talia

Luke

We set the apples aside and worked on the "pie crust" part of the recipe.  

 Patrick added 1 cup of light brown sugar.

 Kara added 1 cup of Bisquick.

 Talia added 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

Luke added 1 egg, the entire egg!  I fetch it out, all in one piece and showed him how to break an egg.  :)

I added 1 and 1/2 sticks of melted butter (microwave for 1 minute) because it was really hot!  We all took turns stirring the mix. 

 We sprayed the pan and placed the apples into it.

 Then we poured the "pie crust" on top of the apples and spread them out.  

We placed it in the oven for 1 hour.

This is what it looks like after it was all done!  It was so yummy.  All of the kids loved it!  This is such an easy recipe and you can use almost any fruit.  Hope you all have a chance to make this with your kiddies too!

First time Kara was away

Kara had school today, so it was just Luke and Talia.  The kids really rely on Kara and almost need her.  I didn't realize how much until she was gone.  They both needed her and missed her so much. 

 Kara, ready and off to school!

We read 2 books today.  We read "Ape's Adventure in Alphabet Town" by Janet McDonnell and "Found an Apple" pictures by Elliot Kreloff (did not list an author).  

We went over the A box again today.  The kids really love looking through the box!  


For art, we took it easy today and did some free art.  Talia and Luke wanted to use the "special" markers.  They used the Crayola Color explosion markers on the black paper.

 Talia working hard on her project

Luke did ont want to let go of the toy vacuum as he was coloring.  

Obviously, that is his FAVORITE toy here!

Tomorrow, Kara will be home. I know the kids missed her and can't wait to see her again.  See you tomorrow!