Balloon Festival

Mee-Maw's Birthday

Aunt Jill and Baby Lyla

Caden lovesssss cupcakes!

Hannah just discovered cupcakes mmmmmm!

Caden helping Mee-Maw blow out her birthday candle.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

I traced the spider web with hot glue and Hannah used her finder to feel the texture.

Days of the week song.

Shakers song. I tried to download the shaker song but I can't get the pictures to download. Here it is....
If your 1, 1, 1, shake it on your thumb, thumb, thumb.
If your 2, 2, 2 shake it on your shoe, shoe, shoe.
If your 3, 3, 3 shake it on your knee, knee, knee.
If your 4, 4, 4 shake it on the floor, floor, floor.
If your 5, 5, 5 do the jive!

Hannah colored the cat black line from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm and I cut construction paper out and she glued it to the cat.

Mommy School at a Closer Look

Caden is currently 34 months old and Hannah is 16 1/2 month old

We start out with our Prayer Poster. We say a prayer and then I ask Caden if he has any special prayers. Sometimes he does and most times he doesn't. lol (toddler)

Next is our number of the week which is number 5. We count to five and then I have Caden color the five and stick five stickers on the number.

We then sing our Days of the Week song.

Our letter of the week is D. I have Caden do a cut and paste. Paste items that begin with the letter D.

After our letter of the week we continue with a few songs. They mainly come from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm, depending on what lesson we our on that week. I also have a poster after our songs that says Story time. That is when we read the book that The Itty-Bitty Bookworm suggest for that lesson. After Story time I have a poster that says Bible Time. We then do our Mini Bible Unit from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. After Bible is Craft Time. That is when we actually do our crafts/lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

Pumpkin Patch with Homeshool Group

They read a story to the children.

Hannah liked the bumpy pumpkin.

Of course, brother had to check it out too.

Caden was saying "LOOK"!

We had such a wonderful day with out Home school group at the Pumpkin Patch! We will defiantly do it again next year.

More Vacation Pictures

Hannah's favorite thing to do on the entire trip...push the buggy!

Caden and Hannah at the Zoo! Too sweet! Don't worry, it only last for a few seconds!

Caden is looking for the animals on his Animal Sticker Bingo. Before we left for the San Diego Zoo me and my husband made Caden an animal bingo game. So everytime he found an animal that was on his sticker sheet he would put a sticker on that animal.

We found Fillmore!:) Oh, and Caden had to carry Hannah purse...but he did have his cars in them. lol

Caden telling Hannah what to do.

Caden hugging Bob the Builder at Lego Land

Hannah with Bob the Builder at Lego Land

The Park at Lego Land

Hannah was the only one that would ride any rides at Lego Land.

How we do Mommy School

A few of my readers have asked How do I do Mommy School with an almost 3 year old and almost 1 1/2 year old? Well it has been a lot of trial and errors and I am sure there will be many more. As of now things are flowing very nicely the way we are doing Mommy School now.

In the picture above I have a cheap version of a flip chart with songs and activities we have planned for the week. I printed out the songs on my computer and laminated them. Then I punched two holes in the top and laced yarn through them so I could hang them on the easel. Each poster is a song or it has a label such as: Story Time, Bible Time, Craft Time or Prayer Time. So when we get to that picture or song the kids know what is next. I change the songs weekly according to the lesson we have for the week. All of our lessons come from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

Feel free to click on Posters for Mommy School and it will send you to my print outs if you are interested in making yourself a flip chart. Please send pictures if you have created one yourself. Can't wait to see!

Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm

Caden is currently 34 months old and
Hannah is currently 16 1/2 months old

We are currently reading Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm and doing the lessons from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm Bo's Year 1 October.

Animal Jail: We discussed how the animals felt when they went into jail. "Where they happier at the farm? Why are they sad?" I had the kids color the animals and then made jail bars by gluing straws on top of the animals.

Animal Jail

Caden's animal jail

Hannah's animal jail

This is Hannah's lesson from Bailey's The Itty-Bitty Bookworm (year 1 Oct.). We are reading Old MacDonald had a Farm. So we put the eggs in the basket and sang The farmers got the eggs, the farmers got the eggs, Hi ho the dary oh, the farmers got the eggs.

Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm- Duck and Bubbles in the Tub

This is Caden's duck. Caden cut out an orange triangle for the duck's beak and then he glued feathers on the duck.

Hannah did the same. Caden cut our her beak for her.

Bubbles in the Tub: We are still reading Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm. Both lessons are from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. Caden had to put the correct number of bubbles (cotton balls) according to the number cards, in the tubs (cups).