Jumping fun

Tired little jumper, Cousin Zoe

Tired little jumper, Caden.

Really tired little jumper, Hannah.

It was just too funny watching Hannah jumping for the first time (15 1/2 months old)

Oh, my goodness! This was so fun to watch Hannah jump for the first time. She would stand up and completely fall down tummy side down. Then she would try and jump...it was just too funny! Caden and Zoe had such a good time jumping.

Fun with our Best Friends

Yeah! Finally out!

Halle had a lot of good ideas to get the get the butterfly's out.

But we still waited! lol

All the kids so patiently waited for the butterflies to get out of their garden.
They really wanted to stay in, but the kids really wanted them to get out.

The two boys! Carter and Caden

Halle, Hannah, and Caden

My sweet angle.

Boy, did they have fun!

Fun with our Best Friends:
We always have such a good time with our friends Halle and Carter. First, we went to their neighborhood splash pad. At first we were not going to go because there were dark clouds all around us. So we decided to go anyways and we got a light sprinkle and nothing else after that. The kids had such a great time.

Before we left Halle and Carter's house they had some butterflies from their butterfly garden that they wanted to let loose. We were so glad we got to help them release the butterflies. The kids sat and waited so patiently for the butterflies to get out of their garden. Halle had so many good ideas that would help the butterflies get out. So finally after a long patient wait all five butterflies were released. What a fun day!!!

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Letter D and Counting

Caden did good with this counting activity. We need to practice counting from left to right. I got this idea from Michelle's awesome blog Delightful Learning

I also got this idea from Michelle...she has such a great blog.

Then we stacked blocks. I counted them but Caden was more interested in stacking and knocking them down. So I just went with it. We are also talking about shapes this week. We then discussed which shapes the blocks were.

This week: We are talking about the letter D. We did dot paint and we are also counting blocks. Trying to learn 1 to 1 correspondence. Also talking about shapes.

C is for Cow coloring page

Last week we talked about the letter C. Caden is really into coloring lately so here is his cow picture. I think he is coloring really well for a 33 month old. (Of course, I am his Mom and will say that. :))

Cow coloring page

Earth Mosaic: Creation: Mini Bible Units from Itty-Bitty Bookworm

Earth Mosaic:
As I said earlier Caden has not been interested in any other activity unless we are coloring. So I let Hannah do this activity. She does really good putting the paper on the glue, but since she is so young (15 1/2 months old) she only last for about 2-3 minutes.

Directions:
Tear green and blue construction paper into small pieces. I printed the Earth Blackline from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. Give each child an Earth blackline and a glue stick. To make the mosaic, the children will fill in the blackline with the blue and green scraps of paper.

Paper Person: More, More, More Said the Baby

It was so cute after I traced Caden, Hannah would lay on the paper so she could get traced. Of course, she laid there for 2 seconds but it was cute anyways.

Paper Person:
We are still doing lessons from the book More, More, More Said the Baby. Caden is really not interested in this book but we are still doing the lessons.

Last weeks Lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm we made A Paper Person. Caden has really been into coloring with colors lately (a month ago it was with markers). I really can't get him to do any other activity unless there is coloring involved. So I just turn his lessons around so there is some type of coloring involved.

Directions for Paper Person: Lay out a piece of butcher paper on the floor. Have your child lay down on it. Trace around the child. Cut out the shape. Have the children help you to color it and add facial features. You could also add yarn for hair. Hang up the child cut out. name body parts and have the children take turns pointing to the correct body part on the cut-out. You could label each body part, as well.

Jumping

Caden decided he would take all the pillows off of the couch and from everyone's bed. He placed them in a pile in front of the couch and made a jumping pit. The kids had a blast!
Free entertainment! Of course, Caden thought he could do it again the next day.

C is for Cows

Caden's cows in the field.

Hannah's Cows in the field.

Last week we were talking about the letter C. We did a cows in the field craft.
With Caden I talked about cows, calf, bulls, and cattle. I showed him a picture of each.

Puzzles with Hannah

While Caden was taking his nap me and Hannah worked on some puzzles. She is just beginning to be interested and able to put the pieces in the correct spot. In the puzzle above we did not talk about numbers we mainly worked on putting the piece in the correct spot.

This is her favorite puzzle by Melissa and Doug. I take all the pieces off and give them to her one by one. When I give her a puzzle piece I say the name of the animal and it's sound. She can put all the pieces in the correct spot on this puzzle.

Day 1 Creation with The Itty-Bitty Bookworm

Shared Reading (read below for instructions)

Let there be light (see below for instructions)

Game (see below for insurrections)

I know we are doing Creation again....but this time we are using The Itty-Bitty Bookworms Mini Bible units. I am so excited about them. So here is our Day 1 listed below.

We had an opening prayer: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures, great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

Shared reading: We read two books: God Created by Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones and The Beautiful World that God Made by Rhonda Gowler Greene
We used the pictures provided by The Itty-Bitty Bookworm and glued them on felt and posted them on the felt board while we read the stories.

Song: He's Got the Whole World

Games: Itty-Bitty Bookworm provided day and night cards. So then we placed them under the correct label depending on the picture.

Let There Be Light: I cut a circle out of card stock paper, then I cut triangles out of yellow construction paper. Next, I mixed glue and yellow paint together. Caden then painted the circle with the yellow mixture. Then I let him sprinkle cornmeal onto the circles. After sprinkled the cornmeal on the yellow circle then he glued the yellow triangles around the sun.

Finger Painting - More, More, More Sait The Baby

In this lesson by The Itty-Bitty Bookworm we read our book More, More, More Said the Baby and then we finger painted. We talked about how babies paint with their fingers and we also talked about the circle we painted on.

Labor Day Fun!

Caden playing stickers with Grandma Schindler. Aunt Teen gave Caden a new Lightning McQueen Sticker book, and boy does he love it. He sleeps with it at night! lol

Hannah playing in the slip n' slide!

Hannah posing!

Hannah's famous face!

Little Man!!

Playing in Mee-Maw's bird bath

My new niece!!!! Ohhhh, so cute! Baby Lyla

Hannah giving Mommy kisses!

Me and my kiddos!

On Labor Day we went to Mee-Maw's House and the kids had so much fun! We played on the slip n' slide, picked Mee-Maw's flowers, played stickers with Grandma Schindler, giggled with new baby Lyla!!! What fun!!

Scribble Art - More, More, More Said the Baby

Caden is currently 32 1/2 months and
Hannah is currently 15 months

I helped Hannah. Caden kept on giving me crayons so I would color with the kids. lol Hannah liked painting with the water color but got upset because the paint ran out so fast. Ha!

Caden said he did not want to scribble like a baby. He said he is a Big Boy!

Scribble Art - In this lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm we talked about how babies scribble and so that is what we did. We scribbled with crayons and then painted over them with water color.

Night, Night Baby! - More, More, More Said the Baby

Hannah coloring her babies.
Hannah is 15 months old

Caden covering up his babies.
Caden is 33 1/2 months old

Night, Night Baby! - With this lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm we colored the babies and then used a q-tip to put glue on the babies and placed a blanket on top to put them night, night! Both of the kids wanted to keep gluing with the q-tip.

The Itty-Bitty Bookworms 2nd Birthday!!!

The Itty-Bitty Bookworm is having it's 2nd birthday party! Head on over to Tara's site there are a lot of free give gifts!!!!

I have been using Tara's Curriculum, The Itty-Bitty Bookworm for almost 6 months, and my son is always engaged and loves every lesson. I defiantly recommend this curriculum!