Puzzles

Things that go together and Matching Colors and Textures puzzles.

Alphabet Lotto

Alphabet Lotto-  Caden did two cards and was done with this activity.  Hannah loved it...even though she didn't know what she was matching.  lol

B for Bear Puppet

B is for Bear Puppet

Red Rubber Ball-Vocabulary and Sound Sort

We are currently reading Red Rubber Ball and following the Bailey's July Year 2 Itty-Bitty Bookworm Curriculum.  The vocabulary cards came from Bailey's July Year 2 Curriculum and the Sound Sorting lesson came from Bo's Curriculum.  

Sound Sort-  I ask Caden what the first letter of the word is of his vocabulary words and he matches it with the correct letter.  Last time we did upper case letters and this time we did lower case letters.  I had to help him a little... we need to work more on recognizing lower case letters.   Over all he did well!   

Magic Nuudles

I love this picture...I wish I would have taken it with my SLR.

We had a blast with these Magic Nuudles.    Not messy, easy to clean and fun to play with.  We made shapes, flowers, crosses, and Caden liked making lines.  All you need is a damp sponge. :)))

B for Bean

I got this idea from DLTK.

Fun at the Zoo

Zoe, Caden, Mommy, and Hannah

Hannah

Zoe

Caden

Zoe

Regan and Hannah

Zoe and Caden looking at the Giraffes

Regan and Caden looking at the elephants.

Hannah and Caden

Caden

The Three Bears-Felt Bear

Tot School Caden 29 1/2 months 

I have been documenting Caden activities since January 09.  I love, love, love 1+1+1=1 blog.  I have finally decided to join Tot School.  I have been meaning to for a long time but it has taken me awhile to learn about this blog stuff.  Having the kids 17 1/2 months apart does not give me much time on the computer.  So from now on I will also add the label Tot School so we can be apart of this great adventure!  Hope you enjoy!!!

The Three Bears- The Home of The Three Bears

I got the house outline from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.  Caden painted glue on the house and then used popsicle sticks to make the bear's house.

Creation Day 2

Day 2- I got this idea from this cute blog.

A for Apple

A is for apple.  I do not remember were I printed this from...when I do I will post it.

The Three Bears- Size Matching

In this lesson Caden had to match the correct chair, bed, and bowl with the correct size bear.  He really enjoyed this activity, he even pulled it out the next day.

The Three Bears- Little Wee Bear's Teddy Bear

In this lesson we were supposed  to use brown construction paper and I was all out.  So we used black instead.  Hannah was awake while we did this lesson and she so wanted to pull off the buttons and eyes.  I wanted to see if she would be interested in putting the paper on the bear but she was way more interested in the buttons and eyes.

I tore up paper and put it in a cup for Caden to put on the Teddy Bear.  In the lesson it said to use scissors but we didn't use them (maybe next time).  

Popsicle Stick Bottle and Pom-Pom Bottle

I don't have a picture of Hannah putting the popsicle sticks in the water bottle but she loved this activity. Little Hands, Big Work used paper clips but I used popsicle sticks because I did not want Hannah to stick them in her mouth.

Hannah also enjoyed putting pom-poms in an bottle.

I got these ideas from Little Hands, Big Work. Caden was not interested in the new activities for long but Hannah enjoyed both of them.

Potty Training update

This weekend Caden went number 2 in the potty twice.  Yeahhhhh!  What progress!!!!!  I am really amazed how he's doing because I totally would have thought he would refuse the rest of his life!  lol

Creation Day 1

Could not get this picture to rotate either...ug!  We are still focusing on Creation for our Bible Lessons.  Today I read from The Children's Illustrated Bible.  We talked about on the first day God created light.  So we made a suns and glued them on the number one, Caden insisted on lots of suns!

Highlights Top Secret Adventures- Australia

I did not take any pictures when we were doing this lesson because I did it right before nap time.  My best friend Elsie introduced me to Highlights magazines.  I remember them as a child but did not realize how much more they have now.  They have High-Five magazine, which is for ages 2-6.  They also have another magazine which is the one I am talking about called Top Secret Adventures.  Click on the link and it will give you a description of what Top Secret Adventures are http://www.highlights.com/mt/product_story/about_top_secret_adventures.jsp.  

It is for ages 7-12.  Caden and I do it together and really modify it.  I figured he would not be interested at all but he really is, and I really wanted a way to introduce Geography and this is a great way of doing so.  Some of the things I have to do and he just watches and the rest I ask him all sort of questions and have him circle things and so on.  If you would like to try it, you can get it for free and just pay for shipping.  Check it out!

We have also already done some of the activities in High-Five and really enjoy it as well.  I may order the Highlights magazine too and just modify just like the Top Secret Adventures.  Love it!!!!!

A for Apple

I cut an apple in half and had Caden stamp on the letter A.  Got this idea from Preschool by Stormie.

Sand Art number 0 and 2

Number 0 (sorry I could not get it to rotate)

Pouring sand

Number 2 sand art.

The 0, 1, and 2 number coloring pages were supposed to be used for the sand art.  The number 1 was used for Creation Day number 1.  Oops!  Don't remember were I got this idea from!  

Jump Frog Jump- Froggy Paper bag Puppet

The froggy puppet lesson was from Bo's Itty-Bitty Bookworm curriculum but I got the froggy cut out from here.  Caden enjoyed making the puppet, but was very upset because we could not play with it right away.