Sock basketball

Week 13 : Day 2

Play-  Sesame street game

 

Nothing is funner for the kids than finger painting.  Here they are flying free.   

Futtershy's masterpiece.

This is Fluttershy's first attempt at a family picture.  It's a bit hard to tell but she's got the body and arms and eye drawn.  Some of us has legs.  Unfortunately non of us have heads.  Oops.  She did get Daisy 4 legs though.  As I watched her do this she was telling me who was who and saying what she was drawing. 

Fine Motor Skill:

Write "My Family" on the bottom of a blank piece of paper.  Have your child draw his/her family.  Your child will be doing this activity periodically throughout the curriculum.  Write the date on the back of the picture and save the picture to compare each time.  The pictures should become more detailed with time. 

Gross motor skills-

Play basketball with a rolled-up sock and a laundry basket. 

Rarity decided it was funner to sit in the basket and get hit by the flying socks.

Starfall.com

We love playing on starfall.  We played the silly turkey game and counted bears. 

More preschool! Really?

For those of you who read my blog you'll notice we do "preschool" 3 times a week.   These lesson are very short and are mostly are coloring and crafts.  Well, its Thursday and we did our 3 lessons on Monday-Wednesday.  Now that it's Thursday I didn't have anything planned.   Fluttershy insisted that we do preschool today so I decided to try out a site called Preschool Palace .  

I get some of my worksheets from them so today I decided to try out their preschool lessons.  They have them for free for the current month.  You can buy them for a year at a time.  If we decide we like them we may get them for next year.  We'll see.

Today's was fun.  I think I'll keep them for the extra days we need something to do.  Fluttershy really loves having the activities to do and the extra time with me.  Rarity tries to do everything that her big sister does.  I try to keep her involved letting her sit at the table with us and allowing her to to a simplified version of what ever Fluttershy is doing. 

Movement: Shape Twister

Draw shapes on index cards and lay them out on the floor.  Call out the shape and either hand or foot and have then do it.  We even tried Left and right and Fluttershy got it most of the time.  Rarity enjoyed just stepping on the cards. 

Sensory/Craft: Square block painting

Taking a cube explain that the sides of a cube are a square.  Let them dip the side in paint and make squares on construction paper. 

Our new find.  http://www.abcya.com/

I am so excited to find this.  A Free computer learning game that is little kid friendly, good graphics, and a good learning tool. They start at kindergarten level.  Surprisingly Fluttershy was able to do and enjoy more than half of the activities.  She's still learning how to use the mouse so I had to help her with a few games.  She knew the answers but didn't have the coordination to click on some of the littler things.  Her favorite of the day was Alphabet bingo.  

If you have kids 4 or 5 and up you've got to give this site a try.  So much fun.

We also looked at the Starfall.com calendar, talked about the weather, and had fun just playing.