Adventuring through the corn

Our adventure this evening was winding our way through a corn maze. At first glance I was sure we would run right through it. Last years maze was easily twice the size of this one. Of course I was mistaken. One hour and twenty minutes after we entered we emerged from the maze. For a simple one it sure threw us for a loop. Good thing my husband was there or we'd still be in their winding our way through the that crazy thing.

I thought it would be a great idea to turn this fun outing into a learning experience for Fluttershy. I thought by letting her practice her left, right, and straight, she'd start to understand these directions. However, all it accomplished was getting us completely lost. I gave up on this brilliant idea and let my husband take over as decision maker of this journey.

I am sam

Week 8: Day 3

Started our day with our reading.

I See Sam little books
Here Fluttershy is reviewing her words that she know. I found a series of books called the I See Sam Books. The Sam books have 7 sets of small book and each set has 27 books. Fluttershy just loves show of her reading skills. I have done a lot of searching to find books that I felt were simple enough yet progress at the rate she could handle. The school district here uses them with their after school programs so I gave them a try.

I'm sure we will continue through all 7 sets. Fluttershy is on set one and on book 6. Every night before bed and after her sister has been put to bed, we have our one on one time while she reads me her book.

I found this cute site that has online stories that have good messages. This week we watched Rosa learns about forgiveness. It's a cute story about two friends.

Fluttershy is getting so good at the pre-writing worksheets. Soon we'll be able to move on to writing letters.

Shapes:
For our shape review I use my flashcards and had Fluttershy hand me the appropriate card as I names them.

Block Activity: Block Talk
Activity - Using only 2-3 blocks, the adults forms a block creation. Using directional words (below, on top of, over, etc) describe to the child what the block formation looks like. The child then needs to build the exact same thing.

Increasing the Difficulty - To increase the difficult, add more blocks. Also add colors into the descriptions. Trade roles and have the child do the describing.

We also used right, left, in front, and behind.

To make for some more fun I had Fluttershy give the instructions and I would build it. She love to have the reverse roles when we do games like red light green light, and simon says.

Rarity worked on her stacking abilities with her blocks.
Gross Motor Skills:
Memory obstacle course

This was a hit with both girls. Fluttershy got good at following instructions while Rarity just had fun following her sister.

The instructions for the one we made today was:

• Jump on the pillow
• Bunny jump 5 times
  
• Crawl through the tunnel
• Sit on the chair
• Crawl to the stool
  
• Climb over the stool
• Walk the tight rope

When asked what they wanted to do for free play, Fluttershy requested dress up. Here Rarity is a fairy cat princess. I love the placement of the ears.

Playschool Lesson 8

Hide and Seek Play Dough

Week 8: Day 2

We started our day with 20 minutes of reading. Next we watched the Starfall calendar. Starfall is a great site for teaching lettters and their sounds, months, and days of the week. They also have on their site, interactive videos for every letter of the alphabet.

Fine Motor Skills:

• I hid 10 coins in the play dough and asked Fluttershy to retrieve all 10.
  
• Next I had her count them.
• Then she sorted them into the different coin types.

Coloring Page:

One of the books that we are reading this week is Hop on Pop so

our coloring page was a picture of Hop on Pop.

Spacial Activity:

--Using the Duplo Blocks I stacked three blocks and asked the following questions.

• Which block is on top, middle, bottom?

--The next part of the activity I had fluttershy tell me about what she does when she gets up. (Helping her learn order.)

--Last we took our flashlights into a dark room and learned about on and off. This part was Rarity's favorite part. She had so much fun with the flashlight that she held on to it for the rest of the day.

Pre-Writing Skills:
Here Fluttershy is working on diagonal lines and tracing squares.

We also reviewed colors, shapes, and last name. To see these and other activities check the printable Lesson plans.

Marble Art

Playschool Fun

Every week we will be doing lots of fun learning activities. During the week we set aside 3 days that we formally sit down to do art, coloring, computer play, and misc worksheets that my girls will learn as well as have fun. Each week we have a different theme and try to focus on learning a few new letters, number, personal knowledge, and work on motor skills.

If you click on the link I provide at the end of each week post it will take you to our lessons and give you the link to the worksheets we do that week. I will post new ones as we do them. We will be starting with week 8 since that is where we are in our lesson progress.

Week 8: Day 1

This weeks theme:

Letters: N, M

Knowledge: Last name

Books: Is your mama a llama, Hop on pop, and Brown bear, brown bear.

Motor skill:
Cutting with scissors. This is a hard one for her. I had her use the smallest scissors I had, but I think I will need to get her some scissors that are meant to help them learn.

Playdough:
I let Rarity play with play dough while her sister worked on
things she isn't old enough to do yet.


Coloring:
Since Halloween is coming soon we made our coloring page today a Halloween theme. I've started hanging their pictures as decorations on some of our windows and fridge.

The letter: M
Every week we do one or more new letters activities. I keep our art pictures and will make a book out of them at the end of the year showing off her art work.

Marble art-- For the letter M I printed this worksheet and placed it in a cake pan. I then let Fluttershy dip a marble in pant and tip the pan making the marble roll all around. She really enjoyed this activity. Anything that she gets to use paint she loves.

Letter: N
I printed the numbers 1-10 and cut them out. Then fluttershy got to glue them where she wanted. We counted as she glued them on. Two in one activity.

Pre-writing skills:
I have fluttershy tell me about the shape and
let her have fun tracing the shapes.





Colors:
I used flashcards to review the colors she already know.

Information:
This week Fluttershy is learning what her last name is, how to spell it
and tracing her last name on a worksheet.

Play:
Today Fluttershy chose Candyland as her game we played. Its a simple, yet educational. It helps with her colors, taking turns, and counting.

Week 8 printable lesson

Play School Weekend Fun

I love the weekends. Its a chance to have fun and play. This weekend the girls and I made this lap book. I love lap books for the reason that they can be used many times over. When I need them to be entertained while I'm fixing dinner I'll pull out one they haven't seen in a while and they entertained. My girls love flipping through the books they colored.

Noah's Ark Lap Book

Motor Skills:

Fluttershy had fun gluing the verse together making an accordion book.

Sequencing activity:
Here she laid in order the cards.


Coloring:
Fluttershy coloring her book. Her current coloring style is fast and done.


Playdough Time:

Playdough is always a great activity. There are so many different thing you can do with it. Here Fluttershy is making letters.

Cooking together:
Our last project of the day was making these super yummy chocolate chip cookie bars. Fluttershy did all the mixing and was the official taste tester of the chocolate chips which she gave a thumbs up. Mmmmm... we couldn't wait to try them.
You can get the recipe from the like above.