What is an Ark?

This week's theme is Noah's Ark!  I was very much looking forward to talking about this with Abbie.  She is very intrigued by this story.  Our letter this week is Dd, our number is 4, and our color is green.  After circle time, I did a basic introduction to all of our "of the week" items!  She counted to 4, and showed me something green in the room.  We also reviewed that dentist starts with a Dd.

On her first birthday, we gave Abbie a Noah's Ark Little People toy.  She has gotten a lot of play out of it, and it came in handy today!  I pulled out the ark, and asked... "What is an ark?"  Abbie answered in almost a shout... A BOAT!!!  We counted the animals, and talked about the different ones.  Donkey starts with Dd, so I used that opportunity to practice Dd again!

She also colored her own ark, and we attached 2 of each of the animals!  She helped me sort and handed them to me when I named them!  I dabbed glue on the page, and she glued them down!

It felt great to be back into the swing of learning again, and I think she enjoyed our lesson!

Ready for Circle Time!

Reading the story of Noah.

Counting animals, and discussing what they are!

Coloring her ark.

Finished with her animals!

It looks great!

Dd is for Dentist!

For Christmas, my wonderful family, gave me the best gift I could have ever asked for... a Mommycation!  It was amazing.  I spent 4 days, KID FREE, in Salt Lake City, Utah, visiting my mom & her fiance!  It was such an amazing trip.  I didn't have much time before or after the trip to work on lesson planning!  It has taken me a few weeks to get back into the swing of everything, but we have finally recovered!
Due to lack of planning time we took one more week off, last week!  We did however take a field trip to the dentist!  Abbie had never been to the dentist before, so she was excited and anxious both!  Sadly, I hadn't been to the dentist in about 8 years, so I was just as anxious!!!  I did my cleaning first, and Abbie watched.  She saw it wasn't so bad, and she laughed and laughed at me while the polishing brush tickled my gums!

She was up... so, we went into a new room, and she hopped right up into the chair!  No hesitation was a good sign to me!  When the chair laid back, I busted out laughing!  As the chair reclined, Abbie's feet went straight up into the air.  They literally stayed up in the air for the majority of the cleaning!!  Even the dentist was laughing!  They started by counting all of Abbie's teeth, and Abbie thought that was very cool.  After her teeth were counted, the cleaning began.  She let Dr. George brush and floss her teeth like such a big girl!  I was seriously impressed with how well she did, and I always have super high expectations about things like this.  Before she got up, they did a flouride treatment, and she loved the taste of it!!!  She did so well, that she was able to pick a prize from the treasure jar.  She was so excited, but the cherry on top of the visit was a new toothbrush!  Abbie was thrilled, and couldn't wait to brush her teeth when she got home!  (Of course we had to wait 4 hours because of the flouride treatment...)

I was a very proud mommy, and Abbie can't wait to go back to the dentist!

Hopped up into the chair!

Showing the dentist all of her teeth!

Counting all of those pearly whites.

Brushing her teeth...

Using the suction with her feet up in the air!  

Someone is very excited about her new toothbrush!

Ice cream later that evening as a special treat for being so great!!!