Adam & Eve

I am a little behind!  This weekend sent me for a bit of a roller coaster ride, but we are back on track(ish)!!!  Monday was Brady's first birthday.  Since his birthday was Monday, we celebrated with friends and family on Sunday!  Even though Sunday was a day full of cleanup, and other fun plans... we managed to squeeze in a lesson!  This week we are discussing Adam & Eve.  On Monday, we talked about how God made Adam first, and he made Eve from Adam's rib.  Abbie showed me her ribs!

We started off our morning with Circle Time, and of course Abbie enjoyed it!  She sang all 3 of our songs with me... it still amazes me how many of the words she knows!  She sang her ABC's with no help from me!
After Circle Time was over, we breezed through discussing our letter, number, and color.  Our letter this week is Cc, our number is 3, and our color is yellow.  We do not really need to work on yellow.  It is Abbie's favorite color, and she distinguishes it easily.  3 is not really something we need to stress either, because she knows it very well!  She will be 3 on her birthday, and since I count to 3 often when she is in trouble... she is familiar with it!  Cc, however, is new!  We discussed that Cc is for Cookie or Camryn, one of her best friends!  Tomorrow we will bring Cinderella into the picture since her Cc makes a different sound!

Our craft was very simple, since I knew we were on a time crunch.  I printed a coloring sheet of Adam & Eve for her.  While she colored we talked about boys and girls.  We talked about how they are different, and as I named her friends 1 by 1, she told me if they were a boy or a girl!

We ended our morning with a rousing rendition of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.  Her version was precious!  She has sang this before, and knows most of the words... however... she placed her foot on the table to show me her toes!!!  I just love her...

Singing her ABC's at Circle Time.

Coloring her worksheet... she loves to color!

There are Abbie's toes!!!

Creation Day 7 & Review

Today was our final lesson with our 7 Days of Creation theme.  Abbie has really enjoyed learning about it all.  I am not sure how much she actually retained, but I am not too concerned about that at this point.  During our review she told me that God made Dark & Light, and animals, and flowers, and water!  I feel like if she retained that much information over 2 weeks... I'm proud!

Abbie did well with our songs at Circle Time.  She sang almost all of the words with me!  She sang her ABCs in their entirety and I am excited each time she does it!  After Circle Time we did some basic review.  We talked about the letter, number, color, and all of the Creation Days.  After our review, she worked on her number 7 Poster number!  I cut the number out of white paper, and used a white crayon to draw Zs on it, you know... God rested... Zzzzzzzz!  I didn't have any water colors, so I mixed a little poster paint with water!  It worked.  Only issue was, I am not sure I pressed hard enough with the crayon!  The Zs did appear, but not like I was hoping for.  She enjoyed it, and when she was finished... we displayed it with the other numbers!  We sang one of my favorite kid songs "My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty... there's nothing my God cannot do"!!!  I love to watch their faces when they sing this!  And, we finished our morning off with some name writing practice!  This week went well, and she seemed to enjoy each lesson!  I am very excited to change themes, and continue our lessons next week!

Singing her ABC's!

Painting her last Poster Number!

The Z's are hard to see, but they are there!

All 7 days of creation!

Working on her name!

Creation Day 6 - Animals

Abbie seemed to enjoy today's lesson more than our previous lessons! She did a few extra activities that we don't usually do! Our focus today was animals. She loves animals, and learning about them proved to be just as fun!
Of course we started our morning out with "Circle Time", and she did so well with her ABCs! I was so proud of her! When Circle Time was over, we reviewed Days 1-5 of creation and began talking about Day 6. We sang 5 Little Ducks & Old McDonald. I was a bit surprised to hear tat Abbie knows the words to Old McDonald!
After singing, I broke out her Little People's Noah's Ark. We talked about all of the different animals and how God made each of them. When we were finished we pulled out animal puzzles & she was thrilled! She loves puzzles :)

After our activities, we had a few "art projects" to do! We worked on her #6 Poster Number, and a worksheet for the letter Bb. I found some cute foam safari animal cutout & we picked out her favorites! She glued them to her number, and it looks great! We finished up our morning with a worksheet. Bb is for Baby Brother... How appropriate, right?!?!
We had a spontaneous play date immediately following school this morning, so this afternoon, she will get animal crackers for snack. If she wants to watch anything, she can watch The Lion King! I think today was another successful lesson.

Showing me the Letter Bb... mental note, no more purple chalk!

She picked yellow again for circle time, but showed me where blue and green were!

She loves to sing... singing Old McDonald.

Sad Mommy Duck... she does a pretty good sad mommy duck!

"That is a Zebra"!  She loves Marty from Madagascar!!

Counting and arranging the animals...

I love this picture!  Both of my babies focused and playing!

Working on puzzles... which she loves! 

She is pretty good at them too!

Bb is for Baby Brother worksheet.

Days 1-6... tomorrow is our last day learning about creation!

Creation Days 4 & 5

We had another great lesson today.  Abbie was a little bummed that she didn't have a friend to learn with today, but after a few minutes... she was over it!  We reviewed what we learned last week about Creation.  She remembered that Day 1 God created light.  She also remembered flowers on Day 3!  Our letter of the week is Bb, and we learned several words that begin with Bb.  "Brady, Baby, Brother, & Ball".  After our lesson was over I asked her if she could tell me a word that started with Bb, and she said "Ba Ba Brady", so I guess it stuck!  Our number this week is 2, and our color is orange, but we didn't do anything with those today.

We worked on Creation Poster Numbers for Days 4 & 5, and she really enjoyed it.  On day 4's poster number she glued on a sun and a moon, and stuck star stickers to it as well.  For Day 5, she placed birds in the sky, and (since we were out of staples) we taped them down.  We also made thumbprint fish.  I used an ink pad to ink her thumb, and finished them to look like fish!  She really enjoyed that part!

After we were all finished with our lesson, I made her a snack... goldfish, and she gets to enjoy it while watching Finding Nemo.  She was very excited to watch Nemo!!!

Today's Focus...

Circle Time with Abbie!  She was tracing the word yellow!

Baby Shark (do do ddddo :) 

Grandpa Shark...

Shark Attack!!!

Skidamirinky dinky dink, Skidamirinky do.

I LOVE YOU... she really liked that song!

Working on Creation Day 4 poster number!

Brady participated in school today too!  He LOVES the Baby Shark song!

Putting stars onto her Number 4.

I didnt get in pics of #5 in action, but they both turned out cute!

Goldfish snack & Finding Nemo... not a bad way to end the morning!

Creation Day 3 - Flowers & Trees

Today was another fun lesson!  We had some visitors with us today!  My desire to home school has been one that I battled with.  A great friend of mine, Elizabeth Norton, has been a great supporter and encourager, as she is also home schooling her kids!  We wanted to get an idea for how the other does school, so this week she visited us!  I hope we can continue doing school together once a week.  It is such a good feeling to know you aren't alone in a venture like this!

Elizabeth has 3 kids.  Kalli, who is 5, Wells, who is 2, and Collins, who is 5 months.  Wells was in and out of our lesson, but Kalli and Abbie did fabulous!  (Of course Brady & Collins were there and happy!)

Today, we focused on Day 3 of God's Creation.  We reviewed Days 1 & 2 since Kalli wasn't here for those.  We talked about flowers & trees and why they are so important, and after circle time... the girls colored their own flowers and put them on their #3 poster number!  Kalli is obviously more advanced than Abbie, being 2 years her elder, so she was allowed to cut her own flowers out!

After the poster numbers were finished we worked on writing their names.  I made Kalli a sheet like Abbie's for her to practice writing her name as well.  They both did a great job.  We also briefly discussed the color RED, and they each tried to find something in the room that was red.

When we finished name practice, we planted a flower in a small jar which I found at Target!  Then we finished our morning off with a fun snack!  Pear and apple slices from the tree branches and cheese sticks formed the trunk... snack trees!

We had a great morning, and the kids had a blast playing when the lesson was finished... have I mentioned how much I enjoy home schooling Abbie so far?!?!

Circle Time on the trampoline!

Sorry these pics are blurry, but they kept bouncing!

Singing their ABC's!

Abbie coloring her flowers...

& Kalli coloring hers!

Day's 1-3!

Adding water to the soil pellet.

Kalli helping me stir it up.

Healthy Apple & Pear, Cheese Stick Tree snack!

Our first week was a success!  Looking forward to finishing our lessons on Creation next week!

Creation Day 2 - The Sky & Water

Today we continued our discussion about God's creation.  We talked about how he created the sky & oceans on Day 2.  We worked on writing Abbie's name, and tried to find 3 items in the play room that were the color red.  Abbie is struggling with the color red.  She thinks that anything pink is red, so we are working hard at learning the difference.

She did a great job with her Poster Number craft today!  She painted the ocean and glued clouds into the sky.  We also read a Mercer Mayer book called "Just a Day at the Pond".  Abbie learned that water isn't only in the ocean.  We have water in ponds, lakes, pools, and many other places!  She had a healthy snack to finish up our morning... we had another fun and successful day in school!

Abbie chose to sit on RED today for Circle Time... 

I was shocked, as she and RED do not seem to be best friends!!!

Singing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"...

She loves to paint!

 Painting the ocean.

 Gluing on the clouds...

She did so great with this craft!

I cant wait to see all 7 numbers finished!

 Reading about a Day at the Pond!

I asked her what her favorite thing to do in water was... she said swimming!

Then she proceeded to show me how she swims!

 Working on writing her name!

 Having a healthy snack... pear slices & half of a banana!  She was elated :)
So glad she loves fruit!