For Reals

What's this?

Why, it's four passports with four visas to go with our four plane tickets.And four purple sticky notes. Just for fun.
We leave December 2.

Family Pictures October 2010

Maggie Faces

After this first picture, she wanted to take more.
"Ome Eye"
I told her to make a silly face and got this.

Parasaurolophus and Pachycephalosaurus Go for a Ride

Maggie took the picture.

ABC Preschool Letters A-D

Tasha and I are doing mini homeschool ABC-themed preschool with our girls once a week. We are taking turns planning books to read, a letter to decorate, and an activity, song, game, or treat. We also practice writing the letters a few times with crayons. Here are some of the things we've done so far.
Letter A is for Apple. We made apple trees using apple stamps.
Here is a view of the stamps, cut lengthwise and crosswise.B is for Bug. We made egg carton caterpillars, ladybugs, bees, spiders and ants.
Ants on a log.
Letter C is for Cookie, of course! We watched Cookie Monster on YouTube and glued chocolate chips onto our Cs. I read them a book called A Cow, A Bee, A Cookie and Me and we enacted making the cookie dough along with the book. Then we put real cookie dough I had all ready in the oven and went back to the story to read about the cookies baking.
Digging for Dinosaurs. This was one of the favorite activities and we repeated it several times.
We also added teeth to the inside of a sideways D to make Dinosaur Dentures.

ABC Preschool Letters E-I

Here are more of the ABC preschool activities we've done so far.
Letter E is for Elephant and Easter Egg. We colored on hard-boiled eggs with crayon, then peeled and ate them. I also gathered a bunch of objects and had them try to guess if it started with E or not.
I made an Elephant and an Easter Egg.
Maggie did a mommy and a baby elephant.

For Letter G we did Green is for Go. We read Go, Dog, Go!, made stoplights by gluing circles on the G and g...

And played Red Light, Green Light.

Letter F is for Fingers! We did some finger plays and finger stamping, including flowers and fish.
Letter H is for Halloween

and Haunted House!

Letter I is for Ice Cream (and igloo, iguana and island). We made homemade ice cream in a bag.

and made I-ce cream scoop cones that are supposed to look like a little i.

Maaa?

You should have seen us trying to feed the geese.