In one of my last posts, I said that I would be doing theme weeks again for my kids this summer (last year we did Alaska, The Solar System and Space, and Wizards and Magic). One of the most common questions I get is how the heck I come up with this stuff. The simple […]
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I shared previously that I will be attempting to plan activities for Little Lion this year based on a monthly theme. February’s theme is My Body/Friends/Family (I am throwing hearts in there too for Valentines Day)! These activities are intended for Little Lion, who will be 11 months old, but they could easily be adapted for […]
creating with clay Gemma will likely not start school until 2016 because she has a fall birthday. This will mean she’ll be an “old” kindergartner. I am not sure how I feel about this; she is bright and part of me worries about her starting school as an older child, but the other part of […]
Activity 1: Magic wands We started off our Wizard week with creating a tool that most wizards need — magic wands. I didn’t want to have to buy much, so we just used scraps of material and some dowels we had in the garage. We used tacky glue and some fabric or ribbon and decorated […]
After Alaska week, the kids were so excited they wanted to pick the next week’s lessons. I gave them a few suggestions but they decided to pick learning about space and the solar system. In addition to activities with me, my dad based his Papa preschool time around our theme. They had a space alphabet […]
Before summer started, I was really looking forward to having some unscheduled time with my kids. Silly me — it seems like we have been on the go the entire time, but there still have been some days where we had nowhere to be and nothing to do. I knew I had a short two […]
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