This week, we focused on working on the letter K and coins and value again. Which meant lots of kiwi and key limes for snacks (yes, PorkChop eats limes like most kids eat oranges.... little nutty buddy). It also meant lots of talks about kites (and why we really need to wait until spring to make/fly kites), kings (which sadly, we are not) and knights (which, thankfully, we could pretend to be quite well).
For cooking this week, SweetPea and PorkChop made rice krispie treats with minimal help from me. No, seriously, they really could do these basically on their own, minus pouring the hot, sticky mess from the pot to the baking dish to cool. PorkChop was in charge of adding marshmallows and stirring them with the butter. SweetPea handled adding the krispies and stirring whenever PorkChop got too adventurous with wanting to touch. Even more surprising, this did not turn into a "treat" this week. Neither of the littles liked them, but the older three enjoyed getting their fill.
Our sensory play this week had to take place indoors since our temperatures turned pretty cold and windy most of the week. So I set up a tray of krispies for the littles to practice filling their trucks, cups, and dishes with... and they got to practice their sweeping skills whenever PorkChop, in a burst of over-enthusiasm, would shower the entire kitchen with his portion of krispies. I am thinking that next year, we will just stack kiwis.
Our math lessons really improved by leaps and bounds by today. At the beginning of the week, SweetPea could remember penny and dime. Now, she can identify all four coins. As for values, she knows how much a penny and dime are and knows that the quarter is "the biggest number". She even started getting nickles correct more often than not. Since next week is a letter review week, I think that we are going to stick with one more week of coins before moving on to measurements.
For music this week, we worked on "Hickory Dickory Dock" and we started "Today is _______ ". It amazed Peanut to hear SweetPea tell her dolls "I will marry you on Thursday but not today because today is Friday. You have to wait." I waited too long to find any good K preschool songs to play but that's ok. Instead, we pretended to be knights that had to help the dragons (because you don't hurt dragons.... they are very special animals that help us every day). We tried to make PorkChop our official king of Dragon Land but he wanted to work on last week's lesson instead and just kept jumping from the moving dragons.
With next week beginning with a holiday and us having a play date at some point in the week, I am calling a review week. For us, it just means a slower paced week where we strengthen the skills that we have instead of plugging ahead at learning new ones. Not that we won't be learning anything. Because its a review week, we will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr, maybe doing a fun science project (maybe ice cream again??) and cooking thumbprint cookies with some of the jam from last week. Mmm.... cookies and ice cream. L week might turn into "we need to skip ahead to Y and do yoga week".
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| learning about the letter K |
For cooking this week, SweetPea and PorkChop made rice krispie treats with minimal help from me. No, seriously, they really could do these basically on their own, minus pouring the hot, sticky mess from the pot to the baking dish to cool. PorkChop was in charge of adding marshmallows and stirring them with the butter. SweetPea handled adding the krispies and stirring whenever PorkChop got too adventurous with wanting to touch. Even more surprising, this did not turn into a "treat" this week. Neither of the littles liked them, but the older three enjoyed getting their fill.
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| making rice "Krispie" treats |
Our sensory play this week had to take place indoors since our temperatures turned pretty cold and windy most of the week. So I set up a tray of krispies for the littles to practice filling their trucks, cups, and dishes with... and they got to practice their sweeping skills whenever PorkChop, in a burst of over-enthusiasm, would shower the entire kitchen with his portion of krispies. I am thinking that next year, we will just stack kiwis.
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| sensory play in the "krispies" |
Our math lessons really improved by leaps and bounds by today. At the beginning of the week, SweetPea could remember penny and dime. Now, she can identify all four coins. As for values, she knows how much a penny and dime are and knows that the quarter is "the biggest number". She even started getting nickles correct more often than not. Since next week is a letter review week, I think that we are going to stick with one more week of coins before moving on to measurements.
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| still trucking away at coins and values |
For music this week, we worked on "Hickory Dickory Dock" and we started "Today is _______ ". It amazed Peanut to hear SweetPea tell her dolls "I will marry you on Thursday but not today because today is Friday. You have to wait." I waited too long to find any good K preschool songs to play but that's ok. Instead, we pretended to be knights that had to help the dragons (because you don't hurt dragons.... they are very special animals that help us every day). We tried to make PorkChop our official king of Dragon Land but he wanted to work on last week's lesson instead and just kept jumping from the moving dragons.
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| nursery rhyme time with clocks and mice |
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