Megan School 5/17 - 5/21

Theme: Ladybugs
Letter: L

Tuesday Megan and Tatum enjoyed playing mommy with their babies and strollers. They even set up 2 separate tents upstairs for their separate homes. It was pretty cute to see them play and interact this way. :)

Maya and I busted out the Lincoln Logs and we had fun constructing log cabins, houses and forts. We tried to keep them safe because she really wanted to show Riley when she got home from school but alas Tatum had other plans...at least we took pictures to show her!

Megan and I worked on the letter L all week. Here she cut out pictures that began with the letter L and glued them around another piece of paper with L on it. We haven't really worked that much lately on cutting but she really surprised me with how well she cut all these out.

Practicing writing upper case and lower case.

Did some pages out of one of her work books. On this one she had to put an X on all the small ladybugs and circle all the big ladybugs.

This worksheet I printed off online. She did write pretty good L's in the boxes but when I turned back around she had been busy scribbling them out.

Wednesday we got some play time in with our friends Lauren and Charlotte and also her 2 cousins, Katie and Mikayla. I read them some ladybug books we got from the library and then we did an art project.

Silly girls, Megs was pushing Lauren in the shopping cart and Charlotte was trying her hardest to keep up in chasing them. :)

We did some rubber stamping with Tatum.

Then worked on some geometry shapes and patterns.

Alphabet puzzles.

Thursday we had only Tatum as Maya with at a zoo field trip with her dad. Our neighbors Christine and Isaiah came over to play with us too.
We used bingo dobbers on a ladybug sheet.

Megan and I worked on more patterns with lollipop cards. I set up an ABABAB pattern which she continued with no effort. Then I set up an ABBABB pattern that again she grasped right away. I think she's ready for more challenging patterns!

We also made some fingerprint ladybugs. She loved making all different colored ones.

Friday night Riley's school was doing a Family Bingo night so we went. She had fun eating candy, coloring in the numbers called and playing out on the playground during {and not during} breaks. We were able to sit next to Riley's friend Kailee's family and Megan just adores her.

Sad for Riley but Megan happened to win a game and pick out a prize. She really wanted yet another baby doll but I convinced her to try and pick out something that they would both like to play with. So they picked a Polly Pocket playset. They had some really nice prizes!

Riley was VERY VERY upset over not winning but hopefully she had fun anyways. Looks like we are going to have to work more on playing boardgames at home to help her with 'it's not just about winning' all the time.

Megan School 5/10 - 5/14

This week we didn't spend much time at all on planned activities. I started watching my friends 2 little girls 2 days a week and while it was fun to have more kids, we just sort floated from one unplanned {yet FUN} activity to the next.

Here's Megan and Maya sharing headphone to the kids music player. It was cute because they were both belting out the tunes like - Knick Knack Paddy Wack & B-I-N-G-O

Then they decided to have a picnic lunch up on the play set both days. We spent a lot of time outside playing with the weather being SO nice and there's always lots to do outside.
Chalk + swings + bikes + trampoline = hours of fun!

Thursday we spent the morning playing out in the front yard. Riding bikes and playing with chalk. Megan was chasing Tatum and fell on the pavement but a cold wet washcloth helped her feel better. :)

We drew our own shadow people. They made a shadow and I traced it. Then they colored in their faces and extras. Maya drew my shadow!

Friday we took off for an early weekend of camping over at Leavenworth. There was so much to do that our weekend zoomed by way too fast!

Megan School 5/3 - 5/7

We had a really busy week and Riley was home on Monday for a teacher professional day so we went to Jump Planet to play. The kids love this place and for just $10 all 3 of us can jump and slide to our hearts content. I tell ya, it's really quite a workout for us moms!

Our theme of the week was:
Health and Nutrition

We worked on the letter F for Food.

We talked about doctors and how they help us. Leading in to that we messed around with colored band-aids. First she sorted them by color, then counted how many of each color there were.

Then I'd start a pattern and ask her to finish it. She loved doing that!! Then she even came up with her own patterns.

And when we were all done she did 'Band-Aid Art' by sticking them anyway she wanted to the paper.

We talked about good food and bad food for our bodies and how we feel after we eat certain foods. She was pretty smart when it came to what was good for you and what wasn't. I was a little concerned when we started off and she thought Ranch dressing was good for you but then everything else she placed it correctly on the paper. Phew!

I printed these out from an order I placed with Me & Marie. I spread them all out on the floor and had gathered a basket of play food. She took each item out and had to determine what category it belonged to. She knew all the sweets and surprisingly all the dairy (there was a egg over easy and a egg still with the shell on) but she did have some troubles with which was a fruit and which was a veggie. Not bad though.

We also did a science experiment after talking about germs and how they can be bad for our bodies and make us sick. After they came in from playing in the backyard I had them watch me peel a potato and cut it in half. I handed one half to Riley and told her to rub her hands all over it and then give it to Megan to do the same thing. They then went in the bathroom and washed their hands really well. I handed them the other half of the potato and instructed them to rub their hands on it too. We have been charting it for a week now and not much difference has been seen. Supposedly the dirty hands potato was supposed to be growing things while the clean hands potato wasn't supposed to have much change. As you can see in the picture, neither has had much change. The dirty one IS slightly dirtier but not growing things.

We are going to continue this subject next week too as I have a lot more I want to do with her. Some of the things I want Riley to partake in also as I think she could benefit from it as well.