Tot School

Riley was home from school with us on Wednesday this week due to Veteran's Day so you'll probably see some of her in this week's post. :)

Art Projects

Open Ended Art - feathers, ABC noodles, corkscrew noodles, foam leaves & foam sheets.

Riley got VERY creative with this and spent 3 hours at the kitchen table!
She was so very proud when she was all done.

As usual, Megan's style is to see how fast she can complete an art project.
This one was about 10 minutes, not bad.

We also made paper bag scarecrow puppets.

So this is one of those projects that you have in your head but once it's complete you think, 'Oh wow, that could have been cuter.' It's supposed to be an acorn but the only things to glue on that I could come up with were buttons and Coco Krispies. Haha!


Learning Toys/Manipulatives

Helping mom decorate for Thanksgiving by putting window decorations on.

Transferring leaves and acorns with tongs.

I stuck spaghetti noodles in playdoh balls and then gave her a cup of cheerios to string on. This was by far her most favorite activity of the week. Hmm wonder why - one for the noodle, one for me! ;) She was very careful though when stringing the O's on and I was very impressed with her concentration.

Working on lines and circles in her workbook. And then magically erasing it with tissue. She's usually good for 2-3 pages of this at a time.

Outings and Playdates...

We got to go up to our friend Maya's for the day. The girls loved playing with shaving cream. I added some red & yellow food coloring in and crossed my fingers they wouldn't start flinging it everywhere. Maya was very interested & dainty with hers. Meg, you guessed it, dove right in and was done within minutes. Argh, we'll have to work on that. :)

The girls also used different colored ink pads and their finger tips to make these corn on the cobs. I think they turned out so cute but next time I'd love to use real colored popcorn.

And our HUGE accomplishment this week was having our 1st successful dental visit for Meg. Last time she wouldn't even open her mouth...this time she loved every minute of it! The cool sunglasses, opening wide, letting them count & clean her teeth, getting to watch Scooby Dooey (!), and picking out her prize at the end. The only thing she didn't have patience for was the fluoride treatment. The hygienist said the trays were too big for her mouth so she just brushed it on with a toothbrush and I think at that point she had had enough.


Life Lessons

Spreading her own jam on her PB&J.

~ Mom's Favorite Picture ~

I think this is my fav because we were listening to Christmas music, drinking hot chocolate out of Christmas mugs with whipped cream and Xmas sprinkles. They were so cute and chatty as we sat and drank our treat. Love moments like this when nothing else is going on!

Our trials and errors in Preschool now has it's own blog!!!

Yup that's right. I was getting too bogged down with keeping up with family life AND doing Tot School updates. So here we are...I'm so excited to have this all set up!! I look forward to being more organized online now. :)

With that said I was up WAY too late last night and really need to get to bed at a decent time tonight so last weeks Tot School post will have to wait one more day!