Bella is Learning About Her Community!

These next couple of weeks we are doing a community theme through our Adventures in Learning boxed curriculum. I went searching online to find some fun games and activities to go along with it...

I made a playlist on Youtube of several community videos...HERE

I found many activities through Homeschool Helper Online....HERE

---Bella's favorites: a matching game called What's My Job, the Community Club, and Ben's
Guide Community Map

We also have some community themed books on hold from our library...loving the hold option from my library's online catalog by the way...if only they had a drive-thru window it would be perfect hehe.

One of our books we will be reading is Petunia. I found a great lapbook to go along with it HERE

~~Jen~~

Halloween!

Had a blast with the girls on Halloween. We ended up only going around our block because Daddy was home sick. I gave the girls these really cute (small) buckets so that when they were full, we were done. Hey they're 2 and 3, they don't know they could have got more!




Halloween Crafts! (note: I officially hate glitter)

Park day with the girls!

Some pictures of the girls from this past Saturday in the park...









Isabella is getting so big, can't believe she's going to be 4 next month. Amelia is crazy as ever in her "crazy twos" (she's not so terrible.) And Victoria is two months today. Happy Birthday Tori!

Off to take 2 month pics of my baby girl...

Around our house this week...

The Zooge!

Today Tori had her 1 month check up with the doc...can't believe this month has gone by so fast!

She weighed 9lbs 13oz gaining 2 lbs and 11oz...and she measured 20 3/4 in long growing 3/4 inches.

Hot and Cold Game

I found this fire safety game on Sprouts game website...perfect for our fire safety theme!

Hot and Cold Game

Fire Safety Unit

One of the themes from this months Adventures in Learning box is fire safety, so I decided to gather a few videos and activities to supplement our unit.







A fire safety lapbook

My next project...

I really want to make some new shelves for the girls bedroom and I'm leaning towards the rain gutter shelves like the ones seen here. They look fairly easy to make, so hopefully I'll be able to do them myself.

Various tutorials here and here. I love the idea of putting one long shelf under a window and then additional shelves on each side of the window. This will be perfect for the girls bedroom.

Homeschool Planning 10-12-09

I decided that the best way for me to plan out our homeschooling week is to do it here. That way I can have my lists, links, and info all in one place. We are finally starting our Sonlight reading list for Preschool 3-4. We'll also be doing many activities from our Mother Goose Time and Adventures in Learning monthly boxes. Pictures to come!

1) Chika Chika Boom Boom - Bill Martin Jr.

Cover of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

**Videos:







**Snack Time idea from Little Giraffes -
Give each child a celery stalk, peanut butter, and alphabet cereal. They
can stick the letters to the 'tree' with the peanut butter

**Craft idea from The Virtual Vine - Create tree using paper towel roll to form trunk, leaves
from construction paper and buttons for coconuts. Create letters for trunk using die cuts or
alphabet cereal.

**Board game idea from The Virtual Vine

**Scavenger hunt idea that I will adjust to use in our home.

**Chicka Chicka Boom Boom information and ideas from Scholastic

**We will make the lapbook designed by Lapbooks by Carisa

**Doorknob hanger from Making Learning Fun

**Many more great ideas on Homeschool Share




2) Freight Train - Donald Crews

Image via Wikipedia

**Train lapbook from Homeschool Share

**Snack Train idea from Preschool Express
Cut empty egg carton in half, serve snacks (cargo) in them.

**Dramatic play - train

**Play with our Fisher-Price Amazing Animals Train






3) Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown

Image via Wikipedia

Videos:





and just for fun...



**Make Cream of Wheat for breakfast (bowl full of mush)

**Lapbook from Homeschool Share




4) I Hear, I See, I Touch - by Helen Oxenbury

Cover of I Hear (Baby Board Books)

**We're gonna play some senses games that came with our Mother Goose
Time monthly box










5) We will read a few stories from the illustrated bible that the girls PopPop gave them.

Us 2: Them 3

Welcome Family and Friends! Yes its another blog...who knows how long I'll go till this one goes by the wayside...

But I hope to actually follow through consistently with this one. I even made it look great as an incentive. Thanks to blog kit by Shabby Miss Jen Designs.

So please come back and visit often. I will be posting pictures of our girls and what they are up to.

Hugs,
Jen