Fun Day and Day 3

So, yesterday was fun day and we had a blast! We had our usual story time that we participate in every Thursday. The teacher has started including some French in each story time now and the kids are digging it! We also went to the Cornerstone meeting and had such a great time! BabyGirl really enjoyed making her flat Stanley and hanging out with the other kids her age. I especially enjoyed meeting other people I feel I can relate to. It was so nice for a change! When we came home we did our calendar and had music with Daddy-o.

Today we started out with our calendar and the number 3 in our journal. She did great writing the number 3 and breezed through the worksheets. She was so proud of herself and how easily she was able to write it! We sung Three Blind Mice to go along with it as well.

For some math exercises we sorted things according to their size on paper and involving objects. She loved this and had no trouble at all and actually said it was so much fun! We're just going through all of our preschool workbooks doing math readiness exercises since she loves them so much and doesn't like to do anything too challenging yet in this area, it's just frustrating to her and she won't want to continue. We also worked on more than/less than a little, and read some of the many books we got at the library yesterday involving counting.

For our reading exercises we did some worksheets where she drew lines from animals on one side of the page to their different homes on the other side of the page. We have lots of these and she never tires of doing them! We also practiced organization and how to put things where they belong. We did this with cut/paste pages and with objects around the house. It's amazing how picking up actually seems fun when doing this! We had fun clapping out syllables and she started doing it herself in the kitchen while we were cooking. It was so cool to listen to, and we play it like a game. She cut out parts of a story and pasted them in order of how they occured. She then told the story to me and was thrilled about it! She can't wait until Daddy-o comes home so she can share with him as well!

For art we decorated a picture of Johnny Appleseed and stamped around him with the "flower" shape we cut out of the center of an apple. We took dried apple seeds and glued them in his sack. This was wonderful!

For our science we made our own applesauce. Needless to say this was a big hit just like anything we do in the kitchen! We identified parts of the apple as we cut them up, discussed planting the seeds and how they grow (which we went over in spring when we planted our garden and she remembered), how the apple slices changed as they cooked, and what the lemon juice does in the mix. She had a blast doing this and we will be eating the results very soon!

We played with our Smart Globe like we do every day and checked out the new world events since there was a new download this morning. She was very interested in the giant spiderweb!

We are going to start reading some about the changes that take place in fall and view a video we checked out yesterday. We've found lots more things involving fall that we will do throughout this beautiful time of year. She is so excited every day by what will happen next...the next day...the next week....the next month (pumpkin patch)........and I'm so happy to say that so am I! More and more I realize the possibilities are endless when you look at the world through your child's eyes. I can't imagine myself doing anything else.