The Week in Review

Let's just be honest. I've been a terrible blogger lately. Please forgive me! I think instead of trying to play catch up first, I'm just going to keep it recent. Hopefully, as time allows, I'll be able to add in a few things from the past few weeks.

This week, I stumbled upon a pretty cool website (via Pinterest, of course!) that has several printable packets dedicated to a specific letter of the alphabet. I stayed up til 1:00 Tuesday morning printing "H is for Halloween." Insane, I know! But they are very impressive! I only wish she had made them for all of the letters. 

Tuesday morning, we hit the ground running. We sang our ABeka song, did a few "chores", and introduced the letter Hh! I'm still adjusting to teaching my 2 year old. After teaching 4-5 year olds for the last 2+ years, and receiving no formal training, I've got a lot of learning to do myself! Trek loves saying the H sound, and he even walks around talking about "Homah Howas!" (Homer Horse, courtesy of ABeka.) Since Halloween was Wednesday, we decided to finally make our monster! The original plan was to make a ghost with the puff paint last week, but I dropped the ball on that one, so we went with a monster instead. He was much cuter, if I do say so myself!

(I'm an idiot and can't figure out how to rotate pictures from my phone...)

Be prepared for a mess if you tackle this one at home or at school.

I mixed Barbasol shaving cream, Elmer's glue, and blue food coloring, as per Lorelai's request. Next time we make this puff paint, I will use more glue. I was a little too conservative, and he lost a lot of his puffiness as he dried. But I still think he looks great! I cut out a simple monster shape from our roll of craft paper and let Lorelai go to town! Once she was done, we added lots of eyeballs and a super-cool mouth! Trek played in plain ole shaving cream while we created our Monster Man.

We took another shot at a sensory bin Tuesday afternoon, and it went surprisingly well! Trek kept the area relatively clean, and they stayed busy for quite a while. I just mixed black and white beans, buried a few spiders and skeletons and such, provided a few small bowls for pouring and scooping, and they had a great time!

Thursday morning, we spent some fun time with Grandma Eva at her house. I know I say this all the time, but I am so very thankful for all of our family here! They are always learning, wherever they are. See how much fun they're having learning about their colors and shapes? 

After lunch and a nice long nap, Lorelai and I sat down and tried to do some math and counting. She wasn't in much of a mood for learning, so we only worked for a few minutes before we moved on to making gummies! I found a great recipe here, and it was so ridiculously easy! Lorelai helped me stir...for about 10 seconds. She tried one tonight, and claims they are pretty yummy! Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the process. 

This week has been fun! We're getting better and better at this school thing. All of the blunders are on me so far. Stay tuned...maybe I'll actually keep things updated around here!