Valentines day! Day home

 

 

 

A week of red, pink and heart shaped fun!  We made heart finger puppets,

 

 not theme related, just because these guys love granular play! some colored rice, that was very soon taken over by dinosaurs!

 also not theme related, the dinosaurs have been on the move this week!  We have been take turns moving the dinosaurs, Nic set them up for the kids in a few places, so we put them at the door, in his shower, in the fridge and today they are all lined up waiting on his side of the bed!

 Making Valentines!  Kayla loved this activity, the others not quite so much. they have not really been into art this week!

 proud mommy moment, kayla can not figure out her K's and Y's, but she can do H, A, I, L, (she was spelling Hailey, but got stuck on the E)

 sorting hearts, I don't think my mom thought I would use these pinchers for a day home when she bought them years ago but they are such a great thing! awesome practise for fine motor skills.

 a few sample cards, which we forgot to write on the inside and deliver....

 my girls!

 Blake opted to stay in his jammies for Valentines day

 I hide hearts around for the children to find. this is always a great activity because they love finding things and then turn around and hide them over and over again!

 more hidden hearts

 a few more...

 trying to take a picture of the moving target!

 valentines lunch! a couple lunch time reads.  heart shaped pizza (with a hidden red ingredient, pureed red peppers mixed in the sauce! sneaking veggies into my picky son) and strawberries! and a very special treat of strawberry milk.
I have made it my goal to read at least 15 books to the day home children in a week.  Most weeks we do close to 20, 2 at lunch and 2 at snack, though sometimes Alice just does not cooperate and Tuesdays are crazy with swim lessons. So 15 is my goal, but the more the better!

 blowing bubbles in the milk! then popping them.

 we played a very SLOW game of bingo!  But a great way to work on letter recognition!

well, that's our week in a nut shell!
Next week we will be exploring books by Oliver Jeffers!