my most photographed child, sorry Blake and Alice!

Kayla is just so fun to take pictures of! She's always doing something that has to be caught on film...I mean a little tiny memory card!

 taking orders

 Baking in her new kitchen!

 Kayla loves playing duck duck goose so much she thought her barbies should play!

reading a fav book

 dancing in the kitchen!

having a baby!
love this girl!!

B is for Blake! Dayhome

B! I had plenty of ideas for B!
opps! found an old unpublished post,

we made cotton Balls, to Bash, and we Baked them! great 'B' activity

and bubbles, I put the pictures on this post but did not publish it, b was a few months ago so I cant remember what other B things we did!

day home- Robert Munsch!

In the day home for the next few weeks I am doing author studies with the children. Our first was a huge success! we read at least 4 Robert Munsch books a day, and I had specially picked one each day that I had activities for.
This was such a success that I think I will have to do another Robert Munsch week in a few weeks, (next week we are doing Mo Willems and I already have all my library books!)

 the books! we actually had a few more, as my day home children were so excited for the week they brought some to share!

Kayla reading a Munsch favorite, Up Up Down. how sweet is she!?!

So! day one!
Pigs! we read the book, then I hid 70 pigs around the house.  On our study board I had 7 pig pens, each pig pen could hold 10 pigs, this got the children counting, and so they could know how many pigs were left to find!

 

I also left out all my left over pieces for the children to use in a craft,

 

 

Day 2! we read smelly socks! So I had socks for the children to decorate, they were able to hang their socks on the board, and I had clothes pins and more socks in the water table to explore.

 

Day 3 was Stephanies pony tail, this activity didn't go quite as planned but they still enjoyed it! I had materials to make mask and add crazy hair to their masks.

 

Day 4 we read the Paper bag princess, for a craft I set out paper bags, a princess cut out and other items.  Kayla was the only one interested in doing a craft on this day,

I also put tape lines on the floor, which I did not tell the children what they were for, so they used them as race tracks for cars!

Kayla has always loved the part in the book when the dragon blows down the forests, so then I put out straws, and a variety of balls, so they could huff and puff and blow the balls around!

Friday we read Put me in a book,

 

I gave the children pages that they could use to make their own story, or pages of an open book they could color in.

I had planned on writing a letter to Robert Munsch at the end of the week (I've heard sometimes he writes back!) I thought the children could tell them their favorite book and color him a picture.
The day home children left early on Friday though, and I wanted them to be included in our letter so I think we will write Mr. Munsch on Monday!

Oh and we made 'M' shaped cookies this week!
here is our board from the week!

dayhome, arctic, snow, ice, penguins, polar bears and not enough pictures!!

I have really started falling down on taking pictures, my poor third baby.... so this theme there is not a lot to show, but here is what we did!

White playdough, snowflake college, cutting snowflakes (which there was nothing to show for put a big pile of tiny pieces of paper and a half hour of fun!), ice painting, snowman cupcakes, snow in the water table, spray coloring snow, making ice cream, penguins in the water table, penguin college, black and white cookies, penguin finger puppets, penguin matching game, polar bear song, ice fishing, ice bergs in the water table,  and had planned on doing polar bear hand prints and making igloos, no interest in these activities though!
so here are the few pictures I did get,

 ice cube painting! could have used a little more food coloring in the ice cubes, but worked good enough!

 snow man cupcakes! best thing about doing snow themes after Christmas is clearance items! I bought snowman cupcake kits, and a pin the carrot on a snowman game that we played for cheap!

 ice bergs in the water table!

 ice fishing! they loved this, I made fishing rods out of dollar store dowels, and tied magnets to the end, then cut fish out of fun foam and put a paper clip on the nose.
I had a brilliant idea to ice fish in water, but it was a total bust. the fun foam kinda sticks to the water and I couldn't catch anything!

afterwards I asked the children if they would like to decorate our fishing box, they were SO excited to do that!

K is for Kayla! Dayhome

|K took some time to come up with activities, there's not a lot that starts with K!
here is what I came up with;

K is for Kite, we decorated kites, unfortunately there was no good kite playing days during K week.

 K is for Kabob! we made fruit kabobs, with marshmallows (helped the fruit stay on!)

 K is for Kayla!!

 K is for Keys, we did key rubbing. then blake came up with the brilliant idea to make keys out of parlor beads! so started a month long parlor bead obsession!

 K is for Kernels! the idea was to glue kernels in the shape of a K, they did not last long at all in this activity!

names! day home

im over a month behind!
the children have been very interested in names and letters and what everyone's letter is. So for the month of November I planned each weeks activities around each child's letter.  first letter was H, here are the H activities I came up with

Holes!
this was not quite as successful as I hoped, paint chips are very thick and hard to punch! each child had 10 chips and the idea was to have 1-10 holes on each chip.

 

 Hedgehog! we read Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett (tons of H words and 2 H characters in this book!) and then we made Hedgehogs!

 Hearts! folded toilet paper rolls, for heart stamping!

Hands! we made hand prints and basically just got covered in paint!

a few gross motor activities Hockey, and Hopscotch, and hide and seek!

thanksgiving and lady bugs DAY HOME

 

 the children were ladybug crazy! so I planned a few activities to go with a lady bug theme,

 

 

I had 3 different lady bug crafts, here is one of them, lady bugs and spots|!

 another lady bug craft

 

we also went on many lady bug hunts, made a home for the lady bugs in the back yard, read some lady bug books and collected rocks with plans to paint them as lady bugs but we have not yet gotten to that!

here are 2 thanksgiving crafts we did.

We also talked about what we are thankful for, pretty sure someone answered lady bugs!

Blake wanted to bake a cake, so we decided to do a cookies and cream cake, basically adding broken up oreos to a white cake. Normally you would have small chunks of oreos all through the cake, however, I let 2 boys do the cookie breaking and well, all that was left was crumbs! so we had a nice grey looking cake! still tasted good, just not quite as pretty as normal.

this activity did not follow any theme, my children have been asking for snow (I know, really snow!) so I did the old cornstartch and shaving cream mix up. OH SO FUN!! I was right in there with the kids! It is seriously so much fun! mixing it up squishing it, rolling it. We left it for a bit then when we came back it had hardened up enough that you could form it.

kayla loves to get messy!