Pre-School

Sort of preschool anyway. ;) Kadin has started showing more of an interest in going to school. Mainly because he know all of his uncles go to school so he probably thinks he gets to hang out with them all day. :) Anyway I decided to make parts of our day more preschool-like. So each week (or most weeks) will have a theme and projects, books and any trips will be based around that theme. Each week will also have a letter or number and a color.

This weeks theme is cows. By the end of the week his board will be completely filled up. We went to the library yesterday and he picked out books about cows. And then today he colored a picture of a cow and an A. We also have poems and songs about cows. 

Cutting out and coloring his cow picture. 

 

Gluing his pictures to his board.

 

Such a goober.

  

Playing with his dyed rice.

Painting

The kids are always asking to paint. It's kind of our go to activity if the weather's bad or they're cranky. I decided to change up their painting a little bit. So they used a couple long sheets of paper and tempera paint.

Rather than just using paint brushes I gave them a few different things to see what they would do with them. In addition to paint brushes they used apples, q-tips and of course their hands (and then feet). 

They were both pretty intrigued with being able to paint with different things. The apples were a hit and they liked being able to make different designs with them. 

And then they started painting the apples. And ended up with some great designs and colors. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the feet painting. They were quickly making a huge mess and needed to be thrown in the tub. ;)