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Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 33 months old.

We were all sick this week, so we were not able to get together with our friends for Music Class or Art Group. Emily was asking to go to Ryleigh’s house every day. Hopefully things will be back to normal for next week.

Emily enjoyed spending time with Juliette. Juliette is now rolling over and Emily loves trying to get her to crawl!

Emily helped me set up our Nativity. This is the one that belonged to my Grandmother. It is so special to me that we are able to have it, and it reminds me of her every year when we take it out. I was so excited that Emily was able to help me set it up this year. She is waiting very patiently for Baby Jesus!!

Daddy stayed home to help me since I was not feeling well so he was able to our Open Ended Art project with us. We created with Blue and Silver.

I printed these new pattern block pages from the Pre-Kinders and laminated them. Emily had a little trouble with them because the pattern blocks kept slipping, but she did stick with it and eventually finished them. Next time I think I will only put one out on the tray.

We read Rudolph’s First Christmas and made Paper Plate and Handprint Rudolphs for our stART project.

Emily worked on tracing lines with the new worksheets that I created for her. She was excited about using the dry-erase markers. I loved how the page protectors worked with this.

She really enjoyed this Build a Snowman Felt board.

Emily had fun dancing at a friends wedding. We couldn’t keep her off of the dance floor!!

Emily really enjoyed play dough this week. She liked adding the ornaments to this Christmas Tree Play Dough Mat. I loved this idea when I saw it on Our Little Family.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Rudolph’s First Christmas ~ Rachel Baines
• Baby’s Christmas ~ Esther Wilkin
• The Stable Where Jesus Was Born ~ Rhonda Gowler Greene
• My First Chanukah ~ Tomie dePaola

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Friday Art Group

Coffee Filter Turkeys and Color Mixing Puffy Paint

We started with some Play Dough Free Play, we are still using the Pumpkin Pie Dough I made in October.

The Girls did a great job making their Coffee Filter Turkeys!

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First they colored a coffee filter with brown, red, yellow and orange markers.  Then they sprayed it with water to make the colors run.  We set them aside to dry.

While they were drying they put together the turkey bodies.  I had already cut out a brown body, orange beak and red snood so they just glued that all together and added a pair of wiggly eyes.

To finish the turkeys they folded the coffee filter in half and glued it together.  Then they glued the turkey body on top of that.

In between the two projects we did a cute Turkey Finger Play.

The Turkey
Original Author Unknown

The turkey is a funny bird.(Hook thumbs together and spread fingers to create turkey tail. )

Its head goes wobble, wobble.
(Wobble head back and forth. )

And all it knows is just one word:
(Hold up one finger. )

"Gobble, gobble, gobble."
(Make mouth shape with hand, opening and closing it while sounding like a turkey.)

 

Emily really enjoyed making puffy paint pictures during the summer so I knew that these would be a big hit at Art Group!! 

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I mixed up some blue and yellow puffy paint so that they could see what happened when the two colors got mixed together.   This project was a lot of fun!!

Open Ended Art ~ Mosaics with Play Dough

Emily's Play Dough Mosaic

This month's Open Ended Art theme is Mosaics. This weeks material is play dough. I was really at a loss for something interesting for this one so I decided to just roll out some play dough, have Emily cut it into squares or squarish pieces and place it on some paper. When I gave Emily the black construction paper she asked for glue. At firsy I was like we don't glue play dough, but then I thought about it and decided we would give it a try. After all we glued every other mosaic. Emily was thrilled! We both ended up really enjoying this one :0)

Emily cutting the playdough into squares, after I took this picture we decided a pizza cutter was much easier to use for this!

Emily gluing on her play dough pieces.

Emily's finished playdough mosaic!

stART ~ Little Cloud

A Story + Art = A Great stART!

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our book and art project and maybe even share your own too! For an explanation of stART click here.

This week we have been reading Little Cloud , by Eric Carle. This is a story about a little rain cloud that changes into all different objects. Emily liked talking about the different pictures and things that the rain cloud turned into.

Cotton Ball Clouds

I gave Emily cotton balls, white paint and blue paper and let her make her own cloud picture.

Emily dipped the cotton ball into the white paint...

...and had fun stamping it onto the blue paper.

She tested out wiping it across the paper too!

When it got to filled with paint I gave her a clothes pin to hold it with...next time we will be doing that from the start!

Emily's finished cotton ball cloud painting!

If you did a book related project we would love to see it!

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