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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 Felt Fun!!

Build A Snowman Felt Board

I made Emily a new felt board activity (minus the felt board, I’m still working on that part.  However, my new trays worked out really well for this).  Emily had a great time dressing up  her new snowman.   As she was working on it I thought it would be fun to add some different color accessories.  Next time she will get to choose which color jacket, mittens and scarf he will wear!

stART ~ Rudolph’s First Christmas

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our book and art project and maybe even share your own too!

This week we read Rudolph’s First Christmas, illustrated by Rachel Baines. This is a cute book that shows a baby Rudolph in Santa’s workshop getting ready for his first Christmas. Emily likes the lift flaps that have little surprises underneath them and the cute plush Rudolph that travels through the book.

When we finished reading this story Emily made a paper plate hand print Rudolph. She was so excited about it she kept telling Daddy to look at her Rudolph!!

First Emily painted a paper plate with brown paint.

I traced both of her hands and cut them out for her.

Emily glued on the handprint antlers, wiggly eyes, ears, and a red pom pom nose.

Finally, she drew a smile with a black marker.

Emily’s Paper Plate Handprint Rudolph.

Our Christmas Tree

Ever since Emily’s first Christmas we have gone to pick out and cut down our own fresh Christmas Tree!  It is so much fun to see how much more exciting this is for her each year.  This year is special since it is Juliette’s first tree.

Emily and Daddy hunting for the perfect tree!

 

Emily in front of a tree just her size.

Juliette in front of a tree just her size.

Our family in front of our tree.  

 

Daddy cutting down the tree.

Emily giving it a try.

Daddy carrying our tree to the car.

Bringing it in the house.

Emily had so much fun decorating the tree this year.

Daddy, Juliette and Emily getting the ornaments.  Juliette loved watching and seeing all the ornaments.

Emily’s special job, putting up the star.  Daddy lifts her all the way to the top!

Our Christmas Tree

Open Ended Art ~ Blue and Silver

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is Blue and Silver.  Emily had a great time creating her art with Mommy and Daddy today.  I am not feeling well so Daddy stayed home to help watch the girls!!

To start I set out a tray of blue and silver art supplies:

Foil, Blue Construction Paper, Blue and Silver Snowflake Stickers, Blue and Silver Glitter Glue, Blue Markers and Blue and Silver Sequins and Spangles (these are currently Emily’s favorite art supply!!) 

Emily couldn’t wait to get her hands on all of the fun supplies,  she got right to work creating her masterpiece!!

Emily colored with the blue markers.

Then, painted with the blue glitter glue.

She liked ripping the tin foil and scrunching it into balls to glue onto the paper.

And of course her favorite part was gluing on the sequins and spangles!!

Emily’s Blue and Silver Work of Art!!

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TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 33 months old.

Emily had fun at Sarah’s house for music class. She enjoyed playing the tambourine.

Juliette and Braeden had fun playing after the girls finished music class! I can’t believe how big they are getting :0)

We made really cute Christmas Trees painting with popsicle sticks and gluing on pom poms.

Emily worked on the letter G for Garden. Sarah came up with this project and I thought that it came out so cute!!

We participated in the Christmas Card Swap at Kids Crafts Weekly. Emily was so excited to get her first card all the way from New Zealand. It had stickers, stamps and play money in it! We can’t wait to learn about all of the other kids that we swapped cards with.

We made chocolate chip cookies. This was great practice with scooping and stirring. They were also very excited to eat their finished products!!

Emily really enjoyed the water dropper. We used them again to practice fine motor skills and color mixing.

We did our stART project with our friends this week and made a Star Paper Chain Christmas Countdown.

For Art Group we had some free play with our new peppermint play dough. We made hand print Santa Clauses and did some Salad Spinner Art.

We were supposed to go to the tree lighting at our Church so Emily and I backed some Chocolate Chip Bars, however she ended up with a fever so we just stayed in and enjoyed them at home.

Our favorite books from this week:

• A Star for Jesus ~Crystal Bowman
• Get Ready Eddie? A Book About Getting Dressed ~ Nat Gabriel
• Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle ~ A. A. Milne
• 9 Fruits Alive (God Counts Series) ~ Mindy MacDonald

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