Preschool with Mommy Week One

Today's lesson is brought to you by the letter A. Sounds a bit generic, but I have to start somewhere and simple. I just realized that I have not posted to the blog since Nov. whoa that's sad. so much has happened in that time. everyone in our family had a birthday (except me), Thanksgiving trip to Pidgeon Forge and Christmas. I was a bit busy. For those of you who haven;t heard I am home pre-schooling Maddie. I was sooo unprepared this morning.Not a surprise, as an art teacher I was always forgetting something. I hadn't planned on the Library being closed so our lesson this morning started with a trip to the local library where Maddie and I both got our Library cards issued. Toddler in a library is a bit overwhelming. Landon was not so crazy. He loved books, but never just ripped them off shelves and then try to "re shelve" them. We found the section for kiddos and Maddie happily played with puzzles while I surfed the card catalog. Maddie then informed me that she would be putting on a puppet show. Of course she had no puppets but just wanted me to look at her from behind the curtain.

 After an hour at the library it was time to head to the store for some baking and art supplies.
We started our school time with a song about the Library in the car. She also sang this song the WHOLE time we were at the library. Once home it was time for a bit of lunch and then outdoor play in her "garden". Of course it finally snowed here so as with most toddlers I asked her to use the bathroom first. she said non would come out.lol  so we bundled up in all our winter attire and headed outdoors. btw its freezing today!! Going form 47 to 25 overnight is rough. We are outside a whole 15 minutes when she tells me she needs to pee pee potty. Seriously? Perhaps it was all the snow she ate. Soooo we run inside strip down and of course its way to late after trying to rip off the snowsuit that has has a velcro piece every inch down the front. Uggh, so play time in the garden was an epic fail for the day. I will not be so dumb about the potty part next time.

Maddie decided it was time to paint so I pulled out the apples and the paint and off she went. Of course we had to do a bit of finger painting after the apples were printed. She explained that she was making baby red marshmallows and candy canes. And that they tasted gooood. Of course we sang the A says aaaa song before cleaning up.

Quiet time, she no longer naps so I let her sit and watch a leapfrog video about letters while I try to clean a bit.  After quiet time its time to make apple cookies. Way too messy but sooo much fun. Lets see how many are still here when Daddy and Landon get home. All in all it was an ok attempt on my part. A little harder to teach just one child instead of 30 weird right? And in your home. I am sure as we start doing things over and over it will become habit and be less chaotic. Here's hoping!