Last weeks lesson

Last week we covered F, so I embraced Maddies obsession with all things girly and went with fairies. I found  super cute book to read and came up with a few activites. You have no idea how hard it is to find fairy lesson plans for preschool online, they just don't exist. Sooo I cut and pasted several fairy trading cards from Disney online and made flash type cards with them. We then used those to play a matching game. We must have aplayed a dozen times. I also had her do bit of prewritting by tracing lines from the fairy to their mushroom houses. She is getting better at this. We of course had to dress like fairies, I had to be the bumble bee as we only own one set of fairy wings. So I apologize to any neighbors who thought I was crazy taking out the trash in my wings=) We ran around the house saying fly fairies as fast as we could, unitl I realized I'm old and had to take a breather. We dvr'd the movie tinkerbell and the great fairy rescue so we watched that and then created our very own fairy house (sorry no pics) Super fun. Of course a lesson wouldn't be complete without painting so we did a watercolor resist butterfly painting. According to the movie thats how butterflys get their designs. If you have a fairy lover in your house go to disney.com and look up Tinkerbell, talk about a ton of stuff!

We had a full week that ended with not one, but 2 sets of Grandparents visiting for the weekend. Then Maddie had a dental surgery early this week. This is why I'll have nothing to post for this week. We are focusing on Valentines day by talking about shapes (hearts especially) and the word love. She is recovering nicely, but looks a bit rough so I am just taking this week a day at a time to see how she feels. Next week is Giraffe- she has already picked out the art project she liked best so be looking for some awesome toddler art work next post!  As for the super cute pic of my little man, I LOVE that my 8 yr old comes bounding off the school bus wearing this hat and has no notion to think he might look uncool. I hope this lasts forever. He is so cute!