St. Patty's Party

As legend goes, in the mid 400's A.D. Patrick was born in England and abducted into slavery by the Irish. He escaped and went on a journey to Rome where he discovered Christianity. He was instructed by an angel to return to Ireland to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the people there. He did many wonderful things with the powers of God behind him. He is now the patron saint of Ireland.

We celebrated with some fun St. Patrick's Day games.

We learned some fun poems!

They had a treasure hunt and did some arts and crafts.

All while the dad's provided the background music;)

Vv for Valentine's, Nana Val, Volcanoes and Vowels

It's been a while since I've posted on our school blog, but that does not mean we haven't been busy in our studies... Since Thanksgiving we've learned about Cc, Oo, Yy, Uu, Qq, and Gg! Some big milestones the kids have achieved in Pre~K thus far are; K~girl is reading 4-5 letter words, and knows nearly all of her pre-k/kindergarten sight words. K~girl can count to 100, and count by 5's and 10's on our number chart. A~boy can count to 100 too and can count by 10's, with a little help from us. We are so very proud of them, and are constantly amazed with the things they pick up, even when we think they aren't getting it. They even have a mysterious teacher out there, we still have no clue who it is??? Many times they will surprise me with what they know even with information I know I haven't taught them yet. I ask them where they learned it from and they both have responded on many different occasions "my teacher taught me". Some kids have imaginary friends, but ours have imaginary teachers???

We've also spent 2 weeks with the letter Vv learning our vowel letters and studying Volcanoes! I found a great animation that helped me teach/learn more about Volcanoes! It's amazing how I can learn along side my 3 and 4 year old~ I don't know if that is a good, or bad thing;)

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Our field trip group had a Valentine's Party!!!

We made valentine's bags, ate very yummy heart cookies, and played BINGO!!!

Here they are rummaging through their Valentine's treats, trying to decide what to eat first!

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V is for Nana Val. This week is her Birthday and we wish her a very vibrant, vivacious, birthday day!!!

We Love you Nana Val!!!

Valentines to Our Troops!

I was sent some names and addresses of troops serving overseas who could use a care package or valentines card. I don't want to post their information online, but I will gladly provide their addresses via email. Please let me know at bfamilyckka@gmail.com if you or your kids are interested in sending our troops a Valentines!

Th...For Thanksgiving

Letter of the Week: Th

Verse of the Week: Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

K~girl:tthTH

A~boy:TTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHttttttthhhhhhhh

We've been learning how the pilgrims arrived to America and the history of Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Kk for K~Girl

Letter of the Week:Kk

Verse of the Week: "... but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else." 1Thessalonians 5:20

K~girl: KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKkkkkkkkkkkkkk

A~boy:kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkKKKKKKKKKKkkk

K~girl loved "her" K week!!! We actually planned this week around a greatly anticipated field trip to KrispyKreme Doughnuts!!! I'm sure she thought it was just for her too, since doughnuts are her favorite!!!

Here we actually get to see the whole process!!!

The kids got to feel the dough...

and see how they shape it with that cool tool!

We can't go learn about doughnuts without tasting one... two... or more like a dozen:)

Pp for Pumpkin...

and peach pie, pancakes, popcorn, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie, PIZZA...there's just too many yummy things that start with the letter Pp, we had to spread this one out to two weeks or we would have quite the tummy ache.
K~girl: pP
A~boy:ppppppppPpPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Bible Verse:"Is anyone of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise." James 5:13

After learning so much about pumpkins at the pumpkin patch, the only thing left to do was cut into them!

Aunt Corie was even there to help with carving!!!
We baked the seeds and used them for our math lessons the rest of the week!

Daddy planned a special field trip for the kids~ Looking for fall leaves!!!

Looks like they were in the right spot;) K~girl and A~boy collected all different types of leaves and put them in a photo album!

Apple Week!!!

Letter of the Week: Aa

K~girl:AaAAa

A~boy:aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAaaa

Bible Lesson: Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit.

We learned so much about apples this week:

Did you know if you cut the apple in half you will see a star shape!

So we painted apples to make star stamps!

We also learned in our book that fresh apples float, because 25% of their volume is air. We thought this would be a wonderful science experiment.

We had one fresh apple and one apple setting out for about 2 weeks, and it was looking pretty bad.

As you see from K~girl and A~boys conclusion this theory did not work for us. They both were still floating. The apple must really have to be in bad shape;)

Last apple lesson was in math...

We learned about whole, half, 1/4's and 1/8's. They also learned just because there are many pieces and it looks like more, it is actually equal to the other half.

Here are some more fun facts about apples:
1. It takes 36 apples to make one gallon of apple cider.
2. Apples are part of the rose family???
3. It takes apple trees 4-5 years to produce their first fruit.
4. There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples grown throughout the world. About 2,500 varieties are grown in the United States.
5. K~girl and A~boy's favorite apples are of the green variety. But we couldn't end Apple week without Mommy's favorite apple...

Carmel Apples!!!