Dear Tooth Fairy

Well, Missy lost another tooth tonight!  This one was pretty stubborn.  So stubborn in fact that the new tooth started growing in and poking out the side (hopefully the dentist can help us out in the future with that one).  She was relieved to finally have gotten that thing out of there!

So, in honor of her losing another tooth she had to get out her favorite tooth losing book called "Dear Tooth Fairy".  This has to be one of the coolest books we have.  It is about a girl who leaves a note to the tooth fairy asking questions, you know, about the tooth fairy, and the tooth fairy responds with several cute little letters. 

 

The letters are in envelopes that you can actually pull out and read:

  

Here's the tooth in a baggie, it so small!

  

Here's another pull-out about different kinds of fairies:

  

Miss 8 is showing me that she wants to be the brownie fairy, I think:

  

A few teeth losses ago (wow, that sentence sounds weird), she decided to write the tooth fairy her own letter, it was very cute.  So, her Daddy typed up a cute little letter back to her.  It was pretty funny, unfortunately I have no idea where that letter is now, but so wishing I did.

The tooth fairy brings $2 for each tooth in our house but not just any ordinary dollars, they are shiny dollar coins like these:

 

Missy likes to get the shiny gold coins, and it seems like more than it really is.  What does the tooth fairy bring to your house?

Homeschooling one day at a time--as long as it takes!

Tot school--letter G

Sir A3 is 3 years  9 months old

Mr. A1 is 18 months old

This week's tot school was mostly just a lot of fun and chaos all at the same time.  Maybe that's how your tot school is too?  Anyway, the letter of the week was G.  We had G is for golf:

Mr. A3 pounding golf tees into styrofoam

 

See the word golf on the yellow piece of paper, he was supposed to put that word up on his chart, but decided to put holes in it instead.

  

A1 played golf

  

He enjoyed this activity a lot

  

He mostly just liked pushing the golf caddy around.

  

A3 poking the letter G with a giant pin

  

The favorite activity of the week!

The parachute!

This is new to us, our first morning we tried it, it was a hit.  Here is A1 just running around in circles around A3, it was too funny.  I was getting balloons to blow up and put in the middle to make them bounce around the parachute.

  

More circles around A3, he was litterally doing circles for about 5 minutes!

  

Here's A3 in the middle doing his aquadoodle

  

Now we are ready to start!

  

A1 mostly just liked sitting on it while we made it fly!

  

It was hard to get it to fly real well with just A8 and I on the outside, but we made it work.  The boys had a blast.

  

They absolutely loved going under when we made it go high up in the air

  

New setup!

Well, I am trying something new, and so far I love it.  We were getting cramped in our tiny computer/school room so I moved everything out to the living room.  Now that all 3 kids have their own desks we need more room to spread out!  I think it's nice to be out of the "cave".  The kids like it too!

Here is A8's desk and boxes on the left, A3 next to her with his boxes on the right, and A1's trays and little table on the far right.  It's not the ideal set up, but I'm happy with it for now. 

  

Here is some cutting practice for A3

  

This is an activity that was unplanned, but A1 loved.  He is putting stickers on the balloon.  This boy loves stickers, and puts them everywhere, so usually I have to grab the nearest paper or junk mail for him to put stickers on.  In this case it was a balloon, it works :-)

  

OKay, yes, he is watching a baby first impressions movie here.  I try not to keep the tv on during school time, but when the toddler is bored he is into all sorts of terrible 2's.

  

This is a new tot school tool.  I found these eggs at amazon, they crack, squeak, match and sort.

  

The insides are different colors

  

Even Mr. A3 was very curious about these.  He loves eggs, and thought these were pretty neat.

  

Automoblox.  I love these things, and so does A3.  He got a new pink one, and here they are all mixed up.  But, he can put them back in order so easily by matching the colors of the pegs.

  

More letter g.  This activity was intended for A3 but he didn't want to have anything to do with it!  Ha!  Well, this little guy loved it.  He has an obsession with lining things up in a line, and here he is showing his talent.

  

And, the big G

  

So, instead of putting the color blocks on the g's here is what A3 came up with.  Always marching to the beat of his own drum :-)

  

For more tot school go to 1+1+1=1, click on the picture below.

Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree

Valentine treats and party

We had a nice little getaway this valentine's day weekend.  It was short, and went fast, but well worth it.  Had a lovely date night on Saturday night with my dear sweet Hubby, and then on valentine's day we gave gifts to the kids (we usually don't do anything more than dinner out for each other on Valentine's, and that's okay). 

Here is what Miss A8 got.  A bedazzler.  She was more than excited to get this, and already here in the picture is a doll shirt that she bedazzled with a heart.  The blue thing is a folded up tote bag to decorate and letters to put on that bag, and of course it will be dazzled too!

 

This is the little wooden ambulance that Mr. A3 received:

  

He loved it, and he also got a travel aqua doodle:

  

Here is the fire engine truck that Mr. A1 received:

  

These trucks were a huge hit with the boys!  Mr. A1 also got a silly submarine for the bath that isn't pictured yet.

  

Before Valentine's day, I mentioned that we had a preschool valentine's party.  Well, here are some pictures from the party, but first lets take a look at the cards for the occasion:

These are the ones that A3 made.  He wanted bubble wrap, and dog paper.  Hmmm, this took some creativity, but we made it work!  Let me note that he helped make EVERY valentine (that's how much he loved his bubble wrap valentine).  I think they turned out cute, hmm?

  

These are the cute valentine's that A8 would have handed out, but we had some technical difficulties.  They are cute aren't they?  Turned out to be a great decoration because they were made of glow lights, and as we were making them they kept cracking which makes them start glowing which means that they would lose their glow by the time the party came around which means they lost their pizazz....  So, we ended up buying laffy taffy ones instead.

  

Here's the cute little valentine's party, they are making bags for all their valentine's:

  

All the bags, loved the decorations!:

  

Miss A8 couldn't do much, and still can't with that darn broken ankle.  It sure is healing slow!  Here she is posing with her best friends, crutch 1 and crutch 2:

  

Everyone enjoying a pink frosted heart cookie:

 

 I love Valentine's day, and thanks Angela for the fun party!

Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree

Winter Olympics craft

I'm sure some of you have seen this already, but I found this 3D olympic craft at No time for flash cards and did it with Mr. A3 last Friday morning.  He loves to paint, and knows nothing about the olympics so I thought this would be a fun way to introduce it to him.

First, I had him pick all the colors for each olympic ring, then he painted a toilet paper roll one of the colors: 

 

Then I had this sheet from Enchanted learning explaining the olympic rings and the order the colors are supposed to go in so he could match it up:

 

Here he is just playing with the rolls before we glued them together:

  

Then using clothes pins and glue we stuck them together to match the olympic rings.  He really liked sticking the clothes pins on:

  

As a fun side craft I decided to try something else, and painted the rest of each paper plate that he used to paint the toilet bowl rings.  After they dried I cut the middle out to make a ring:

  

Then we put the paper plate rings together too, and I purposely left a cut in the ring so he could take it apart and do it again.  He did it once, and then was more interested in the middle parts, cutting them up and such.

 

 Now we're just enjoying watching bits and pieces of the olympics.  He really liked the snowboarding tonight, and he was amazed when he saw the figure skaters go really low to the ground without falling.  It's fun to see a 3 year olds reaction to these kinds of things!

Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree