Fall is here..

We had a wonderfully busy first weekend of fall. Saturday was spent enjoying the sunshine with a picnic lunch at our local park and lost of playtime! We followed that up with Bingo and Spooky Buddies the new Disney movie. Fantastic time had by all.

Sunday morning was spent at church. We tie-dyed t-shirts with our Sunday School students (I'm the proud teacher of 10 toddlers & preschoolers this year). The shirts are awesome and will be proudly worn as we walk for hunger in our local Crop Walk on October 16th.

Then off to our next adventure. The local Fall Foliage Festival. Music, funnel cake, ice cream and lots of vendors. What more could someone ask for. My brownie troop manned our community bake sale table for an hour, using their incredible manners and smarts. I'm so proud of the troop and even more proud to call one of them my daughter ;).

The LO was with us this whole time, pitching in on the fun but it sure did wear her out. She has a cold and wasn't up for much with Tot School this morning. We read and acted out From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (she gets to pick out the book we read), practiced some shapes and colors on the felt board, and did a quick visual discrimation game/matching for fall. She was tired by then, asked for Dora and her juice cup.

Here's a quick picture of the matching game. I printed two copies - cut both out. I laminated one set but then simply slid the pictures in a trading card sleeve to keep them stationary. I will laminate the second set later today. I really liked having the cards in the sleeves, it kept them in place when she bent over to place a card on top to match. This game along with several other fall games will be included in fall toddler pack I'm putting together. It should be available in my Teachers Pay Teachers site soon.

Learning is fun...

First, I'm a horrible blogger. I know this! I can not always find time to get here everyday. I mean to, I really do, but the reality is it won't happen.

My last blog post, I promised you the files for Officer Buckle and Gloria. I haven't forgotten. I need to add/fix up a couple things and I will post it for all. I should get to it by the end of the day.

We had to change our homework routine and tot school a bit. LO is just too tired to do homework at the same time as Big Sis. Our tot school time is now during the day while Big Sis is at school.

Over the last several days, LO and I have continued practing the letter R and introduced some fall activities. Today I lucked out and found some super sturdy magnets for magnet sheets. I've always wanted to do them with her, but the magnets were way to pricey. I decided today in the clearance aisle that $1.50 for 8 was the best is was going to get. I scooped up the remaining two packs they had and headed to the register. Imagine my surprise when they rang up for 50 cents a pack! WOOO HOOO..

Came home and made up this Letter R Magnet Sheet. She loved the activity sooooo much, it occupied her for 30 minutes. YAY!!!

Click here to download this cute magnet sheet for free. I used adorable graphics from www.scrappindoodles.com

We also played an apple shape matching game this week. She had a blast!

This game is available in my TeachersPayTeachers Store here.








That's all for today!

A quiet night...

WOOO HOOO!! It's a no written homework night in the Fisher household. Victoria's assignment was to read us her book for school. She did a fantastic job. Taking this opportunity to play. I'll be back tomorrow morning with the printable pack for Officer Buckle and Gloria.

R is for Robot..

Homework in the Fisher household can be an adventure! Victoria is either super willing or completely against. Well, tonight it was the latter! OY...what a night. 45 minutes later, a headache (mine), and the threat of losing TV for the remainder of the week, we finally accomplished 10 complete sentences. After the school homework, I thought for sure the vocabulary game I made her would be dismissed immediately. I was proved WRONG! She loved it.

They are reading Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann in school, so I whipped up a quick set of tile cards using her vocabulary words to go with it. She was so excited and can't wait to take them to school tomorrow to show them to her teacher! I'm making a few other things for her to use tomorrow night, I hope she likes them. I will upload and share the complete file by the end of the week.

The little one wasn't left out either. Her tot school time continued practicing the sound of "r".  I made up some 4 piece puzzles of items starting with the letter. I quickly discovered, she needs a mat to build them on. I cut the pieces diagonally for the first time this made it much more difficult a task. Tonight after the kiddos are in bed, I will whip up a mat for her to use while building her puzzles. The outlines will greatly increase her success rate. We built a robot, a raccoon, a race car and a rabbit, just to name a few. We also colored a RED apple. All in all it was a great night.

R puzzles completed with lots of help from mommy!

Until tomorrow's adventures in homework and tot school! Have a great night. I'm off to watch Toy Story 3 AGAIN =)

Rectangles....

Tonight's "homework" and tot school time focused on the letter R and rectangles. Rebecca loves matching mats and file folder games. Here she is doing her "homework". We also colored the lowercase letter r and practiced finding different color crayons. You can find the file for the matching mat here.

I've been trying for the last 15 minutes to upload a closer picture of it, but blogger and I are not friends this morning. It's really cute =) and used artwork by Trina Clark from www.digiscrapkits.com (Seriously, anything made with her artwork is adorable!).

I'm off to get dinner going in the crock pot - pulled bbq pork one of my DD's favorite dinners and prep for tonight's tot school/homework time!

First night of homework.....

Last night was Victoria's first night of homework. I decided to make Rebecca a part of the homework experience and start an introduction to the sounds of letters. Mind you Rebecca is only 2, but it's never to early to start.

I printed a capital R in a coloring font, set her in her booster with some crayons and we all did our homework. I introduced the letter to her, made its sound and let her color. When she finished, I asked her what letter it was and wasn't too surprised that she remembered. What shocked me was when I asked her what R was for - she Rebecca. I had only said this once while giving her the sound.

This morning she excitedly grabbed her paper and ran out to show Grandma her homework, yelling, "look, Grandma R for Rebecca." This child amazes me!

Tonight's "homework" is lowercase r coloring and a rectangle matching mat, I'm off to put together. I'll upload the file for the game later today.