Friday, July 29, 2016

Back to School Photos!

It's official! We begin our first year as a home school Kindergartner! We are excited to take this next journey! Enjoy our back to school photo shoot!

This picture describes Luke's crazy personality! It's probably the best look into our year to come! 

Cheesin'!

Just sitting back and relaxing!

I love that these photos of him reading weren't asked. He naturally picked up the book and began reading them! 

In his own element!

Completely engrossed in the books!




His super cool science ball. Best Goodwill find! This ball has kept him busy for hours!

KINDERGARTEN!!

Traditional photo!

The set up! Thanks to my sissy for helping with everything!


Let the fun begin!

More books!

Thank you to my sissy to for helping me with everything and thank you all for stopping by!
-Ashley

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Shaving Cream Fun!

Today we had some shaving cream language fun! This was a great way to get him engaged and learning while still having hands-on fun!

This was the invitation to play! Who could resist their name in shaving cream goodness!

Basic CHEAP shaving cream. Probably from Dollar Tree or the cheapest one on the shelf at Wal-Mart!

Let the fun begin!!!

Getting it all over the table!



One of our words we spelled. Luke insisted the words begin with the letter L. Hmmmm, I wonder why!? :)

Great fine motor practice and sensory opportunity!

End result! Perfection in my eyes :)!

The concentration was amazing to watch! This is when he started to go on his own creating designs!

Love the never ending line!

Someone had a NEW idea! How would it feel on my feet?! This was very slippery, caution!

Those tiny feet in the shaving cream! This did eventually lead to his WHOLE body needing to experiencing the shaving cream. He ended up down to his undies! 

Thank you for supporting our page!
-Ashley

Friday, July 8, 2016

Goop Experiment

After being cooped up in the house for the past week with hand, foot and mouth disease we decided to have a little messy fun! We made goop! The easiest and messiest fun you could have after being sick! 

It's extremely simple to make. All you need is equal parts water and corn starch. Best part is if you have a younger child who eats things it won't hurt them either, they will probably only eat it once as I'm sure it isn't the best tasting treat!

A few additional experiment objects!

Let's get started! He is measuring out the water until he felt he had enough.

He liked how soft the corn starch was without the water so this process was one tablespoon at a time.

Now that we finally have our goop let's go all hands in!

Dripping from the basket was exciting and gooey and cold!

Completely in his zone experimenting with the thickness of the goop! 

He felt some more water would be interesting. During this time I just sat back and watched him experiment with the mixture and texture. I did not interfere. 

Goop soup anyone?

The view in a whole, somewhat messy but mostly contained. Great learning and sensory fun!

Thank you for stopping by!
-Ashley 

Friday, July 1, 2016

Sunday School Room Tour

Here is a look in my Sunday School room. Some things are still being developed and need stuff added to the area as we just moved to a new class room a few weeks ago. 

This Sunday we are learning about Day 3 of Creation. On one table I have this sensory tray and the one below. This one has black beans, artificial flowers, shovels and containers.

This tray is black pebbles, artificial flowers, rake, and flower jar with the arrangement guide attached.

Our other table is where I will be helping the kids make their own plant to bring home. They will add the soil, seed and some water. I attached the scripture we will be using to the pots. "The God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation:"

This is our science area. We were currently in our spring quarter so it is still bugs as the children enjoyed them. 

Our reading area.

This is a look at our flower shop area.

Our baby care center. This is by far the MOST popular center. There are real diapers, baby clothes, a bath tub, bottles, blankets, rags, bibs and babies. At one point every Sunday all the kids have a baby and are sitting on the floor changing and playing with them. This is the QUIETEST center too!

Our blocks shelf. Below are some close-up pictures of what is on each shelf. 

This basket has different floor samples from Home Depot (which are all FREE!). The small fence basket has different mini animals I had. 

This basket is just a branch from a tree cut into pieces. Great way to add texture and nature to this area, along with the samples in the picture above.

Our wooden blocks, each block has a paper template behind it to help guide the children when putting them away. 

This is the start of our Safe Place that is used in Conscious Discipline by Becky Bailey. We are still working on this area.

Our Fruits of the Spirit wall is actually our classroom rules. The fruit posted on the tree have our rules that demonstrate the Fruits of the Spirit. 

When the children come in on Sunday mornings this is our attendance/jobs area. First the children find their name and then bring it across the room to our job chart and CHOOSE their own job. 

Here is the job chart I made using velcro so the children can attach their name card to the job they choose that day.

Here is our circle time shelf and entrance wall. 

Our language/writing area.

Part of our language/writing area. The children find their name in the stack of cards and use the clipboards to practice writing their name.

Thank you checking out the room!
-Ashley