The Bryan Family

Happy Halloween!

Ellie drew a picture for her cousin Max.

Liam loves putting clothes over his head to play peek-a-boo.

Sept. 2012

Ellie’s 1st day of Carpenter’s Kids.

September 2012

August 2012

This week we added our calendar binder to our morning time.   Here is what was included: 

Each morning we added a number to add up to 100 days of school:

We also made a tally mark for each day:

Traced over the number for that day.  This month she used whatever color she wanted.  Next month we will use 2 colors to make an AB pattern.

We also filled in our weather graph each morning:

This week we finished our colors and our color pages:

Apparently I forgot to take the picture of the brown page.  We made a bear face by cutting out circles.  (You can see it on the table in the next picture)

After reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, we made a graph with our colored bears.

Our drawing practice this week was with baseballs.  (I love how she spelled “basbols”!)

letter matching the color words

Our letter this week was M.  We made “Me” pictures.

We also made our own fruit popsicles this week.  Yummy!!

13 months old!

August 2012

We decided it was time to finally cut Liam’s hair.  It was sad to say bye to those curls  :(  

Before:

Such a big boy!

He really enjoyed his sucker!

Ellie also wanted to get her hair trimmed.

Thanks Katy!  You did a great job!!

I decided to use the Joyful Heart Character from Hubbard’s cupboard as a guide for Ellie’s preK curriculum.  It includes a Bible story, character trait, letter, math activity, and theme each week.  It also includes sight words and a sight word reader each week.  So far this is working well for us.  

Week 1:

Bible Story: Creation

Character Trait: Orderly

Letter: Aa

Theme: Back to School

Our letter wall from last year.  These were so fun to make.  (For some reason we forgot to do F…maybe I can find time this week)  We may try the lowercase letters this year.

Trays for the week:

letter matching color words from COHS

sorting colored pom poms

play-doh

colored sticks

a few worksheets as well as pages from our Kumon workbooks

sticker patterns (she had already finished this when I took the picture)

This week we also reviewed our color words.  Each day we talked about a different color, named things were that color, and then cut out an object of that color.

Some other things we did this week:

We practiced drawing apples from our Kumon drawing book.  Ellie then wrote sentence about her drawing.

gluing and writing our new sight words: we / will

making an A with play-doh

some activities from a back to school PreK pack

We read Chicka Chicka 123 and placed number stickers on our tree.

We also read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  We then made a chicka tree and used our letter stamps to stamp the letters up the tree.

Liam’s debut in Tot School:

Colored sticks and an empty can kept him busy for a long time..who knew?  He played with these all week.

Next week:

Bible Story:  Samuel

Trait: Attentive

Letter: M

Theme: Brown Bear / Outside

90 seconds with Liam - Episode 1