Time Capsule

I wanted to start the year off by making time capsules for us to open at the end of our preschool time.  We started out by decorating a piece of construction paper......this is going to be wrapped around an empty paper towel roll and will be the capsule for the children's papers.

I then had each child answer some questions (favorite color, favorite toy, favorite food, what they want to be when they grow up) and then they each wrote their name, I weighed them and measured how tall they were.  Then each child looked at their self in the mirror and drew a self-portrait.

 



We rolled up their papers and put them in their own time capsule.

We placed them in a box along with this picture and won't open until May 2013 on our last day of preschool together. 

 

 

When we open in May, I will have each child answer the same questions again, write their name and weigh and measure them and see how much they have changed.

 

 



1st Day of Preschool

 

Well our preschool time officially began this morning!  I am so excited to get back into a schedule with my kiddos, make some fun crafts and work some more on writing names, identifying letters and numbers, counting, and all the other fun stuff we will do along the way.

 

Remember my group of kiddos last year.....some of the faces have grown up a bit along with a few new friends as well.  We were missing E this morning, so we will have one more to add to our photo.

 

 

Trying to get them all to look at me and smile at the same time was a bit challenging this morning.



We started our morning getting our journals ready for another year......we had to beautify them with some stickers!  I had to laugh because 2 of the girls asked if we were going to use glitter glue like we did last year......it's amazing what they remember!

I think they turned out super cute!

 

 

Stay tuned on Thursday for our Time Capsule that we started......hoping to finish it up on Thursday and share with you what we did.

 



Last Day of Summer

The day has finally come.....not sure if I am ready or not......kind of sad that summer and pool time is coming to an end, but also ready for school to start and for there to be a little more structure back in our lives.

 

Well, I have 3 kids that are going back to school so we had a little farewell for them and an end of summer party!

 

What better way, then to put our suits on and give each child a can of shaving cream!  I have actually thought about doing this all summer, but just never got around to doing it.  The Jones' came over to join us as well.

I sprayed B's tummy to get him started in the mess!!!  He wasn't so sure about it at first.

Maddox didn't like it too much.....Nikki put some on his arms and he wanted it off! 

 

Nice beard! 

 

 Can you tell they had fun??!!!

 

 D loves to play in the gutter! 

 

Some of the kids started to hose off and others could have played in it all day.

This picture cracks me up! 

Reese and Cooper were trying to get every inch of their body covered. 

After we were all washed off and dry, we got Pizza Hut pizza and breadsticks for lunch......that was a treat!  We were gonna eat outside, but it was a bit too windy.

 

 

Goodbye Summer!  It has been fun!

 

We will be starting our preschool activities soon, so stay tuned for some fun art projects.

Marble Rolling

All you need for this activity is some pool noodles (about $1 a piece at Dollar General) and some marbles......definitely more than a few.....trust me!  Cut your pool noodles in half, place on an incline and let the marbles roll......we used a lid to stop the marbles from going everywhere.  We started out by having races between 2 kids.

Then I gave them an entire jar of marbles and they had a blast letting them roll into the tub.....we even used a whole pool noodle as well.

They had fun just putting a handful of marbles down the noodle and watching them fall......I was surprised at how long they sat and did this.  Will definitely be bringing out more often.  If you have the larger pool noodles, you can use match box cars as well.