Preschool - week of 12/2

This was a pretty slow week school-wise for us because we spent so much time out of the house having fun! We did manage to accomplish a little bit though.

MATH: Crumpet worked with his pattern blocks and cards.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS:

Crumpet pounded golf tees into styrofoam. I'd been wanting to let him hammer some nails, but was a little nervous. Nicole at Tired, Need Sleep had this wonderful idea so I tried it. We could use Crumpet's toy hammer which made it even safer. I think we should have used thicker styrofoam, but this was still fun.

I gave Crumpet little jewel stickers and told him to trace the shapes with them. I saw this idea here. He started out doing it, but then decided that it would be more interesting to make a roller coaster that went from shape to shape. He named each shape and manipulated the itty bitty stickers, so I figure he got the same benefits from the activity, right?

I made this button board. Crumpet really likes it. I saw this idea here.

I bought the Kumon books of cutting and easy mazes. Crumpet is really enjoying mazes lately, and the fun pictures made cutting less of a chore.

NATURE:

We tried some different hiking trails for our nature walk this week. I had meant to start covering the five senses with him, so we talked about all the things we could learn from our senses during this walk.

SOCIALIZATION/FIELD TRIPS:
We had lots of outing this week. We had two fun play dates with friends. We went to a Christmas Festival on the military base. We went to story time at the library. And we went to a mudpuppies art class at the community center, where Crumpet made this cute guy:

GENERAL SILLINESS:

We tried to play the game Elefun one night, but Crumpet decided to be the elephant instead. Here he is wearing the trunk...

Have a good week!