Time slips away and I forget to blog. Being pregnant can do that to one’s brain/body. Busy busy busy Or just being WAY too tired.
I have come to accept the fact that trying to the way others do things is just not working. I spend way too much time prepping and not enough with my Precious Monkeys.  I am stressed and my brain is so busy on thinking of things to do, well it can’t go on. So change is yet again on the way. (Will hopefully blog about that later today)

But here is the last few weeks of Preschool for us:

Play-dough faces. I printed the faces off Sparklebox. I printed off different ones and used for our group activity with friends. It was great fun. I really enjoyed this and Elijah still continues to enjoy making all the different expressions  that he can think of.

The pegboard. Elijah has never been interested in the pegboard and has been quite a chore activity to do. I chose a difficult pattern to follow and it seemed to really capture his attention to the point that he finished the exercise. YAY!

Jolly phonics Worksheets. I am always more interested in Elijah colouring in the picture rather than him writing but he loves copying! He loves the Jolly Phonics books, mostly because they have an indented letter to trace on each page

I was busy on OpenOffice Spreadsheet (similar to MS Excel – but free)  one night and Elijah decided to find it on his computer. He then kept asking me to spell out names. He would find the letters on the keyboard and type as I spelt. An activity he created all on his own

Working in a Laminated exercise book I purchased a while back at a discount store as well as working with his Kumon Numbers 1-30 book.

I purchased some cheap foam numbers/letters and We played this game where I would call out a number and he would have to squish the right one. I am certain I have seen this somewhere but I am not sure where. If anyone knows where let me know.

We got a Melissa and DougPuzzle – Not 100% what it is called. Teaches really important skills like zipping, buttoning etc…Lots of fun

I got this great little printable off Carisa’s site at 1+1+1=1

Our theme for one of the weeks was Outerspace. I had so many activities planned but only got to a few of them. A “Let’s go to the moon” lapbook. Was great fun for us to put it all together. Also made an Atronaut tube craft from Making Learning Fun.

Playdough is always fun to mess around with.

We added a new feature to our Morning routine. The ABC Exercise cards from TeachMama. I first found these great cards shared on 1+1+1=1! Here Elijah is twisting his ankle. It also taught him a new part of his Body.

We have added Stencil sheets as a weekly activity. Elijah was supposed to use a RollerBall paint I bought but the thing wouldn’t work!

Another Theme and what landed up being a 2-week adventure was the FIRE Station. We managed to organise a visit to the Sasolburg Fire Station for a whole group pf people. It landed up being Awesome! The Trip photos are here.

Elijah is working on our Fireman Lapbook that we downloaded from HomeschoolCreations. We also played fireman with a great little outfit we bought at MrPrice Home store.

Head over to HomeschoolCreations for PreschoolCorner!

Have a great and blessed week!