How many books have you read?

My good friend Marietta at The Bookworm's Booklist posted about School Library Journal's post of the Top 100 Picture Book Poll of 2009. From that fabulous list, The Bookworm's Booklist has created some more fun for all of us!Here's the scoop:*Below is a list of the top 30 Picture Books according to School Library Journal. She has challenged us to see how many we have read from this list! I marked

Our Preschool Schedule: Letters and Themes

I have been working on our schedule for Homeschool Preschool. You can see our schedule below. I uploaded the PDF file at Scribd. Just click on the link below if you would like to use as a schedule for your child. The unit studies listed in ( ) can be used for an older child if you have children with multiple ages like I have.Preschool to Pre-K Letter and Theme Schedule May - Dec. 2009 ** The link

Fish Color Game

This week we are working on a F is for Fish theme. I am currently making bean bag clown fish for a bean bag fish game for the boys but have not finished it yet.Today we made a Fish color game from a printable from one of my favorite sites The School Bell. This retired school teacher has wonderful game board printables that can be used to make your own games. I printed the fish game board to make

Prewriting Skills

What are the pre-writing skills?
They are hand skills that refer to the how well we can handle small objects in our hands. Our Hand skills depend on how we use the small muscles of our hands.

Pre-writing activities and hand strengthening activities
Here is some information about hand strengthening activities and pre-writing skills:

You can use the following activities
playdough, pushing stuff

Our Ladybug Lapbooks

Pictured on the left is my toddler Turtle's lap book and on the right is my older son's lap book that were started on Friday and finished up on Saturday. These were the first lap books we made!


In Turtle's (age 3 1/2 ) lap book, we have on the left panel his ABC's ladybug cards from Homeschool Share, and some clipart I found online.

In the large middle panel, we have his Mini Letter Book that

L is for Ladybug (Part 2)

This was our second week on the Letter L and Ladybugs theme.
We still did not have our ladybug books since our library branch did not open until Tuesday. My hubby picked up our books in the evening so that we'd have them for the week.

We are reading the following books this week:
Are you a Ladybug? by Judy Allen
Ladybug. Ladybug by Ruth Brown
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Monday was a light

Window Crayons and Marker Fun

On Wednesday the boys tried out some new art supplies that Hubby and I purchased Tuesday evening after dinner. It is the first time I have seen these products. Crayola Window Crayons and Crayola Window Markers. You can draw with the Window crayons on glass surfaces such as windows and picture frames. When the crayon wears down a bit you can twist the bottom of it for more crayon. The crayons

L is for LadyBug (Part 1)

This past week we officially started homeschooling my youngest son Turtle, age 3. He has been observing me homeschool his older brother and enjoys doing art with us. We have done some things such toddler activities and preschool science with him. I felt it was time for him to begin Homeschool Preschool or "TOT school" at home four days a week for now.

Rather than start at the beginning with the

Craft shopping for our Letter of the Week

Today, my family and I went to purchase some craft supplies. We are doing our letter of the the week (Letter L) and the boys I wanted to make some ladybug and lollipop crafts. I am also restocking on some supplies for our art center.We went to Hobby Lobby with our printed coupon for 40% off. They had 30% off the foam sheets and tempera paint. The boys helped pick out the materials to make our

Our Summer plans, what are yours?

Summer is coming and with that many homeschooolers like myself have the option of taking a summer break along with our public school counterparts or continue homeschooling year round with some short breaks in between.

We homeschool year round with my oldest son, age 9 and we are just starting Homeschool Preschool with my youngest, age 3 1/2 years. I want to cover some stuff this summer with him.

Thank you for this Award

My good friend Clemencia at Storytime and More has bestowed upon me an award. The Award is called Premio Dardos which means "prize darts" in Italian. The award is given in recognition of culteral. ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing.The Rules:Accept the award by posting it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted

Max and Ruby Paper (Dolls) Figures

My three year old son Turtle loves the Max and Ruby book series by Rosemary Wells. He enjoys watching the show on Nick Jr. He often sits in my lap while I read to his favorite book "Bunny Money." I wanted to make him some things of Max and Ruby he could play with so when I saw my friend Clemencia at Storytime and More post sometime back about Paper Dolls in February, I thought I could make Paper

The Butterfly Project

Photos from the Houston Holocaust Museum
This April 21st is Holocaust Remembrance Day and while many of you including myself only know of the Holocaust from books, film or from stories told by Holocaust Survivors ... but there are people like my parents (who are well into their 70s) know of it as children who heard of it as current news in their lifetime.

Even if you are not Jewish (I am not) .