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