Before Five in a Row

If Jesus Came to My House by Joan G. Thomas

So I wasn't originally planning to do very many "activities" for the kids this week. I wanted to just enjoy reading this book daily and have fun talking about different things. But they keep asking to do "school" type activities. So I keep preparing things for them to do. I hope to slowly wean away from these types of things and just engage in exploratory, meaningful play with them! :) Nevertheless, here are some of the things we did this week.

{Fun with shadows}

My shadow is STRONG!

We measured our shadows to see what happened to them throughout the morning.

"Wow! Our shadows got SMALLER, Mommy!!"

And they kept getting smaller until the afternoon!

Sidewalk chalk is fun (and messy)!

We made a pretty butterfly too!

{Working on the letter 'H'}

Do-a-Dots...one of their favorites. :)

Talked about body parts that begin with the "H" sound.

Mazes...Isaac's favorite, and Naomi just scribbles on it.

Poke Page with a toothpick.

Pretty Poke Page! :)

 {We played Hot Potato}

Being silly!

They really enjoy this fun game!

 {Seat work/binder activities}

Writing practice

Rhyming Word Matching

Matching shadows

Cutting practice

 {And we played a lot}

On the giant floor piano.

We got out the FUN with Magnets set for the first time.

They really enjoyed playing with them.

She LOVES reading to her babies. :)

So all in all, I'd say it was a great week. Naomi is still enrolled at a local preschool (there's only a month of school left). But Isaac has complained about going to preschool for a couple of months now. And last week, he flat out said, "I don't want to go anywhere to school, I just want to do school here at home, Mommy!" I couldn't argue with that! I kept probing to see why he hasn't enjoyed going to preschool, but he just says he doesn't like anything about it. So I made the difficult decision to pull him out with only a month and a half left. I think it'll work out well for our family. And with the extra savings, we're going to enroll him in an all boys gymnastics class at a local academy. :)