Around Town

I have really been enjoying our Fridays the past few weeks. Pf has been taking her art class and the rest of us have been enjoying having fun around our small town. Today was a lot of fun. We spent the morning at the library. Butterfly and ladybug were super excited because today they got their first library cards. Butterfly spent awhile carefully picking out seven books to check out. The girls have really enjoyed and benefited from the games and stories on the computers. Today, Ladybug found a game that had her counting money to purchase items. This was such great reinforcement for the math we are going over right now. I spend my time there catching up on blogging, paying bills and everything else that is more difficult to do with the internet on my phone.

We left the library and dropped Pf off. Our next stop was the bank. This was an"educational" experience for us all. There was a cop there and the girls had enough courage to ask him what he did. He was a cop for the hospital which brought about so many questions.

We left the bank and headed to the fudge shop for a special Friday treat. The girls picked out cookies and cream and fudge m&ms. We sat outside in the bear plaza to enjoy our snack.

Then on to the Pepsi museum shop. We watch a movie on the history of pepsi while the girls had a small drink. Caleb Bradham created this drink in New Bern in 1898. Pepsi was first called Brad's drink.

We first our afternoon with a bit of window shopping and even picked up a few gifts.

Soccer with Dad

Hubby took the girls outside to practice a few soccer drills. He mainly played goalie and had the girls shooting. Hopefully the girls will be ready by the end of March for their soccer season.

Dragonfly Preschool

 Dragonfly keeps very busy during the day. She did very well staying busy with manipulatives for a few weeks while I got her big sisters on a good schedule. Now she has fallen well into her own routine. She is currently working on  the first book of Explode the Code, Teach your Child to REad in 100 Easy Lessons, and Handwriting Without Tears.

 She loves dressing up as Rapunzel.

 Playing with blocks.

Playing in her bean bucket and making mat man.

The most exciting thing to me is that she is starting to read and spell. We are on lesson 30 out of 100 in her reading lesson book. She is reading two sentence stories. The words are 1-4 letters each.

Card Making

Spelling Bee

I love when random ideas come up. I had just finished giving the girls their spelling tests for the today, when somehow the idea of having a spelling bee came up. I lined up the girls and gave them lists of words from the Spelling Power book we use for our spelling curriculum. Pf had a harder list and Dragonfly was given words according to what I knew she could spell (mainly at family words). The winner of each round got a sour patch kid. They had so much fun that I made them each a list which they are quizing each other with now so they can have another spelling bee when their friends get here later. I am not sure why I didn't think of this before, I have never seen them so excited to study spelling words.

Telling Time

Butterfly's math lesson today was learning how to count the minutes on the clock in order to tell time. I have really enjoyed the math-u-see curriculum and I really like the way that they teach telling time. Butterfly set up the manipulative and was easily able to count by fives and by ones when necessary. Butterfly easily learns new concepts when she can see things displayed in front of her. She has had exposure to telling time before but today everything seemed to click so easily.