The Conclusion of Our Pp lessons

Well, we worked on our lapbooks as I planned. I used a similar format to the one I used for our monkey lapbook months ago:

Unfortunately, our monkey lapbook never was completed. It is the first one I ever attempted and I ran out of ideas. I used two ideas from Carisa's blog (1+1+1=1): Monkey Parts and the Story Retelling Pocket for "5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."

Then I made a tabbed counting book, "Monkeys Like Bananas" where Tabitha glued on little bananas I cut out on each page (once again working on the one to one counting by using white glue).

And I also made a minibook called, "How Do Monkeys Move?". I just googled pictures of monkeys swinging, jumping, climbing, walking and hanging.

Anyhow, for the Penguin lapbook I attempted my own version of "Penguin Parts."

They like to have me recite the cards to them, "Penguin has feet. Do you have feet?" and answer by pointing to their own body parts if they have them. Of course it is amazing how many animal body parts Ms. Imagination Tabitha has.

I used the booklet provided in The Mailbox magazine for "What Do Penguins Do?". They slide, waddle, eat, huddle and swim! I made another tabbed counting book, "Penguins Eat Fish."

A book the girls enjoy reading is "Baby Penguin Learn Shapes With Me."

I made a Flip Flap book based on this book and we went on a shape hunt, seeing as in the book we are supposed to be looking for "hidden shapes." We took pictures of the shapes we found hiding around the house, in decorations, books, toys, etc.

Amelia got really upset with me when I turned her shapes around while she was gluing them in. Yes, I want it to be her work. No, I do not want to be unable to open the book because it is glued together.

Tabitha enjoyed using her very own computer she got with her birthday money. She was so excited to be able to hand the cashier her money! We let her play with it in the car on the way home and take it up to her room during nap time (only that one time), then she played with it when she got up.

A new part of her "curriculum" is the Pre-K Brain Quest Workbook we found while out shopping. We also purchased the Brain Quest deck for 4-5 year olds, though we haven't used it yet.

She has done letters A and B in the workbook so far. Though she loses interest after tracing a couple of letters. I have decided not to push her, lesson learned from dealing with the older children. Though it does frustrate me. I feel she can do it, but she loses interest really fast. This has happened with several activities this week.

Back to our Pp related activities. We also made Pink and Purple collages with paper and pompoms. Amelia enjoyed this as I let them tear the paper and she was able to put the paper wherever she wanted to.

I had Tabitha sort out her own pompoms.

I then asked them where they wanted the glue for the pompoms placed as I am not yet ready to let them try the white liquid glue themselves. As I am typing they are making another collage.

Well, that is some of what we've done this week. More to come as it won't let me save anymore. To see what others are doing with their preschoolers and tots check out:

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