Our Qq lessons

Well, I managed to incorporate hearts/Valentines Day into our lessons this week. We only had one Qq activity. I had a few more ideas, but frankly I was lazy this week. Hoping next week will be better. I think I will break this week into 2 or 3 separate posts. This post is dedicated to the Qq lessons (which also includes the hearts).

Anyhow, we started on Monday with our lesson after dinner because I had a doctor's appointment in the morning. We made quilts for the letter books.

(I made a grid on the paper and cut out 1 1/2 inch squares for the girls to glue on.)

On Tuesday we had playgroup. We made valentines for the girls to hand out. For this activity I actually tried my first Art Box. I filled it with scrap scrapbooking papers, stickers, foam heart stickers and crayons. Then I let the girls make them however they wanted to. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of all the finished products. Tabitha has this "thing" for 3-D projects lately. Even on her collages she has been bending paper to make it more 3-D. On one of the cards she kept stacking one foam sticker on top of the other.

And for a funny change of pace, I guess I will share Tabitha's other art canvas:

Our poem for the week has been The Queen of Hearts. Which is why it seemed perfect that Valentine's Day fell on the same week we were focusing on Qq. We made queen crowns:

(Yes Tabitha's crown had to have the 3-D effect, though you can't tell from the picture real well)

And, as they were Queens of Hearts, we had to make tarts:

I found the recipe for these yummy mini strawberry tarts at allrecipes.com. I ended up finishing them after the children went to bed. They are delicious. And conveniently our library was having a bake sale, sooo... perfect timing again.

I even made up a poem:

The Queens of Hearts, they made some tarts

All on a winter's day

The family of hearts, they loved those tarts

And ate them clean away.

(I know, not real original)

Today we made Valentines cards for daddy. He didn't have to wait until Sunday to get them though, because Tabitha told him all about them when he woke up for work.

(Tabitha crumbled up some of her tissue paper into balls. There's that 3-D again)

I hope to be able to get a couple more posts out. For now, we will call this one our Preschool Corner and Tot School Post. To see what others are doing with their preschoolers and toddlers head on over to Homeschool Creations and 1+1+1=1.

Linking this up to the Virtual Valentine's Party