E is for Eggs (Pruitt Preschool)

If you're looking for D week, click here. I typed the post weeks ago but didn't finish it until this week and forgot to change the date so it would show up in the right order.

I do not like green eggs and ham; I do not like them Lauren I am. I do not like them in my house, I do not like them when I'm out. I do not like them when I cook, I do not like them in a book. I do not like them... You get the point: I DO NOT LIKE EGGS! I don't like the smell, I don't like the texture, I don't like the taste. I just don't like them. When I was pregnant with Lucy, I woke up 1 morning craving them. It was during the yucky, sick all the time stage where I was only eating toast and cheerios so to crave something was reason enough to make them. About 2 hour laster I was more sick than I had been (which was way sick, so it was bad) and realized that the eggs had gone bad. Needless to say, I refuse to ever eat another egg. To say I was dreading E week was a huge understatement. I just couldn't come up with anything else to do for E week so I sucked it up and gave my kid some eggs.

Bet you can't guess what our book of the week was.

Our verse for the week was Psalm 150:6, Let Everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! We also learned a new song this week!

I started off slowly with the eggs. You know, eased my way in.

See that little square in the top left corner? It's actually this...

(Told you I didn't like eggs.) This has vegetables in it so this is way better than anything I could have come up with anyway. AND I just popped it in the microwave and Ta-da! Instant egg breakfast for E week!

Moving on. I did actually make eggs, I promise.

I boiled them so we could dye eggs.

Then we got in some fine motor practice while she peeled them. (We saved those peelings for later use.)

Then she sampled her 1st boiled egg.

I think she likes it.

We got in some A-B-C-D-E practice by matching plastic egg tops with capital letters to egg bottoms with lowercase letters.

And we used those egg shells to decorate our E for our alphabet book. (She had a little too much fun with the glue.)

We also had a fun date with Lucy's BF Will where we made and ate egg salad sandwiches. Well, they ate egg salad sandwiches.

Of course we threw in some egg hunts. Lots and lots of egg hunts. I actually had to put the eggs away because she was asking for so many egg hunts.

It turned out to be a really fun week and I discovered that Lucy really likes eggs. It's a good thing that Lucy's daddy also really likes eggs and enjoys cooking them. So when Lucy requests eggs in the morning, I get to sleep in and they get to have special Daddy-Lucy time with their eggs. And that, my friends, is why E week was totally worth the stinky, gooey, squishy mess!

D is for Doctor (Pruitt Preschool)

When I told Lucy we were learning about doctors this week, she said, "Yay, yay, yay! Just like Pepaw!" Lucy's Pepaw is a doctor and I'm pretty sure she thinks he takes medicine, gives stickers, and plays with a stethoscope all day long. She was very excited to play with the band aides again from B week, and making donuts with her good friend Will didn't hurt either.

Our book of the week was My Friend the Doctor by Joanna Cole.

Our Bible verse was "A cheerful heart is good medicine." Proverbs 17:22

We started our week with our 1st family dinner at our new dining room table. I got this table for my birthday and it took a couple of weeks for delivery and assembly so it was ready just in time for D week and there were just too many d's to pass up.

Don't mind the unfinished, Halloween centerpiece; it actually did turn out cute but certainly not in this picture. And, apparently I like corn.

Next up, our 1st sensory bin. Sensory bins are just what they sound like, bins that stimulate the senses. This bin was filled with cotton balls, band aides, alcohol wipes, tongue depressors, medicine droppers, and other things out of our 1st aide kit and medicine cabinet. I also included a bottle of Tylenol so Lucy could shake it but I, of course, was their to supervise the whole time.

When she got bored with the bin, I pulled out some tweezers and a mini muffin tin so she could work on some fine motor skills by transferring cotton balls to the muffin tins using the tweezers. I had her transfer them left (the sensory bin) to right (the muffin tin) to help develop some early literacy skills.

Then we played doctor. I had 1 of Jeff's white, button-down shirts ready so Lucy could wear a "white coat" but she was not interested in that so Dr. Lucy went to work in her pj's.

Lucy created a " recovery room" for all of her patients.

We played with play-doh but we just called it "dough" for the week. She used different d cookie cutters to help reinforce our letter.

The highlight was making donut cookies with Will. This is a recipe from a cookbook that I have and they are perfect cookies for kids. They are small and just sweet enough to satisfy a sweet tooth.

Will and Lucy enjoyed these yummy donuts on their little date in the kitchen.

D week was very fun but I was not looking forward to E week (Eggs) at all!!! I think we made it pretty fun despite the stinky egg smell. Stay tuned...

C is for CANDY!!!

I do believe this is and will always be my very favorite week. I mean seriously, cookies, candy, chocolate, cooking, etc., etc., what is not to love?! I was somewhat apprehensive to do a candy theme with a 2 year old who receives limited sugar but then I read in a magazine that sugar doesn't actually cause a child to be hyper. It's generally the situation that increases the kid's energy level (think birthday party) so I thought, why not? (Yes, I do believe everything I read in magazines. What, it's not like it's TV and it's research based, right???)

Where was I going with this??? Ahhhh, yes... candy. So our theme was candy. Our book of the week was Chocolatina by Erik Kraft.

This is a very fun book about a little girl who loves chocolate so much that she wishes she could turn into chocolate but, when it actually happens, turns out she doesn't like it so much. You know, being stiff and melting in the sun and all isn't so great, not to mention that her classmates and health teacher want to eat her. Anyway, Lucy really likes this book and even though it makes the "ch" sound instead of the /k/ sound, it starts with a "C" so I chose to focus on that.

Our verse for the week was "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Psalm 34:8.

We started the week with some yummy chocolate chip muffins. (Thanks Martha White!)

We also had delicious candy cookies for dessert.

We went to Will's house to bake "Cookies for Kairos". Our goal is to do 1 ministry project each month. We are finding this very easy to do because our church does 1 "Be The Church" project each month and they are "coincidentally" corresponding to our themes. This project was a prison ministry where families bake cookies for prisoners, pray over them, deliver them to the church, and the church delivers them to prisoners to let them know that God loves them and through him they can find forgiveness.

To say Lucy and will had fun is a huge understatement. These 2 made a huge mess and taste-tested their way to make 4 dozen White Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. They also put on a little concert for us while the cookies were baking...

Lucy practiced cutting,

coloring,

played Candy Land,

and cooked crayons.

Directions: Heat oven to 250 degrees. Break your crayons into small enough pieces to fit into your cupcake pan. We used crayons that were already broken because Lucy refuses to use them anyway. Line your cupcake pan with cupcake liners. (You can find many ways to do this online, including using cookie cutters or mini bread pans or silicone pans. I wasn't willing to risk loosing my cookie cutters and I didn't have the other options so I used cupcake liners.) Put like colors together in the cupcake liners then pop in the oven. I checked mine every 5 minutes until all lumps were gone. I tried stirring them but the wax just sticks to the spoon so I wouldn't recommend that. When they are sufficiently melted, put them in the fridge to harden, about 15 to 20 minutes. Then peel the paper off. (It comes off very easily.)

While our crayons were hardening, Lucy made a cereal necklace.

(She was very quick to tell me that you aren't supposed to play with your food.)

We ended the week with a bang by meeting Will at a candy store. The kids had a blast, as did the parents!

(It actually did rain that day, hence the rain boots.)

After the candy store, we enjoyed lunch at Chick-Fil-A.

"Look, we found a "C"!"

We all had another great week of preschool. I do think this will be the sweetest week ever!

B is for Bear

So it's been FOREVER since I've posted our preschool fun (so much for that weekly post, right?). We've just been so busy learning there hasn't been time for the blog. Since I'm so far behind, you may see lots of preschool posts in the next few weeks (if I can get myself together), so sorry to those who could care less about Lucy's preschool adventures.

Our book of the week was Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See?

Lucy loves this book and can "read" it by herself!

Our weekly verse was, "God's tests will never be more than you can Bear." 1 Corinthians 10:13.

We were still in Columbia when "B Week" Began so we met Lucy's Best friend Will at RiverBanks Zoo Bright and early Monday morning to see the

Bears,

Bats,

Bunnies, and

Birds.

Lucy and Will went home for some quick naps then we met at Teddy Mountain so they could Build their own Bears.

That thought Back-fired when Lucy decided on a unicorn and Will chose a tiger, but they had a Blast nonetheless.

I made Beary-yummy pancakes for breakfast the next morning.

(This also Back-fired as Lucy now wants all of her pancakes to look like Bears. Since her pancakes are usually made by Aunt Jemima and come from a box in the freezer, that's not possible.)

We went through our usual morning routine on Tuesday. Lucy created her B page for her alphabet book,

and practiced following directions and identifying body parts by playing the teddy Bear Boo-Boo game.

I used to play this game with my preschool speech kids and it is always a favorite. Get a Bear (or in Lucy's case, unicorn) and some Band aides. Then tell the child where Bear (unicorn) has a Boo-Boo and tell them to put a Band aide there. For example, Unicorn hurt her neck. Put a Band aide on Unicorn's neck.

Tuesday is dance day so we talked about how B is for Ballerina.

Please excuse the strange face. Lucy went through a weird smile phase. Glad that's over!

On Thursday, some friends joined Lucy for preschool so their mom could unpack and organize their new house. We enjoyed Pear Bear Muffins for Breakfast.

My pears had gone bad so mine are decorated a little differently than in the recipe, but the kids enjoyed them anyway.

The kids made Bird feeders by putting peanut butter on a pine cone and rolling it in bird seed.

Then Lucy and Caleb searched for Buried treasure in the sandbox.

Everyone had a fun week and I'm finding that our mornings go better on the days we have preschool. Lucy asks to play preschool almost daily and is always excited about the fun activities.

A is for Apple (Pruitt Preschool)

We had a bit of a slow start to our preschool days. Lucy had a new cousin who was supposed to make her debut on our 1st day of preschool so Lucy spent the day with her Memaw while I spent the day with my nephew. Kylie decided to take her sweet time so we only got one day of preschool in our first week. We didn't mind one bit because we got to spend some time with our newest and cutest family member.

We started with our "morning meeting" (at 6pm). Our book of the week was:

Our weekly verse was "Keep God as the apple of your eye" Psalm 17:8. (I know Lucy is waaaayyyy too young for idioms, but the whole point is to fill that little mind with scripture starting now while she's very young so, mission accomplished.)

Next we painted with apple stamps.

The painting was used to make Lucy's "A" page for her alphabet book.

For snack, we made applesauce using this recipe without the sugar.

Putting in the apples

Mashing them up

1 and a half thumbs up

Next she searched for "A's" that I hid around the living room. This is now her favorite game. She found a "C" (I'm a few weeks behind on my posts) on her carseat today and got very excited.

Then we did some table work. I used some activities and printables from this site.

Same vs. Different

Saturday was Lucy's Memaw's birthday so we made a homemade apple pie just for Memaw.

Lucy thought the apple pie was delicious!

Lucy had a great time and now says, "Mommy, want to play preschool with me?". I'd say we're off to a great start!