Friday, September 20, 2013

I've Tried and Tried

Mobile Blogger is nice if I just want to make a written post.  It's not so nice when I'm trying to add pictures. As a matter of fact, it's downright unhandy!  I think I'm going to delete it from my phone apps and free up memory for something more important--like maybe pictures.

So here are some of the pictures I've tried to share via Mobile:

The three older girls are getting a homework folder every Thursday to practice some of the things we've worked on through the week.  I'm, also, including a page from Bible Writer http://kirstenjoyawake.com/bible-writer/  , so they can practice tracing letters.

The girls are concentrating on trying to color inside the lines on a paper about sharing.  I'm not really sure the message got across because there was a lot of attitude about sharing the crayons in the box.

We studied the letter "C" this week, so they made paper bag puppets of Cathy the Cat.  Some of them followed instructions, some of them did their own thing when gluing pieces.

We were having fun with the concept of top and bottom.  Eva and Raylee decided they needed to have animals on top of them in this picture.  Jemma was content with her hands being on top of her head.  Shanna was just standing in the back trying to figure out what was happening.

 Jemma, Raylee and Eva had fun making handprint wings for Betty the Bee.  Glue was everywhere.

One morning I evidently wasn't getting the preschool area set up fast enough for Eva, so she started pulling the table around and setting up the chairs.  She gets a little impatient at times. (Not sure where she learned that trait.)
Learning to work with scissors is evidently harder than I remembered it being.  One girl always holds her scissors upside down.  Another is having trouble remembering to open AND close the blades.  And then there's Jemma--she cuts for about 5 seconds and then just starts tearing the paper.  Cutting is too slow for her.  Eva is doing really good with scissors, it kind of makes me a little nervous when she goes into my sewing room now!

2 comments:

Vee said...

Oh you're in the thick of preschool again. I'm smiling because it all sounds so very familiar. Eva looks like a great helper to me! Have a wonderful year...

Jan said...

i wrote a long post and then lost it. Kudos on letting the kids make big messes while learning. A nephew, age 40, still talks about coming to our house to cut, paste, and play with play-do, which his mama would never allow--too messy!
You are making memories.