Lily's last first day of Pre-K

Lily started BIG preschool today. Before she was at Governor Morehead, a school for the visually impaired, which was based in a very small, old building with 3 teachers (1 teach and 2 TA's) and 9-10 kids. This year she is in an elementary school filled with students, there are 2 teachers and 19 kids! Yep, 19 kids! We are prepared to deal with a little transition time and are ready to adjust things as we go but we really think she is going to thrive here and this will be a huge stepping stone for kindergarten! 

Lily's first day breakfast and lunch - breakfast burrito and fresh blueberries. Lunch was leftover veggie pasta, carrots and hummus, watermelon and homemade fruit bars for a snack. Evelyn enjoyed some yogurt, which she shared with LB!

Lily was so excited! 

Big girl classroom! :) I'm so proud of her! 

Letter N

This week Lily chose the letter "N" and I had to do some pinterest searching. I was not at all prepared to make anything but, that's kind of how it normally goes these days! I realized we could make a Noodle Necklace (two N's!) but again, wasn't really prepared - my noodles were pretty hard to put on but we accomplished it together. Then we made a nest. Overall it was actually fun! More crafty than learning, which is more up my alley :) 

Great hand-eye and fine motor workout for LB

The finished product

Our Nest with baby birds and momma bird feeding noodle worms ;-) 

Letter O

This week LB chose the letter "O" to practice. So I decided to craft an orange octopus and make an ocean in a bottle. It was fun!

I attempted to let LB practice cutting with scissors. Mistake. That takes WAY more patience than I was capable of yesterday. (And those snowman scissors led to a big tantrum about watching "Frosty the snowman" on the 1st day of JULY!)

Gluing 8 legs

Lily's Orange Octopus

This is an activity I'd seen on pinterest a lot and something I'd been meaning to try. I thought it would give LB a little break after the frosty-trantrum. It wasn't as fun as she wanted it to be. In fact, she got frustrated that the colors weren't mixing more. 

LB has weaker hands so mashing these around was hard work. I think we'll try it again but hand it on the window. I hung it up during lunch time just to get it out of the way and the colors were SO pretty. I think it would be easier for her and a good OT exercise for her arms. 

Ocean in a bottle!

Making Waves