Story Corner: Thankful Together

Thankful Together

by Holly Davis

Review:

This book highlights the simplicity of things to be thankful for all throughout the day.  This mom and baby go throughout their day, like any other normal day, but they emphasize those small moments that can easily be taken for granted and overlooked and share how thankful they are...

     - for a wonderful morning

     - for clothes that we wear

     - for food that we eat

     - for games that we play

     - for the world God made

     - for laughter and fun

As mom, this book is a great reminder to cherish every moment, no matter how stressful some days are or how many sibling battles you have to referee or how many moments you can recall where you lost your own self-control.  Every moment good or bad is one to be thankful for because you are living them out TOGETHER!

Bible Point:

Give thanks in ALL circumstances.

Memory Verse:

"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Pinterest Activities:

We did the following activities from Pinterest to go along with our book...

1. Thankfulness Wreath from The Glamorous Life of a Housewife

2.  Give Thanks Scripture Cards from Second Chance to Dream

3.  The Gratitude Game from Play. Party. Pin.

4.  Thankful Bingo from Crazy Little Projects

*Note: The photos on the "activities" are not mine.  They are direct from the creators of the blogs that have been linked to and can also be found on Pinterest.

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah

Tot School: T is for Turkey

~Chunky Monkey is 22 months old~

Our first attempt at Tot School with my littlest monkey in the house right now.  I didn't prepare a school board like I did for my Funky Monkey, only because I'm still learning what keeps this littlest monkey's attention.  So, this week was more for "experimentation", to see what he likes, to see what interests him, to see what he does with different trays, to see if repetition is the key with him or not, etc.  All I have to say is this week was VERY interesting!!!

My second born child is very independent, stubborn, and pretty much will only do what he "wants" to do.  This is cool by me, but I have to learn through this in how to teach him.  And some things no matter how much he wanted to do it ALL by himself, just couldn't happen... after glue on EVERY thing, I finally figured out it was easier to give him a Q-tip with a blob of glue on a plate than to give him the glue bottle!!! After about a million sticky messes with glue I learned pretty quickly, I hope, hehe.

So take a peek into our T is for Turkey week... please forgive some of my photos without a Chunky Monkey in them, he's quite the character that trying to take photos becomes a game of "get the camera", so if he is MIA, he got distracted...

Our "Letter" of the day is introduced in a mailbox! We sing a little song and he opens the mailbox to pull out the magnetic letter "T" and the "T" word cards.  We review all the word cards and practice what the "T" says.

Both of my boys did these.  My Chunky Monkey's is the top one and my Funky Monkey's is the bottom one.  I laid out their plastic mats with stickers on both and the pumpkin card template. They both got busy decorating, but my littlest one needed help getting the backing off the stickers and wanted to sit on my lap while creating his.

Littlest guy made his "T" for turkey letter craft - this is when I figured out glue on a plate with a Q-tip was WAY easier! After it dried we put our "T" word cards on it and practiced what the "T" says.

Q-tip painting!!! When he first saw the Q-tips he tried to clean out his ears, lol.  Then he saw the paint and went right to town.  I showed him how to "dot" on the dots and then let him go for it.  He could paint for hours!!!

I had two other tot trays as well, but I didn't get pictures of them.  One tray had a Letter T on it and I had a HUGE push pin that he used to poke holes in the formation of the Letter T, but I couldn't take pictures while he was doing that tray.  And the other tray was a do-a-dot Letter T and I gave him buttons in a box to pull out and put on the "dots".  He had more fun dumping the buttons and sending them all across the floor!

Hope everyone had an AWESOME Thanksgiving!!!

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!
~Bekah



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PreK Week 3: Letter T = Thankful

Thanksgiving week and yes, we still did school! He actually enjoyed having daddy home to see him do school, so he was VERY excited to show off everything he did! It was way too cute.

Here is our school board:

Overview of our week's lessons:

• Letter & Phonics Time
  - Letter T Sort (capital and lowercase)
  - Letter T Worksheet (circle the pictures that begin with T)
  - Letter T Words Hunt & What's the Sound Song
• Calendar & Weather Time
  - Months of the Year Song
  - Days of the Week Song
  - Counting the Dates and adding Today's Date
  - What's the Weather Song
  - Daily Calendar & Weather Journal
• Writing Time
  - Letter T Practice to add to Journal
  - Floor Letter T (used painter's tape)
  - Playdough Mat
• Reading Time
  - Thanksgiving Books
  - Guided Reading Books
  - Self-Reading Time (10 minutes daily)
• Math Time
  - Number 5 Poem, Journal Sheet
  - Number 5 Worksheet
  - Cornucopia Counting
  - Candy Corn Math (addition & subtraction)
• Fine Motor Skills Practice
  - Scissor Practice
  - Tens Frames with manipulatives
  - Arranging Flowers in a Parmesan Container
• Art Time
  - Thanksgiving Wreath Craft
  - Give Thanks Squirrel Craft
  - Thanksgiving Placemat Gifts for Grandparents
  - Letter T Craft
  - Thanksgiving Lapbook
• Color Time
  - Brown Song
  - Brown Hunt
• Shape Time
  - Square Song
  - Square Drawing Practice
  - Shape Journal Entry
  - Square Sheet for Shape Book
  

 Pictures of our week:

 Our Thanksgiving Lapbook:

 

Front cover of the lapbook is a thankful turkey from Christian Preschool Printables.

The feathers came with words to trace and then he colored them.

I love the blue turkey though, goes great with his new joke he learned.

"what is blue and covered in feathers? a turkey holding it's breath" hahahaha

 

First section of the inside of the lapbook.

Left flap: Thank You God for mini book from Christian Preschool Printables

and a Spelling pocket for practicing spelling THANKS.

Right flap: Verses that go with the Pilgrim's voyage and discovery.

Middle: Condensed version of the Pilgrim Story of Thanksgiving.

 

Second inside section of the lapbook:

left flap: Numbers Pocket, has Thanksgiving numbers from a PreK packet from Homeschool Creations

and Counting Packet, has Thanksgiving pictures to count and match the number to, PreK packet from Homeschool Creations.

middle: Thanksgiving prewriting from PreK packet from Homeschool Creations.

Thank You Lord for Pumpkin with pictures of things to be thankful for inside from Christian Preschool Printables.

 

Glued our Squirrel craft on the back!

Have fun and be a blessing!

~Bekah