Preschool Worksheets

I have had several people show interest in seeing some of the worksheets I've made for Avery for the at home preschool we do.  So I am here to share them.  I make the same worksheets changed slightly to go along with the letter we are doing that week.  This week is F week so that will be the worksheets I'm going to share today.

Number one.  I've been doing this worksheet from the first of the year when I started up with preschool again.  This is a counting and number forming practice worksheet I made for Avery.  I do a different one each week for the letter we are doing that week.  This week is F.  She is doing really well with writing her numbers, but has more trouble slowing down and counting each individual fox and not just sliding her finger along and making up a number at the end.

This worksheet is one I added last week.  It is to help Avery learn patterns.  She is doing okay with it, but doesn't quite understand it yet.

Another new one that I made last week to help Avery learn to draw her shapes (she already knows her shapes of course).  She is doing really well with this one.  The only one she really has trouble with is that star.  I'll have to change up the shapes in a few weeks.

The letter tree is another one I've been doing since I started our preschool up again.  It is very simple to make and Avery really likes it.

Those are the worksheets I make myself.  I have two others that I get from education.com.  It is a great website.  I have this worksheet for each letter and this worksheet for numbers 1-10.  I really like them both and so does Avery.  It has really helped her and she has done well with both.  

There you have it!  The worksheets I use every week and that have so far worked for Avery and me!  

Princess Tea Party

Since September (I think) Avery and her cousin Maya have had a special play date once a month.  Celestial and I take turns hosting it, so far it has been so fun for both of us!  It's super fun for the kids too of course.

Back in December I had thought about doing a princess tea party.  I bought some supplies and saved them until it was my turn again!  

Today was the day!  Avery chose what princess dress she wanted to wear.  I did her hair.  We accessorized.  We found just the right shoes!  We decorated.  We prepared a lunch.  

Do you see her "glass slippers"?  $3 jelly shoes from the D.I.

Finally it was time for Maya to come over!  Avery and Maya both were beyond excited for this day! 

I asked Celestial to stay this month to help out with a few things that I had planned.

We started out by taking a few pictures of our beautiful princesses.

Our Cinderella and Elsa

Then we came in for our lunch.  We had crown shaped peanut butter and honey sandwiches, string cheese, and orange juice.  While they were eating I read them Frozen and Cinderella.  Since we had an Elsa and a Cinderella!  We also read Fancy Nancy, because Princesses need to be fancy!

After lunch we talked about how Princesses like to look pretty so they need a mirror to make sure they look beautiful!  I gave them each a mirror and we decorated them.  We just let them go to town with it.

After their mirrors were done we colored a castle then decorated it with some stickers.  Gram, Avery said that she made hers for you, so watch for it in the mail!

After this we painted our nails.  I picked out the colors for them because I have many options and wanted to make it easier.  I picked a mint color with sparkles for Maya because it seemed good for Elsa and a robin egg blue for Avery.  Avery decided she wanted sparkles as well, so that's what we did!  And contrary to what the picture may look like, Avery was happy to have her nails painted.

After that we had a yummy M&M snack!  

P.S.  Did you know you can turn just about anything into a preschool activity? 

How about M&M spelling??

While they were eating I told them how it was fun to dress up as a princess, but that we really are all princesses, no matter what we're wearing.  I asked them if they knew who our King was and Maya answered correctly, "Heavenly Father!"  We are all daughters (and sons) of a Heavenly King.  He loves us and is mindful of us.  He wants to see us happy and He will help us if we do what is right and remember Him.  Actually He'll even help us when we're stupid and make mistakes, because He loves us.  To help Avery and Maya remember our Heavenly Father and remember that we are Princesses, a child of God, I gave them each a slap bracelet that says I am a Child of God on it.

We love you princesses Avery and Himaya!

All About Mary

I thought a few days ago of doing "About us" posts.
Hopefully my far away family will appreciate it since they don't get to see us often.  Some of my family hasn't even met Louis or our girls.  I'll start with Mary and work my way up! 

Mary:

was born September 22

she is almost 17 months old

Mary's Personality:

Mary is quiet and likes to watch others before jumping into things.  Eyes wide open and taking things in.

Easy going, simple, easy to get a giggle out of.  She is shy when first meeting people.  She's been like that since she was a baby.  I had several people say, "she doesn't like me"  which made me sad.  She was a baby!  She didn't not like you!  It's just the way she is, She's just gotta warm up to you.

Mary loves:

Books!  She will sit for a half an hour easily just reading a book.  

Mary sat reading this book for at least an hour this day!  (I also love that it's upside down!)

Lately she has also started to like coloring.

She loves the song I am a Child of God.  Just this morning we watched this video about 20 times and she'll sit through it the entire time too.  She is always asking for us to sing it.  She'll say, "Sing a song?  Child of God? Again?  Please?"  Then when we start singing it she laughs because she's so happy we understood her jabbering!

She loves all fruit.  I have yet to give her some fruit that she hasn't liked.  Her favorites are apples, oranges, and bananas.  She also liked grapes and pineapple, but we don't have those often.

Chocolate and cookies.  What child does not love these things?

She loooves her binkie and the scarf she stole from me back in July.  I have tried to take it back from her multiple times, but it hasn't worked.  She loves that thing.  Whenever she's sad or tired she'll go find it and hold it up by her face walking around.

Mary loves her sister.  She loves following her around and doing what she does.  They love to laugh with each other and play ring around the rosies.  Avery will hold Mary's hand and Mary will follow wherever Avery leads her.  Hopefully Avery will continue to lead her to good places

Mary knows:  

Mary knows a few letters.  She knows A, B, N, O.  There could be others that I don't know she knows!

Mary knows most of her colors.  Purple, yellow, orange, red, blue, green, yellow, white, black, brown.  She has picked up on them quickly!

She is starting to learn her shapes, as of now she knows circle and triangle.  

Mary knows a lot of words!  She is a talker.  Hi, bye, baby, i love you, ball, some (she says, "a-hom") toy, play, eat, seat, car, outside, bed, orange, banana, apple, bread, waffle, bath, splash, book, again, more, done, down, on, off, open, poopy, change, bum, sit, trash, cookie, drink, milk, juice, etc etc!  So many words!  She amazes me.  If I ask her to say a word, she'll do her best to repeat it.

Things Mary can do:  

Mary throws away her own diapers.

She puts her dirty clothes in the hamper.

Mary knows to go to her seat when it's time to eat.  

She is learning to use a spoon and fork, she gets it every once in a while.

Mary has almost climbed right over the gate on the stairs.

She gets her own shoes when it's time to go.

She puts away her jacket when we get home.

Mary can climb up and go down a slide all by herself.  Her sister and Papa taught her just on Saturday.

She's starting to do puzzles.

Mary is a beautiful, sweet, happy, funny little girl.  

We love having her in our home.  She bring us so much happiness and joy.

Countdown to Valentine's Day

I found a cute countdown to Valentine's day to do with your children on Pinterest and decided to do it with my girls.  Mostly just Avery, but Mary joined in when she could.  You can find the countdown here.  I changed it up a bit, we also didn't end up doing everything, but we had fun!  

Here are the days we did.  

Day 1:  Bake a Valentine card and treat for Dad.

Avery did most of hers all by herself

Mary had a ball helping me put the glue on

After Mary went to bed Avery and I made cupcakes

Day 2:  We went on a candy heart scavenger hunt.  We got three little snack sized Ziploc bags and Avery went and searched for them.  She had fun finding them, but enjoyed eating them more!  

Day 3:  We made some Valentine's for Avery's Cache Valley cousins.  Avery thought this was very serious and important work and worked hard on them.  She had so much fun delivering them all by herself.

So serious!

Day 4:  We read Valentine books.  My favorite was Amelia Bedelia's First Valentine, so cute!  

I love Amelia Bedelia!  

Day 5:  We ate heart shaped candy.  Sadly Mary was asleep for this so she didn't get any.

Day 6:  We made Valentine's for grandparents.  Avery and Mary both enjoyed this.  Mary just kept saying, "hearts, hearts, hearts!" 

Day 7:  We watched some Valentine movies from the library.  Have you heard of Word World?  It is a pretty good show.  

We skipped day 8.  

Day 9:  Heart shaped pancakes and toast.

We skipped day 10.

Day 11:  We painted some heart-shaped salt dough necklaces.  Avery's little friend LynnDee came to do this with us.  We also colored some Valentine coloring pages.

We skipped day 12 and 13.

Day 14:  We made a heart shaped pizza for dinner.

It was fun and I hope to do it again next year, hopefully we'll do all 14 days next year.

A Night Out

For Christmas Louis' two youngest siblings gifted us with overnight babysitting.  We used that overnight babysitting last weekend for a Valentine's date.  Tifannee came up Friday afternoon and Louis and I headed out very excited to have a night away!
We had a coupon for the Fun Zone up here in Logan.  It was for a game of lazer tag, a game of bowling (including the shoes), tokens for the arcade, a small pizza, mozzarella sticks, and a drink for each of us all for $20!  We had so much fun playing together!  I had only done lazer one once or maybe twice before. It was just the two of us in there too.  It was so much fun, although I'm pretty sure something was wrong with either my gun or Louis' vest.  He got me a bunch of times and I only got him a handful of times.  When our time was almost up I asked him to just let me get him once!  So he was standing about 3 feet away from me and it would not get him!  Needless to say I walked out of lazer tag with 0 points.
I'm not good at bowling, but I always have fun anyway.  I ended up with 74 points and Louis got 105.  His goal was to break 100 and he succeeded.

The one picture I took the whole night

We had fun playing some arcade games and ended up with 122 tickets.  We kept 16 to get Mary and Avery a bracelet and some tootsie rolls then gave the rest away to some kids.  That's what we always end up doing at an arcade.

Louis and I had a great time together and are grateful for Tifannee and Annette for watching our kids.  

And for a blast from the past, here's a few pictures of Louis' and mine first Valentine's day together!

I don't know why the first two are itty bitty!  Hopefully you can kind of see them.

This one if actually the day after Valentine's day, but cute.

P.S.  Louis bought the ring he proposed to me with on our first Valentine's.  We didn't get engaged until May.