Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

The girls are memorizing : Even a Child is known by his deeds Proverbs 20:11 in school this week and we checked out a great book at the library to go with the verse!!!

It talks about how everyone has an invisible bucket they carry around  and when you do kind things, act nicely ect. you are a bucket filler and you fill other peoples bucket but if you are rude, don’t use manners, bully etc. you are a bucket dipper and are dipping out of others buckets.

We all love the book and have read it multiple times. I saw this great post on making a bucket dipping chart and filling a real bucket for a class so I might modify it and do something like that with the girls. This theme also goes along great with my friend Teresa’s blog post that you can read here! We are going to work really hard to be bucket fillers this week!

Have you filled a bucket today??

Look What We Won

We love the Madeline books so we were super excited to win this book

from FlipFlops & Applesauce. We love it as much as we thought we would:) Thanks FlipFlops & Applesauce!!!

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Tuesday we got to go with some homeschool friends to the Krispy Kreme Doughnut factory! It was really cool to see how it all works and we learned quite a bit. What was the best part…..eating fresh doughnuts right off the line:)

Silly Mouth

Chris and I started putting Valentine notes and treats in the girls Valentines bags (I made Emily’s Sunday) on Monday. We wrote them each a poem and put a sucker in each bag. I added these cute foam cutouts, lips and a moustache, to the girls sucker. I saw the idea on Family Fun. It was so simple to make and looked so darn cute!

Emily’s School Week

~Emily is 37 months old~

We had a great week of Raising Rock Stars Preschool last week. Emily worked on

Letter: I

Number: 4

Sight Word: can

Shape: rectangle

Color: red

Bible Verse: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

This is the 4th week in a row she has memorized her bible verse! To go along with the verse we read about David and Goliath in our Jesus Storybook Bible and also a single storybook we have about David and Goliath. We also watched Veggie Tales Dave and the Giant Pickle.

She played a color game from the Dollar Tree and sorting bears by color

Practicing writing the letter I

Rectangle dot marker page

Tracing different lines and the letter V for Valentines that I printed from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Pin punching the letter I (her favorite activity) also printed from CoaH. Coloring her strong man activity Here is the finished strong man with the bible verse. She colored it, I cut it out and she glued it on the paper.  I really let her take the lead with this so that is why his legs are crossed. Who knows, maybe she thought he needed to go potty:)

Coloring her bible verse

Playing with Valentines window clings and window markers

I didn’t get pictures of all of the activities we did last week but we did do all of the RRSP activities. This is the first week she cut her bible verse out without me holding one side of the paper. Go here to find out more about Raising Rock Stars Preschool.

The Circus

My sister, Rhonda, surprised us last weekend with tickets to the circus! How awesome is that?? We had a blast!!! The girls loved it and so did we.

Ellie with Aunt Rhonda and Uncle Allan

Emily enjoying her slushy

The circus in action

 

Momma and Ellie with a blue mouth

 

Thank you Aunt Rhonda for such a wonderful day!!! We love you!!

Emily’s Drawing

Emily likes to stand at the easel and draw dogs, cats and princesses. Her pictures are usually scribbles on the page and then she will want us to come check out her beautiful picture. The other day I was on the computer cleaning and she was at the easel and she wanted me to look at the princess she drew. I was surprised to see she drew her first little person!

See…. Isn’t that a beautiful princess?

Valentine Chair Pouches

I have loved the Valentine chair pouches ever since I saw them in the Pottery Barn Kids catalog a few years ago but I didn’t want to pay the hefty price. I think they were around $40 plus shipping or something like like. I was very excited when I saw this tutorial at Our Scoop blog recently. I started making it last night and just finished it this morning. I love it!!! I want to keep them out until Valentines so Chris and I can write sweet little notes to the girls each day and put their little Valentines present in it on Valentines.

 

Here is a picture of the lining below.

One down…..one to go!

Random

OK this is just a random post of this and that!

First – I babysat all day on Sunday and when I came home I walked into this

Yes, that is a 4x4x12 in the living room! The girls were so excited and had the best day with dad. They played circus and the beam was the tight rope. Along with a tight rope walker they had a lion tamer (Emily with a stuffed animal lion tied to her), a juggler and I can’t remember what else. Believe it or not this beam is still in the living room (tonight is the last night) because the girls have had tons and tons of fun on it! There is talk of the beam coming back out this weekend along with the cotton candy maker and clown face paint so we can have a family circus. Anybody want to come to our house this weekend? What, no takers????

Ellie saw a boat valentine holder in Family Fun magazine and of course she said we had to have it to hold our family valentines (the boat was in the middle of her table on her Valentine plans). It is basically an O.J. bottle with card board taped to the front. There is a section cut out  in the back to stick the valentines in and is covered with construction paper. Once I helped her cover it she decorated it all on her own and then made all of us Valentines and stuck in the back. She was very proud!

 

My last bit of randomness is that we are still trucking along in school but I have not taken any pictures the last 2 weeks. I have been very slack!!! Emily is doing great with Raising Rock Stars and we just finished up the letter H week. Ellie is still moving along as well. She is still working on handwriting, math, and reading but we are just finishing up our winter activities, most of which I printed from here, so we can move into our chocolate Valentines activities!

My Party Planner

I am pretty sure I have mentioned on here before that Ellie loves to plan and have parties. It is no lie when I say that we have at least 2-3 parties a week. It can be anywhere from a tea party to a stuffed animal party to a triangle party. You name it we have had it! For one of her gifts awhile back we gave her a big box with plates, napkins, streamers, plastic cups and silverware, gift bags, tablecloths etc. in it and called it her party box and she uses it all of the time. It isn’t surprising that she wants us to have a family Valentine’s party on Valentine’s day. So I go in to check on her last night assuming that she was asleep and I find her propped up in bed. She had an office organizer type thing, that zips open on her lap and holds a tablet on one side and pen and notes on the other, sitting on her lap and the Valentine’s Family Fun magazine beside her. She was flipping through the magazine for the 100th time and drawing out all of the ideas she wants to include for our party. She said that she couldn’t wait to share her plans with us in the morning. I could not help but to smile. I love this girl!!!