Home school preschool Bee week

Thank you all for the well wishes and words of encouragement on Monday! 

 Miss Belle had her kindergarten screening.

 I don't know too much because we should be getting a letter about what the teachers recommendations are to help her prepare, soon.

but I am confident she did great. 

 Our topic this week is BEE'S!
Last year Miss Belle was traumatized when she was stung for the first time by a bee on a innocent little walk we took one sunny afternoon.

She is now deathly scared of them!

So I wanted to take this opportunity to teach her a little more about Bee's in hopes to ease her anxieties.

We read a few books

a very greedy bee

The bumble bee queen 

We learned a new song

 

Then practiced our numbers by adding the stripes on the bee that match the number written. p.s. i was writing the numbers upside down not realizing they were backwards. oops!

next we did a little game where she had to toss her bees (cotton balls) to the flower bucket to collect nectar then she tossed them back to the hive bucket to make honey.

we created a bee hive with paper and on each side we drew out the different types of bee's and it's job.

example: Queen bee is the mommy and has lots of babies.

we hung this up in our dinning room for everyone to see and had a little bee flying around the bottom.

lastly we made a honey nut cheerio treat. (rice crispys but with cheerios.)

I let her have a spoon full of honey and she made this face after trying it.

We continued to work on numbers and focused more on 6-10 because she still had trouble writing them and identifying which is which.

Then we did letters Vv and Ww

we talked a lot about bee keepers. after showing her pictures of what they wear and how they help keep the bees safe and assist in making and collecting the honey, she still has no desire to be near a bee. so my hope of helping with her fear didn't really work but at least she knows more about what she's afraid of.

home school preschool weather week

living in Cincinnati has it's perks.

our weather can be a perk

and sometimes be a big pain!

We get to experience almost all of the different weather types throughout the year and sometimes even in one week!

This past week we had blizzard like  snow, freezing rain, flooding and then sunshine!

The forecast is calling for Temps in the 50's!! I am so excited to see grass again soon!

We studied weather this week in home school preschool.

we read these books

Maisy's wonderful weather book

cloudy with a chance of meatballs

and the bible story of Jesus calming the storm

And made a weather map to hang on the wall. It's now part of our daily routine to describe the weather and turn the arrow to the weather we are having on that day.

We then made a rainy day number page with raindrops to match the numbers listed.

We used this tutorial to create a Tornado in a bottle.

The last day we wanted to create a sun catcher with beads we have on hand. I found the info here

but we didn't have luck in ours actually melting together or easy removal from the pan

so add that to my pinterest fails...

She reviewed all her numbers 1-10 and then we worked on the letters Tt and Uu

not much else to say about weather week except it was a fun topic to learn with tons of ideas to incorporate. 

I am nervous because she has her kindergarten screening today.

there is no denying how smart she is. i just worry she will be too shy to show it off to the teacher. I know the screening doesn't mean a whole lot but what can I say she is my little girl and I can't help but worry about every little thing. 

Hazel is four months

She's really starting to show off her personality more and it's perfect.

she's still laid back and calm most of the time

but she has a pair of lungs on her. It might be because she feels she has to be louder than her 3 big sisters in order to be heard. She also is getting bigger by the minute!

She's a whopping  15 pounds!

That's giant for one of my girls.

my nickname is Chachi.
there are members of my family that only use this name.
 Seriously.
I can't even remember my Dad calling me Kassondra.
My brother started the nickname back when we were toddlers and it's stuck to this day.

My husband started calling Hazel, Winnie a few months ago. And now that's all he calls her. He says she is his Winnie bear. I love it. And in his honor I did a little Winnie the pooh theme set up for this month's pictures. And wouldn't you know the only picture I have ever caught with her big blue eyes lite up and that toothless grin is the Winnie pucture!

she's starting to get too big. If she is not sitting up by next month I am not sure she will fit in the booster chair!

4 months! Gosh too fast!

Cincinnati Museum

Like I said in this post 

we visited the Cincinnati Museum

It's a great place.

so beautiful!

I could seriously sit at a table in the front lobby area for hours!

the paintings on the walls, the windows and just overall atmosphere is heaven to me.

that might sound weird but I love people watching at a really busy place.

But my family doesn't really like people watching.

so off we went to explore.

The Cincinnati History part of the museum is my favorite. I have always been fascinated with the 1940-1960 time periods. They have some great displays but lil Stella likes to make a break for it when mom is busy taking pictures and explore the displays herself!

she kept knocking on this door saying "let me in!!" 

if joining the Army is what she really wants to do I will support her 100% 

I just think she needs to wait a bit longer :P

Someday I will get to visit places like the park, zoo, museum, and I will actually get to take my time, take lots of pictures and read the information. 

but for now I will enjoy watching my children doing what they do best.

 run around and have a blast getting into places they shouldn't.

and if you are wondering why The Julia isn't pictured. well sometimes we as parents have to make hard decisions. When a fun day on the calender and a day of being grounded just happened to fall together, We needed to keep our foot down and hopefully make her see that we mean business. 

this was really hard for me and I had so much guilt all day but Julia survived and she says she learned her lesson.....only time will tell 

but I sure hope so

Home school preschool Daddy week

My husband has just celebrated his one year anniversary at his dream job.

His title is Calibrations specialist.

 He works with a lot of machines and computers that test different products for other companies.

most of the products are top secret.

things for aerospace, power generation, oil gas, transportation, biomedical, and farm heavy equipment suppliers and manufacturers in the United States and worldwide.

he loves his company and everyday is something new

I love how he comes home happy and feeling appreciated by his co-works and bosses.

This week for home school preschool We learned about technology.

or I named it -Daddy's work week!

We watched this video:

I very rarely let my kids on any kind of computer/phone/tablet 

I just don't think they are all that great for kids and I would rather my kids be playing, exploring, and creating with hands on activities.

but for this week I did let miss Belle visit the PBS website and play a few learning games.

 Everyday my husband empties is pockets and he accidentally brings a handful of these things home!

he always returns it :)

But we decided to make a tool box and filled it with some random tinkering tools.

 We built a motherboard and connected the color "wires" to the correct color ports.

Brian loved this!

 The real reason for doing Daddy week in home school preschool was because it was also his birthday week! So we spent one day shopping for his gift and the next day making his cake.

his favorite is German Chocolate.

I am not a fan so he got big helpings of the cake.

 I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he said he wanted a family day.

so We took a trip to the museum. 

(I will have another post soon about our trip because I got tons of cute pictures!)

at one point of the museum they have on display lots of machines from back in the day.

and Brian held Belle up and said this what I would probably be working on if I lived in this time.

She is going over the letters Rr Ss and Tt

numbers 1234 and 5 in her workbooks

We has so much fun learning about Daddy's work and celebrating the man of our house.

We sure love him a lot.