My Button ;)

How do you like my button!

I made that myself :)

Feel free to grab it

and add it to your blog :)

ABC Jesus Loves Me

A few days ago I was contacted by

a very awesome and helpful lady,

who has a website ABC Jesus Loves Me,

wanting to put my alphabet ideas in her site,

of course I accepted, and I am honored by her gesture.

I've been blessed by her contacting me,

since I've been wanting to teach Jessica

a Bible Curriculum,

and that's exactly what I am going to start doing.

So besides the Alphabet,

Story based activities,

crafts, printables, etc.

that you see here in my blog,

I'll be adding Bibble activities,

based on the Bible Curriculum

that we'll be following with Jessica

from ABC Jesus Loves Me

I have placed ABC Jesus Loves Me button

on the side of my blog

to make it easier for everybody

who wants to follow along :)

Teaching kids about God,

can make things just better,

don't you think?

Dental tracing cards

Here are some dental tracing cards, I didn't make these, I just had them in my files, I thought I would share :)

Tooth brushing charts

Here are some tooth brushing charts to color and keep them excited about brushing their teeth :)

Dental Health

February is Dental Health and since February is not done yet :) we have a chance to still do it :)

Here you'll find some dental health coloring pages to start with.

I'll be uploading and posting some more between today and tomorrow.

thanks

Cooking class

Yesterday, Jessica made lunch for us :)

We made tacos, I made the meat, and put the taco shells in the oven

meanwhile we chopped the tomatoes, lettuce and shredded the cheese

she did most of it with with a lettuce knife that we have which is a white plastic knife, very safe for kids.

It was a great experience, since with such a simple thing, she learned the meaning and the difference of

chopping,

dicing,

shedding,

and filling...

the tacos :)

Enjoy!

Today is Pancake Day!!!

Here is Jessica making her own pancakes

and due to her lactose intolerance, and past egg allegy

we made up a special but delicious recipe for her

and very simple too, we mixed

1/4 cup of Aunt Jemima Original pancake mix

with 1/4 cup soy milk

that's it! and comes out great, very good consistancy and fluffy :)

here we are frying it in a butterfly shape

and here is the final result


she finally can eat eggs, so here they are in her plate :)

Today we are going to be reading

Curious George makes pancakes
and
Pancakes, Pancakes! from Eric Carle

Together with that we have some pancake activities

here is a pancake coloring page

here is a pancake maze

Mrs. Pancake has an cute little pancake book free to print

and here is a pancake song

Enjoy!!!

Letter E

E for eyedropper painting

We took an eyedropper,

little cups of water

food coloring

and our letter E worksheet

with a towell underneath to prevent the mess to spread lol

teaching Jessica how to use the eyedropper

she began to color the letter E

and yes, becareful with the amount of water they put,
Jessica made a hole in her E :)

For the letter E sound, we'll be reading

My "e" book
Every Egg
and
Meet me on the farm

New material for The Mixed up Chamaleon

The Mixed Up Chamaleon Colors

this ones I made myself,

again is for the letter tiles from any scrabble game

or simply laminated so they can trace on top

It helps a lot with letter recognition

Spelling, letter sounds

and at the same time learning colors

You can also find how to say the colors in Spanish here

I'll be making letter tile mats in Spanish asap

I'm sure there will be other themes and books

that will give me the opportunity to incorporate these :)

Enjoy!

The Mixed-Up Chameleon video

I found this awesome video on the story on youtube

I just though I would share :)

Enjoy!

Chameleon crayon art

This is pretty neat, and very fun

we took advantage of the chameleons colors to do

the stained glass effect

first we peeled little pieces of crayons

then we placed a chameleons coloring sheet on the table

on top we put wax paper and then

using a pencil sharpener we put crayon shavings

on top of the wax paper, then

place another piece of wax paper on top

and iron it, the crayon will melt quick

and spread mixing the colors

this is a close up of the crayon shavings


when is dry, you cut it.

the chameleon that you see at the bottom
is the coloring sheet that was underneath the wax paper.

The proyect came from Martha Stewart website

The Mixed-Up Chameleon

We finally got The mixed up Chameleon from the library,

we read it a couple of times and Jessica loves it

so we started working on some activities,

I made these cards that you can print, cut and laminate

so whenever I retell the story and say:

I wish I could be big and white like a...

and let the child hold these cards and think

which animal is big and white, so her answer will be the polar bear

then I go on with the story,

I wish I could be handsome like a...

flamigo (being their answer), and so on

Also, another activity is to print them and cut them

separating the word with the picture,

that way you can read the word to them

and they match it with the correct picture,

this will help them learn the name of each animal in this book

and another activity is to print them out

twice or three times and

do a little pattering math with them like this

elephant, elephant, flamingo, elephant, elephant...

what goes next?

so you get the idea... :)

Enjoy!

Building sandcastles... online

There is an online game on pbs here

Great for early math perfect for pre-k and k level, here is what an educational newsletter says about it:

Skills: shape recognition

Description: Construct castles without getting sand in your shoes with this nifty shape game for early learners. When sand shapes are revealed, players "drop" them into the outlines of simple sandcastles. A message of congratulations appears as each castle is completed, and two levels of play are provided.

free printables paper dolls

Look at this awesome paper dolls that I found, free to print here

more valentines

Last but not least, this is what Jessica made at a Valentines party she had

a Valentines crown

and a pretty purse made out of paper plates

and our valentine words in spanish

love = amor

sweet = dulce

St. Valentines = San Valentin

hug = abrazo

kiss = beso

rose = rosa

candy = caramelo

flower = flor

heart = corazon

Enjoy!

And Happy Valentines day!

Valentine science

Look at what I am doing with Jessica today, cute and perfect for their age
http://www.abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/magic.flower.htm

Wow! the Noblesse Oblige Award for me :)

Thank you so much to Preschool Playbook

for presenting me with this award

This Award is presented to bloggers who

display consistency in any one or a combination of these conditions:



1. The Blogger manifests exemplary attitude, respecting the nuances that pervades amongst different cultures and beliefs.

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3. There is a clear purpose at the Blog; one that fosters a better understanding on Social, Political, Economic, the Arts, Culture and Sciences and Beliefs.

4. The Blog is refreshing and creative.

5. The Blogger promotes friendship and positive thinking.



The Blogger who receives this award will need to perform the following steps:

1. Create a Post with a mention and link to the person who presented the Noblesse Oblige Award.

2. The Award Conditions must be displayed at the Post.

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I would like to pass this award to...The Artful Parent

A Valentine Mobile

Today we made this Valentine Mobile

like always recycling...

first we took an empty paper towell roll

and a piece of red construction paper to cover the roll

then we took all those hearts that she colored yesterday

from the trace and colored worksheet

and glued them to a piece of cardboard, putting

cooking string in the middle (to hang)

once they were dry, we colored the other side

and cut them out again

we could also print the worksheet twice,

colored them and glue the hearts together, but

this is the way Jessica wanted to do it.

And since is better to learn while having fun,

why not do it her way :)

A puffy valentines

This is a recycled valentines heart

We took a white paper bag from the cuban breads

and drew a heart on it, then

I showed Jessica how to glue the edges only

leaving a section without glue

to fill it with cotton, then glue the rest again

as you can see we did all that, and then she painted it.

The Butterfly Award for me :)

Wow! thank you so much for the awesome award

given to me by teachingtinytots

and I am passing it on to...

Let's Explore...Creative Activities for Preschoolers

Valentines cards and printable

We started our valentines activities with this

trace and color worksheet

but like always worksheets are not just worksheets for us

Jessica cut all the hearts out after coloring them
then...
we started making valentines cards with them
this is a scrap piece of paper that I taught Jessica
how to fold, to make it spring (fold several times)


to make this pop up card
adding one of the hearts that she cut out from the worksheet

and this is another card that we made
by simply folding a piece of cardboard in half
and adding another heart that Jessica cut out,
but we only glued half of the heart so the other half can pop out also.

Free Valentines Stamps

The Toymaker

has this beautiful valentines stamps for free, here is how to get them

http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Valentines/ValentineStamps.pdf

Valentines tile letters

This are some Valentines mats that I just made, they are for the letter tiles from scrabble game or you can laminate them and make your child trace on top of them with dry-erase. I hope you like them.

Enjoy!!!

http://www.4shared.com/dir/12631910/e4ccf540/valentines.html