An April Calendar for you

An April blank calendar

to help us get organized for our activities for this month

or for anything else you want to use it

Personal use only please :)

We will continue doing a letter each week, but also

We are going to start with our Easter activities today

along with Easter stories and printables

hopefully like that I'll get my house decorated by Easter :)

G for Garden

G for Garden

Today we dedicated part of our day to our garden

For a while we have planting and growing

some of our favorite Puerto Rican herbs

this on on top is called Recado
and the one on the bottom is Sweet Peppers

I found this article about Gardening with children that says:

COGNITIVELY GARDENING
EMBRACES ALL ACADEMIC AREAS:MATH, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, MUSIC, LANGUAGE
DEVELOPS CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
ENHANCES CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

SOCIALLY / EMOTIONALLY GARDENING PROMOTES
PATIENCE AND PERSERVERANCE
FEELINGS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT; PRIDE IN WORK
SELF HELP SKILLS
RESPONSIBILITY
ENHANCES SELF ESTEEM
COOPERATION

PHYSICALLY GARDENING SUPPORTS
GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
GENERAL EXERCISE, PHYSICAL STRENGTHENING
VISUAL AND MOTOR PLANNING
BODY PERCEPTION
COORDINATION
FINE MOTOR
EYE-HAND COORDINATION
WORKING WITH TOOLS
DEXTERITY
STIMULATE AND USES ALL 5 SENSES
(Touch, Taste, Hearing, Seeing, Smelling)

SPIRITUALLY GARDENING
MAKES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GOD, THE CREATOR AND CONCRETE BIBLE LEARNING
RESPECT FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT
“Children are a lot closer to the ground; they have an intimate relationship wit the earth.”

DON’T FORGET LIFE BEGAN IN THE GARDEN!

Letter G

After the long break, we continue with the letter G

we decided to do G for Glitter Glue

so we took this Glittler Glue, a pack of 6 different colors

that we got at the dollar store,

and outlined the letter G worksheet

it looks so simple to us, but for Jessica it was a challenge

to follow the line, while squeezing the glue

very good exercise for hand and eye coordination

We also did some writing practice of the letter G with this worksheet

Another G worksheet G for Grasshopper

G for Goose, a dot to dot worksheet

And G for Grover, for those that like Sesame Street like my daughter

Enjoy!

Wow! Another Award for me :)

Thanks so much to ABC Jesus Loves Me

for the Preschool Excellence Award

a site that has been an inspiration

to start teaching the Bible to my daughter

Thanks so much ABC Jesus Loves Me

31 free e-books

I found 31 free e-books from School Express just a little bit of everything, letter, numbers, mazes, position, following directions... everything you can think of to help us with early learning.

I just thought I would share.

Enjoy!

More Award Winners!

“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to those bloggers who must choose at least 5 more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

The Friendship Award Winners are:

Teaching Tiny Tots

Preschool to Pre-K and more
Raising Itty-Bitty Bookworms

ABC Jesus Loves Me

The Bookworm's Booklist

Blog Award Winners :)

I love your blog award winners are:

Totally Tots

A bit of this and a bit of that...

More mom time

My little Gems

The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Teaching Generations

Let's Explore

Here are the Rules:

1. Add the award logo to your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded it to you. (That's me!;-)
3. Give the award to other blogs. (However many you choose!)
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message (in the form of a comment) for your award recipients on their blogs.

We are back! and Awards!

Well, we are back! and to my surprise, while I was away, I received 3 awards! wow!!! :)

I got "I love your blog" award from

The Bookworm's Booklist

Superheroes and Princesses

And the Friendship award from

Preschool Playbook

I promise I'll follow up with the rules, and pass along these lovely awards as soon as I catch up with my house and unpack my bags.

Thank you all so much for all the love! :)

What to do with all these worksheets?

Hi everybody, as we get ready to go on a trip friday

I've been thinking... so what do we do with all these worksheets that our little ones worked on?

Well.... Recycle them, but in a different way.

I've been keeping all her work, so...

with the alphabet letters, we are going to do "My Own Alphabet Book"

with our crafts and art projects, we'll be making "My Own Arts and Crafts Book" where we'll be putting things like the laced mitten, the stocking that we made, the artic scene, etc.

and with the rest of the worksheets we are going to make "My Own Spanish Book",

do to this we are going to start gluing all the pictures from the worksheets

and Jessica will be writing the word in Spanish.

To make this easier I made a worksheets label in case you want to follow

along when we start with "My Own Spanish Book" which will have to wait

until we come back home :)

I'll be in touch :)

Around the House in Spanish

This idea came to me while exchanging e-mails with Shannon from TeachingTinyTots

She was asking me when did I started teaching my daughter Spanish,

but since Spanish my first language,

I taught them from birth

So is never to early to start a second language

I offer her to help

specially now that my trip is coming

and I won't be able to do so many preschool activities with my little one

So we agreed on a few lists of things to start

Around the House

Alrededor the la casa

Sink Lavatorio

Stove Estufa

Refridgerator refrigerador

Table Mesa

Chair Silla

Couch Mueble

Computer Computadora

Fireplace Chimenea

Lamp Lampara

Bathtub Tina de Baño

Toilet Excusado

Bathroom Baño

Kitchen Cosina

Living Room Sala

Family Room Cuarto Familiar

Books Libros

Bedroom Dormitorio

Bed Cama

TV Televisor

Dresser Comoda

Closet Armario

Laundry Room Lavanderia

Washer Lavadora

Dryer Secadora

Dishwasher Lavaplatos

Math for Preschoolers

I have added a section on the right side of my blog

with lots of links for math, specially for preschoolers

with tons of free math printable worksheets.

Enjoy!

Praying with children

I found this nice article, worth reading

Learn to teach children to pray

Spanish Lesson

Our Spanish lesson this time was based on the words that we did with the letter F:

fun = divertido

food = comida

fruits = frutas

fashion = moda

frog = rana

fish = pescado

finger = dedo

farm = granja

giraffe = jirafa

scarf = bufanda

knife = cuchillo

freedom = libertad

fly = volar

stuff = cosas

life = vida

More F activities

Here are a few more activities with the letter F

F for fashion

F for fingerpainting

F for a froggy sandwich

and F for fashlight fun, which we couldn't take pictures of,

and F for fingerplays :)

Enjoy!

A few more F worksheets

Here are more worksheets for the letter F

F for food and fruits

Food Collage

We just took some old coloring books and magazines

and made Jessica cut everything that was food

for the collage

Then we separated the fruits from the food

How fun is that!

And after that we enjoyed some Fruit Kabobs

Fruit Kabobs

Strawberries

Blueberries

Grapes

Bananas

Apples

Cantaloupe

Mango

Water Melon

Wooden skewers

Vanilla Yogurt

Cut up all fruits in bite size.

Poke trough with wooden skewers alternating the different fruits

Enjoy by dipping your kabobs into the yogurt dip!

F for fingerprints

We are finally starting letter F

F for fingerprints,

for this we took

a stamp pad and

a wet sponge with fingerpaints

to put our fingerprints all over letter F

We also got a little creative

making all kinds of animals with our fingerprints

Here are some worksheets for them to practice the F sound

together with cutting skills

writing and counting with the dot to dot worksheet

Some more fun with F tomorrow :)

Enjoy!

Just a note...

We are getting ready to start with the letter F,

is going to be a lot of fun stuff :)

I also wanted to let you know

that an unexpected trip to South America, Ecuador, has come,

and have to go from March 13th (Jessica's 4th birthday) to March 24th,

so during that time you won't see any posts from me,

but I'll post pictures of our trip and what my kids learned once I get back.

I am also attempting to bring

workbooks and materials in spanish to post them here.

So for now I am trying to get everything ready for the trip.

Busy, busy, busy.

Lot's of fun things comming up :)

Oh! I almost forgot,

we are also going to start doing

ABC Jesus loves me

when we come back from the trip

Another use for flashcards... Copywork

Copying words!

Jessica wanted to write something,

so I gave her flashcards to copy the words from there.

That's called Copywork,

it starts in the very early stages,

children trace or copy the letters of the alphabet,

after having some practice and doing this for a while

they progress to words and phrases

which it has its benefits,

like introducing and practising

spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and grammar.

It also involves more than one of their senses.

Children learn so quick when their hands and eyes are involved in the learning.

Celebrating Dr. Seuss!

Today we are going to be celebrating

Dr. Seuss

with a few free printables.

First we are planning on reading

"the Cat in the Hat"

for a craft we'll be using

an oatmeal container to make the hat

cutting and gluing some red and white strips of construction paper,

and for the bottom of the hat,

we'll be using a paper plate with a whole in the middle.

I promise to post a picture as soon as we are done with it :)

We are also going to be doing connect the dots

with the cat in the hat, and a maze

we also have a coloring pagea hats counting sheet

a rhyming worksheet

and a drawing worksheet for your little one to be creative

You can find all these worksheets here

Enjoy!!!