Ce Ce's Tot School {19 Months old}

Ce Ce is now 19 months old and growing up way too fast! 

Here is a re-cap of some of her recent adventures!

Enjoy!!

 Working on her fine motor skills and pincer grasp by putting dry pasta into a narrow bottle opening.

 All of our girls LOVE this closures board!

 Working with her sisters on some 5 senses exploration.

 Shape sorting fun!

 Making art with sandpaper, string and pompoms.

 Writing on the chalk board.

 More fine motor skills work. Placing dry spaghetti into small holes on the top of the cheese canister. This takes a lot of concentration!

Trying to put pipe cleaners into the holes of a colander.

 Helping to decorate the Kids' Christ-mas tree!

Spending time playing with our dog, Lady. Sadly, Lady passed away 2 days before Christmas:(. She was almost 14 years old and had Lymphoma (cancer).  She was the absolute sweetest dog you'd ever met and she is sorely, sorely being missed!!!

Then....we headed on vacation for nearly 2 weeks!!!

 Ce Ce thought it was more fun to kiss Mommy than to pose for a family photo:)

 Ce Ce LOVED spending time with Grandmother (my mother) in Florida! We took her with us on vacation and the girls had a ball with her!

 "Homeschool happens everywhere!" This is certainly the case with us! Ce Ce working on some magnetic letters while on vacation.

 Ce Ce learning about walking in the sand. She wasn't too sure about it at first, lol.

 Breakfast, outside in December---I like it!

 We went to a science learning center where we learned all about manatees!
Then, back home, just in time for Christmas!

 Merry Christ-mas from me and my girlz!

 We pray you have had a wonderful Christ-mas and your New Year is off to an amazing start!
Please keep our family in your prayers as we continuously pray for you!
Blessings,
Aria:)

Our Weekly Wrap-Up {Letter H is for...}

Whew, this week FLEW by{and, the weekend even faster}!! 

We had a great time at Homeschool gym, introducing Valentine's Day from a Christian perspective and learning about the letter H!

As always, thank you so much for stopping by and checking out our weekly progress in our homeschool! We are honored by your presence and truly hope you are blessed by our little blog:)

 Here is our memory verse for the week.

Our Letter H Learning Chart.

The greatest Valentine of Love Ever---got the idea here!

 We are introducing the Valentine's Day Holiday with a Christian focus on the True love of Christ.  To learn more, you can go here  and see how we are using Bible Scriptures to teach our girls about the love of God in a fun way!

 The girls had fun making these cute little thumbprint hearts!

I had this cute little picture frame and put them in there. I love looking at them:)

 We made some really pretty pink playdough to make some nice love hearts out of!

Here is the recipe for my homemade playdough. 

I use it in many different variations, but it is the base we use most times.

 Elle working on some math using conversation hearts to do addition.

 Elle doing a mathematical graph using conversation hearts.

 Em working on her hand/eye coordination---matching doggies.

 Em matching up these little heart puzzles I printed off from Confessions of a Homeschooler and then I laminated and cut them. She LOVES working with anything with animals!!

 Em sorting conversation hearts by color.

Em working on her hand strengthening skills-tweezing some baby carrots onto a tray. So funny, she still LOVES carrots. As a baby, I remember her feet and hands turned orange from eating so many carrots, LOL!

 Jesus Loves Me minibooks I printed off.

 Elle LOVES making books! She always has!

 H is for house! It is so cute to see all 3 girls playing together:)

The are just growing up way too fast!

H is for healthy! We try to really promote eating a healthy lifestyle. We talked more this week about what is healthy and what is un-healthy as well as why we limit our "treats."

 H is for "Hungry Hippos."

 We made some chocolate playdough that smells DIVINE!! {and, I am not even a chocolate lover}. All of the girls were so tempted to eat it:) We had a lot of fun making little hearts to fill our empty chocolate heart box.  I found the box for a quarter at the thrift store---no chocolate inside:)

 Our Valentine's Day Sensory Tub.

 Elle working on some sticker patterns I made.

 Counting with conversation hearts. I printed these cards from Confessions as well.

 Elle working her hands doing some ribbon weaving. I got the idea from Counting Coconuts.

 Our Letter H drawer items {horses, hand, hot dog, hearts, helicopter, horseshoes, holly etc}.

 Em sorting hearts by size.

 Elle made a Red Color Book. I print them from abcjesuslovesme.com

 Em counting with conversation hearts.

 We pulled out the ironing board to play with since we are incorporating Black History Month facts into our lessons. To learn more about the inventor of  the predecessor to the modern ironing boar, Sarah Boone, check out this cool website of Black Inventions.

Our animal of the week was dog, so here are some of our books. 

By far, the favorite book was "Bark George" and we had a lot of fun activities based on this great book! I got them from Making Learning Fun.com.

Elle had a lot of fun spelling out words from the story with Scrabble tiles.

Em is just learning how to do do-a-dots and still needs help, but is getting much better every time!

Now that Elle is reading very well, the girls had a BLAST with this game. Elle would read the story and Em would reinact it using the printable with a cut-out stomach! They did this countless times this week!

And, because I have the sweetest little 4 (almost 5) year old ever, she made me these valentines:)

Thank you all so much for reading!

We'd love to hear from you and see what you are doing this month!

Blessings,

Aria:)