{home}schooling - kind of

after 7 years of having a 1st day of school i'm now at home full time. i'm so grateful for this time to be at home, but i do miss the classroom. i love getting the room around each year, meeting the new kids and parents, and planning fun, creative projects for them to do all year. so this year i decided i can still do all that with ellington. she loves to learn and wants to know about everything.

::APPLES::

we read a little story about apples, the color of the apples and at the end of the apple had a worm in it. so we sewed up a felt apple, left a hole for the finger and now elle can retell the story whenever she wants.

sorting colors and making patterns with apple colors

coloring our apple book and of course the worm!

made red play dough

and don't forget every kid's favorite....RECESS!

pretty excited about painting!

i think we've painted 4 out of 5 days a week lately. she loves it and is getting really good at it. she'll usually ask me to draw her a picture and then she'll paint it. her favorite has been Clifford or a giraffe. we also do some handprint trees and add apples. they've become our artwork in our dinning room as it's the most convient place to let them dry.

next up...shapes & cutting

she loves this and is getting better at identifying the shape. i found some more on line so i don't have to draw them every time!

i saw this idea on pinterest to help kids practice cutting. they have to cut in between the stickers. we switched to real scissors and she's getting the hang of it

{a little nervous that a hair cut might be in the near future}

last week i found her playing store in the toy room. we inherited a fun cash register from a church family and she stacked up her doll clothes and other random items to scan. i had to tiptoe back and snap a picture quick before she saw me. so cute!!

last week we took our lunch to park

how could you not love being at home with these 2?

there are days when i miss the classroom, seeing my teacher friends, and just getting out of the house but then i sit back and enjoy the 2 hours i get with just elle in the morning teaching her new things, watching her soak everything up, asking me to read her books {love that!} and realizing this won't last forever.