G is for Garden: Day 1

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Welcome to week 2 to our version of God's Little Explorers Preschool! This week is G is for Garden. This week focuses on creation! Each day we will talk about two days of creation. The curriculum has a great little song that breaks Genesis 1 down into days thats pretty catchy. Everyone had that song in their head all day!

Ripping up paper for the sky and the water. 

Beautiful creation book cover. 

Day 1 God created the night and the day

Day two he created the seas and above them a sky. 

After that we did the G do-a-dot page from Confessions of a Homeschooler

I drew some G's in pink highlighter and Cakes drew over them with her pencil. These then went into the alphabet notebook. I'm excited to have these things when she gets older and (hopefully) has beautiful handwriting!

Apparently it works better if you do it this way!

Then we decided to examine some normal run of the mill pinto beans from the pantry with our magnifying glass. Nothing too exciting there. 

We put them into a ziplock bag wrapped up in a wet paper towel to see what would happen. 

Summertime in Texas is usually pretty dreadful. Its so hot and humid that as soon as you walk outside, you feel like you need a shower! We remedy this by regular pool time!

This was done around 2pm. I love homeschooling!

Tinker!!

Day 1 went well especially when followed with quality pool time!!

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A Fabulous and Free Saturday in San Antonio!

Evenin' y'all!

Today was a great day. It was the first Saturday in ages that we had that was purely for family. Nothing to be done. Just the five of us enjoying our town! The best part, except for lunch and parking, the whole day was free! Thanks PBS!

It started bright and early with breakfast tacos a very healthy breakfast and a trip to the San Antonio Children's Museum. Our local PBS station was hosting a back to school bash with a special appearance by Peg + Cat! We do not watch much tv but Peg + Cat is one of our favorites along with Duck Dynasty and anything to do with fixin' up old cars! 

We solved the problem so everything is awesome problem solved!

Quick fishing break!

Rolling doh into numbers. Great practice!

Observing stalactites. 

Driving a front end loader and pushing the buttons was the highlight for the girls. 

Lego building. You then load it onto a conveyer and drop it from a height to see if your structure could survive the fall. None of ours could.

This one is my favorite! It's our whole family! Daddy, Mommy, PopPop, Baby Cakes, and Tinker. 

...yes, PopPop has bigger hands than Mommy...she didn't let me forget about it all day!

Finding fossils

Leaving on a Imagin-air Airlines

Pilot future?

Tie a piece of fabric onto the loom. Its been building for years. Very cool!

Step back into time and visit a Victorian Lounge. The look on their faces was priceless!

ALWAYS time for a quick tea party with my girl. 

The snake loved Cakes and was very interested in her!

And wouldn't you know it! The museums are all connecting over the Matisse exhibit in town at the San Antonio Museum of Art and Henri Matisse made an appearance. It was so perfect to have studied him all week and then to be able to show Cakes an actual picture of him with his silvery beard and love of cats. It was a wonderful way to wrap up that lesson for the week! (Next two weeks is Monet! I can't wait)

We then went to the Buckhorn museum and the Original Mexican Restaurant (that's really what its called) which was soooo delicious! Then we got to walk around the beautiful River Walk and saw the Alamo. All the best parts of our beautiful downtown. Living in the same place your whole life can quite often make you blind to the beauty that surrounds you. Sometimes a staycation really is the best way to go!

Buckhorn Museum

The Original Mexican Restaurant

Welcome to Downtown San Antonio

The Alamo

Such a glorious, albeit crazy hot, day!

X Marks the Spot- Day 4

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Today, since we finished all we were gonna do of the weekly curriculum, we took advantage of the artist study included in the GLE curriculum. This week was Henri Matisse!

The San Antonio Museum of Art is hosting the Henri Matisse exhibit! I was so excited to be able to take Baby Cakes there and see the actual art! Little did I know they were charging 25.00! just for me to get into the museum and into the Matisse exhibit. Baby Cakes is only 3!! We decided it was not a good way to spend my alotted spending money for the week! Oh well!

We hit the central library instead and loaded up on some good stuff. Then, I even was able to find a book about Matisse written for kiddos!

We read it once yesterday and then again today so she was pretty familiar with the story today. Then, we gathered our materials and sat down to create like Matisse!

First: Jazz

Now we shall paint some sheets of paper!

Then, with scissors in hand, cut dancing shapes!

I made the windows on top while Cakes was creating her shapes. The mirror the ones in the book!

We had a lovely time being Henri Matisse today before we left to go pick up sister Pop Pop for some quality time before she starts back to school!

Tomorrow will be a special day too! Stay tuned!!

Sincerely, Sara

X Marks the Spot: Day 3

X Marks the Spot- Day 3

Todays life skills was practicing sharing toys. Baby Cakes is already very good at sharing with Tinker and decided she wanted to learn how to feed Tinker her cereal. What a good skill to learn! She was such a great helper!

A few weeks ago I went to Lakeshore Learning here in town and laminated a whole bunch of worksheets so we could use them for future kiddos! so we worked on a few!

Xx Do-A-Dot Letter by Confessions of a Homeschooler

When it was lunch time, Baby Cakes helped me make her sammich. "I'm in charge of the turkey!" She loves to help make lunch! I went into the restroom after we made it and came out to find this: 

She's made herself a pleasant place to sit at the table. She's such a big girl!

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X Marks the Spot- Day 2

This morning we made crepes for the first time! They came out pretty good! Mae chose Nutella and then we sprinkled powdered sugar on. Delish!

For her schooling today we took it easy (it was grocery getting day) so she watched What's in the Bible First 5 Minutes and What's in the Bible: Genesis

She opted for the gun range ear muffs over her ear buds because they held them inside as well as shielded her from the "terribly loud" vacuum. We also did laundry! 

Today's life skill was making the bed. I showed her how to do it then she did it. She likes to have it made now- going back again to the age of order. 

Simple day= lots of play!

Sincerely,

Sara

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