Pruitt Playschool (Letter V)

Since we were celebrating Valentine's Day, I thought we would learn about the letter "V"!  We had lots of fun doing Valentine's crafts the past two weeks!

Our bible verse: Love one another.  1 John 3:23

We made a vase out of contruction paper, pipe cleaners, and tissue paper.

I cut out big and little hearts and had Owen sort them by size.  I modeld the first one and then he caught on and finished sorting by himself.

Dot painting the letter "V".  Notice his awesome hair! 

We painted hearts using a toilet paper roll! This was a super easy and fun craft I found on Pintrest!

We made a volcano!! I was so excited about this and he LOVED it!! We have had some beautiful weather so it was so nice to be able to do this outside!! Owen enjoyed pouring all of the ingredients into our volcano and Grace Ann enjoyed watching her big brother while she snacked on some cheerios.

Watching the volcano erupt....for the 5th time! :) He would have stayed out there for several more hours if I had let him! The volcano was a hit!

Another pintrest craft! I made the letter "V" with tape and let him paint the paper will violet paint! After he finished painting we took the take off to see the letter "V"!

I found an old medicine dropper and filled up a small bowl of water and let Owen drop colored water into an empty ice tray! This entertained him for a long time! I had to help him at first but he learned pretty quickly how to do it himself. 

We have used the iPad a lot lately and have found some really neat apps! My favorite one right now is called EduKitty.  It has the following activities: left-right, top-bottom, sound match, shapes, colors, memory, match pairs, shadows, alphabet, numbers, find the different object, find the smallest object, find the biggest object. It's wonderful!!

Our bulletin board with some of our crafts we did for the letter "V"!

Valentine's Day Party

The kids went to a Valentine's Day party at Michelle's house on Monday and had so much fun! It was the regular "core" group plus a few others! I decided to make some Valentine's this year instead of buying some and I thought they turned out pretty cute! :) Owen is OBSESSED with animals right now so we went with an animal theme for his Valentines!



I made Grace Ann's out of scrapbook paper and Tootsie Roll Pops!

Grace Ann and Andrew playing at the party.

The older kids decorated white bags for their Valentine's.

Michelle made heart shaped grilled cheese sandwiches and pink lemonade for lunch!

Cute decorations made by Michelle!

Kendra made some yummy cupcakes! Cheers!!

I made the kids Valentine's Day shirts! I tried to take a picture of them together but that was just not happening so individual pictures it is! :)

Snow

We got a pretty snowfall on Saturday! It didn't snow much but it was enough for Owen and Natalie to have a blast! Natalie brought over her sled and we took turns pulling the kids in the backyard!  

I think the kids look so grown up in this picture.  They had so much fun and played so nicely together! They took turns pulling each other on the sled and even worked together to pulling it back up the hill. :)

The view from our backyard.

Adorable! :) I think they really could be brother and sister! What do you think??