Adventures of Evie

Well we're back to school this week and since there are only 26 days of school remaining Evie’s school is doing a fun countdown with the letters of the alphabet. Today is A and the theme for today is A is for airplane. Even though they were going to make airplanes in school today we decided to make one for ourselves and see how it flew. Evie had a lot of fun choosing her plane, folding it up, and flying in around the yard. We also put a little space Kitty in there just for fu n! I t' s been a nice week so far and I hope the weather keeps u p we 'r e doing well on our 10 00   hours outs i d e challe ng e a nd i t' s been nice to be in the sunshine again.    

  Today is library day and it's also the last day of A is for...week. One of Evie's favorite books right now is Anne of Green Gables the adapted version for kids. It's super cute and it also has lots of interactive parts which she loves. So today we had A is for Avonlea day. We had "raspberry coridal" and "plum pudding" for snacktime (it was fruit juice in a fancy cup and pink vanilla pudding) and we also got to go to the library and pick out some new books for the week.  We also went to the grocery store today and got some stuff for next weeks lunches and dinners. We had to get some ingredients for smoothies since we drink them around snack time and occasionally in the morning. This week we tried some new recipes and ended up with an apple oatmeal, chocolate pudding, and peanut butter and jelly one. Evie enjoyed trying them all out and helping me measure and freeze them. Next week we start a review of "B" and the number 2. :)

  Today we had A is for Apple day. For some reason as the week went on I got worse and worse at taking photos throughout the day...today was my long day at work and honestly, after ten hours of being on a computer I just wasn't feeling it.  But we did some worksheets with apple themes and then for our snacktime we made some little apple crumbles. It's pretty easy...just applesauce, cake mix and some butter and then we baked them. Tomorrow is the last day of "A" week and it's also library day so I'm really looking forward to it! :)

  We are still talking about the letter "A" today and our theme for the day was Australia. We started with this fun project where we made some paper plates into the Sydney Opera House. Then I gave Evie a map of Australia and let her color it in with some markers. She got some scented ones for Christmas and she is OBSESSED with coloring with them and then making me smell all her art work so they've gotten a ton of use this week already. Btw this map of Australia now smells like jelly. 😂 After she finished coloring it in she got to use some stickers* I printed up on the computer to put some animals in. We had koalas, wallabies, kangaroos, kiwis, emus, echidnas, Tasmanian devils, and frill neck lizards.  It's extra cold today and it's bath day so for our sensory play I ran Evie a warm bath and we dropped in an Uluru bath bomb from Lush. We talked about Uluru while we watched the water turn pink, gold, and orange and then we put on our swimsuits, got some "bath ...

  Day two of A week is here and today we had an Ariel themed day. Evie colored several photos of Ariel and then we did some letter tracing practice for the letter A. We also did a massive mermaid art project today... Basically I had Evie lay on a piece of paper and then I traced her, but instead of feet I gave her a mermaid tail. Then she got to use mixed media to decorate her mermaid. She had the most fun sticking on gem stickers and pouring glitter on it but she had a lot of fun choosing which of her art supplies she wanted to put where. It was pretty fun to watch the process! After that we did a tear paper A. I had planned for her to use ocean themed water paper to do it but she was very insistent that we should do it with galaxy paper so we changed it up and made a galaxy A instead. It was a messy and really fun art day!  After we finished up our art projects and had some lunch we went to an indoor playground for awhile and then headed to nana's for family night. She got t...

  It's crunch time! It's officially our first week of at home preschool for 2022 and we have only about nine months at this point to be fully ready for kindergarten! Which feels crazy. Based on the current guidelines for her school district she's actually already where she needs to be but better safe than sorry so we are focusing on review of letters for the next several months.  This week our focus is on the letter "A" and the number "1". We practiced writing both the letter and the number and did a few worksheets for recognizing each. Then we made this fun alligator out of the letter. She really loved putting on his teeth! I had an unexpected short day today and we decided to use it to go to the museum. Originally we intended to use it to see an Omnimax presentation they have going on about underwater caves but the showtimes were weird so we skipped it and just focused on the museum.  We made the most of it and had a ton of fun but today was not withou...