(The twins reading their bibles )
We had kind of gotten out of the preschool mode, but the last couple weeks really started doing it again!...it can be very challenging keeping 2 19 month old boys quiet for any amount of time...which is why we keep "preschool time" Very very energetic and fun. ha...No one will ever see me act as silly and crazy as I do during preschool time :) I want the kids to love that time and so you do what you have to do :) I also have been really pushing that it doesn't matter how smart we are, it only matters if we love the Lord with all our hearts, and I pray that becomes the desires of their hearts! Bible time is the beginning of preschool- we do alot of our Sunday school songs, prayer, a bible story (right now during this time we use a "baby bible" which has only a couple lines and encourages the kids to participate, we did Joshua and the battle of Jerico so we got up and marched in a circle, its great for the boys, then later in the day Jude Hailey and I are reading from the gospel storybook bible) then into the ABC's counting and a paper or craft, then I try to have alone time with Jude and work on phonics & memory verses and then alone time with Hailey and work on her letters and sounds, writing and memory verses- when i have alone time I get the boys and whichever kid to play with playdough or paint or dance to "ballet for little kids". I enjoy it so much, and even more because the kids enjoy it! Since all the kids are so close in age its fun to see them all working together, but also they are in such different stages! They all are such different types of learners which makes so thankful I am going to homeschool so I can teach them all differently. This past week we were talking about clouds, raining and rainbows- it was alot of fun and we did our first "real science experiment" :)
When you dip a cotton ball in water and squeeze, it rains! (Judes hypothesis was that the cloud would turn into a rainbow, and haileys was that it would turn into milk...they were pretty upset they were wrong haha.)
The kids singing "read your bible pray everyday" (we usually do preschool in our pj's too :) )
Matching the numbers to make a picture
taking pictures during a prayer is very distracting and makes the babies not hold their hands together and eyes closed...which is so cute...and Jude told me that it wasn't very respectful to God :)
This was the "b-i-b-l-e"Jude yelled out bible before we were actually ready so everyone was looking at him :)
making clouds and raindrops :)
the boys kept saying "marshmallow?" and trying to eat the cotton balls...
some of the papers we did this week- sorting small medium and large rain clouds and helping the rain cloud get to the rainbow
It was a very appropriate week for talking about rain...I'm hoping that we can get outside more next week and talk about flowers/or anything outside! :)
I'm so thankful for these little people!
