Monday:
Today we started our celebrations for Dr. Seuss’s
birthday! We watched some Cat in the Hat YouTube videos that read the book to
us. I know we have a copy somewhere but I couldn’t find it this morning. After
we talked about all the things the Cat did and how he was not being a good
listener when Fish asked him to help clean up and leave. I set up an impromptu
photo shoot using a white backdrop and some props on the floor to resemble the
scene where Cat tries to balance too many things while on top of a ball. The
kids got a kick out of pretending to be the cat and then dramatically ‘falling’
(aka flailing) off when I got a good shot. We did our calendar (I cannot
believe it is March already) and then did some of our songs. After snack, we
painted our own sort of striped hats and read Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s which has
always been one of their favorites.
Tuesday:
We got off to a rough start this morning. Lily woke up a
little earlier than usual which threw off her game which made her super
sensitive to just about everything. The good news was once she calmed herself
down, Tristan took his turn to have a meltdown. We had some YouTube/Chromecast
video time for everyone to take a minute and calm down. All of this occurred,
with breakfast shoved in between crying and whining, and it was only 8:30 am.
Whew. But once we were back on track, we got dressed and did the calendar. Then
we did our actual songs and dances and our exercises. We had some free play
time and watched parts of The Lorax to continue our Dr. Seuss themed week. Once
they grew bored of the old school cartoon version, we had some snack and made
our own Loraxes out of paper plates, construction paper mustaches and eyebrows,
and orange paint. We finished the morning with reading some books on our own,
then reading Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s together.
Wednesday
Is there a full moon coming? Is the weather pressure
whacky? Do we need a day outside very badly? What a Wednesday. It started off
sort of shaky—Lily was up before she usually does and said her teeth hurt. Not
sure if that’s because we’ve been asking her or if they really are bothering
her. She’s getting her last huge molar so I don’t doubt that she is having some
discomfort. After breakfast and only some minor fighting, we moved on to get
dressed and do our calendar. I was browsing the On Demand channel yesterday and
found some exercise programs I personally wanted to try. They were being nuts
so I thought maybe some guided stretching would help. We did some Bollywood
Belly Dancing and they actually participated for the first 4 minutes, but once
I planked, they were all over me. I struggled through until I hip checked them
both and we all fell down giggling. We had some free play time (closely
supervised while I project prepped) and ate some snack. We glued tissue paper
on our Thing 1 and Thing 2 to continue our Dr. Seuss week. Tristan chose to use
the tissue paper as is, and Lily crumpled and rolled each piece into a little
ball. I love how they do things so differently sometimes. After project, we
made some GOOP and made a big mess of our trays and the floor. They were
cracking up as the goop changed from a solid to a liquid right in front of
their eyes and in their hands! When we had enough, they were let down to free
play while I cleaned up, and all hell broke loose. Good thing it was just about
nap time and Gpa stopped in for a minute to distract them and read them a
story.
Thursday
Thursday we had a snow day! I got to spend some quality
one on one time with just Lily. We cleaned her room, played play dough, read
some stories, drew some pictures, and once Daddy was done working from home, we
headed out to play in the snow!
Friday
It was slightly rough waking up today after lounging
about yesterday morning. But we made it! We ate our breakfast and then while
the kiddos ran around, I put the finishing touches on our space ship! They put
on their awesome space suits and counted backwards from five to blast off! They
have been playing inside the space while I have been building it so they were
very pumped to be able to use the door and peek out the windows and wear their
cool costumes. They changed into 'real' clothes and continued to bring their books and blankets and toys into the space fort! After we played for a little bit, we cleaned up and had some
snack. We did a few of our dances and watched a few of our videos before nap. I
think a laid back Friday is in the cards today! We didn't do a craft for the letter U yet so we might paint after nap or bring some snow inside to play with (it's a little too cold for us to head outside).
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