Preschool lesson at Jessica's

Today we went to Jessica's daycare to visit and play with the kiddos. I brought some things so I could do a beach/ocean lesson with the kids. We started off talking about the beach/ocean and things  that we would do and find there. We then looked through the book, Flotsam, (great pictures no words) and created a story together as we looked at the pictures. They named the main character, John Mac. :) They thought the pictures were amazing and realized that the ocean had some pretty cool things some real and some fake! We sang a song

I'm A Little Fishy

(tune of I'm a little tea pot)

Submitted by Nicky

I'm a little fishy
watch me swim
Here is my tail
Here is my fin
When I want to have fun with my friends

I wiggle my tail an dive right in 

 

I also had actions to go with it, they did awesome! We then unpacked  a beach bag. I had things like a towel, water bottle, sunglasses, sunblock, swim suit, a hat, a book (some like to read on the beach), a pail for sand castles, beach ball, and of course a snack...Goldfish to pass out to all. Afterwards we went back to our book to see what else John Mac does on his beach adventure. We did another song...

Five Little Fishies in the Sea

Submitted by Jenni

Five little fishes in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! a fish up
right out of the sea.  

Repeat

Finally, we created our beach cups! I had the kids do a hand print in orange paint... got this from Pinterest! Took some clear cups, had them put sand, blue glitter, shells, a drink umbrella, and their fish hand print in the cup and cover the top! They turned out great!! Loved it and everyone had a blast!!! I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted, but I was busy with all the kids. Got what I could. :)

 Faith feeling the sand and picking out her shells.

 Beach cups!!

 

Some of the kiddos!

 

The Player's Club Fun night!!

Stephen's work puts on a firework show every June for their members. It was a blast. Bounce houses, slides, face painting, balloons, dinner, cotton candy, snow cones, a band, and more. Stevie enjoyed the slide and bounce house. He could jump all day long in there if we let him. Ethan had a fun time and got to see his first firework show ever. He didn't cry and watched them in amazement.

 Stevie on his bike

 The Player's Club

 Going up the slide

 Going down...Yeah!!!

 Ethan crawling on the practice green.

 going down the slide again

 Clay (in red) is my brother-in-law, his band was playing at the club. They did great!!

 Stevie's balloon, a sword. We couldn't get our face painted, the line was too long.

 Cotton candy, he didn't really like it. We ended up tossing it. Ethan enjoying the ride

 Stephen taking taking some boys for a ride.

 Fireworks!!!  Ethan's first time!!

 My boys and me!

 Ethan holding on to his big brother's shirt.

 Stephen taking all of us for a ride and Ethan falling asleep

A toad that we saw.

Pool Day!

We went to the pool today at the Player's Club to swim. I really like their baby pool. They have a waterfall and a frog slide. The boys had a blast. Stevie put his head in the water! At one point a couple of times he went over to the "deeper" side of the baby pool and had a hard time getting himself up above the water...he ended up gagging on some of the water. Poor guy and then became afraid and wanted to leave. We stayed for a little while longer and he stayed close to me. :( He will get over it, he just learning.

 Ethan has been moving around for the past few months, but the last few weeks he has finally got his knees up instead of his regular army crawl. :)

 Swimming!!

 such a swimmer!

Stevie putting his head underwater!!!