5 EASY Fine Motor Activities for Your Tot and $60 Target Giveaway!

It is that time again…

Back to School!

And I know for each of us that means different things! Some homeschooling, some sending kids to school, some going to school themselves, some preparing for school in the future… the beginning of school seems to affect us all in different ways!  

That is what I have teamed up with ten other bloggers to bring you the 

BACK TO SCHOOL BLOG HOP!

You are almost guaranteed to find a post that fits you :)  So check them out.  Comment.  Pin.  And have some fun!

ALSO… everyone needs back to school supplies right?  So we have also teamed up to bring you a giveaway for a $60 gift card to Target.  That's right.  Who doesn't want that?  So be sure to enter at the end of the post!  And with out further ado, the blog hop posts…

Our Life on a Budget- 5 EASY Fine Motor Skill Activities

Living in This Season- Creating a Portable Homework Station

Abiding in Grace- School Room

BYBMG- Take Care of the Teacher

All Kinds of Things- Back to School Party

Words About Waverly- Back to School Fashion

Mrs. Couch Sims- First Day of School Traditions

Morganize with Me- Back to School Organization

The Almond Place- Preparing an Anxious Child

Tale of Beauty for Ashes- 10 of the Best Back to School Teacher Gifts

Garay Treasures- Start of the Year Basket

Mila's Milieu- Daily School Readiness Routine

one

Pom Pom Play

Muffin tins, cups, mirrors, Pom Poms… 

explore:)

 two

Sticker Play

Easy to peal Stickers, Paper and/or Sticker books…

explore :)

Three

Bead Play

Pony Beads, other beads, shells, string…

explore :)

This one is for the older child!

four
Container Play

Pom Poms, old spice containers, wipe containers, straws, pieces of fabric…
explore :)

five
Peg and Hole Play

Shoe box or piece of wood with holes drilled in it, straws or markers…
explore :)

              

Yes… I realize our little is playing with sharpies.  She was highly supervised and they will be replace soon! :)

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This month in preschool...

Hmmmm… really I think these are pictures from the last few months… either way, here are some fun things we did :)

Winter Unit

Snowman Sequencing...

Key rubbings...

Hat number match...

Cutting practice

Styrofoam "snow"

Hat weaving…

Being Healthy Unit

 The kiddos played "Fruit Stand"

We Practiced Brushing Teeth

Valentine's  Day

 Girlyest table ever for my 6 boys! :)

 Mailboxes

 Valentines for the troops…

 What day is it?

Other...

 Block stacking numbers 1-10

 Draw the emotions

Letter U

Shadow Wall

Shadow Shapes

Can't tell from this picture… but we had a preschool camp out! :)

What did you do in Preschool this week???

This week in preschool...

After being gone 3 weeks… I tried to get back in the groove of school this week.  We talked a lot about winter this week.  Here are some of my favorite activities (really the activities I remembered to take pictures).

We started our personal number books and did 1-5.

We took all our charts we made last year and made them into a number book.  I know what some of the  stuff we put in this book is above preschool level.  But I figured it couldn't hurt to introduce the terminology.  One of my moms says her son even talks about using tally marks at home.

These were my favorite "cute" thing this week.

"Ice Skating" with wax paper on our feet… be extra careful with this one!

Trucks in the "snow"

My kids loved this… I think it was mainly because of the giant dice.

Keeping it simple...

Decided after doing one in December that lead up to Christmas, that this would be a good way to them exposure to numbers 1-30.

Another favorite from the week!

What did you do in preschool this week???