Penelope's Preschool

So for a few weeks I did a preschool with Penelope in our home, and taking little field trips with her.

Like to the park...

and the pet store where I almost caved into getting her a bunny...

Trips to the library for story time. See how she dressed herself in snow boots and an umbrella when it wasn't even close to raining or snowing. hahah She actually had that umbrella up all during story time inside that day.... :)

Learning about changing leaves and collecting as many as could fit in our pockets...

Or staying home painting...

And here's Pip coloring something I drew for her. She loves to do her work sitting on the table. I think it's starting a bad habit. I'm not sure where she learned it from?...

haha- I found Kendyl doing her school work later that day on a different table and had to take a picture.

After a month or so of doing preschool here with just us we found a few more friends to join with from church and now she goes to school twice a week with them. :) Us moms trade off teaching one week out of the month and then the other weeks we get to have sweet freedom. :)

Here's Pippy so proud on her first day of school heading out to her buddy Jane's house.

What a ham!

Kendyl is such a sweet sister. She made Pip's lunch bag for her school- just like their daddy makes them for the bigger girls every morning. hahaha Notice it's a drawing of Penelope walking her pet spider with her nose? :)

Here's the fun friends on a field trip at the zoo!

Poor Pip misses her aquarium that we use to go to a few times a week. She wanted to stand in front of this for a really long time and just watch the fishes.

This was too cute not to take a picture of. I took this picture a few weeks ago and Natalie has since had her little baby. :)

Today was my first time teaching. We learned about the letter c and the sounds it makes. As part of an activity we were "cookers" as one of them called it and we made cupcakes. They did every step. I was so impressed.

Here's our cute little bakers.

In the end they were all worried about eating cupcakes without it being someone's bday so we put candles in them, sang "Happy Birthday" to us, made a wish, blew them out, and ate them up. :) We also made little Cat in the Hats and read the book together during preschool. It was so funny because they were so stressed out while I was reading the book because of all the mess that the cat was making in the book. Near the end when the mom was coming home in the book one of the boys covered his face and another began crying. It was so awesome and cute. :) Hope I didn't cause any trauma. haha

We're pretty happy about this little preschool arrangement. I get to teach another day this week and it will still be on the letter c. We are going to read the Hungry Caterpillar book and make big fun caterpillars and I think we'll make it into a circus too with games and face painting etc. It's fun to go all out for this when I'm only in charge twice a month. :)