Catchup on LOTW with Tert and Stella

Here is a mixed post of some of the last few weeks of letters that Tert and I have done with our LOTW curriculum.  If you haven't yet, please check out the post that I wrote about the curriculum click here. *Note: the purple, underlined words are all links to previous posts. Check them out by clicking on the words :) 

I LOVE this worksheet!  It would also go really well with the Kindergarten Mail Carrier Unit

Next I pulled out our color cubes and had him sort them according to color

After that he did his hippo cut 'n paste page

Now, whenever I do school with Tert, Filia MUST be involved or else she will grab my stack of worksheets and scribble all over them (or write on all of Mommy's post-it-notes as you see above)

Patternin'

It's time for Tert's clip pages.  I use these with jumbo paperclips and he does a fabulous job!

Tracing Page (I use this to introduce the letter of the week, and he traces it while I play our Memory Verse of the week. We have the Sing the Word From A-Z and it has a memory verse for each letter.  It corresponds with this curriculum wonderfully and matches up with the memory verse cards that Erica made for this curriculum.)

Time for our Magnet Page with our Homemade Pom-pom magnets

Hippo Graphing *I only have him do a few of these pages, because there are a LOT included

Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match

Size Sort Time! He is so cute with this page.  He always puts them in order by saying: this one's Daddy, Mommy, Stella, Leo, Rus, Tert and Filia

Do A Dot Page

Lacing-Tert's personal Favorite! (All of the lacing cards correspond with what we are learning that week.  For example H for Hippo (as in this week's) is a hippo lacing card.

~Tracing~

 Uppercase and Lowercase Sort and Jelly Bean Clip Cards

 Awesome job graphing Tert!

 Coloring Time

 K is for Kite ~<>

 Poke Page and Pattern Time

 Crazy Tert ~<>

 Kite Graphing

 Awesome Job Tert!

 Number Tracing and Coloring :)

Large Floor Numbers

 Ladybug Time!  Uppercase/Lowercase Sort and Ladybug Size Sort

Clip Card Time and Cut 'N Paste Ladybug

Cutting and Lady Bug Building (This one is really good for him!  I have him rebuild the shape OFF of the paper. He started out with just matching the colored ladybugs on the actual shape but now that he's been doing them for a while I have him rebuild the shape off the shape :P

Way to go Tert!

My Favorite Sports by Rus

I have two favorite sports. These sports are soccer and basketball.
My first favorite is soccer.  Shooting the ball into the net is
exciting.  My second favorite sport is basketball.
Dribbling down the court and shooting are the best things about basketball.
Sports are fun and keep me strong.

Happy Holidays from Stella and Family

Happy Holidays to Alma Mater's wonderful readers!

I am just now managing to post after the hustle and bustle of Christmas, New Year's, vacation, and just life in general! We have been really busy for the most part, but we have also had some really relaxing times as well.

We started the Holiday hustle and bustle by baking Christmas cookies.  (See the post here)

The week after that ended with going to Annalee with Grandpa Z.  on the second Saturday in December.  Mom has continued this tradition since she was my age and hasn't missed a year =)

The next Saturday we went to Grandma and Grandpa P's and Mom visited her friend C.  We had a wonderful time and got the following pictures:

 Playing Leapster with Grandpa

 Wii Time ;)

 Snuggles with Grandma and Grandpa

 Filia loved Kirby =)

Leo, Rus, Tert, and Filia all did a play of the Little Drummer Boy that they had been preparing over the last week. They worked really hard on it and I have posted the video below ;)

  We had a great family Christmas party the week after that (with the P family ;) ) The boys played endlessly with their new race track and everyone tried on the new clothes that they got.  We also got a hilarious game called 'Quelf.' The things that they require you to do create laugh after laugh.  From sitting up and down with a shoe on your head to doing the chicken dance, everyone has a blast.  (And it's an adult game-hmm ;)  ) Click here to go to the link on Amazon

We kids exchanged the presents we had bought for each other and Mom and Dad got all their presents.  We also bought Mom and Dad stockings this year so that they could have a place to put their gifts.  Mom's gifts included a new watch from Dad, ornaments from Stella, candles from Leo and Rus, flowers from Rus, and a Christmas dishtowel from Tert. Dad got some nice new shirts, ties, etc. from Mom, candy from Stella and Leo, and Christmas decorations from Rus and Tert.  He got a photo desk calendar that I made for him on Shutterfly from all of us.
We spent a quiet morning and had a nice lunch at Grandma and Grandpa Z's.  After lunch we opened presents.  I have posted some pictures of them below:

 Princess Outfits =)

 Awesome Animal Shirts :)

 New Shirt From Grandma

Tert and Lyd (see her site here! )
 Here are some of the homemade presents we did this year.  (Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of the fudge, popcorn, and other candy that Mom made.  It all came out beautifully, but it has long since been shipped out to friends :P) 

 Mom took me to her friend Mrs. W's beading class and I bought and made a bracelet.  It was really fun, although I think I'm much better at sewing :P
Here are some of the patchworks that I sewed:

 

Here are some pictures from our Christmas morning :)

Our main presents were: Filia- kitchen set and my old doll set 

Tert and Rus- remote control dino

Leo- guitar

Stella- kindle!   

 ~Stockings~

 Oooh!  A matchbox car holder that turns into a road to drive the cars on!

 Our handsome little Tert

 Money organizer with 3 categories: Save, Share, and Spend

 New Arrows!

 Boots :)

 New Imaginext Catapult for Tert's Castle Set

Jonathan Park Animal Guide

 Aww, I love the croc above =)

New Talking Globe

Mom and I now have (almost) matching hats! They look like the one above, but hers is brown.

 Leo loves his new guitar!

 Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

 New Hello Kitty Toothbrush from Leo

 New Nightlight (fiberoptic)for me and Filia (up till now Filia has needed to have a lamp on our dresser :P )

 What's this?

 Card-making kit (you all might get cards from me ;) )

 Jewelry Organizer and Calendar!

 New Socks!

New Madeline (Filia was breathless when she got this!)

 (I don't know if you can see the eagle in his right hand)

 Uh-oh...'brothers in crime'

New Basketball Shirt!
Now here are some pictures from our vacation...

I used the LOTW Christmas Pack the week before Christmas and Tert loved it! Check out the preschool pack here! from Erica...

 Candy Cane Count

 Letter Tracing and Patterning

 This activity was great for Tert! He had to count the ornaments on the trees and put the star with the right number on top of the trees.

 Color By Number

 Clip Cards and Coloring Pages
 ~Puzzle Time and Color Match~

  ~C for Christmas~

 Hooray for Winter!

 Climbing snow mountains ;)

 Fun Time with Daddy

Our Fairy Princess
Here are some snowmen that Leo, Rus, Tert, Filia and I made ;)

 Mr. Snowman

 Mrs. Snowman (the hair was Leo's idea [ahem]) and Baby

 Baby, Mrs. and Mr.

"We'll have lots of fun with Mr. [and Mrs. and Baby ;) ] Snowman until the other kiddies knock 'im down!"

We went to Boutwell's Bowling Center with Dad over our Christmas break! Everyone had a blast, as  you can tell from the pictures below...

I love this action shot!

 Look at the tongue :P

 Go Leo!

 Tert was winning in the end and had more points than me!  Oh well ;)

 Yay!

 Sisters Bowling...

Dad explains the 'bumper bowling'

 Release...
Look Dad!!

I loved Filia's little bowling shoes!

Handsome little Tert

 Oh my gosh! I can't get enough of this picture :)

 He provides endless laughs!

 So THAT'S where my lipgloss went...

 This is one of our favorite outfits of hers! It's so stinking cute!

 ~Braids 'N Bows~

 New Hello Kitty Waterbottle

 ~Filia and Leo~

 Love my little Tert =)

 Snuggling in front of the Christmas Tree

 I frankly don't know what's up with the above picture...

;) Sisters ;)

Daddy's Little Girl =)

Hmmm....

 Dancing Buddies

 Student and Teacher/Brother and Sister

 Partners in Crime

 I love the knowing look on her face in the above picture ;)

 :)

 Where'd my partner go?

 Er...cutting in

 Hmm...

 So sweet!

 Filia provides the music...

 =)

 Guitar Fun

 Boo!

~Dancing Fun~

 Playing with new Christmas toys from Grandma and Grandpa P ;)

 Basketball Time (in this picture he is wearing his brother's shirt. Uncle A works at a shirt company and he made him one to fit with his favorite number (4) and color (yellow) with his name on the back!

 It was nice to be able to do projects without worrying about school over our vacation!

Here is our Rice Krispy train that we made ;) It was much less messy than a gingerbread house, and it took less time to do. :)

 ~Playing Monopoly~

 Together Time

 Smiles!

We had such a wonderful vacation, and we were sad to get back, but are finally into the routine again! 

I have one more picture to share with you, that I think you'll all enjoy ;)

Pink or Blue Booties?
(Hint: July!) ;)