Horse Craft

A couple of weeks ago Hailey came up with a bunch of topics that she wants to learn about.  The first one she picked is horses and ponies.  So, this week she is learning all about horses and ponies.  We started out by getting all sorts of books at the library.  I had a hard time coming up with art activities to do for horses… so here’s the first thing we did:

Hailey painted this page from DLTK.

Then she painted a toilet paper roll brown.

The completed horse from the side so you can see his tail.

Another view of the horse.

Then since horses eat grass- we planted some grass.

Hailey in our shed getting some dirt for our grass.

Adding just a little bit of grass seed 🙂

Day one of our grass growing experiment.

Hailey loves mazes- so I found some horse mazes for her to do.

Tags: farm animals, horses, preschool horse activity

Letter of the Week- Letter N

Last week our letter was N.  Here are some of the activities we did:

Hailey made this N is for Nest from Totally Tots.

Hailey cut out some numbers for this page.

Hailey loves doing these playdough mats from Homeschool Creations for each letter.

She separated the capital and lowercase letters using this printable from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Hailey worked on matching lowercase letters with the correct capital letter using this Gold Jumble from Musings of Me.

Hailey always loves doing this dinosaur puzzle with the alphabet on it.

Here are some of the things we did from Raising Rock Stars Preschool:

Hailey colored her verse for the week.

She cut her vocabulary words.

She practiced writing Nn.

Hailey really enjoys the power point part of RRSP!  She’s pointing out her sight word of the week.

Decorating her craft- a treasure chest.

Adding some glitter glue.

Other:

Working on her Disney math workbook.

Fun Soap Experiment

I saw this over at Housing a Forest and we had to try it!

You’ll need a bar of Ivory soap and a microwave.  Before we did the experiment we tested to see if the Ivory soap would sink or float- it floats.  Then we tested the soap we usually use (Lever) and it sinks.  In case you are curious- Ivory soap floats because it has air pumped into it while it is being made.  But if you cut it in half you won’t find any air pockets.

So, get ready to stand by the microwave and watch this!  Put it in for 2 minutes.  Right around 20 seconds ours started to bubble.

This is the soap in the microwave.  It isn’t smoking, that’s just the reflection of light on the microwave door.

Hailey watching.  It had been in there for almost 2 minutes at this point.

When I opened the microwave door it shrunk a little bit, so it was actually a bit bigger than this.

This was such a fun experiment!

Shamrock Man

Here’s a few more things we did for St. Patrick’s Day.

Shamrock Man:

Hailey used her do-a-dot markers to make a face on the shamrock shape.

She taped pipe cleaner to the back of the shamrock shape and then taped shamrock shapes on for feet and hands.

Then Hailey cut some yarn for hair.

The finished shamrock man.

Some rainbow fun:

I had a printable in one of my Mailbox magazines for a rainbow with the correct color written in each row.  Hailey glued squares of tissue paper on the correct spot.

The finished rainbow.

St. Patrick’s Day graphing:

I found this at Musings of Me.  It was a fun graphing activity and Hailey loved it!