This week the girls had a dentist appointment. It was Charlee’s first time. They both did awesome! I didn’t get any pictures because I had my hands so full trying to keep the both of them contained. Even though they both fight to have their teeth brushed at home they just open up for their dentist. Millie kept squealing she was so excited.

Unfortunately Millie’s enamel didn’t form properly on some of her teeth so she is going to have to have a procedure done next month. They are going to put her to sleep and put silver caps over her teeth. I had the same thing done as a child. Fingers crossed she does ok. We have explained it to her and she is just excited to go to the dentist.

As far as school business, we started our week with some edible slime. Charlee loved it. It was a little sticky for Millie. Textures like that really bother her. So it was good she gave it a quick try.

We also talked about dentists! Millie made her own mouth of teeth and I drew a toothbrush and she cut along the lines for bristles. She loves scissor work and she’s getting pretty good at it too!

The girls also colored some pictures of monsters brushing their teeth. Charlee loves to color. Millie would much rather make something by herself but since Charlee has been coloring Millie will join in.

We also had fun watching wildlife in our yard this week. These 5 deer snacked on our lawn several days.

Millie also got to spend a lot of time with Dad working in the shop. She loves it. She has been having a really hard time listening so while she is spending a lot of time in time out, we are also trying to make an extra effort to spend more time with her. I’m really hoping it helps because we are going a little crazy!

Saturday Millie went and got the milkshake she had been saving up for. She also picked out a little toy alien from the thrift store. It copies everything she says. It is basically her new best friend.

This week’s theme is kind of random. Millie hasn’t ever had a haircut and she didn’t get one this week. Lol. She just loves haircuts and things with a “bad hair day” theme. I don’t know why but she’s obsessed with bad hair days.

So I made Millie this little paper head with paper hair for her to cut. I got the idea from Caitie’s Classroom. So we watched that episode this week too. Anyway, Millie loved the craft so much!!

She loved it so much she said we had to make our entire family. We only had mostly orange paper left so we are all orange. Conrad was so nice and helped her make them.

We also read “Fancy Nancy Hair Dos and Hair Don’ts”. Overall it was just a fun week doing scissor work.

We also went to the farm again. It might be the last time. They close after Halloween and they are so busy every day now! The girls have had so much fun!

This week I mostly wanted to focus on “Heavenly Father gave us families”. We read some stories from the Friend magazine about families and talked about ways family members help each other. We looked at pictures of her with her grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I asked her what her favorite part of being in a family is and she said “hugs”.

For our craft we build a popsicle stick house. I told her to draw her family inside the house. She said “you draw the family” I told her she needed to draw it, and that it was her craft and she could do it how ever she wanted. I left for a few minutes and then Millie called me back to tell me she was done.

“I drew a circle!”

“Don’t you want to draw your family to live in the nice house?”

“No. A circle will do.”

Music class was so fun this week. The girls did great. Millie listened better.

We went to the farm again. I’m just trying to get my moneys worth from my season pass.

This time one of my very best friends and her daughter came along and it was a blast!

We finished the week off with a Halloween sensory bin leftover from last year. It’s full of dry black beans and little Halloween toys.

I had planned this lesson to be this week about a month ago. It just so happened the girls were sick with a cold this week. Go figure.

We have talked to Millie about germs a lot but she didn’t seem to understand or care to understand so I tried to use a lot of videos.

We watched “Staying Clean and Healthy” Caitie’s Classroom and Magic School Bus where Ralphy gets sick.

We read “Curious George Discovers Germs” and “Germs are Not for Sharing”. Along with Usebourne “Peek Inside” and “Look Inside” the Human Body which talks about fighting germs.

We had to stay home from music class because of the runny noses so we talked about not getting other people sick.

We did a lot of coloring and iPad work. Khan Academy Kids is awesome.

For our craft we got a bowl full of water and sprinkled pepper into it. I had Millie dip her finger into it, when she pulled it out it was covered in pepper. Then we put dish soap on her finger and dipped it in the bowl and all the pepper “ran away”. This time her finger came out clean. We talked about how the pepper is like germs and soap kills the germs. Talked about the importance of washing hands and how to do it really well so we can get all the germs.

Fall official started this week! Finally. I am sad about summer ending but Millie has been so excited for Fall! “Is it Fall yet? Is it Fall yet? Is it Fall yet?”

We found this scarecrow craft unopened at the thrift store. Millie and I had so much fun making it! Sadly, the company that makes them went out of business, because I would totally buy more.

Our field trip was a trip to the farm my sister works at. They have a corn maze and pumpkins and all kinds of fun stuff. And they are just down the road from where we live!

The kids corn maze told the story of Spookly the Square pumpkin. The girls loved it!

They were running from panel to panel!

I had some trouble getting them to move from activity to activity. Everything we did Millie wanted to stay there forever. But after the corn maze I asked if Millie wanted a drink she was like “YES”. So she came willingly.

They had apple and pumpkin donuts. They were so good. I’m dreaming of them right now. I also got an apple slushee that was delicious.

We finished with a ride to the pumpkin patch. They called it a hayride but there was no hay. Which is fine by me. Charlee was scared of it. She fussed the whole time.

We have to go back to the farm soon! It was so fun. The weather is supposed to be rainy all next week though so I am sad. Hopefully it gets nice soon.

Millie had a bit of a rough time in music class this week. Somehow she managed to cut herself on a bell (wtheck). She was bleeding just a little bit but she was being so extra. We were singing and she was following along with the tune but instead was saying “ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch”. She acted like her hand was broken so I had to help her play her instruments. Luckily Charlee was behaving so I could tend to poor Millie.

We ended the week with gathering some leaves from the yard and doing leaf rubbings. We didn’t get to any Fall baking yet but soon. Welcome Fall!

This was a fun theme. The girls love Pete. We read so many Pete the Cat books. My favorite is “Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons” but I think the girls prefer “Pete the Cat I Love my White Shoes”. For one of our crafts we went outside and walked through paints the same colors as the things Pete stepped in in the book. Here is the blog I got that idea from. I didn’t get any pictures because it was too crazy. Lol.

The girls also had their first music class! They are doing Sound Beginnings-Brown Teddy Bears. Their teacher is Miss Leslie Wilson. They got rhythm sticks as their instruments. Both girls really like it. Charlee mostly just watched this week. I couldn’t get her to stand up for any of the dances. But she was smiling most of the time! Millie was a little shy to participate too. Unfortunately, the way she copes (with a lot of things) is by whining. But it wasn’t bad at all. Excited for them to continue! It’s so fun they can be in the same class for a while.

We told Millie August 30th was the first day of school and she was all about it! We had some very fun first day of school shenanigans.

We did a school bus craft out of a soy milk carton. We had to paint it one day and let it dry, then glue the wheels and windows a different day.

After the craft she wanted additional pictures.

I wish they were always this excited to have their pictures taken!! It was very random but very cute.

The second half of the week we talked about feelings. Like all preschoolers Millie has trouble handling her emotions. She is prone to outbursts and drama. (I mean she is my kid)

I found these calming strategies for a couple bucks at Target. Now when Millie is having a tantrum we encourage her to go pick a calming strategy to try. She usually won’t lol. But sometimes she does. Usually I hold up fingers and tell her they are birthday candles. She blows them out and that gets her to take deep breaths. Conrad pretends her deep breaths are blowing him away and that makes Millie laugh.

We also read the “All About Feelings” usbourne which was so awesome! It was too long for Millie’s age but we were able to do it over a couple days.

Of course there were also lots of songs and books.

Here are my lesson plans and notes for both themes.

This week in Millie’s preschool we did a dance theme. Millie had a really rough week this week. She was just very grumpy for some reason. I think it had to do with Charlee being more interested in playing, which means Millie had to share more. Which is hard for me even as an adult, so I’m sure it’s hard for her. That being said, we didn’t get a whole lot done this week.

We did get our craft done on Monday though and both girls loved it! It was so fun! I did my example wand the night before. When I showed the girls mine they were very excited to make their own.

After we danced around for a while I turned on the dance episode of Caitie’s Classroom on YouTube. Millie is not in the picture because she was in timeout. For some reason she wanted all the wands to be put away and wouldn’t quit taking Charlee’s away.

We didn’t do much else this week. I just focused on surviving and trying to spend extra time with Millie. But the wands are awesome and we are still playing with them!