Home Preschool Activities

Bryson and I have been busy this school year.  He goes to ECE (Early Childhood Education) in the mornings and works with his teachers doing their curriculum and then in the afternoons, Bryson and I do preschool activities.  We've gone through the entire alphabet now and are still going strong with 100 Easy Lessons to Teach Your Child To Read.  Bryson knows all his letter sounds and is reading simple sentences and short easy reader books.  He's doing awesome, and he's learned a lot since August.  Here are some of the activities we've done for the last half of the alphabet, letters M-Z (since there are previous posts on letters A-L here, here, and there's even more here).

M:  Me

 

N:  Nursery Rhyme

O:  Ornament (Christmas)

 

P:  Presents (Christmas Giving)

Q:  Quilts

R:  Rainbows

S:  Stars and Solar System

T:  Transportation

U:  Uncles and Family

V:  Valentine

W: Weather

 X:  X-ray

 

 

 Y:  "Yany, yarning Dr. Suess" (Read Across America Day)

 

 Z:  Zoo

 

Our finished Chicka Chicka Boom, Boom letter tree

Five Years Old

We can hardly believe our baby is five years old!  He loved being the center of attention today with his "Happy Birthday to me" shirt that made people he didn't even know tell him Happy Birthday at school and at the park.  Bryson went to school this morning and his class sang to him twice and enjoyed mini cupcakes for his birthday.  He had his favorite foods throughout the day (French toast, grilled cheese, and tortellini pasta) and got a bike that he loves to ride.  He also enjoyed the happy birthday goblet that he drank from every chance he got and liked going to the park with a friend.  He had a "great birthday" and wants to have another one "soon."

At five, Bryson is very active and is constantly learning and doing.  He likes to run, climb, and ride his new bike, and he is constantly on the go.  One of Bryson's newest pastimes is building with Legos and when he's not doing that, he's drawing "monster coloring books" or pirate maps or doing some other type of art project.  He is always asking questions and has an impressive vocabulary (using words like "magnetic," "impressive," and "interact" correctly).  He can read simple sentences and easy reader books, knows all the letter sounds,  can count to 100 and is working on counting by fives and tens, and is also becoming quite the writer. Bryson is also "too chatty" at school (does that surprise any of you since Jarom and I are his parents?) and really enjoys being with his friends at school and Church.  Bryson is a joy and we are so thankful that we're this five year old's parents!

Spring in The Emerald City

Bryson and I visited my family in Seattle the last half of March.  It was a lot of fun to see everyone, especially my new niece Ivy.  She's adorable, and Bryson said that holding her made him want a sister . . . until she cried, then he said, "Never mind."  Our activities included playing with Zoey, feeding the ducks, open gym, swimming, gymnastics, and going to the beach at low tide.  Zoey liked paling around with Bryson and even spent two nights with us, sleeping next to him on the air mattress and she enjoyed wearing Bryson's clothes to bed.  

We celebrated Easter there as well.  Bryson decorated about two dozen eggs and got an Easter basket loaded with goodies before going on an egg hunt in my parents' backyard.  We also went to a company Easter party at Brent's work with Becca's family.  Bryson liked sitting with the Easter bunny, going on the egg hunt, and hanging around with Zoey who he continues to tell me he misses now that we're back home.  Below our pictures of Bryson and I in our Easter best.  Bryson also had a fifth birthday party there and got lots of fun presents.  He absolutely loves the Legos Grandma Joy got him and told everyone about the bunny cake she made for him.  We thoroughly enjoyed our trip (especially because it got us away from our noisy neighbors for a little while).  The only thing missing from the trip was having Jarom along.