Letter of the Week - T

T was such a great week, I love this letter :)

On our preschool day we made turtles out of painted paper plates and some construction paper.  It occurred to me that Faith had never seen a turtle so I pulled up a video on You-Tube for the girls to watch before we did the craft.  Our outside game was running (and other forms of movement) to some chalk shapes I had drawn in the drive way.  So, after the turtle was dry we glued shapes onto the shell. 

Our other T craft on preschool day was to make a T like a Tree.  I pulled some bark of a dying tree in our yard and some leaves off a rose bush and the girls made their own Tree.  For our books this week we had Miss Spider's Tea Party, Turtle Splash, and The Busy Tree. 

The Friday before Memorial Day was an Air Force Family Day so Frank had the day off and we decided to visit the All Aboard Restaurant in Little Rock.  Sabrina had done a Train as the T activity on her preschool day so this fit right in.  The food is delivered by a train suspended above the tables.  I knew Faith would love it but Rebekah had a blast!  She waved at the train every time it went past us and they eagerly anticipated when our turn would come.  The girls each got a little engineer hat to top off their luncheon outing!

I feel like God is blessing our little homeschool pre-school.  I mentioned above that I didn't think the girls had ever seen a turtle before so we did the You-Tube thing.  Saturday morning Frank took Lady on a walk since Sabrina and I decided to do our long run on Sunday and while he was out in the new construction area, he found a turtle!  He brought it home and we kept him in a shoe box all day (closely guarded by Lady) and the girls had a great time looking at him.  We shared the site with the Langehaug children when they came over for our tea party.  The turtle is now in their care!

As if we hadn't already done enough cool T stuff, the week culminated with a Tea Party!  We invited the Langehaugs over to celebrate with us and our fancy dresses and china.  The girls painted little tea pots out of cardboard that morning and then decorated them.  They held them while singing "I'm a Little Teapot" which was just adorable.

For the Tea Party, I made (and Faith helped a good deal) a honey tea loaf with mashed banana and a little lemon juice for the sandwich, Sabrina brought fruit, and we started off with milk in the tea cups.  I served the tea with dessert which was lemon cupcakes.  They were better received than the tea by the girls :)

When everyone arrived we started off with crafts.  We made tissue paper flowers for the table and the kids decorated some tea cup place cards Frank had drawn and cut out.

The biggest hit prior to the tea itself was a stacking game with sugar cubes.  I gave each of the kids a cup of sugar cubes, with instructions not to eat them, and they stacked them into towers.  They all loved it for well over 20 minutes!

Prior to sitting down for our own tea and meal, I had the kids set up a tea party for their dolls with the plastic set that Faith got for Christmas. 

The Tea Party was awesome and the kids had a great time.  Faith announced today that she would like to get dressed up again for dinner tonight and have tea again!