Creation and the Fall of Man

Following up on our week of creation crafts we did the creation of man for one week and the fall of man on the next week.  These are mainly repeats of crafts that I did last summer in our Bible study of the fall of man but Rebekah got to participate this time and I got to watch Faith learn even more this time around.  Here they are breathing life into Adam's nostrils....

 

Faith is putting the rib from Adam onto her newly formed play-dough Eve.

 

Here is our paper chain serpent.  Aren't my girls just beautiful!

We re-visited this fingerprint craft as well and the girls really had a great time.  After we were done with the Bible craft we had a finger paint free for all, which I think they liked better :)

 

LOW - A

We actually did A for 2 weeks and it was great!  There are just so many A crafts out there that I hated condensing it into one week.  Plus, our Family Fun Day of apple picking was able to fall right in between the 2 weeks so we talked about apples before hand and then cooked with them afterwards.  We started out the letter by making an alligator A that I found on No Time for Flash Cards and I just loved it!  We also watched some YouTube videos on alligators. 

 

After we were done with alligators we headed into apples where we stayed for the rest of our time in A.  We painted an apple from cardboard, which I was thinking I would put on a basket for our apple picking adventure but never got around to that part of the craft, so they just hung on the fridge :)

We revisited a few crafts from the last time we worked on the fall of man in our Bible story, so the girls painted a paper bag filled with shredded paper.  We also made some apple trees with pom-poms and talked about many apple trees making an orchard. 

Faith is practicing the different sounds that the "A" makes :)

 

For our outside activites this week we made several letter As with our bodies as well as playing on a hopscotch board with the three different types of As, uppercase, lower type, and lower print.  By the second time we played, Faith knew the difference between the three.

 

For our Family Fun Day in the middle of this 2 weeks of A, we went apple picking at Cadron Crest Orchard in Conway, AR.  It was only about 2 weeks into apple picking season at this orchard and still pretty hot so I planned to have breakfast in the car so we could beat the heat and pick our apples in the morning.  Well, God is totally blessing our pre-school effort, I just love Him!  The weather was about as gorgeous as it could be, having rained all night and part of the morning, it was cool and surprisingly not humid.  The girls tromped around in the rain boots while wheeling the apple cart and filling the bags with apples.  They had such a wonderful time, it really was a blessed little day for our family.

 

 

The eating of the apples was of course a particular highlight for both girls.  We came home with nearly a bushel of apples.  Later that day Faith and I made 2 quarts of applesauce, which everyone loved and then a pie later in the week.  I plan on making and canning more applesauce for use in the future :)

 

 

Rebekah Joy - 22 Months

Rebekah loves shoes, anyones shoes but especially wearing her sister's shoes!  She repeats everything we say and loves to quote "Stand-up Jesus" whenever we tell her to stand-up.
Eating:
Continues to eat well for the most part.  Meat is never the first thing to be eaten but the vegetables are!  She always insists on having a fork in her hand but doesn't always use it!  She is in the take-a-part stage of sandwich eating which is always comical.  I think she would do really well with a regular cup as far as drinking but her arms are a bit too short right now to be able to reach a cup on the tray of her highchair without running the risk of knocking it over so we are sticking with the sippy.  She does great using a straw.  She also loves to have sips of coffee, water, wine, or whatever we are drinking!
Sleeping:
She continues to wake about 7:30-ish but is always quiet until I go and get her.  Nap time has been at 1:15 this month and lasts until 4.  She seems to be doing fine with it :) 
Play:
Her dislike of glue during craft time is waining a little bit. However, she really doesn't like to get dirty for the most part. We did a game involving some mud for our Deborah story and she hated every second of it.  Her love for stuffed animals has not diminished and it is super cute.  I do rotate the animals so she never gets too attached to any one.  She loves baby dolls too but I think stuffed animals really are her favorite.  She really enjoys stacking toys (and then knocking them down of course) and has started this month with lining things up. 

Skills:
Her knowledge of numbers is awesome.  She knows 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (confuses 1 with 7) and it isn't just a memorization thing on the calendar, she really does know them; I am so impressed by her!  Her colors are certainly improving although her first reaction is "green" when something is red but she is really doing great!  She knows orange, yellow, and purple as well.  Her knowledge of numbers and colors also demonstrates something else: she talks CONSTANTLY!  Don't get me wrong, I love it but she has quite the vocabulary and uses it. all the time.  She is probably just figuring out she'll have to work to get a word in between me and her sister :)  Her potty training also continues to go well.  She still has the occasional accident but most days are accident free and she tells us (usually by walking into the bathroom) when she needs to go.  Sundays are the only days where she struggles.  I would say she is accident free at church about 60% of the time right now.  She is also doing remarkably well at swimming with just her floaty.  She loves that thing and loves being in the water.  I don't have to hold her at all, except when she wants to do Ring Around the Rosie in the pool! 

Our Schedule:
0800 - Wake up, dressed, breakfast
0900 - Outside
1030 - Pre-school
1130 - Sister playtime
1200 - Lunch, chore
1315 - Nap
1600 - Snack, Training time, Mama and Rebekah time before solo play (usually around 1700)
1730/45 - Freeplay
1800 - Dinner, family time, bath, reading, Bible story, bedtime o/a 2001