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401

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Waldo was looking at my WordPress dashboard for some reason the other day and brought it to my attention that I was at something like 395 posts.  I was honestly surprised considering how sporadically I post, but I made a mental note to make some comment when I posted number 400.  Well I goofed that up and totally didn’t even remember to check before I hit publish.  So today’s post is number 401, Hizaa!

Now on to what I really wanted to share today:  Lily and the poofballs.

Poof Balls

I am trying to come up with great fun home preschool stuff for Lily and me to do. As a once upon a time preschool teacher this should be easy for me, but it isn’t. First off it was a lifetime ago that I taught preschool and secondly the preschools had their own curriculum and I just had to read, prep and do. None of it was my idea so I don’t remember any of it.

I have been stalking Pinterest for ideas and have a lot of them already. So expect to see a few more posts with Pinterest links in them.

I know I saw many different pins with this same idea, but I can’t find a single one. Anyway the point is the kiddo manipulates the poofballs with tongs.

Poof Balls

It’s good for color recognition, hand-eye coordination, counting (although Lil’s not into numbers right now and it’s driving me mad, but you know how kids are, tomorrow will be all about numbers) and dexterity. And of course fun.

Poof Balls

I gave her three colors of balls, three little containers and the new bamboo tongs we bought the other day and she went to town. First I had her put all of one color in each container, then she sort of ran with it. I tried to get her to count the balls with me, but that was a no go.

Poof Balls

After putting them in their separate containers for a while she started using the tongs take them from one container to another, which is also a good learning thing.

Poof Balls

Poof Balls

This went on for probably 15 minutes so I felt it was a pretty successful home ed sesion. After she got bored with the tongs she grabbed the poofballs and went to throw them at the cats.

Poof Balls

I woke up the next morning and found a poofball or three under me in bed. I swear they are multiplying. There might be a follow up post about Tribbles happening soon.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

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We are still completely obsessed with the zoo and go as often as possible. Since we go so often I don’t take many pictures anymore, but I can’t help myself and take a few.

We pretty much had to wrestle Lily into her new jacket. I don’t understand why she didn’t want to wear it because she looks so cute in it and it’s her favorite color and once she was in it she liked it.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

I love that she feeds the goats by herself now and looks forward to it.  It’s very gross and I can’t stand it, but she likes it.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

In all of the times that we’ve been to this zoo we have never seen the red panda before.  I thought it was very exciting, I think I was the only one.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

This is a Bald Cypress tree. It isn’t from our region, but the zoo has like 2 of them for conservation.  The little things sticking up at the base of the tree are it’s roots or something.  Waldo said it looked like chipmunks bowing down to their god.  Because of his comment I had to take a picture.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

The zoo has this cute jeep in the Africa area and Lily loves it.  She likes to “drive” Waldo (who is usually in the car with her).

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

We got a close up visit with the big male lion this time.  We’ve been up close with the lioness before, but the male usually hangs out in middle of the yard.  This was a real treat.

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Zoo Boise 1/8/12

Streamer painting

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I got the idea to do streamer painting from the book First Art.  You take some streamer (ours were leftover from Lily’s birthday), roll it up and tape the end together.

Painting with streamers

Painting with streamers

Dip the non-taped end in water and go to town.

Painting with streamers

Painting with streamers

I was honestly surprised at how much ink came out of the streamers. You just need a little bit of water or they get very soggy, very fast. I found that these fell apart pretty quickly, but the author claims you can snip the soggy end off and keep going. I just don’t see it working though.
You know, I didn’t read the instructions very well and just improvised. I bet she meant for me to take a length a few inches long and roll it the long way rather then the short way I did. Hmmm, I might have to try it one of these days. I got the book from the library and don’t have it any longer to check if I’m right or not. Anyway, Lily liked this and thought it was fun, but lost interest in it quicker then she does regular brush or finger painting.

Painting with streamers

Spunky

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We went to the park the other evening.  Lily was feeling very spunky.

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I was standing at the bottom of the slide not paying much attention to Lil’s position on the slide, I was just getting ready to take pictures. I got this picture:

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Then the next thing I knew this was happening:

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She didn’t get hurt, just a little scared and decided spunky was overrated, she went back to clingy and loving.

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These were all taken with my phone and the lighting wasn’t great. Sorry.

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