It's been an adventure in homeschooling preschool this year! I've always considered, since she was a baby, our time together educational- since play is the best teacher of all- but I've worked on having more concentrated times of learning together as she's gotten older. Since we are planning to have her attend kindergarten in the fall (a daily debate in my head these days) we've been going through the Oak Meadows Kindergarten curriculum this year. I know many have opinions about when you should start kindergarten curriculum with kids, but it integrated perfectly into what we were already learning together. And it was free, since a gracious friend let us borrow it for the year! One of our favorite parts of the curriculum has been the fairy tales. We love the fairy tales book so much that I bought us our own copy, and returned our friend's back to her. This project was inspired by "The Story of Miss Moppet" by Beatrix Potter, which we studied for the letter M. 

Our leaves are here! It just happened on Saturday. We went to bed on Friday to a sea of branches and woke up Saturday to a sea of green. It's amazing how quickly that happens. To celebrate our budding trees we recently made these:

This year, Easter sneaked up on me! Even though I was doing a Lenten study ("Lent for Everybody: Mark, Year B" by N.T Wright, amazing stuff), I kept putting off the actual preparations. I had blown the eggs already, but it wasn't until two days before Easter that any became decorated. We tried a myriad of methods but glitter glue, sharpie & pom-pom's were the decorations of choice.

There are so many big-kid, independent stuff I have to say no to these days. Can I walk to my friend's house by myself? No. Can I have cookies for breakfast? Nope. Can I have a ladder to climb on the roof? Absolutely not. So when she asked if she could play with our glue gun, it was so nice to be able to say Yes. That is how these flower cards came about!