Tag: #thepeacefulpress

I had great intentions for the Letter F, but alas, life just happens sometimes. After two weeks of traveling, sickness and being super pregnant, we just decided to move on… though we did squeeze in several cute activities here and there and read our “F” books over and over again!

Our theme for the week was F-ish, and since I’ve been promising my son a new fish since last spring when his beloved fish died, this was a perfect opportunity to follow through with my promise! I told the kids that we were going on a surprise adventure and loaded them up in the car. With a brief stop at the library to pick up our unit’s books, we then drove to Meijer. The whole time my son kept asking what the “surprise” was… he was definitely not expecting to come home with two fish! Best 20 cents I’ve ever spent.

I absolutely adore the verses suggested in The Peaceful Preschool! They are unique from any alphabetical verse list you’ll find online. This week was all about FISH! We talked about how God only gives us good things and how we need to give our best to others as well.

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:10

A few weeks ago, we had a very practical example of how to apply this verse. My son had a friend over and they were going to have a nerf gun fight. To my dismay, I saw my son give his friend the worst gun that he had despite there being several better ones to share. We had a talk about how we always need to give our best and that it is only because of selfishness that we hold back good things from those around us. When I saw the verse for this week, God brought the example to mind and talking about it really gave my son an practical understanding of the verse! I love seeing understanding illuminate in a child’s mind.

Before sickness set in, we were blessed with a beautiful spring-like day (though we are back buried in snow again!), so we took advantage of it and trekked out into our woods. Our goal was to find F-eathers, but we spent more time splashing in puddles than anything 🙂 We found the remains of a bee hive and enjoyed a sunny lunch on the porch. I cannot wait for consistent spring weather to do our schooling outside.

I went out of town for a weekend, and when I came home all of us had been hit by the flu (except for my hubby that is… lucky bum!!). The next week we spent FAR too much time in front of the TV, but none of us were up to doing anything else.

As we gradually started feeling better, I tried incorporating a few “school” activities. I asked my son to build me a lego tower that was at least 1 foot tall. After he built one, we got out the ruler and talked about how 1 foot has 12 inches in it. As you can see, he was an overachiever and his tower was much taller than 1 foot. 🙂

My daughter practiced her hand eye coordination and fine motor skills by playing a fishing game. This kept her occupied enough for me to teach my son the game of Go-Fish. It was a sweet time with the kids. I feel like we just MIGHT be getting back into the swing of things.

There were many other random activities that we did as well. Thank goodness for spontaneous clearance purchases that are put away for a rainy day! I was able to pull out some kinetic sand that I had found in the clearance aisle a month ago. The kids loved digging “at the beach” since it has been freezing cold and the real beach is just out of the question. haha… We also worked on a fish puzzle, counted the fish in the scene, talked about which ones were fish and which ones were mammals, and then the youngest had fun destroying it.

Of course we couldn’t finish our Letter F unit without our handprint art! So this week we made F-ish in a fish bowl 🙂

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