Lesson Planning

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Play

Since we've had such a busy October, I decided to take the first week of November and just focus on play. Playing outside, playing inside, playing, playing, playing.  

Today we spent 2 1/2 hours outside playing at two different parks.  Then we came home, made some kettle corn, watched Barney and relaxed...before playing some more.  

We're hoping to make it to the Children's Museum this week and find some other places to "play."

What are some of your favorite things to "play" with your children?  What do they enjoy doing the most?

Monday, November 1, 2010

October

The month of October really zoomed.  A large part was probably due to the fact that we were on vacation for half of it!  I've felt that I've slacked a bit in keeping this blog up-to-date, but then I remembered that it's not about "the blog."  It's about doing activities with my child...and we sure have had fun!  The point of this post is not to say, "Look what we did!!" It's to show that vacation can be a time of learning too.  In fact I would venture that even more learning takes place because your child is building their schema and incorporating more of the "unknown" into what they know.  So here's a few ways we did that:

Enjoying gorgeous weather in San Francisco and playing with three dogs for 10 days...talk about heaven for the little one.

 Children's Museum in the Bay Area.

Painting Toes...a favorite of her "fancy auntie's."

Red-Wagon-Riding with her Oma in Michigan.

By the time we returned from our travels, we were already out of weekends before Halloween arrived.  We had to cram pumpkin carving, candy-corn eating, Halloween partying and trick-or-treating all into one week (we usually spread it out a bit more).  Her daddy still had time to create this Elmo pumpkin, though.

And our little lady sure enjoyed trick-or-treating.

How was your month of October?  Did it go by fast for you too?  What are some great vacations to take with little ones?