Spark

The school district here offers a free Pre-K program called Spark. Children ages 3-5 can sign up for different 2 hour classes throughout the week. They have Arts and Crafts, Storytime, Messy Fun, field trips, etc. It really is cute. They do calendar and songs and a couple of activities centered around the letter of the week. I try and sign Marin up for one class a week if I can but they fill up fast. She does love it and the teachers are so nice.

Coloring her snowman sequencing sheet.

The Tooty-Ta song...

This is what Hollis does during class....climbs ALL OVER ME.

Looking so big.

An abc song...

Going on a bear hunt...gonna catch a big one...with great big EYES...

and a fuzzy little tail! 

Story Time!

 One thing the Spark class really wants to teach them is how to write their name. One thing they do is to tell the parents to write their name in yellow (or lighter color) and then the child traces over it with a darker color marker. Marin HATES this activity. If she messes up one little bit, she "be sad". Not quite ready for that one. But she does love writing the letter i. So she'll do that part in her name. :o) But to help with those little fine motor skills we started doing a salt tray this past week. (It's just salt in the lid of Christmas cookie container. Nothing fancy.) But she practices "writing" letters and shapes with her finger. When she messes up, she just shakes the lid and starts over. She loved it. LOVED it.

 And we have been doing Winter-ish stuff in our little "school". P for penguins and polar bears and we will start S for snow/snowmen/snowflakes, etc. this week. (Going to try and update the little learning blog today fyi, grandparents. More pictures over there....but I did love this one of Marin. So stinkin' cute and looking so big. It was a little snowball (marshmallow) counting game. She rolled the dice and placed a "snowball" on each dot and counted them. Eating the snowballs was the best part of course.

Snowball eating  counting. 

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Our Little Ballerina

Marin had her first ballet class today. Hollis and I watched from the window. She did so great and the class was so adorable! They did a little obstacle course, danced with stuffed animals, practiced on the ballet bar, and danced to some songs. It really was precious.

Waiting for instructions...

Watching big sister. She shouted "Marin" every single time it was her turn. 

Obstacle course...

Balance beam!

Jump, jump, jump. 

When they go from activity to activity, they move on their tiptoes with their arms up.
It is really, really cute. 

Ballet bar

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