Lalaloopsy Workbook

Posted on 03/07/2013 by Momma Jo

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Fifi is CRAZY INSANE in love with Lalaloopsies. She got a little portable house for her birthday and has started collecting the little dolls. Carisa over at 1+1+1=1 created Lalaloopsy printables just at the right moment. I’m always amazing at how similar Fifi and Ladybug’s interest are.

Any who, I digress. I printed out the pack (link under resources) and decided to paste it into a workbook for her. She hasn’t seen the finished product yet. I also purchased a colouring pages printable on Etsy (link under resources) and added a page or two to her workbook.

Here are a few photos of the completed workbook.

I made the cover for this section of her workbook. The printables don’t fill at 72pg workbook, the remaining pages will be used for her next themed printable.

Her favourite Lala is Toffee Cocoa Cuddles, she copied all the colours (except for the sleeves which her doll doens’t have) from her Lala doll, its an almost perfect replica. Her Lala has a white dog.

Resources:
Official Lalaloopsy Website
Lalaloopsy toys: Amazon and Kalahari (South Africa)
Lalaloopsy Printables
32 Printable Button Doll Coloring Pages

See more Lalaloopsy Activities and Reourses HERE

Little Monster School ~ Themes for June 2011

Posted on 30/05/2011 by Momma Jo

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Please click on the icons above to view the curricula we are using for the Little Monsters

Koko’s Theme of the Month is Toy Story and Fifi’s Theme of the Month is Pretty Bugs.

Here are a few pics of their workbooks. I put them into workbook format as the children seem to respond better to them this way.

Toy Story

Koko’s colouring pages are courtesy of Google Images and Lego.

All packed and ready for lessons come June 6th. Each book and its accompaniments have been placed in a large ziplock bag to keep them all together.

Pretty Bugs

Fifi’s colouring pages are courtesy of Google Images and Coloring.ws.

All packed and ready for lessons come June 6th. Each book and its accompaniments have been placed in a large ziplock bag to keep them all together.

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And I’m back after a long blogging siesta

Posted on 24/03/2011 by Momma Jo

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After taking an extended break from blogging I’m back with allot of news.

Firstly, I’m pregnant. We found out in early January, Baby Bumble is due on September 14th, but will be born via c-sec probably on August 30th. I have Grade 4 placenta previa, so I’m on bedrest for the duration of my pregnancy. I must say, the bed rest is going better than I expected. I get more rest the days when no-one is here to help me than I do on the days when someone is here, go figure.

Secondly, Noo started Grade 3 in January and is doing really well. We are still using the Clonard Curriculum. He started reading the Beast Quest series and has finished the first book Ferno the Fire Dragon and now we are anxiously awaiting the second book, Sepron the Sea Serpent. I’ve decided that I will be ordering 3 books at a time to make sure the next one is here as he finishes a book in the series, LOL.

Here he is with his first science book completion certificate. He is so proud of himself ♥

Koko has officially started a preschool program, I’ll post more on that a little later. I’ve pooled a whole lot of resources from all over, including the bulk of which is from the 1+1+1=1 Raising Rock Stars Preschool program. The PowerPoint Presentations have made a huge difference in our school day. But more on that in a post yet to come.

“Driving” Daddy’s car before it was taken to the dealership and traded for a bigger car, Renault Grand Scenic, to make space for Baby Bumble ♥

Fifi celebrated her second birthday on February 4th, she is crazy about monkeys and I decided that was the theme we were going to go with, she loved it. She is also fully day time potty trained. She has grown into such a beautiful little girl ♥

The Birthday Girl on her birthday ♥ She had a few friends come over for cake and snacks and got spoilt rotten.

Fifi got the My Pal Violet from Leapfrog. She LOVES her puppy. She won’t sleep without her ♥♥♥

I couldn’t find a monkey themed top for her, so I painted a Monkey’s face on one of her T’s with glitter glue, unfortunately, it washed out, but it was so cute!

A very good friend made her cake (she makes all the children’s birthday cakes), isn’t it gorgeous ♥

Another friend made her cupcakes ♥

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Totschool ~ Fifi’s Tot Spot

Posted on 20/08/2010 by Momma Jo

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~Fifi is 18 months old~

Since Fifi is getting more and more difficult to keep entertained during our school day and I’ve rearranged and moved our school area, I decided to follow Carissa’s example and make a designated area for her to play and learn during the boys’ lessons.

Welcome to Fifi’s Tot Spot

This is the bottom shelf of the big book shelf in the school area. This bookshelf is also home to the story books, puzzles and board games. I don’t have nearly enough educational activities for her, I need to start building up her tot stash up quicker.

Here are a few of the goodies I’ve taken out for her to play with for the next week:

Peg puzzles

Mickey Mouse beads in an ice tray with a tweezers (tea bag strainer)

Nuts and Bolts

Connectors

The ever present Jumbo peg board, her favourite toy right now

A few of her favourite books (There are more, I’m still working on a reading area for her)

While I was busy sorting out her goodies for her Tot Spot, she decided to use the shelf as a bed ♥

Once I had started packing the shelf, she grabbed the peg board and entertained herself while watching a show on TV *giggle*

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Preschool Goals

Posted on 05/08/2010 by Momma Jo

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I got this wonderful goal list from Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 site. I want to have these all goals met by the end of 2012 so when we go into Gr 0 (South Africa’s Kindergarten) he has a firm foundation to start on.

* Manners and social skills
* Letter Identification
* Phonemic Awareness (sounds letters make)
* Colour Identification
* Number Identification
* Shape Identification (square, triangle, circle, oval, rectangle, heart, star)
* Sizes (big, medium, small)
* Dolch Sight Words (pre primer level) a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
* Early Letter Writing Skills (proper pencil grip)
* Fine Motor Skills-Cutting, Gluing, Coloring, Tracing
* Print Awareness (following print, understanding that letters make up words, etc.)
* Reading Comprehension
* Vocabulary Development
* Musical Awareness (learning new songs, exploring instruments, exposing rhythm, etc.)
* Exposure to different fonts
* Basic Computer Skills (through the use of the Power Point lessons)

Bible Study

Posted on 22/11/2009 by Momma Jo

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I downloaded and printed a Bible Timeline a little while ago. We are going to start following this timeline once Noo has completed his You are WOW Bible study book.

I have also been fortunate to be a subscriber of Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 blog and she has started the Raising Rock Stars, “The 2 words came from 2 amazing Bible verses which we believe should guide the way we train up our children to follow Jesus.”