With play. You don't have to cram cram cram all day. Chill, relax, and sneak that learning through games.
Today, we started with my daughter reading a few sheets of sight words to me as I wrote them in red, white, and blue chalk all over the sidewalk.
As I would write the word she read; she would spell it and use it in a sentence for me. Then, we switched!
I would call out the words and when she found them, she would get to throw a pop-it on it! This was so much fun, she wanted more than one word at a time.
But we didn't stop there. This is summer. What's the fun of summer if there isn't water-play involved?
This was more independent. Call the word, use it in a sentence, then throw the wet sponge all over it! This was especially fun since we used glitter-chalk so most of the chalk would stay and the glitter would run off to the grass. But that's okay, because now we get to grab our paintbrush...
...and practice handwriting as she painted over the chalked sight words!
After years of wait, it has returned again: FIFA World Cup has begun!
There are some exciting summer learning activities that you can do to involve your child or students passed cheering for your team.
Predictions
Predict who will win. Compare your predictions to the final outcome.
Greater Than/Less Than
Which team has the most points? Who has the most?
Score Addition/Subtraction/Multiplication
Have your child take each team's score and add them together, subtract them from one another, multiply them together. Don't just do this with the final score but throughout the game as goals are made.
Geography
Find the location of the country the teams are playing for. Are they near where you live? Far away from each other?
Cultural Awareness
After learning about where the teams are from, what languages do they speak? What does their flag look like? Create a chart to plug in all of this new information of other countries. Refer to the chart when teams play again to review their country's information.
When my daughter was younger, she didn't often like to pass out hugs. I used to try and work with her on being more open to giving hugs when leaving people. Then I read this blog post.
But there's more to appreciating a child's desire. Sometimes children want to play alone but a friend wishes to join. Telling the friend "no" doesn't make them terrible. Maybe they just don't want to play right now. Maybe they want to finish what they are doing in solitary play before involving another friend. Don't force, no means no.
If we can't teach our children that it is okay for them to set personal boundaries, that we support those boundaries, and that we expect others to respect those boundaries then what are we setting them up for?
Kids can poke and prod and test their limits. There will be many times in early childhood years where students will badger and press other adults and peers. Those are prime opportunities to teach developing minds to respect the boundaries of others. It's okay to want those things but if the person you want those from is not open to that, why should we force our children to do it?
This weekend we saw a burst on twitter with the hashtag #yesallwomen in response to the shootings that took place Friday. We can begin a change with our youth. It isn't simply about letting our children know that if they don't want to hug or play that that is okay, but also to the child not receiving the hug that it is okay. Hugs and kisses aren't something to steal from your kids, we don't want to teach stealing physical affection from others.
It's about teaching respect for each other and for boundaries. About teaching comfort and confidence in announcing your boundaries. Regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, and more.
A fun activity to review and master sight word recognition is magically appearing sight words on eggs!
On white paper (or even on your hard-boiled eggs) use a white crayon to write sight words on the eggs.
Now it's time for your little one to paint the eggs! For hard-boiled eggs, you can use any egg dyeing kit and the wax will repel the dye to have the sight words appear. This can work with the paper eggs as well using watercolor paint.
Tips:
To avoid children mixing the watercolor paint, teach this pattern when teaching how to use watercolor "water, paint, paper." Just repeat that pattern with your child as you teach water-coloring and your paints won't become a mixed up mess.
Make some secret message eggs. Sprinkle in some fun while they make their sight words appear.
1. Letter Bingo - the important thing with this game is to verbally announce each letter as you hold it up. This helps children to identify the letters instead of simply finding items that match the letter you hold.
2. LettersWars - this requires that your class/home alphabet chart be within children's reach. Have two children at the starting point. When you call out a letter, children run from their point to hit their hand against the letter called.
3. Letter Scavenger Hunt - found here. Cutting the edge of a paper plate into slits, write a letter on each slit. Children can walk around and fold down letters when they find them in their environment.
4. Little Red Box - source Dr. Jean. This song works best to help with letter identification when accompanied with letter props to show students the letters as you identify them.
5. There Was An Old Lady - there was an old lady who swallowed some letters!
6. Password - I use my daily password at the water fountain to prevent students from storing water in their mouths to spray out back in the classroom. I would have a letter on a dry erase board that students would identify to me before returning to the classroom or echo the name of the letter back to me.
7. Environmental Word Wall - there are many ideas of how to do these throughout the Internet but sorting company logos by the beginning letter connected with the individual letter is a great connection for young children.
8. Pull and Stamp - put letter card or magnet letters into a container. Children can take turns pulling out a letter before stamping it out on their paper (be sure to name the letters as they pull them).
9. Race to the Top - (Pre-Kinders) roll the dice that has had number replaced with letters, stamp the letter that lands face up. Each child takes turns around the table as you work as a group racing up the chart.
10. Natural Letters - you can use more than letter tiles and magnet letters. Soft-faced stones can have letters marked on them for child manipulation, thin cuts of wood marked with letters, acorns, seashells, fabric scraps, and more!
11. Letter Jump - this can be laid out like hopscotch or just having letters scattered around the floor. Hold up a letter and identify it so that the children can jump to the matching letter.
12. Alliteration - this is identifying the sound a word starts with. /a/ /a/ alligator
We'll dive more into alliteration later. :)
"Introducing children to the alphabet IS important but the way in which we do it is just as important."
-Kara Hill
Kara Hill is an amazing Best Practices trainer that Georgia Pre-K teachers get the opportunity of working with.
While away at training, we talked about an often neglected part of our children's childhood experience. Nursery rhymes.
Many people have grown tired of hearing nursery rhymes so they don't expose their children to them. We have generations of children who don't know Humpty Dumpty. We have children that don't know fairy tales unless they have seen a Disney movie.
"If children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight (Mem Fox, 2001)."
Nursery rhymes and fairy tales are important foundations for literacy that we introduce to children at the earliest of ages. Keep the magic strong and strengthen your child's literacy growth.
Fairy tales give birth to imagination, creativity, and more. "Fairy tales also contribute to our cultural literacy. A child who has never heard the stories of Rapunzel’s hair or Achilles’ heel is culturally illiterate (Meg Moseley).
Building a love for writing actually comes from more than writing activities. Here are some other activities to take a look into doing for budding a growing writer.
1. Read Reading affects writing and writing affects reading. These two babies go hand-in-hand. Visit a library, go to the bookstore, read read read. Once a day is not enough, you wouldn't brush your teeth once a day. Reading together at least three times a day can make a difference in your child's literacy skills.
2. Environmental Print Logos, brand names, and more are helping your child with literacy recognition skills that label their world.
3. Label Get a label maker, get tape and paper, get whatever you want and label your house. This gives them plenty of things to write if you have them write around the house.
4. Don't Stress Perfection When your little one is writing, don't stress perfection. Be okay with inventive spelling, don't correct every handwriting error you see, and know when to back off for the moment. I'm not saying to avoid correcting handwriting and spelling, but not every moment has to be about it. Let's focus on making writing happen and get on the handwriting and spelling when the time is right.
5. Tearing Let them tear tissue paper, newspaper, wrapping paper, junk mail, anything (that you don't mind being torn). This helps build those fine motor skills for holding/manipulating the pencil on paper.
6. Play-dough Mash it, tear it, squish it, manipulate it. Work those fine motor skills!
7. Sewing Don't set your little one up with the sewing machine. Hole punch some cereal boxes and let them guide yarn through those. You can buy lacing cards too but I'm pretty sure you've got a box of cereal in your house and the dollar store has yarn.
8. Cutting Even if you aren't big on couponing, chances are that you get coupons in your mailbox. Don't let them go to waste, let your little one strengthen their writing fingers by cutting the mess out of those things! Seriously, it is a mess.
9. String Yarn, string, or floss. These can be used with cereal, noodles, beads, for more finger exercises!
10. Bottle Fun Take an empty water bottle, soda bottle, juice bottle (no 2 liters, please) and fill it with cotton balls or pom poms. Children can take them all out and put them all back in. This is also great for quiet calm-downs. Keep it in your purse for on the go.
11. Shaving Cream On your table or in the tub, shaving cream is always creative scribble fun!
12. Cross Your Mindline Okay, am I talking another language now? Crossing the mindline is about taking one hand to do movements on the other side of the body. This helps to develop those fine motor skills and wake up your brain. Dr. Jean's album "Better Brains and Bodies" is a great start.
Not all children are fond of writing, some children might find it frustrating. Here's a list of ways to make writing an enjoyable experience for your little one:
1. Journals (or diaries, whatever you wish to call them) You can pick up small writing tablets at the dollar store for children to freely express themselves in. It doesn't even have to be words or letters, something that they can freely take a pen or pencil to and just let writing happen however they want it to.
2. Gel Board (how to) Use dull pencils and such to write on your gel board. Alternate between using the gel board and paper for writing activities
3. Pen pals Writing letters, greeting cards, postcards, or thank you cards to send in the snail mail can be especially fun for little ones. Bonus help to the love for writing when people send them letters BACK in the mail. Keep the mail fun going!
4. Become an Author Assemble paper together to make a small book and allow them to become the author of their very own story!
5. Dry-Erase Writing On windows, on mirrors, and even on the bathtub wall! Oh, I guess you could use a dry-erase board too, but the more out of the norm for your young write, the MORE AWESOME!
6. Quill I'm not saying run off and actually buy a quill. Unless you really want to. You can just use a simple feather and watercolor paints. It's super cool and super fun.
7. Write the Room (Karen Cox) Or write the store! Take it to a store let your little one write a list of things they like and don't like in the store.
8. Roll 'n' Write (Karen Cox) Here are tons of neat writing printable games.
9. Musical Words (or letters or sentences) Place the letters (or words or whatever) in a circle on the floor and give them a dry erase board and marker (or clipboard and paper). Turn the music on and have them walk around the letters (or whatever). When the music stops, they writes whatever they're stopped at. This activity can also be used for numbers, shapes, and MORE!
10. Game Night You can turn games like Candyland into writing games too. Tape letters (or words, sentence, ANYTHING) to the color squares and they write the letters (or whatevers) when he lands on them. Can be applied to games such as Jenga, Memory, and more!
11. MagnaDoodle (or Aquadoodle or whatever your doodle-fancy is) Again, for the free flowing writing. Doesn't have to be words or letters, just as long as writing is occuring is what is important.
12. Interactive Journals (different than regular journal) Yes, it's a teacher tool but it can be implemented in the home as well! You can give your child prompts, tape pictures of friends and let them write about those friends, events like going to the pumpkin patch for them to write about what they enjoyed about the trip.
Never be afraid to shake things up with a little color pencil action every now and then too. Just a splash of color to perk writing up into something fun.
My daughter has been expressing curiosity in prayer for a while now. Just the other night, she asked to pray before meal time.
I think that it's quite nice that she has expressed interest and desire in it. She doesn't pray because it's repetition or habit, but out of want and interest. Not there is anything wrong with that, just not what I prefer for my daughter. Or maybe she just wants it to stay up a minute or two later. I'm still okay with that.
I think that it's also interesting that there is little research to find on religion and children that isn't swayed by opinion. I guess we'll just role with it.
We're trying hard to keep consistent with it and build the habit. We'll get there in time.
How awesome is this? My daughter made this by herself while only singing the alphabet song to check which comes next. Yes, I'm being super proud mommy right there and you'll have to get over it.
Ww is on the back but there is no Nn. Mostly because of how we sing the song. LMNOP becomes a blur and we tend to lose a letter in the madness. I try to sing that part out with my daughter but I'm not the only person singing the alphabet song with her.
I am glad that even when she sang it, she could remember W, X, Y, Z and not W, X, Y, and Z. I don't sing the and with her. Let's focus on the letters in the song.
So last night, I went with my daughter to Arby's. She became very excited, leaned over to me, and whispered "That's Santa over there! I've seen him before! At Christmas, eating the cookies!" I returned smile and whispered "Sh, let's keep his secret."
I worry about her going to school tomorrow and talking about seeing Santa. Why do I worry about that? I worry about her meeting that one kid. You know the kid; the destroyer of dreams, the buzzkill: Reality. I don't know if her class has that one kid. Maybe we'll be lucky and she doesn't. I'm not ready for my daughter to meet the kid who is going to tell her Santa isn't real.
Side note: Telling my daughter that Darth Vader is Luke's father before she gets to experience Star Wars for herself will upset me to the same level as telling her there is no Santa.
I love to celebrate. I enjoy throwing parties. When you're throwing a party for a child, things are different than your average party planning.
Plan for the child
Too many times people get wrapped up in making sure that the guests or parents of other children will have things to do. It's not their party, this is celebrating your child. Focus on activities they'd like to do.
Plan developmentally appropriate activities
If you're doing a theme party, you don't have to do every activity that you find on the Internet that fits your theme. Find activities that your child can do and will enjoy doing. This will put less stress on your child and you as they play.
Invite friends of your child
Don't get caught up in having everyone under the sun in attendance. Inviting friends of your child allows for fewer activities planned as they'll simply spend most of their time simply enjoying the company of friends.
But, the adults are bored
It's your child's birthday. Would you rather have to split yourself between enjoying the moments with your child and entertaining adults? Focus on your child and the party will come together smoothly.
I've got to feed everyone!
Plan for the party to occur during a time that's generally in between meals. Provide light snacks and drink. Then, families can do lunch or dinner after the event. Don't over-stress yourself worrying about preparing a filling meal for every person that may or may not show.
Someone didn't come!
Don't focus on the people that didn't come. Help your child to appreciate the fun and the people that are there spending time with you.
You're not MarthaStewart
It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be huge. It doesn't have to have matching table cloths. Roll with it.
Plan ahead
Think about what you're organizing and putting together. Get a little done every day and you'll have more time to enjoy the moments of the party.
Have a weather plan
If it's outdoors, try to include in the invitations details of what the inclement weather plan is. Without this, people will look at grey clouds and keep their children at home. Plan party activities for the outdoor party that could be moved indoors.
Simple is fun
My daughter's first birthday had a room filled with pink balloons. You don't have to recreate every amazing idea that you saw on Pinterest.
Keep it kid-friendly
I shouldn't have to say this but: Alcohol has no place at a children's birthday party. If you'd like to have Jell-O shots with your friends, get a sitter and do it then.
Take pictures
LOTS AND LOTS OF PICTURES! Memories for when they're older and for family not able
Short and sweet
Kids have short attention spans and get moody. No need for a party over two hours. Anything more than that and you'll have irritated children and parents (mostly because they're kids are becoming moody).
But someone is on the way
Again, this is your child's party. Your initiation gave clear start and end times. Why should your child and other guests suffer to wait for the single person that couldn't be on time?
Sight words, sight words, and more sight words! Anything and everything to learn sight words. Now we're transforming our little one's bathroom into a place of learning too! Each morning, there are two new sight words written in dry erase on the mirror.
Also written on the fish tank for double exposure. Thursday night, all of the words make a guest appearance for a sight word bath!
I know, kind of creepy looking but we're having a hoot!
I've been holding on to my daughter's first movie ticket and every ticket since for this project. It's a TICKET BOX!
I purchased a shadow box, slapped in a cute background picture, and then filled it with her movie tickets, play tickets, circus tickets, and park tickets. We've only been to a few things but I think it's a great thing that can be added to as she grows. She loves it, I love it, and my husband thinks that I'm a nut.
My loving husband took the day from work to take our daughter to and pick her up from school. All I asked was that she was dressed so that I could do her hair for the first day.
Put me leaving the house 5 minutes later than I had wanted but worth it. Pictures together and then it was up to daddy to get her there and take the rest of the pictures for me.
Then it was off to my school to meet all of my new babies! We have such a sweet group of students matched with equally awesome parents! I wish I could be able to see and speak to every parent this afternoon and tell them how wonderful their children are. They are so bright, eager, loving, and lively. This is going to be an incredible year. If I don't get the chance to speak directly with each of you due to the hustle and bustle of first week excitement, just know this:
You are all now my mommas and daddies just as your students are my children. Let's work together to help them learn, both in and out of school.
Using the tutorial found here, my daughter and I are making friendship bracelets for all of her new friends when she starts kindergarten!
I'm thinking to make some for the students in my classroom as well but we'll see how I feel after making about thirty and go from there. I really like how they're turning out. My daughter has been packing each finished bracelet in her new bookbag that she and her Nana picked out.
It's exciting helping my own little girl get ready for kindergarten this summer. I was a bit shocked when school ended and she had no interest in moving up from pre-k. As the summer has worn on and we've discussed the transition more, she's become more excited for the upcoming changes. Even when we discovered that one of her best school friends had moved and won't be attending her school anymore, she was very rational about it. "I'll still have Byron and Paulina and my new friends."
Update! Finished 27 to take in! 25 for her classmates and two for her teachers. Printable found here.
Okay, before I start into this let me begin with I AM NOT PERFECT! I used to try and squish out tattling in my classroom with Tattle Trees and items of the like that students told problems to. What I'm about to go into is why I don't do that anymore. Around the age of three-five children are beginning to lose so much of their egocentric focus and begin looking at what other people are doing. They know by know what the expectations are for them from you so when they see something that does not fall into those expectations, they feel the need to share this with you. To quote ABCmouse.com "Advisor Tip: Learning something new is exciting to a child. When your child shares a new fact or asks questions about a recent topic of study, acknowledge and praise the enthusiasm. Take the time to discuss what your child finds interesting. Positive and encouraging language will empower your child to learn more and will create a positive attitude towards learning."
What many people identify as the "tattling" that they don't want to hear are things that your child feel is important to share with you. Take the time to thank them for sharing information with you and also take the time to explain why that behavior might be okay so that they don't feel the need to "tattle" next time. When they "tattle" they are sharing something that they feel could be important.
It is difficult for young children to realize the difference between tattling and sharing something important because to them, it is all important. They feel that this is something important enough to come to you and discuss. We sometimes feel as teachers and parents that children are purposefully trying to get another child in trouble with tattling. This is not always the case. They just want their information to be shared, acknowledged, and learn how to cope with this new information.
While, yes, I might still hear the occasional "I'm going to go tell Ms. Megan!" Which I don't see so much as tattling but as attempts to get someone in trouble. When I hear this simple phrase yelled across the room, I will wait until our little birdie flies her way to me, sit down to her level, and discuss with her about what she felt was wrong that she needed to share with me and that she couldn't tell the person how to fix their behavior. I like for my students to be able to build the skills to self-correct but also to be considerate enough to help nudge a wanderer back on the right path.
The best way to break "tattling" is just by talking about why the behaviors they are sharing with you are alright or help walk them through problem-solving strategies to be better prepared to handle the situation independently next time. In my years, I have heard "tattling" stories of all kinds from the every popular "HE'S NOT SHARING!" to the unusual "She won't let me put the crayon in my nose!" Look, if that last one isn't a clear demonstration that this child obviously needs just a few minutes of discussion and guidance, I don't know what else would.
Two things that hurt more than help tattling: ignoring and assuming. While the ever popular "if you aren't broken or bleeding" is great once children have a firmer grasp on the idea that everyone's a little different, at the beginning of this phase it isn't very helpful. Again, these children are in the middle of new learning opportunities when they come to share this information (even if it has a whining sound to it). Just take a few moments to help them learn. You'll find that they won't be running back to you in five minutes to tell you the same thing because now they know! Now it makes sense why Sally won't let you put rocks in your ears. She's trying to make sure I don't have to go to the hospital to get those things out!
Assuming breaks my heart. Assuming happens when teachers or parents just assume that whatever this three to five year old has just said is true. Not saying it isn't, but sometimes they don't know exactly how to phrase or might not be fully aware of situations before they tell. Let's say, my daughter knows that she isn't allowed to watch certain programs but she walks into her friend's room for a playdate and she's watching the forbidden cartoon! She might run and say "Bessy's watching something she's not supposed to!" An adult who assumes would then proceed to have Bessy in trouble even though Bessy did nothing incorrect by the rules of her household. That's a learning moment more for my daughter to say "I know we don't watch that in our house, but Bessy's parents said that's okay for her." Now she knows. Now I won't hear anything about it in two seconds when my daughter runs back in and Bessy's still watching it. That's part of learning that we're all different. Not only might we all look a little different, but we all behave a little differently too.
Well, what about the children who lie to get other children in trouble? That's a whole different seed there baby. Again, not tattling. That's lying. Having the little girl from the reading area to come crying about how Bobby (who's been in blocks for the last 20 minutes) just stepped on her fingers. Okay, this one actually requires something absolutely mind-blowing for this. Are you ready? OBSERVATION! Seriously, if you're paying attention and watching the children under your care (be you parent, nanny, or teacher.. DOESN'T MATTER) then you will know that Bessy's doing one of two things; lying or telling you something from four weeks ago. I kid you not, I've actually had a student two hours into the school day have a breakdown because of something his brother said at breakfast that morning. In observing, you'll be able to address your little miss on lying or helping her to cope with the fact that while yes, Bobby stepped on her fingers four weeks ago and you're sorry that this still has her upset.
Oh, and number one reason I don't like to deny communications like this with younger children is that I want them to feel that they can openly communicate anything with me. When they run to me to tell me these things, they're telling me that they trust me. They trust me to provide them with help and answers to things that they cannot understand. They feel that they can come and talk to me without judgement. Especially with my daughter, who I want to be able to come and talk openly about things that might bother, upset, or confuse her thus keeping the lines of communication open helps me to better know and understand what is going on in my child's life.
But again, we're all a little different. No one says you have to live or teach like I do. I'm Telling! has a wonderful breakdown on what commonly motivates children to "tattle".
Yesterday I mentioned making clock cues for my daughter. This is to help with building time recognition skills and ease up constant requests for snack at the same time. While it isn't a full itinerary, our schedule does vary depending on summer camp, special events, and school. I'm not making a pool time cue that I'll take down in two months.
I could have laminated these blank, then used sharpee to fill in the times and activities so that I could magic eraser that and change it as need, but I think in the beginning it is important to only have a few so that we aren't overwhelming her. So far, she has been absolutely thrilled to find when her clock matches an activity to be able to tell what happens next. It's also exciting for me to hear her full of excitement to announce it's time for something instead of constantly requesting that we do it. Happiness for everyone!
We also looked through magazines for pictures to help represent each activity to better illustrate what each time is as she is still in the pre-reading stage. It would have been faster to have printed pictures of her doing each activity but I'm out of black ink and don't want to buy more just yet. Poor excuse but she's not judging me. So far we have found pictures for everything except bath and bed, but I'm sure a magazine might come in soon to provide that. Or I'll buy ink and replace all of the pictures with her.
Also helps that she has a loft bed so that she can be face-to-face with the clock instead of looking up to a wall clock. She's never paid much attention to the clock before now but now we have to come look at it every second (because it has a second hand and "mommy come see it moved!").
Our little girl has become obsessed with the clock now. Stayed up a couple hours late, occasionally running out of her room to tell us what the clock was doing. I added minute dots to also aid in correlating what the minute hand of the clock was reading to better help establish that. Hurray for telling time!
Fridays are always a fun day to me. During the school year, I like to make them into dress up days as a kind of celebration for making it through the week. For example: Huzzah! It's Friday and we learned all about woodsy animals! Teddy Bear Picnic to celebrate!
It's the exciting things such as that which makes teaching pre-kindergarten such a joy. Pre-k is so important in building a positive foundation for lifelong learning, so Fun Fridays are part of that process.
Now we're in summer, home all day. Are you really exercising your fun as much as you should be? Some of you might be, running off on vacations. Some of you might be living in your pajamas for five days before you even think about getting cleaned up to visit the grocery store.
I've arranged for tours of local businesses for my daughter, myself, and our friends to go through. We have so far been through a fire station, police station, and a local Children's Museum. I did open this event to other parents in the Middle Georgia area through another Facebook group. Why not share in the fun of touring local places with other people that did not leave town for summer?
But oh, what about behavioral concerns? People I don't know coming in with children acting a hot mess, doesn't that reflect on me? Yes. Yes it does. I am the contact person for these businesses. One child climbing the furniture does not simply represent his mother (not that that has happened, knock on wood) but also represents me when I look to schedule another field trip with said business again. While I have not had to require gathering signatures on a behavior contract, I have sent out behavioral guidelines. I am so excited to actually utilize the behavioral guidelines during the school year for field trips!
These behavioral guidelines could be printed, laminated, and turned into activities before going on the field trip. Cut and laminate enough and you could quietly tuck a broken rule into the name badge of a student that has been acting up to quietly bring them back into appropriate behaviors. Hopefully you don't catch too many children not having fun!
But that's not all they can be used for, use your imagination and utilize them in your classroom however you deem appropriate.
So last night I noticed that I had unexpectedly planned for a letter P day today. We were going to a Puppet show then eating Pizza for lunch. I don't like to only do a little, so our whole day we're looking for more ways to involve the letter P. So first thing before breakfast, we Painted our nails in a Pink and Purple Pattern in our Pajamas!
We ate cereal for breakfast, but it was in a Pink bowl. Then we got dressed in Pink and Purple shirts respectively and Put on Pants to go to the Post office! We returned home to be horrible unProductive for a while (but that's what Pinterest is for, right?). Then we were off to the puppet show!
The Public library hosted an amazing Puppet show about Jack and the beanstalk. The Person Puppeteering also Produces his own Puppets. After the show finished, we made our way to Pizza Hut to use our free Personal Pan Pizza coupon. We ordered a Pepperoni with a Pink lemonade.
Now we are Preparing to Play in the Pool. It's been a Pleasant day Provided to us by the letter "P"
