Learning with Ladybug ~ Age 4y, 10m

Welcome to our weekly preschool at home blog feature, Learning with Ladybug! As you probably know, I scrapped our preschool plan and built a new one based around our current needs.

We have a few main preschool categories, you can read the entire plan here, I will break my weekly posts down by category so you can see what she did each week within a certain area. If we have a letter focus, I will do a separate post to make searching easier. I will do the same for any themes we do.

See our entire Home Preschool Plan here!

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Spielgaben ~ Play Based Learning

We continued our work with box 5 in Spielgaben, which contains cubes and triangular prisms. We only did one official lesson, creating and copying trees.

Once the trees were done, she created a house between them!

She played almost every day freely, creating mostly cats!

Here she was making Lilo and Stitch {see it on Instagram here}

Messy Fun

We have always had lots of messy fun but I am making it a more intentional part of our plan. Almost all of my ideas are pinned here on my Sensory play board. I am trying to have one planned messy creation experience per week, even if it’s just making a new batch of something we’ve already done.

We made a new batch of homemade play dough! She helped me make it from start to finish, and loved every moment!

I let her choose 4 colors {she chose white, pink, teal, purple} and she picked the scent for each one {Christmas Spirit Essential Oil, Vanilla, Peppermint Essential Oil, and Stress Away Essential Oil}.

She played with the play dough alongside of the Love Sensory Bin almost every day!

All By Myself Preschool Boxes

She spends about an hour in the afternoon playing with her boxes. Usually this hour starts right after lunch, but if she wants to play messy stuff first, I let her. I am basically requiring her to float between her boxes or the messy play table, or if she wants to be difficult, she can take a nap. I sneak in to snap photos, but mostly she plays alone. Sometimes she comes to get me to show me something too.

In her mini sensory bins ~ gems, popcorn, cotton balls, and abc pasta.

She played a LOT this week, and was very engaged during her “box time.” This is probably because I got slack with changing her boxes and she was thrilled to have a new set!

She LOVES these mini ABC puzzles, we got them years ago at Walmart for a couple of bucks!

Making a necklace…

Turtles {an old school toy} and popcorn fun…

Family Counters {a favorite} and ABC pasta…

Dollar Store pony puzzle…

Another Dollar Tree puzzle, this was the first time she completed a 48 piece on her own entirely!

Lots of Wedgit play all week!

Matching shapes…

Yup, it normally looks like this {or worse} before we clean up. She still struggles with clean up sometimes, but she does it.

Happy shape face!

I tried to remember to snap a few photos of boxes before I gave them to her {I always forget} Here’s the only one I remembered, this was Tuesday’s box! Let me know if these photos are helpful to you and I can try to be more intentional about taking them and including them in my post!

See all items that rotate through our boxes here!

See our Simplifying Sensory Play post here!

All the Rest

We are currently reviewing the Bible based version of Integrity Time and started back at Letter A is for Attitude! I am absolutely in love with the Bible version {full review coming in April}!

She colored our verse and really enjoyed the Jesus puppet. After she colored her verse, she told me, she drew herself "calling to God." Then she told me she drew herself again next to God because "He told me to come to Him, so I went." The entire lesson was wonderful and both Krash and Lbug were engaged. I shared this on my Facebook page recently here!

She got two sets of Duplo blocks for Christmas and loves them! She asks for her new bin a lot. This day she was putting the ABC set in alphabetical order!