Teaching Sign Language

As you may know my husband is deaf. I have been trying to think of a way to teach the girls nanny and for other people to teach their children sign. Today when clean Girlygirl's room it hit me. When I saw Sesame Street learning cards I knew how to teach sign. I can use the cards to to teach the signs for the words. They are great because they are things you do everyday. So not only working with the cards but when you do everyday things you can sign to your child. Girlygril is only 23 months and has more signs than I can count. If you are worried about using sign because your child will talk late (although true for Girlygirl) that is not true. Girlygirl now can say as much as my friends kids but she signs different words too. So able to tell me much more. If you don't know sign I found a great site more for kids but the best I have found yet. The best of luck to you. Sign is a great way to "talk" with you young child.

You can do it

Tonight I was watching a movie about a fat girl who got voted prom queen. At one point in the movie the mom of the fat girl said to her daughter "You didn't need me to protect you; you just need me to support you." Now that is something to think about for any parent to think of. No matter what your child needs you to be there to say you can do it and how can I help. Your little one learning to walk, talk and play. Doesn't need you to say don't do that it is not safe but here let me help you learn how to do it safe. If you child wants to slide help him learn how to clam up. Don't do it for him just help him learn to do it. You may think it is too hard for your little one but don't stop them be there to pick them up when they fall. As you child grows the support moves to things like school and friends. You will not be able to keep them from being hurt or having a hard times. You can be there to help them with what they are trying to do and teach them what they want to learn. Your child may want read a book that is too hard but don't stop them be there to help with the words they don't know. Or maybe they need to learn something that is hard for them don't just not teach it help them push through it. No matter what our job as parents are to teach our children what they need when they grow up. Remember they need to fall to know they are okay when they get up. Hey you maybe shocked how well they do.

Illinois Museum

Today I  have been looking for more stuff to do. I found this great web site that list Museum all over the state of Illinois. I just wanted to save it. 

Back

Sorry for the long break. I have had a crazy life. My basement flooded and we have not been able to stay at our house. I am back now and hope if there are any readers out there they haven't left.

Why I want to adopt

I guess you could say I have always wanted to adopt a child from the states. I young child waiting for a family.  I know that there are so many children here waiting for a family. I want to be able to do that.  I remember telling Sweetdude that if he didn't think you could ever adopt then we maybe shouldn't get married. He was shocked by my words but knew it must mean something to me.  I am not sure why now I feel is the time to start looking for the child God has planned for me to have from day one but I do. I haven't yet talk to Sweetdude about the timing in which it will happen but I know it is not too far off until we start everything. If that mean it is a month or a year so something else I am not sure. I know it is in God's hands and he know what will happen next. I can't wait to see the next step.

Letter B

Yesterday and today we work on some letter b stuff. Five is loving making the book.  We having been doing most of the stuff while Girlygirl is napping. She does join us for some of it.  Yesterday Five made a butterfly and did her B work sheet. Today I don't have pictures to add.  Five made a Bobby B because she likes to make the letter people. Both girls glued buttons on to a B shape. I wrote on them B is for buttons. They also both made a Big Bird. I flattened them to add to the notebooks. I don't have my camera with me but I will add pictures soon.

Wanting More Kids

I really want more children. I can have more but I am going to start looking into foster care. I have always had a heart for it and I can't wait to start. I am going to start reading more about what I have to do. So because this blog is about what I am learning I will be sharing it here with all of you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Letter A

Today we worked on the letter A to add to our notebooks. We made four things. The first was this Angie the letter a person Five's is above on the left at the bottom. I just printed to pattern and let the girls color them while I got ready the stuff to paint with apples. To get ready I put paint on paper plates and cut an apple in half. (I cut it in the mild not from top to bottom then I could show Five and Girlygirl the star in an apple) They then painting with the apples. Five made two and Girlygirl did on with my help.  Five also glued apple seeds to a cut out of the letter A and did a letter a work sheet. I was planning to do it all week but both girls wanted to do more. We will see how the next letters go.

(Child's Name) Hunt Game

Tonight I was baby sitting again. I offten baby sit on nights and weekends to get extar money. Anyways back to my story. The kids where both preschool age and had just learned The Bear Hunt song. They loved it. They wanted to play a new game. So I came up with (Child's Name) Hunt ie: Franki Hunt. I had them take turns hiding in their rooms (so we knew where to go.) While signing The bear hunt song replacing the word bear with the child's name we started in the kitchen and went around the house making up what thing where and how we get around it. The hall was a river we had to swing a cross. A rug was mud. The table was a road we had to go under. I let the kids come up with stuff and they didn't follow the song. When we got to the room/cave we would run back to the kitchen the same way we came trying not to get taged my the kid who was the bear. We had great fun and you may too.

Homeschool Preschool: Alphabet Crafts

Today I went to library to find some books for our alphabet notebooks. I found two great books with art for each letter. They are both by Kathy Ross. One is call Letter Shapes. In it the take the shape of each letter and make into something that starts with that letter. In the other called Letter Sounds has one smiple craft for each letter of the alphabet. We will be starting with the letter a next week. I can't wait. I will show you what we do.

Letter Hunt

Here is another great alphabet game called Letter Hunt. Use your Abc's in a Bag bag for this game or make one. Have the child(ren) pick out one letter tell each child to find something in the house that starts with that letter. You can have the child tell you what the found, draw it, and/or bring it to.