18. A is for Alligator Preschool craft

Friday! Preschool day!!!! And how I love to unpin the preschool stuff. I do have three different pins for one project ----- No, I'm not trying to cheat (this time)

So let me explain:

Here is the first pin that I pinned. I think I picked it because it was a little bit different than what I had done before. (pinned two days ago)


However, at the last minute (i.e. this morning right before Little Miss Thunder arrived) I decided I did not have time to cut out individual squares and went with this project I had done before with the A template I already had [done before?!!!! that is CHEATING ----- wait, wait - hold on there is more]


This worked out pretty well but I did use something I had found on pinterest - just take a white strip, draw touching diagonal lines (so that it looks like triangles) and have THE CHILD cut it out! And, with lots of help, but also some on her own, Little Miss Thunder cut out several "teeth". Magnificent Blessing from Heaven #5 just made cuts on the white strip for the most part, BUT! it's the process not the product!

So we also read books. I have found in the past that I have a hard time working in the books - but this week and last week, I did a pretty good job. And since I didn't find a pin for these books, I'll just put them in this post. Because it's preschool. And I love it.

At the library I found a book called Alligator's Toothache by Diane DeGroat.

It is a pure picture book, with no words. I sometimes really like that in a book so we can go as fast or slow as we need to go.

We also "read" An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni. Leo Lionni is an impeccable illustrator. His stories are also quite excellent - and can be very deep. Sometimes almost too deep for very young children. So I almost treated it the same as the pure picture book - just talking about each picture. Because, really, you just can't say you've read children's picture books until you've picked up a Leo Lionni book.