Preschool Days with Ella

Another happy customer as Ella taught Hattie how to make valentine's day cards for her friends.

I love that she is learning how to be creative and how to show love to others. It's so easy to get lost in this "me" culture...and I want to instill in all my kids a love for showing kindness to others.

Hattie had a blast and her cards turned out really cute.

Proud of both my "babies"...the first and the last.

Preschool Days with Ella

Another school day for Hattie. Today she was learning about the letter "I"...so Ella made some gloop...because it felt "icky". I'm not sure Hattie agrees as I think she thinks it's great now that she's gotten to play around with it. :)

At least Ella had the idea of using a plastic "glove" so it wouldn't turn her hand purple. :)

"Ick"

I can see we have a little work to do on how she holds that marker.

Preschool Days with Ella

A few more pics of things that Ella has done with Hattie.

I'm thinking that next year she can teach her baby sister to read. ;)

 Practicing her letters

Book making (She loves making books!!) 

Learning about the Pioneers

Learning how big the world is.

Preschool Days with Ella

Preschool Days with Ella.

They rock.

Hattie looks forward to them every day.

She loves school and Ella makes it a lot of fun. I had a mom-friend tell me that I should put Ella in charge of Hattie's school this year. So I did what any good homeschooling teacher would do and adopted the idea.

I know, I know...at first glance you may thing I'm being completely lazy and shoving my teaching duties onto my 12 year old...at least that's what I thought I would be doing. Until I thought about all the benefits Ella would get out of putting lessons plans together, being creative, honing in on her teaching skills, learning patience, and above all fostering her relationship with her littlest sister.

Although we don't do preschool everyday, they both look forward to it every chance they get.

Today, in celebration of surviving frigid temps over the weekend (we were colder than the north pole, I kid you not...-40+ wind chills and -22 plain ol' temperature), the girls made snowmen...

...and maybe sampling some too....