Making Dinner Prep Easier

Whether you are a busy working mom, or you are at home all day long, getting dinner ready can be a very stressful time of day. Here are some ideas to cut down on stress and make it easier to enjoy your family meal each day.

1.        Have as much of your dinner prep done before hand as possible (the night before , during nap time, or in the morning)

2.      Have special activities that the kids can do only when you are making dinner.

·         Special coloring activities

·         Special books – Leap Frog Tag

·         Special toys

3.      Set up a meal swap with a few friends. (Details to come about this one :) )

4.      Double your meals and put one in the freezer for another day.

5.      Cut onions the night before or when you are prepping another meal and bag them. Then when you put your meal together in the morning you don’t go to work smelling like onions.

6.     Get older children involve (they can help with simple prep or setting the table.)

Well, sorry I haven't posted in weeks. I learned that it took me way too long to find papers the way I was. I spent 3-4 hours a week and that was for the first time through a lot of the material I was covering. So we ended up buying a book. I'll post a link to the workbook later. I really like it. But this blog will be dedicated to ideas for Busy Moms with Busy Kids. At Upper Bucks Christian School and Day Care we are starting a Moms 2 Moms group. This blog is especially for M2M, but I hope in the mean time that it will benifit ladies all around the country as well!

Preschool Week 2

 Another week is here. Here is the lesson plan, and  the different pages to use. Any pages you don't see are out of the book I told you about in lesson 1.

Find the B's
Balloon Page
Bee Page
Starfall B Page
Letter B
Mini Book page 1
Mini Book page 2

Counting worksheet - I just change the 7 to a 3
Groups of 3&4 Worksheet - having trouble getting it up. I'll update when I get it worked out.

Tower of Triangles
Learning Express 3
Learning Express 4
Learning Express 5
Triangle Fish

Education.com Red Book
Worksheet Universe Red Page
Education.com Red Page
Ladybug Coloring Page
Education.com Fireman

Kids Learning Long and Short Page
A Kids Heart Long and Short Page
Teaching Ideas Long and Short Page

This Week

Sorry there was no lessons for this week. All we have done is review because of only having one class. Tuesday we had a great time at the park with Moms & Tots!

Next week's lessons to come out shortly!

Preschool Week 1

Today we had our first day of Preschool! The kids did great. For those of you who would like to cover the material we are learning - here it is. I'll post the next week's work, at the end of the week before. (Thursday or Friday, hopefully before Saturday :) We covered the material in 2 hours but added play time, games, snack and waiting on eachother.
Hope this is a help to you.

This week the 4 yearolds will be working on the following skills:

• Letters ~ Aa
• Numbers ~ 0, 1, and 2
• Shapes ~ Triangle
• Colors ~ Red
• Pre-Math Skills ~ Comparing Sizes
• Fine Motor Skills ~ Various
• Story ~ The Apple Pie Tree and Alligator Shoes***
• Bible ~  Cubbies start on Wednesday - Cubbie Motto and Key Verse  We are using Bible time to work with what our children are already doing in AWANAS at our church on Wednesday Night. If you live in the Sellersville, PA area and would like more information  feel free to contact Bethel Baptist Church.

***For a story, you could either focus on the story each day and also read another or find other stories with the same theme for other days, I will do the same story for our learning time and read another story to my children at nap time.

See this week's lesson plan and activities.
Below are the worksheets that coordinate with each lesson. Worksheets that have page numbers came out of Preschool Skills

A:
Letter A
Mini book page 1
Mini book page 2
Find Capital A

0,1,2:
0 Handwriting Page

Counting 1 Page
Counting 2 Page

Triangles:
Cutting Triangles
Triangle Boat Picture
Triangle Itsy Bitsy Book

Red:
Red Picture Worksheet
Kid Zone Red Page
Red Itsy Bitsy Book

Compare Size:
Comparing Size Practice Activity
Small Worksheet
Big Worksheet

Fine Motor:
Cutting Practice Sheet
Sample Name Sheet - For those of you who are in our Preschool group, let me know if you would like a link to your child's name, please let me know.