Well, this has been a tough week for my family. Today, we lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer. My cousin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
just a few months ago and was ready to fight hard. But her battle with cancer
was short lived and God called her home this morning.
She was a very vibrant
woman, so full of life and always laughing and smiling… and making others laugh
and smile. She was truly a ray of sunshine in the lives of all of us. Today
though, the Lord needed her more than we did and she went home. She is now pain
free, living as an Angel in Heaven along with my beloved father and other
family members who have gone before us.
It is times like these when I am
reminded to cherish life and remember that God has a plan for all of us and tomorrow
is promised to no one.
We should all remember to:
Live, Love and Laugh as often as possible.
On a lighter note, I live what I love everyday: Teaching!
Learning about Ocean Animals has my little munchkin excited! I was
so proud when I heard her telling my husband all about the octopus book we read and
the dolphin toys she played with! =)
See? Learning is fun! And I am soooo glad that she is so excited
about Ocean Animals!
We started our week by reading books about Ocean Animals and she
eagerly looked at the pictures in the books and wanted to know all about the
animals.
Then we created a little chart/word wall of her favorite ocean
animals. (I had about 12 different animals cards but I was only able to fit a
few in my little pocket chart!) No worries though b/c she chose her favorites
and put them in the pocket chart herself!
When I put out ocean animal toys, she found each animal and
excitedly matched it to the word wall.
We did some more scissor work as well this week and used the same kind of ctivity that
we have done before in another theme. And she is working well with the kid
scissors…no more toddler scissors for her!
She loves the paper puzzles that I use from different theme packs
made my other blogger mommies.
The puzzles shown here (as well as the Word Wall cards) came from this Ocean Theme Pack from
3Dinosaurs.com
We worked on some Math skills as a well as I photocopied my
fellow octopus pal again (this time with his tentacles) and labeled each leg/tentacle with a number and had her match the
numbers on the legs/tentacles to the numbers on the octopus. body.
She is so very proud of her work!!
