Rescue Theme Party

Isaiah’s 1^st Birthday – Rescue Theme
Decorations: red, blue, & yellow (streamers, tablecloths, plates…), yellow streamer is a police line, rescue kid toys, caution tape with a sign that says “welcome to headquarters”.

Entertainment: Obstacle Course—

Station 1: Put out a fire! Box painted to look like a house with a yellow roof, cut out windows/door, flowers ... The bottom was painted with red, yellow and orange paint to look like it was on fire. On the window I placed red/orange plastic cups upside down to be pretend fire.  For this drill you have to shoot down the cups with a super soaker water gun. Prize: Fire hats. “Stop, Drop and Roll” over to Station 2: There has been a TERRIBLE accident! All of the Little People got stuck in a ball pit! Call 911, put your police gear on, and crawl through the tunnel to save them! Tunnel is a toy tunnel connected to a tent. Prize: Police Badge. Station 3: Some animals are stuck in a tree! Can you help get them down and make sure they are okay with your doctor gear? Animals are some of the kids stuffed animals. Prize: Rescue Stickers.

Piñata—Fire Truck

  Station Helper Directions:

Station 1: Put out a fire! For this drill you have to shoot down the “fire” (orange/red cups) with your “fire hose” (a super soaker water gun). Replace cups after each turn. Prize: Fire hats. “Stop, Drop and Roll” over to Station 2!

Station 2: There has been a TERRIBLE accident! All of the Little People got stuck in a ball pit! Call 911, put your police gear on, and crawl through the tunnel to save them! Prize: Police Badge. Say “wooo wooo wooo” over to Station 3!

Station 3: Some animals are stuck in a tree! Can you help get them down and make sure they are okay with your doctor/ambulance gear? Prize: Rescue Stickers. (This is their last station.)

I also prearranged to go to the fire-station, which was connected to the park, and had a tour.

Food: Fire truck cake and snack food. Graham cracker band-aids. Water bottles & juice boxes.

Goodie bags: Pass out at beginning of obstacle course with police/firefighter toy guy inside. Have kids put their prizes and candy from piñata inside.

Daily Schedule

 For my two year old who has been throwing fits all day for several months, I made a picture chart with our daily schedule. The structure is helping him a lot! The pictures make it easier for him and his brother to know what's coming next.

We have also made a mandatory "quiet time" where the kids have to be in their beds and be quiet for 30 minutes (I set a timer so they know at some point the time WILL end). I give them a small box with books, puzzles, and little toys in it that they can play with. These boxes are put away and they are only allowed to play with them during quiet time.

Fire Truck Cake

Donut wheels, Jolly Rancher siren, cake was red velvet, ... 

 ... buttercream frosting, MM fondant for details, ...

Number 12

 We did one tracing page for number 12 this week, 12 stickers were added to our sticker book, and our LOTW corresponded with our number as we counted out 12 Ladybugs on our Leaf with play-doh.

Purple

 Purple word practice, Cabbage is purple (veggie book), Grapes are purple (fruit book), things that are PURPLE, purple paint book, ice cream scoop, caterpillar purple circle:

Letter Ll

 L for lion craft: cut out center of paper plate and glue curled strips of paper to rim.

 Letter L toy hunt: find toys that start with letter of the week! Lemon, lips, lion, luggage, & Lightening Mcqueen!

 Play-doh fun with our LOTW! Stamp the letter & make a ladybug leaf.

 L for leaf:

 Letter hunt, L book with Ll words, Ladybug heart:

 L for leaf tracer, L and l tracer, Ll worksheet, words that start with Ll worksheet, Zoophonics Lizzy Lizard:

Scripture Organization Box

 Here's a way to go over verses and memorize them on your own or with your family (through homeschooling or otherwise). In a 3X5 index card holder label the following on some index cards: Daily, Odd, Even, Days of the Week (Monday--Sunday), and the numbers 1-31. You won't start off with a verse in every spot, but you would eventually read at least four verses every day.  You would read one verse from the "Daily" tab, one from the "Odd/Even" category (depending on if it's an odd or even numbered day: March 2nd is even, March 3rd is odd), another verse from the "Day of Week", and one from the "Number of the Month". When you feel ready with the verse, you move it further in box. The closer to the front, the more often you will be reading it. 

I wrote my verses on index cards and started sticking them in my tabs and I was excited about this new structure, but I will say with my three little ones I was forgetting to bring my box out every day. I am planning on holding onto my Scripture box and do this when we are more consistent with homeschooling. For now, I have taped verses around the house to read to the kids when we a near them--we have several near time-out. I hope you find this helpful and inspiring though!

Heart

 Heart Play-Doh time with our heart mat & cookie cutters.

 Hearts made from the boys' hand prints.

 Heart tracing & shapes also enforced at our HGO.

Shapes HGO

 We start off with some shape sorting toys while we wait for the other mommies to arrive, but it turns out everyone's sick, so we start sorting our circle shapes onto the matching color plate.

 Alison talks to the boys about some shape matching on worksheets. The boys were really wild and did not want to sit and do work, but we encouraged them to listen even if they don't feel like it. (So I guess they learned about shapes and some behavioral stuff too this day...I originally didn't want to homeschool my kids because of issues like this, but the behavioral stuff is soooo much more important than shapes! We have a long way to go, but I love this process of shaping my boys' hearts.)

Alison has a cool shapes poster hanging from the chalkboard. She goes through all the shapes with the pointer and has the kids repeat the shape back to her. Then she points to a shape and has them say what it is. Then she says, "who can find the triangle?" and if they are sitting nice, raising their hand, they get to use the pointer and show her. 

 She read a book called Mouse Shapes and the boys ate rectangle crackers and circle blueberries.

 Alison had made cut outs of the shapes and put them in a little baggie for each child. As Alison called out a shape, the child looked in the baggie to find it, and raised it up into the air to show her. Each time they got more food...hehe.

 We walked down to the park and painted with shape cookie cutters. It worked really well and they were excited to pour glitter over their shapes when they finished.

 Lastly, we played this really fun running game. The kids stood at one end with cones and at the other end was more cones and a bunch more shapes cut out. Alison would blow her whistle and call out a shape. The kids would run to the other end and find the shape she had called, holding it up into the air. They would put it back down and she would blow the whistle again for them to run back to the starting point. They did this for about 20-30 min!