Legos, and Monsters, and Pumpkins Oh My!

Every day Peyton goes through about twice as many activities as I thought he would accomplish, so I haven't had much time to get ahead of him and plan things. Fortunately, going with the flow always seems to end in some great lessons, too.

The greater-than-less-than monster.

We made this monster together with me giving him the shapes and Peyton gluing them together. Then we played with piles of candy and Peyton turned the monster toward the bigger pile. We don't usually have this much candy on hand, but we went to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party a few weeks ago and came home with more than we will ever figure out what to do with.

Pumpkin matching game

I cut out all the pieces for this, then drew the three little square cards. Peyton made pumpkin face to match what was on the cards.

Practicing our numbers

Worksheet time!

Peyton loves these worksheets so we do three or four a day. While he was practicing his blue squares, Jack was making some blue doodles as well.

Jack is fascinated with these lacing shapes.

Lego counting

This was really simple to make and kept us busy for quite awhile. First he built towers that matched the numbers written on the sheet (we had to do one row at a time because we didn't have enough Legos otherwise.) Then I built little towers and had him place them in the right square. 

Peeking through the "P"

Since we had the Duplos out, naturally Peyton got creative. He came up with this all on his own, then we spent some time seeing what other letters we could make with the Duplos. He asked me to take this picture and was thrilled that his eye was showing through the P just like he wanted.