Miss Bonnie Lady

A few weeks ago, Kash studied the letter "H" and learned about horses.  Now this whole "lesson plan" thing is very often a flop.  If I don't incorporate the right activities or we don't get a book that interests him he won't remember anything I teach him.  But apparently everything lined up that week because when Blaine came home Monday from work and asked Kash what he learned about Kash was able to tell him what letter horse started with and that their feet were called hooves and their noses were called muzzles.  I couldn't believe, usually it takes him till Wednesday or Thursday to remember those kind of facts.

Since he was taking such an interest I figured we should capitalize on this learning experience and take him to see some real life horses!  The only problem was I didn't know of any.  Thank you Google.  I found a ranch about 30 minutes away that was willing to give us a free tour.

Once we got there this crazy lady named Star walked us around and right away pulled out a little pony for Kash to ride.  RIDE???  Awesome, I figured we would just see most of the horses from a far and if we were lucky maybe be able to pet one.  Kash was VERY excited at the thought of riding this little pony, Bonnie.  He could hardly stand the anticipation as Star saddled her up.  And Blaine and I could hardly stand Star!  She was a character, to say the least.  She sometimes spoke in a British accent and would walk around saying things like, "Ooohhh excuse me Miss Bonnie Lady.  Ohhh THANK YOU Miss Bonnie Lady (Bonnie hadn't done anything worth thanking)."  Just picture Mrs. Doubtfire on the farm, it was entertaining.  Our family, including Kash, can't stop immitating Star.  I'll be driving and Kash will say, "Ohhh thank you Miss Bonnie Lady" haha!

A million minutes later Kash finally got take the reins for a little stroll.  HE. LOVED. IT.  Star was actually asked us if he had ever been around horses or rode on one before because he was loving it so much and he said most kids his age are scared (his Uncle Jason would have been proud!).  She was also impressed that he knew what the different body parts were and how well behaved Kash was.  Yes, way to save your melt downs for another day and make us look like good parents Kash!

It was a really cool experience and everyone that was there told us we need to get him out on the farm more because he was loving all of the animals around.  Well for now he's going to stay a "city" boy but it will be fun to visit the ranch from time to time. 

Star and Miss Bonnie

First horse ride!!!

getting some more practice inside

lesson plans: P is for Pinterest

Since staying home with Kash I quickly learned that we needed some structure in our days, because even though Toy Story is a great movie it should never be viewed more than 50 times!

I wanted to have some sort of curriculum/lesson plan/theme for each week.  And it's really a very simple "curriculum" that we have each week, but I think he's learning a little bit...of something...I hope, and if nothing else it gives us fun activities to do each day.  If we are going to the zoo or museum that week I will try and pick a letter and a corresponding animal that we can talk and learn about or it may just be at random.  And on Mondays we always go to the library and pick out a few books that relate to the weekly theme.

Easter being this Sunday I wanted to have that be our theme for the week.  Even though we had already focused on the letter "E" (for elephant) I figured it couldn't hurt a two year old to have a little repetition in his life.

So this week "E" is for Easter or Egg or whatever else we come up with during our days that has the letter "E" in it and relates to the holiday.  And thanks to Pinterest for this sweet little craft.

Kash thought this was a really cool craft! 

And I think we might just add these to the list of activities to do this week courtesy of Pinterest:

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