Let it rain

Let it rain is for sure a great topic to talk about. It has rained the last 2 days and the weather chart had not changed from rainy.

Funshine express is really good at picking theme that go perfect with the seasons.

 

The past couple days we have worked hard on our raining flowers pictures.

Day 1 we drew blue circles for rain drops.

Day 2 we added the raindrops and flowers and grass. 

It is amazing what children soak up.

I asked them if they remember what the blue dots are and why we used a blue crayon.

They all knew it was raindrops and water is blue.

 

It has been pretty raining and gloomy so we all did a sunshine dance today.

 

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Bee dance and honeycombs

We have focused on bees a lot.

We have been having fun flying like bees. 

We have used yellow and black crayons and made all kinds of bees and honeycombs. 

This book was on the book list in the curriuculm.  After we read this, we made cute bee headbands and did the 

bee dance.

I wanted them to pose with headbands and this is as good as I could get! 

Since bees live in a honeycomb, I thought it was fitting to glue honeycomb cereal in paper and then have it for snack. It was a hit!

Birds and bees cont....

We have been enjoying the birds and bee theme. We just finished up birds and will continue with bees.

In my deck every year a robin makes her nest and one day we will notice eggs. This nest is from last year and it fell apart when I grabbed it, but we observed what the robins use to make their nest, how many eggs can fit in the nest. 

It is amazing how it all comes together.

Every day I let one of the kids choose snack and this day a friend picked fruity o's because they looked like bird nests. 

Well they certaintly do!

Another game that  came with curiculum was this hatching game. 

This game was fun and the kids loved singing the song and turning the eggs over. 

Birds and bees

What perfect timing for this theme. Bees are slowly finding their way out and we are noticing more and more birds everywhere. Yay!!

We discovered that birds and bees both have wings and both come back when it starts to warm up.

Thanks to Funshine for providing the Robin vocabulary word, the kids knew exactly what to look for.

We learned that every Robin has an orange belly and if they find an orange feather on the ground, that is probably came from a robin.

This is one of the books that came in the curriculum. 

I read a book over and over again and by the end of the week I can ask what comes next or tell me about the picture and they know exactly what happens next. 

One of the creative art activities was making a Rock -a-bye Robin prop. 

The kids stood them on the rounded edge and they can rock them .

We sang this song to go with it. 

Sung to "Rock a bye baby

Rock a bye Robin with an orange breast

You've had a long day; it's time for a rest.

You hopped in the grass and flew through the sky. 

And now it it time to go rock a bye.

Everyday the kids stand on the window sill and look for Robins. They get so excited every time they see one! 

Hatching eggs

We are excited to be back from spring break. We are still learning about bunnies and chicks.

One of the activities that Funshine had listed in the curriculum guide was hatching eggs. 

All the supplies came with the curriuculm and all I needed was glue and crayons. 



One of the colors we are learning is blue and the shape is oval. I provided blue water beads(which are great for sensory) and plastic eggs. The kids enjoyed outing and scooping.

Part of Funshines curriuculm is to learn opposite words. 

I always try to get creative when teaching the opposites. I decided to get the tunnel out and practice going in and out. Every time they crawled in, I said "in" . I did the same thing with out.

After a few times, I heard "I am going in" 

I would always follow with the opposite word.

We have been enjoying learning about hatching and ovals. When we go outside, we always go for an oval hunt.

Come back later in the week to see more fun chicks and bunnies activities.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

Hope everybody is enjoying their Easter! 

The shape for the month is oval . We made these cute oval spring wreaths.

The stickers cute bunnies and chicks. It goes perfect with our theme.

We will continue our chicks and bunny theme. We plan on looking at all the birds that are coming back and the changes that happen in the spring.

Bunnies and chicks

The kiddos were busy making bunny and spring things last week. We are enjoying spring break this week, but we disk lots of work last week.

In preparation for Easter , we made jumping bunnies. 

We stuffed white paper bags with news paper .

 We put glue on the the bunnies and glued them on the bag. 

We folded  Peices of fabric paper into bows. Added elastic for the bouncing.

Funshine included a cute game. 

There was a cute song we sang when we played it. 

Sung to the tune of "ten little Indians"

One little, two little hungry bunnies.

Three little, four little hungry bunnies.

What can we feed the hungry bunnies.

Give this bunny a crunchy carrot.

Give that bunny a crunchy carrot.

Another one wants a crunchy carrot.

This bunny wants one, too. 

The kids had a so much fun feeding the bunnies.