Dragon shakers

As the end of the year approaches, I always observe the children getting the routine down pat and just blooming from the first day of school. They are sitting longer for circle time and getting into creative arts more. 

I just get giddy seeing the littles grow out of the toddler stage and into little people.

Soooo... We have had a  super fun time learning about castles and kings. 

We made these really cute dragon shakers. We used markers in a wet coffee filter and observed the difference between wet and dry markers.

After they were completed, we danced to to a dragon song that was on  the Funshine curriuculm cd. We danced over and over to it. 

I made finger paint and glitter sensory bags.

Of course the idea came from Funshine express. 

The kids really enjoyed manipulating these.

One of the books that came with the curriculum was Big box for Ben. 

It is about a boy who received a big box and used his imagination to pretend it was different things.

The kids really enjoyed this book. The more I read it,the more they remembered what things he made from it.

We built with different size boxes and they pretended each one was one of the items in the book. How cool is that?

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Next week we will be exploring colder weather with its getting colder, however its not real cold here yet,but it will prepare us for when it does.