Tropics in winter

Wowzers.... I need to get caught up.

So this week we finished our tropics in the winter theme. Talking about rainforest and the animals .

 

Monkeys 🐒 are one of the animals that live in the upper part of the rain forest. 

We learned that some of  them have prehensile tails. They can swing from one branch to the other. 

Monkeys eat fruit , leaves , insects , spiders and eggs and flowers . So a wide variety. 

We made Monkeying around Monkey's . The kids decided to act like a monkey and slither like a snake.

 

The February math game was pick a card and move the animal to the finish.

 

You will also find jungle animals like Jaguar , leopards and other types of jungle cats. 

 These are our Deep in our the jungle pictures. 

The letter Q and feelings

So I am farther behind than I thought. 

Last week we finished our theme on feelings. 

 

Our Q is for quarter pictures . 

 

Jenna was playing with the feelings game. We turn over the cards and look at the face and see what the feeling is. The kids got most of them... surprised and proud were tricky ones. 

 

 We made a feelings chart. I love the way each face looks. So different in their own way. 

Curriculum worksheets come in the kit every month and they relate to the themes of the month. 

Amelia was busy learning about the number 14. 

 

Finally over it ....

So I am way behind in blogging. The stomach bug hit our house bad and I had less children , I had to take a day and half off.... We are all feeling better and now I need to catch up. 

We started our unit of  tropics in the winter. 

All about the rain forest and the animals of the rainforest.

 

These are the cute vines that we made. We talked about how vines grow in the rainforest and they can be really long. 

 This book came in the Funshine curriculum this month. It's all about the different layers of the rainforest. I had no idea there were actual layers. 

I learn as well when I teach. I have learned more through Funshine express than anywhere else. 

 

The Macaw is such a pretty and we talked about only finding it in the rain forest or maybe at the zoo. They are a tropical bird and need the trees and rain. 

We made a cute macaw of our own. However , the kids decided to leave it plain and use markers instead of paint....

Still cute though 

I love my body and P is for Peacock.

This week P was introduced.  "P" is for peacock and pencil and penguin and pig. 🐷

For creative art we did "P" is for Peacock picture. 

Peacock is an animal that may not be familiar to some kids so before we started ,we looked at some real pictures of peacocks and a video on how they spread their feathers. 

 

One ruin about Funshine express curriculum that I have not mentioned much about is the objectives and goals that each activity developes and focuses on. 

For example the objectives for this activity 

Art , A1 shows creativity, flexibility and inventiveness in play experiences . 

Fine motor PD4  begins to control use of writing , drawing  ,art tools and art/crafts mediums 

Emergent reading L18 demonstrates alphabetic knowledge:can recite the alphabet, names ,own name,recognized and names most letters. 

Emergent writing L25 demonstrates age appropriate writing: tracing ,copying letters and numbers , copying shapes and symbols.

 This comes in handy when you need to know what skill we need to work on, where they should be.

It is all outlined on a sheet that comes in the curriculum book. 

 

With the theme Feeling Fantastic , we talk about how we can take care of our bodies and love our bodies. 

Eating vegetables and fruits 🍉, exercising were the things that we thought of. 

We made a I love my body necklace.

We need to teach children from an early age to live their bodies. 

We identified each part of the cutout person. The kids placed a heart sticker to place on the person. It represents love ❤️ and we need to keep our heart healthy to live a long time.

 

 

Feelings and valentine hugs

 

We started our new theme about feelings. We have enjoyed everyday making new faces for feelings. 

The first activity on the Funshine express curriculum was to make smiley face headbands. 

I told the kids to make their smile super big. 

 

To prepare for Valentine's Day, we made Valentine day hugs to send to somebody special. It was good fine motor practice to fold the paper like a fan. It took a few tries, but they got it. 

We have a lot of hearts and the letter p to learn.