Spring

Spring has finally arrived and  here to stay I hope.

We have been doing a lot of spring activities with funshines express curriculum. 

We made these chick pictures using muffin liners and the worm is down and the bottom. 

 

The shape of the month is an oval, and one of the activities was to make a chic using the oval shapes from what curriculum. 

 Barrett and Amelia put on a pretty cute puppet using them.

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There are letters of week that we go over every Monday and yesterday's was "W" is for work. They enjoyed placing their worms wherever.

 We will continue our unit on spring and move right into  our next. 

School. 

The letter V and yard pulling

Yesterday we started our new theme Egg-citing Changes.

The letter V is the letter for the 1st 2 weeks.  We placed Vegetables on the letter V.
 
 

Something else I have not mentioned about the curriculum is in each theme there is collection checklist. For each day it lists the supplies you need and what area. This helps when I  close ton supples and getting ready for the week. It also gives you time to get them if you do not already have them. 

 

Last week we made fun yard pulling art. We put a peice of yarn on paint and closed the paper , then pulled the yarn all around.

Once the kids understood what it was, they had fun pulling the yarn every which direction. 

Pirates etc....

We are on our last week of sail away and will move onto April themes. This year flew by. 

During circle time we talked about why pirates like to find gold coins in buried treasures. 

We did some coin rubbings. The girls thought it was really cool to see the coin come on paper. We did all different shapes. 

 

Lighthouses are also part of the curriculum talk. I am not sure I have ever seen a real lighthouse myself, but we looked up all kinds of lighthouses. 

 

During free choice time the girls decided to make a ship and the barbies would float on it. Oh the conversations that were going on were great!

  

The girls really liked these treasure boxes that they made. They knew the gold paper was good because it was gold. They had a lot of fun playing with the pirate that was with the treasure . 

Sailing away cont...

 

In the funshine  express curriculum word wall words come with each theme.  These are the words for the sail away theme. 

 

This book is the book of the of the month. It gives different ways to sing Row Row Row your boat with different words. The kids really like this one. 

 

Barrett and Lydia are playing the game that came with the curriculum. The choose cards that make the picture of the boat and finish the puzzle. 

 

This is a sailboat puzzle. I got out the shapes and then the kids match them up to make the sailboat. 

St Patrick's day and sail away.

 

Sailing away is the next theme we are going to talk about. We used blue paper and cut waves and then added sea stickers. 

 

For st. Patrick's day we made these cute lebercahn hat. I had one child say it looks light house. Well , it kinda does. It was for the kids to visualize that they were hats. We looked up a hat on a lebracahn.

 

One activity was to make sail boats. We used styrofoam bowls , craft sticks. We played them in water . I love how the girls put in the little people to ride in them. Check out the video on my Facebook page.

 

With every monthly curriculum a nursery rhyme comes in it and it has to do with the theme. I had no idea there were so many nursery rhymes that coordinate with the themes. We talked about the two sea's see's. I think they got it. 

We will continue with sailing away next week. 

Wacky weeks

 

Well so many obstacles have been in the way of posting. First stomach bug and then my phone crashing and losing ALL my pictures. So I have to start over . So hopefully I can get consistent again.

Today we continued with wacky weeks and learning about the Letter T. 

We made a Tree for the letter T. 

We went around the room looking for items that may start with the letter T. 

 

Practice sheets come in the curriculum every month. They have them for the letters , shapes , and colors. Amelia is practicing tracing the letter T and coloring the items that start with T.

Science is always an activity that is daily, however we do not do it everyday. Depending on the activity. 

Today was the difference between Fizz and foam. 

For the fix activity we observed flavored water going into the glass and listening I the bubbles fizz. The girls thought it was so cool. 

Click on the link to see it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ep7NxVJkGg&feature=share

Snake on a stick and funny shape match

 

The kids loved these snakes on a stick. They were an activity from our last theme of  tropics in the winter and rainforest animals.

 

This was a fun activity to match shapes and textures. 

 The Funshine theme for this week is wacky weeks. 

We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday by ready one of his famous books and playing a tic tac game with fish. 

We also introduced Carson the The clever Crocodile . 

We talked about that clever means intelligent in a creative way.  We talked about having an imagination and how to use when playing with things .

 

We will be silly this week with lots of silly activities.