Our book today was "How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?" by Jane Yolen and
Mark Teague. We also sang the "Lion Hunt" before we made our
Valentine's Day Heart Strings craft. We made our craft with recycled tp rolls,
red paint, string and beads. Aren't they fabulous! They will make great
window decorations year-round:)
Today we made Valentine's Hearts using markers, coffee filters, construction paper, glitter, stamps and sequins. First we used markers to make designs on our coffee filters, then we sprayed water on them to make the colors bleed together! Next step was to dry the filters with a hair dryer. While we waited for the coffee filter to be really really dry we cut out the heart border from the construction paper. Once that was finished, we glued the parts together and decorated it with the extras:) They turned out beautiful and will make wonderful Valentines! Our book today was "How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?" by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague.
We made Sparkly Snowflakes at Mommy and Me this week! First we read a wonderful children's book "Snow Sounds" by David Johnson and sang the Lion Hunt song. Then we talked about how to create our snowflakes for different level abilities. The simplest and quickest version was to paint the pre-glued fancy Popsicle sticks white with a Q-tip and then dip in silver glitter. To step it up a notch we had markers, paper shapes and sequins to add to this version. Check out how wonderfully creative our 5-year olds and under got with this project:) And I'd like to thank our volunteer Miss Betty for all her help and love she gives our little ones in class.
Today we recycled TP rolls to make our very own snowman! Children used white paint, string, felt, paper and more to create their pieces. We also read "Snowmen at Night" by Caralyn Buehner. Great book for the snowy season!
We had an extremely small class today... 2 children! Must be the Holidays:) William, Clara and the adults had fun with such a sparse group anyhow! We read "Counting Christmas" by Karen Katz and then worked on our craft. Today we made Holiday Trees. The background is blue and white paint spread over a sheet of paper with a recycled piece of cardboard, the tree is torn paper and we decorated with more paper, glitter glue and used a star-shaped sponge with yellow paint for the star. Clara used stuffing to create snow. They did a great job! Happy Holidays
We read "Pete the Cat Saves Christmas" by Eric Litwin, sang the "Lion Hunt" and made a handprint reindeer craft. Children used wrapping paper for the trees in their winter scene background, construction paper for the tree trunks and decorations, paint for their handprints and snow, and google eyes because they are cool:) Check out our Holiday fun!
Today we read "If You Were a Penguin" by Florence Minor and Wendell Minor, where we learned that people do lots of things that penguins do:) Our craft included making a penguin snowglobe from a recycled cd, yarn, construction paper scraps, glue and fabulous glitter to finish it off. They turned out great!
We are gearing up for the Jolly ol' Elf to Visit! We read "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement C. Moore and Richard Jesse Watson, sang the "Lion Hunt" song and then made our very own countdown Santa calendars. Kids will use these by filling in Santa's beard with a cotton ball every day in December until it's the Night Before Christmas. Check out some of their work. I am pretty sure the glitter was the hit of the project.
We had 2 classes today! First class was Mommy and Me where we made circular turkey hand print decorations. The second class, Parents and Kids, we made a festive turkey napkin holder also with our hand print. Kids enjoyed singing the Lion Hunt and listening to 2 books about Turkeys and Thanksgiving. They were "Down on the Farm" by Merrily Kutner and "Thank You, Thanksgiving" by David Milgrim. The materials we used were watercolor, acrylics, cut paper, sequins, tp roll, popsicle spoon, scissors, glue and paper.
Our storybook today was "Sheep Trick or Treat" by Nancy E. Shaw. Cute story about all the animals dressing up and giving treats. To go with our story we recycled tp rolls to make the body of the bat and used our handprints to make the wings. To finish them off we glued on eyes and mouths. They turned out super cute!
Today we prepared for Trick or Treating by reading this wonderful counting book, "Spooky hour" by Tony Mitton. We made handprint spiders and glued them over a string web of our own making. Scarey!!!
We read "The Pumpkin Fair" by Eve Bunting, sang the Lion Hunt and talked about how to use a paint brush. Using watercolor kits, we painted a coffee filter and sandwiched them into a cutout paper pumpkin shape, then decorated to look like jack-o-lanterns. You can make them at home too:)
Today was all about pumpkins! To go with our stuffed paper bag pumpkins, we read "Pick a Perfect Pumpkin; Learning about Pumpkin Harvests" by
Robin Koontz and Nadine Takvorian. Did you know pumpkins can be blue?
We learned a lot about pumpkins... how they grow, they are a fruit and
come in lots of colors! Check out our pumpkins that we stuffed with recycled newspaper, painted orange, glued on facial features and leaves and even used string to make the vine. They are fabulous!
Hi all! Today I get to teach a first grade color theory lesson. Here's a photo of my example and the book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh. I can't wait to get to class and play. We are also going to use a manipulative (shown) I made out of old colored file folders to investigate color mixing. So exciting!
Today we sang the lion hunt song and read the a book. Our book was "Fiona Loves the Night" by Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan Charest and Amanda Shepherd. Inside the story there are owls who sing "who cooks for you all?" I always wondered what they were saying, now I know! Check out our cool masks. We cut out the shape from a paper plate and collaged lots and lots of paper and glue on them... finishing them up with yarn to fasten them.
Today I taught the Parents and Kids class. We read "Pick a Perfect Pumpkin; Learning about Pumpkin Harvests" by Robin Koontz and Nadine Takvorian. Did you know pumpkins can be blue? We learned alot about pumpkins... how they grow, they are a fruit and come in lots of colors! Check out the cool pumpkins and owl masks we made for Autumn. We used torn paper to collage our creations together with lots and lots of glue:)
To celebrate the beginning of this fall season, we read "Let It Fall" by Maryann Cocca-Leffler. What a great book! Our craft turned into 2 different ones... First, we took real leaves, painted them with watercolors and stamped them onto paper. Second we painted a coffee filter with fall colored watercolors, dried them, cut them into a leaf shape and finished it off by hole-punching each one to hang. Check out our work:)
