Week Thirty-five

Theme:  Would You Like a Hat?
We worked hard to prepare our original play.  Everyone did a wonderful job!  Thank you for coming!  Here are a couple of videos from our dress rehearsals....

Choosing Time & Recess:  We had fun playing outside (jumping on the trampoline, swinging, pretending, bubble blowing).  We also had fun playing with play-doh, cars, doll-house, and getting our hair done.

Snacks:

• Applesauce &  S'Mores
• Cookie Pops
• Shark Marshmallow Pops
• Marshmallows, Chips, & Animal crackers
• Fruit Snacks & Apples 
• Goodie Bags filled withTreats, Capri Sun, & Goldfish Crackers
• Yogurt & Teddy Grahams

Books:

• And it's Spring by
• Swirls and Swirls Spirals in Nature by
• The Giraffe Did One by

Music & Movement:

• Exercises
• I've Got A Wiggle
• Patterns

Game:  Lower-case ABC Bingo

Art:  Painting

 
Science:

• We buried our "Butter -Pillar"
• We tried to launch some "Alka-Seltzer" rockets, but I didn't know my container had a teensy hole in it, so the effect was less than stunning...
• Even bubbles blown from a star shape come out round

Birthday Fun:

Week Thirty-Four--We Love Our Mothers!

Theme:  Mothers

Letters Review:  We played Lower-case Alphabet Bingo

Recess:  We've enjoyed playing outside in the backyard this week since the weather has been so nice!

Snacks:

• Graham Crackers & Apple Slices
• Corn Pops & Cheese Sticks
• Pizza
• Strawberries, Sugar Snap Peas, Brownies, & Crackers
• Watermelon, Strawberries, Cake Pops, & Popcorn

Books:

• Time for a Bath by Steve Jenkins
• Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Williams
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam Mcbratney
  

Science:  Many of you have seen our "butter-pillar".  We have loved having him in our classroom.  Since he cannot fly, it has been fun to hold him and observe him eating with his long tongue.  His eyes are also interesting to notice as they are quite large for his body and are camouflaged quite well.

Music & Movement:

• Mother I Love You
• Mother, May I?
• Red Light, Green Light
• Elephant Stampede
• Octopus Song

Coldstone Ice Cream Field Trip: "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream!"

Reading/Writing:  Mother's Day Letters
I gave them the writing prompt, "I love my mom.  She is..."  I had four adjectives (nice, pretty, perfect, fun) to choose from and each child chose one of them to write about his/her mother.  It was cute to watch several of them read over what they had written.

Art:  Mother's Day Sachets
The children decorated the bags and filled them with lavender.  Most of the children chose to sew their bags up.  We hope you all feel loved!


Birthdays:  We celebrated three birthdays this week!  We really love our birthday dance!

Week Thirty-Three--ABC Fun

Theme:  ABC Fun Review


Choosing Time:  Kool-Aid Play-dough


 

 
California Pizza Kitchen Field-trips:  We were treated so well!  We had a lovely tour of the kitchen, a peek inside the brick oven, coloring sheets, made our own pizzas, and ate the yummy pizzas with a nice cold drink!  I received a few pics and a sweet note today from Stephanie at CPK: 

Good Afternoon Jodi!

 Thanks again for bringing the Kids in here for the Kids Tour. We love doing them! Your kids are the most well behaved group that I can remember... Look forward to doing more things like this in the future!

 
 
 
 
 




 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Snacks:

• Goldfish crackers, cheese sticks, & fruit snacks
• Pizza, of course...
• Apples & Pirate Booty
• Letter Bread-sticks
• Spring Marshmallows, Goldfish, & Vanilla Wafers

Birthdays:

Art: 

1. Paper Pizzas
2. Surprise for Mother's Day

Music & Movement:  We took turns pulling a letter out of a bucket.  We identified the letter and its sound(s) then I gave 2-3 options for an activity that corresponded to the letter.  Some of the songs/movements included (but not limited to):

• The Ants Go Marching
• Hi, My Name is O
• 5 Little Apes Swinging in a Tree
• 6 Little Ducks (Quack)
• I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee
• Wiggle the Wiggles out
• I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home
• Mother, I Love You
• Bumble Bees
• Octopus Swims Under the Ocean
• The Doughnut Song
• Exercises
• X Marks the Spot
• Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
• This Little Light of Mine
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• I Had a Little Turtle

Writing:  Thank you letters to the California Pizza Kitchen

Books:

• The April Rabbits by David Cleveland
  
• The Duckling Gets a Cookie  by Mo Williams