Cars, Cats, & Cookies!

Theme:  "C" is for Cookie

Choosing Time:  Cars, Garage, Cars Memory, Little Critters

Lesson:  We met Callie Cat and learned that "C" is a fun letter.  We brainstormed words that begin with the "C" sound.  I'm quite impressed with the words the kiddos came up with:  cool, car, crab, cave, cake, ........I showed them a series of pictures.  We had to decide which ones had the "C" sound.

Books:

• Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
• The Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Williams
• Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree by David Korr
  
• The Big Chickens by Leslie Helakoski

Music & Movement:

• Clap the Crazies Out
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes
• Scat the Cat
• Make Circles and C's with bodies
• "C" is for Cookie
  

Games:

• Race Car Relay
• Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 
• Race our Cars
• Alphabet Bingo with Cheerios

 




 Science:  Examined a Caterpillar spinning a cocoon

Art:  Making Cars out of recyclable materials

 
 
 
 
 
 


Cooking:  Circle shaped sugar Cookies



 
 

 
 
 

Snacks:  We had so much fun looking for the "C's" on the packaging!

• Cheese Sticks & Apples 
• Charleston Chews & Colored Rainbow Goldfish
• Cookies & Cheerios
• Chocolate milk & Cheese
• Cookies, Grapes, & Cheese
• Craisins, Cucumbers, & Animal Cracker Cookies

 
Writing:  "C/c"

Outside Play:  Discovering Chicken Eggs


Reading:  Can

"B" is for Beans!

 Theme:  Letter "B"

Choosing Time:  Big Brick Blocks, Foam Puzzle Blocks,  Beading Bracelets, Basketball, Babies


 




 

 


 
Snacks:

• Banana Bread
• Baby Goldfish Crackers, Cheese Sticks, Grapes
• Fruit Snacks, Goldfish Crackers, Cheese Sticks
• Bananas, Fruit Snacks
• Buddy Bear Crackers

Lesson:  We took turns reaching into my "magic" Bag to pull one "B" thing out.  We practiced saying the word and the "B" sound.  Some of our "B" things included a bee, butterfly, button, bead, bean, builder boy, banana, bed, bell,....We also had several activities to do that correlated with the items.

Game:  Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

Books:

• The "B" Book by Stan & Jan Bernstein
• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro
• It's Not Easy Being Big by Stephanie Pierre

Music & Movement:

• Bubble Gum Song
• Bath-time Boogie
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee
• Flight of the Bumblebees
• Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
• The Wheels On the Bus

Math:  We discussed the concept of big, bigger, biggest and then we practiced sequencing

Outside Fun:  We made "boats" and then let them sail down our tinfoil river.  So, if you saw a milk bottle top, it is really a boat.  We took the time to make sails for them, but after a few were capsized, they lost their sails :)  We also had fun with bubbles.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 



 

 
 

Science:

• We put some pinto beans in a glass jar with a little water.  We passed around a pinto bean for everyone to feel.  After the beans soaked for a day or two, we compared them to a dry bean.
• We also enjoyed Babysitting Asher's Gecko!

Cute Sayings:

• "My mom doesn't let me use glue."
• When drawing "B", I suggest that we draw a straight line, a big head, and then a big belly.  One kiddo then said, "My daddy has a big belly!"  The funny thing is...I know the dad, and he doesn't :)
  

 Art:

• "B's" with Black & Brown Beans
• Painting with Bubble Wrap & Boat, B, & Bus Sponges

 
 
 
 
 
 


 



 
 
 

 
 


Writing:  B/b

Reading:  Our new word wall words include "be & by"