Ice Cream & Indian Corn

Theme:  Letter "I"We met Ida Insect who told us about the 2 sounds letter "I" makes.  We learned the sign for "I".  We thought of some other words that begin with "I" such as igloo, ice, iron, itch, ivy, in, interesting, and into.


Game:  Build an Ice Cream Cone
We each took a turn to choose a "flavor" of ice cream and then added it to our cone.  We did the activity on the back.  Our ice cream cone ended up taller than us!

Choosing Time:  Insect Matching Game, Letter "I" Memory, Blocks, Little People...

Music & Movement:

• Ten Little Indians
• 5 Little Indians
• I Am a Little Indian Boy
• I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream!
• "Turkey" Dance
• I'm a Little Turkey
• Row, Row, Row the Mayflower
• We moved like many insects (flew like butterflies, buzzed like bees, jumped like grasshoppers...)
• See Me Run
• Birthday Dance

Reading:  Some of our new words include "I", "if ", "in", and "is."  We also read together:  A Pilgrim Rebus Story.

Science: 

• We learned some parts of an insect--especially that all insects have 6 legs.  We then took picture cards of several bugs and put them in the insect or bug pile.
• Can you pick up an ice cube with a string?

 

Art:

• Indian Corn Painting (We learned about Indian Corn--its many colors and how important it was to Native Americans)
• Flavored Ice Painting
• Dragonfly:  color by color shape (great fine motor skill & and scissor practice)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Writing:  We practiced "I/i"

Math:  We played a dice counting/coloring ice cream game



 

Snacks:

• Fruit Snacks
• Cheese Sticks
• Grapes
• Craisins, Cheese, Pretzels
• Ice Cream Bars
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Birthday:  Happy Birthday Charlotte!  Thank you for sharing such yummy pink cupcakes!

Books:  What Insects Can Do & ..........

Week Thirty-One: Bug or Insect?

Theme: Insects
Insects have Six Legs, Two Antennae, a head, abdomen, thorax, and most have wings.

Letter: I
We practiced the two sounds letter "I" makes. We met "Ida Insect" who played a game with us. Ida Insect needed help from each of the kiddos to find a picture with either "I" sound that I instructed them to find.

Choosing Time: Bugs, Cootie, Letter "I" Memory, An "igloo"/"island" Game to practice both "I" sounds, Build An Insect Game

Science:

1. Our caterpillars are now Chrysalises. We are excited to see them become beautiful butterflies. We discussed the life cycle of the butterfly.
   
2. We went on a bug hunt. We found centipedes, worms, ants, slugs, & snails. Sadly, we couldn't find any roly-polys , ladybugs, or box elder bugs... We brought them inside to examine them with a magnifying glass. We also found some IVY--not the poisonous kind :)
   

Show & Tell:
Letter I--
Insect Catcher--
Butterfly:
Picture of him eating his favorite ICE cream:
Insect Book:
Infant brother:
Springtime Seeds:

Snacks:

• Homemade Applesauce & Peanut Granola Bars
• Oreos, Doughnut Holes, & Goldfish Crackers
• Ice Cream Cones filled with Island Fruit
• Fruit Leather, Dried Blueberries, & Cheese Ladybugs
• Chocolate Mint Cookies
• Popcorn, Strawberries, & Marshmallows
• Letter "I" cookies --gobbled up so fast I didn't get a picture
  

Music & Movement:

• Bug Movements: roll like a roly-poly, jump like a grasshopper, crawl like a caterpillar, fly like a butterfly, click like a beetle (and the dying beetle movement), Jump like a cricket, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a lady bug.
• Ants Go Marching
• 10 "Ninja" Exercises
• Sequence patterns: I demonstrate a clapping/slapping pattern and then the children do it with me.
• I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream!
  

Math: We focused on the number Six. We counted many bugs legs to see if they were insects or not.

Game: Bug, Bug, Who's the Bug in the Rug?

Books:

• What Can Insects Do?
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle I made a caterpillar/butterfly puppet to tell the story (the kiddos call it a "magic trick")
  

Art:

1. "I" Insects
2. Butterflies--good cutting practice!
   

Reading: Some new words this week include: igloo, insect, in, ice cream, ice, iguana, & ivy.

Writing: We practiced "I(Straight line down, a hat, and boots)/i"

Birthday Celebration: We love the birthday dance!