On the farm

Have you ever seen such cute farm animals? I think not! I adapted this from a cute art project found here.

We talked about farm life this week including how hard farmers work, what animals we might find on a farm, and what kind of work has to be done to keep up with the animals and crops.

We practiced milking the cows with our water-filled Latex gloves. It was "udder"ly awesome!

We sorted our farm animals by color, size, feathers or fur, and whether they could fly or walk.

We practiced our counting skills with our piggy bank numbers. We also had nickels and dimes for the piggies with the high numbers on them.

We talked about how pigs love to play in the mud and how it helps them to stay cool. I didn't get any pictures, but for an art project we made a pig in the mud. I'm thinking the kids like playing in the mud just as much as the pigs!

We talked about how chickens lay eggs and practiced our upper to lowercase alphabet recognition with these plastic eggs.

We also worked on alphabetic order with these letter strips that had missing letters for the kids to fill in. This is a good one to work on at home as well because you probably have everything you would need to do it, and it will help them start to recognize those few letters that they just can't seem to remember by singing the alphabet and recognizing the letters as they sing.  

This puzzle helped us to envision a farm.

We made our own homemade peanut butter with just a blender, peanuts, and a bit of honey. 

YUM!

Book of the week: The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

Song of the week: Old McDonald had a farm

and 

ABC's backwards!

Words of the week: Pig and mud

Star of the week:

Our star this week was our Big Brother and Friendly fisherman, the courageous Kyler!

Spring has sprung!

We have so much fun seeing our friends at school! I couldn't resist putting up this picture that captures these cute girls so nicely!

We talked about Easter and Spring this week (which actually happened the week before Easter). Below, Haylee is doing a puzzle shaped like an egg. It was a lot trickier than it looked! They had a lot of patience doing these puzzles.

Ta-da!

In the sensory table we had bird seed with different sized eggs to fill. They had fun seeing which egg had more seed, even if it wasn't the biggest egg. There were also some wooden carrots hidden in here, just ready to sprout. They were so happy when they scooped up a big scoop and found a carrot inside!

We played a counting and color game called Topsy turtle. The object is to see how many stepping stones they can place under the turtle without making him tip over. He lifts his legs up ever so slowly like a turtle would and then he tells the kids the color that they need to use. When he finally tips, the kids count how many steps they were able to stack. 

Our writing center this week was sight words practice. We had words such as the, me, I, you, and they that the kids traced and read.

We also had a writing center that the kids could come and spell out there names in jellybeans.

For an art project, we used the microwave and made our own puff paint. We traced and designed our own Easter eggs, and then put them in the microwave for 30 seconds to a minute. As you can see, the kids were very excited when it came time to microwave!

We had to have some Easter fun this week as well. We used our throwing skills to score prizes out of our carrot shaped dartboard balloons. The first thing that the kids said when they walked into the room this day was "Whoa, that is a big carrot!" I'm just glad that they could tell what it was :)

Book of the week: If You're Happy and You Know It by Jane Cabrera.

Song of the week: Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Word of the week: Hop

Star of the week:

Our star of the week this week was the performing Princess, and super swimmer, Miss Taryn!