Spring has finally sprung!

Last week we celebrated the weather finally warming up {with the exception of the snow on Monday} with a spring theme.  We made bunny ear headbands.  

  

 

We used pompom balls clipped onto clothespins to paint eggs.  I found the idea at Sassy Dealz.

The next day, the kids cut out their eggs.  I think they turned out pretty cute!  {I feel like I need to add a disclaimer:  There is a reason that there are iPads standing up on the table!  Wednesday's table time activity is always iPads and we were wrapping up table time when we cut them out}

On Thursday during table time, the kids colored jelly bean shapes according to the color word on each jelly bean.

Then came the fun part...sorting jelly beans on them.  And then, the even more fun part...getting to eat the jelly beans!  

During circle time, we used plastic eggs for several activities.  On Monday I put pompom balls into the sensory box and each cutie picked out a pompom, labeled the color, and then placed it into the matching plastic egg and closed it.  We worked on lots of different skills during this activity!

On Tuesday we matched sounds with the eggs!  I placed things like a dime, a paperclip, a plastic dinosaur, etc. into the eggs and then we had to find the other egg with that object.  It was tricky, but they still had fun with it!

 

In this picture we're playing the pompom color match game again.  I think the cutie on the left was enjoying the game!

We ended the week with an egg hunt.  Each of my little darlings found three eggs and then dropped them into the basket.  After they dropped their eggs off, we gave them a goody bag.

During book time on Thursday, this sweetie read Pete the Cat:  I Love my White Shoes to us!  While he was reading, Ms. Mary offered to read Pete's a Pizza to one of my other sweeties and he said, "No, he can read it to me."  How great is that?! 

Thanks for stopping by!

~Beth

The Easter Bunny's Visit

Last week the Easter Bunny visited our school!  The Lady Elks are our adopt-a-school partner and they come out every year and deliver Easter goodies.  Most of the kids love seeing the Easter Bunny and it's always a great photo op!

Happy Easter!  

Thanks for stopping by!

~Beth

More Fun with Nursery Rhymes!

Last week we finished up our Nursery Rhyme unit.  The kids had so much fun learning the rhymes and really enjoyed the art projects.  If you'd like to see what we did during our first week of Nursery Rhymes, click here.

We started the week by making Hickory Dickory Dock.  We assembled the mice on the first day and then on the second day we put the clock together.  

They cut out the pendulum for the clocks.  

For the morning class we wrote the numbers on the face of the clock.  For the afternoon class, we had the numbers in yellow and had them trace over them with a black crayon.  They did a fantastic job tracing!

I forgot to take a picture of the finished project, but here's the original idea from Tippytoe Crafts.

On Wednesday we made Itsy Bitsy Spider hats.  My little cuties glued wiggle eyes on, drew a mouth, and then glued eight legs on.  Some tried accordion folding them and others chose to leave them straight.  

Thursday we made a One, Two, Buckle My Shoe project.  Each of my sweeties glued two die-cut hands onto the paper and then they wrote the numbers 1-10 on each finger.  We glued on a picture of each item in the rhyme on the corresponding finger and finished by gluing the rhyme onto the paper.  This is always one of my favorite nursery rhyme activities.  

On Thursday afternoon during table time I asked my little darlings to draw their favorite nursery rhyme.  I was so impressed with the results!  Most of them got right to work drawing and drew several pictures.  Here are two of the Humpty Dumpty drawings.  

During circle time we played "Who Is It?"  I read them a clue, like "Who sat on a tuffet and got quite a scare?" We had pictures of the possible answers and I also had the nursery rhymes out for us to read if they weren't sure.  They did a great job answering the questions!

And, last but not least, we had a new student join our class last week.  In this picture I was introducing him to the class and the kids were taking turns introducing themselves.  We've been working on what to say when you don't know someone's name and how to introduce yourself.  They're getting the hang of it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great weekend!

~Beth