Nursery Rhymes 2015

It's finally time for our annual Nursery Rhyme Unit!  This is always my favorite unit because the kids love learning the rhymes and retelling them.  Here are links to what we did last year (and if you want to see how little and cute they were):  Fun With Nursery Rhymes and More Fun With Nursery Rhymes.

We started the week making sheep for Mary Had a Little Lamb and Little Bo Peep.  Each sweetie painted white circles onto green paper.  After they were dry, they added legs and a face.  We found the idea at Love, Laughter and Learning in Prep.

Then, we made an Itsy Bitsy Spider project.  The morning class just assembled the craft and the afternoon class cut out some of the pieces.  We found this idea at The Vintage Umbrella.

I love how different they each are and how they reflect each cutie's personality.

At table time, we sorted shapes.  Each square had a pail (like Jack and Jill) with an object on it.  The kids did a great job sorting them!

Next up was Jack Be Nimble.  We said the rhyme and each sweetie had a turn to be Jack and jump over the candlestick.

Then, during art they made their own candlestick and added the nursery rhyme.

Our last project was Hey Diddle Diddle.  The kids had so much fun putting this together!  Once again, the morning just assembled and the afternoon cut out most of the pieces.  They had lots to cut out, but did an awesome job!

I can't tell you how many times we sang Hey Diddle Diddle while working on this activity!

I am so proud of their work!  They did a great job!

We ended the week by making our version of apple pies, since many of the rhymes talk about pies.  Each cutie pressed sugar cookie dough into a mini-muffin tin.  We added a spoonful of apple pie filling and baked them.

And then, we ate them!!

We also celebrated this sweet girl's birthday!

It was a fun two weeks!

Thanks for stopping by!
~Beth