3-29: Spring/bugs/garden unit

C is for caterpillar!  We had a great day together.  We learned all about caterpillars today.  In story time we read the Eric Carle book, the very hungry caterpillar, which is such a great story.  All of our activities were centered around the book.  Here are some pictures of our day.  

We made caterpillar C's

We made caterpillar crowns.

We had our snack. 

Then we went up to centers.  

This center is a Spring Cleaning station.  

They got to meet our new class pets - caterpillars.  

We have anew sensory station - they get to dig for plastic bugs.  

I tried to have them experience the story in as many ways as possible.  In this center you can put the caterpillar through each of the foods from the story.  

We have the story on the felt board.  

They got to punch out and decorate leaves to go on our sunflower.  

We ended the day making playdough caterpillars. 

3-24: Easter Celebration

Today we celebrated Easter.  We had a lot of fun!  In circle time we learned the song, Little Bunny Foo Foo.  The kids loved the actions.  We watched a book on video in the 'Guess how much I love you' series.  It was about little nut brown hair discovering how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.  We also had a short quiz reviewing shapes, colors, and numbers.  From what I observed generally, they need to review their numbers more than anything else.  They are all doing great with colors and shapes.  Then we had a snack and made a craft.  Here are some pictures of our fun day. 

We tried to get a little class picture - this was the best one.  Lol!

After circle/story/song time we had s snack and made an Easter treat.  We decorated rice crispy treats.  

I don't think I need to say that they loved them.  :)

I know, lots of sugar today but oh well.  

Afterwards we cleaned up and went upstairs to centers.  The classroom is freshly cleaned and decorated for our new unit - Spring/garden/bugs

These pictures didn't turn out very well but I think the classroom turned out great!

In individual instruction we made sun catcher eggs. 

They stick pieces of tissue paper on contact paper inside the egg shape.  Then you cover with another piece if contact paper.  Simple but beautiful!

I love how it turned out!  This project will come home next time.  

There are all new centers out.  

We also did an Easter Math sheet.  Counting eggs.  

After we cleaned up the classroom we went outside for our egg hunt.  

It was great!  I think I hid a few eggs too well though.  Lol!  I found a few afterwards.  Sorry!

They had so much fun!

Then we went inside to open our treasures!

Happy Easter everyone!  See you next time!

3-22: field trip!

What a wonderful field trip to the AZ science center!  It was the best way to cap off our dinosaur unit.  Here are some pictures of our wonderful day. 

Thanks for joining us.  It was a great trip!