2-25: Baby Dinosaurs

Baby Dinosaur birthdays!!!  We had a super fun day today.  Our theme is Dinosaurs, the shape is a triangle, the number is 4, and the color is green.  

We start our day outside in the fresh air.  

After circle time we mixed up the batter for our babies birthday cupcakes.  

They did it themselves including cracking the eggs and mixing the batter.  We put them in the oven and went outside to get our eggs.  

They were so excited to help their babies be born.  

Out they came!

They were dirty so we gave them a bubble bath.  

Here's the aftermath.  Lol! 

Then we went inside to make birth certificates and name them.  

We had snacks and then went upstairs for centers.  

They were really into dress-ups today! 

We had a little birthday party for our new baby dinos.  

Yum!  It was a great day!

2-18

D is for Dinosaur.  We had lots of fun today.  Before we went inside we planted our preschool garden.  

The kids sure had fun. 

In circle time I introduced our new unit - Dinosaurs. 

This book is really cute.  I highly recommend it.  

We practiced writing the letter D

We did several worksheets to practice.  

Then we had snack and centers.  In individual instruction we made sensory jars.  

Great day!

2-23: Dinosaur Unit (baby dinosaurs)

Today was so much fun!  We learned all about baby dinosaurs, reviewed numbers 1-10, and discussed greatest to least using dinosaurs as our theme. Here's pictures from our day.  I don't get pictures of circle time but we sang songs, read a book, exercised, played a game, and discussed the weather, number, and color of the day.  Today was the letter D, the color was green, and the shape was a triangle.  

This is a great little book.  Again we talked about if we were a dinosaur what kind would we be.  

Then we went to the kitchen to make dinosaur eggs.  This is a really fun activity.  They each picked out a baby dinosaur.    

We mixed together all of the ingredients to make the dough for our eggs.  

Then we put the baby inside, rolled it up and took them outside to dry.  

They will be ready to hatch by Thursday.  I can't wait!  The kids are going to love it!

As they dry they begin to look like rocks. Can you see the dinosaur peeking out?

We washed our hands and had a snack. Thanks Kynslee!

Then we colored our very own baby dinosaur inside its egg and discussed again what we would be like if we could be a dinosaur.  

Then we went upstairs for centers. 

We had a fun new center today.  These baby dinos are trapped in the ice and we had to use warm water in a sprayer to get them free.  

The kids did great and we all celebrated each time one got out!

I am always happy to see the centers working as they should.  It may seem like just play but each one has an educational purpose.  

This one teaches sorting and categorizing.  

The practical living area is always a big hit.  

These are both sensory centers.  Smell and fine motor skills.  

Letter recognition.

This is our excavation site where they can dig for dinosaurs.  

In individual learning they put the baby dinosaurs that they had colored earlier into their eggs.  It is a multi-step process and I was really impressed at their persistence and patience. 

You have to cut it out, glue it on the plate and then attatch the top shell.  We decided it was like magic. 

Baby dinosaurs were born today.  Yay!

Then we practiced writing our numbers on baby dinos.  

They did great! It's exciting to see how they're improving. 

Then the day was done and we went outside to meet our moms.  

It was a fabulous day at school!

Valentines Party!!!

Finally we were able to have our Valentine's Day class.  I want to express my gratitude for your understanding.  You never can know when these things will happen.  My very first job is as a mom and I am grateful that you all appreciate that.  Roman is good now, his gut will take time to fully heal but he'll be fine.  I have definitely gained a certain reverence for constipation and the havoc it can cause to the body.  

Anyway, we had a wonderful day.  It went by so fast.  Again, I had way too much.  Next time I'll spread the activities out better.  Here are the few pictures I got from our day together.  

Here are a couple of our circle time activities.  We sang this song and read this book.  We also watched this little video about Lambert, the sheepish Lion and talked about love.  

We ripped and cut to make a Valentine for our moms.  

We hope you liked them!

In individual instruction we made foot print hearts.  

We had centers. Then we came downstairs to make our Valentine treat.  Dipped pretzels with sprinkles.  We talked about how a pretzel is shaped like a heart.  They loved it.  

They ate them up happily!

We had a wonderful day.  We traded our valentines and headed home.  :)