4-12: Spring/garden/bugs unit

B is for Bugs!

Today was pure magic!  I wish that I could bottle up today and send it home to each of you.  Love love love!  I am really going to miss these sweet little faces next year!

This is our morning board.  

This is the book we read in story time.  

We learned a new song in music time about a doggy who sniffed on a rose.  :). 

We practiced writing our B's

Then we practiced our numbers and counting on these cute ladybug mats.  

They made the spots with chocolate chips.  They liked this activity! Lol! 

Then we made butterfly snack bags to take with us for our picnic in the park.  

Right before we left I introduced our new butterflies.  

They loved them!

We spent some time with them.  

At the park we had a lovely picnic.

When everyone was done eating we got ready to set our new friends free.  It was a beautiful moment that I wish I could have video taped.  They called goodbye to each one as it flew away.  

Afterwards we inspected the cocoons and they got to look up close and touch them.  

I did not tell them that the red stuff is blood.  Gross!  Butterflies bleed as they are being born.  Interesting.  

Then I gave them each a magnifying glass and a sack.  They had to collect 5 items of nature to look at up close.  So fun!

It was so cute to watch them collect different items.  They were so happy and excited to show me each one. 

We came back for centers.  

They were excited to see their seed pots growing.  

The bean bags were also sprouting.  

We made footprint butterflies.  So cute!

Then our day was over.  One of my favorite preschool days so far.  Happy Spring!

4-7: Spring/garden/bug unit

Fun day!  Not a lot of time so here's our day in a photo nutshell!  :)

We dot painted caterpillars.

We worked on ABA patterns

We worked at centers.  

We built our own gardens.  

We made a beautiful garden collage.  

We enjoyed watching our real garden grow.  

4-5: spring/bugs/garden unit

Wowee!  What a day!  It was a little messy but we sure had fun!  Here are the few pictures I managed to take.  G is for garden!  We learned how seeds are planted and grow and we even acted it out!

This is our morning board where we discuss the unit and subjects for the day.  

This is the book we read in story time.  

We painted caterpillars!  

We went upstairs to centers and planted seed pots in individual instruction.  

I can't wait to see the flowers bloom!

We have a new center that has tons of fake flowers and pots.  They loved it!

For snack time we made bugs on a log!  Lol!

Our final activity was making ourselves into caterpillars and deciding where we wanted to live on the flower.  

So cute!

We have 5 little cocoons to watch now!

See you next time!

3-31: spring/bug/garden unit

We started our day playing outside in the sunshine, then we went in for circle time. Our color for the week is green, our number is 1, our shape is a circle,  and our letter C.  We are still learning all about caterpillars and watching them grow every day.  Here are some pictures of our day together.  I didn't manage to catch everything today. 

We worked on writing our name and the letter C. 

We also worked on writing our numbers.  

We did a do a dot also.  Then we had snack time.  

We went upstairs to centers.  In II we made sun catcher caterpillars and butterflies.  

Then we made a scratch ornament.  

Then we had story time and read this cute book.