Rainbows and St. Patrick's Day

We had fun working on two different themes this week!  We talked about rainbows and St. Patrick's Day, so we got to do some fun and messy activities. :)  Hope you enjoy the pics from the week and hope all of you enjoy your Spring Break!  See you in 2 weeks!

Arrabelle was able to share about her fun activities with Gumby this week.

Karen was kind enough and patient enough to do a messy rainbow smearing activity with shaving cream and paint.  They were fun to make, but it was super messy!

Look at this new trick that helps with pencil grip!  A simple rubberband can be used to attach to the wrist and the pencil/marker, and suddenly it's much easier to write.  So grateful for a parent who showed me this cool trick they've been using at home.  So cool!

We played a rainbow dice game with Fruit Loops this week.  They rolled a dice, then placed that number of Fruit Loops on the colorful stripes.  This was a great activity for counting, color matching, and fine motor skills, and not to mention tasty too!

Mrs. Stacy helped us paint our rainbows using all the right colors.

We also decorated shamrocks and talked about why we're lucky.

This is the view of these crazy kids waiting for the experiment...patiently waiting. ;)

We took Skittles and hot water and watched them melt into a rainbow wheel of colors.  (Sorry, I didn't get a final picture.)  Nevertheless, we talked about how this related to our prayers that all go straight to God.  

We had some super cute St. Patrick's Day attire!

We borrowed the Marble Run from the room next door and tried to build a path for a little marble to travel down.

We used laminated letter playdough mats to trace our letters using playdough.

Say cheese!

Somebody found a new cozy seat. :)

Fun times in the MIM room this week.  We also used the parachute as well, but it was a little tricky to take pictures of that at the same time I was moving it! :)

Hope all of you enjoy your Spring Break!

Ocean

This week we learned about the ocean and a variety of animals that you find in the ocean.  We read books, made waves with scarves, sang songs, and played funny fish games with our hands too.  I also included a short video that we watched of ocean animals, the sounds that they make, and the way to spell each animals.  Hope you enjoy a few of the pics from our fun-filled week of learning!


Here are the links to a few videos we enjoyed:

ocean animals for kids video

ocean animal sounds and spelling video

We put white whales in a Ziploc bag with different spots of colored paint and squished it all around...

 ...and this is the cute and colorful whale we ended up with.  They're hanging up in the hallway (as you can tell), and you can check them out next week.  This went along with our story about Jonah and the whale too.

We used letter "O" fruit loops to glue onto our Octopus that you find in the Ocean!  Mrs. Stacy helped us out this week while Mrs. Karen was out for a few days.  It's so nice to have such awesome co-teachers at LAP that can fill-in and love on these kiddos. :)

 These are our finished octopus crafts we made.  Great fine motor practice for strengthening these little hands!

 We also got to do something else with food this week...Goldfish Graphing!  We sorted them by color and then counted them on our graphs to see which color had the most and least.  Then, we got to snack on a few too. :)

Cole got to share his adventures with Gumby from last week. :)

Fun time with puzzles in the classroom.

Working on tracing and using stencils with markers.

We got together with Mrs. Laura's class for an ocean water science experiment.  The goal was to show the different ocean zones that animals live in (the lighter water is toward the surface and darker water is toward the bottom of the ocean).   Look at all these cuties patiently waiting for us to do the experiment.  Great behavior that shows they're ready for Kinder Prep next year!

It didn't turn out quite the way we hoped, but at least you could see a lighter layer and a darker layer to represent the top and bottom layers of the ocean!  That's life with experiments!

Dr. Suess

What a wild and crazy week we've had celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday!  We've gotten to dress in crazy socks and mismatched clothes, and read books about crazy characters too!  So much fun reading books from such a special author, and I hope you enjoy the pics from the week.  :)

Tabletop Center Time

We're making progress with pencil grips and tracing our names!  Keep working on hard on those learning rings kiddos! :)

 Colin got to have a turn taking Gumby home this week for some fun times outside and at the YMCA!

Mrs. Karen helping us count out 7 stickers, our number of the week, on our letter Y worksheets.  We also traced them in green crayon too.  Great way to tie in our color, number, and letter of the week!

In our science experiment this week we added food coloring to milk, and we got to see how the fat molecules in milk connect with oil molecules in soap to make really cool colorful designs!  This is an easy and cool one you can do at home, especially if you need to use up milk.  :) 

I dropped a few drops of food coloring in the milk...

I dipped a plain Q-tip in the milk and nothing happened, but...

when I put soap on the end of a Q-tip, this is the cool design we saw!

This was just the fun aftermath of watching all the colors swirl together when we were done watching the movement.  Fun and easy for these little kiddos!

Silly Sock Day with a crazy pose in our socks, and if you look closely, you can see Mrs. Hannah's crazy socks in the air too!

Our sweet class with all their mismatched outfits!

Fun playtime with friends :)

Special snacks this week to celebrate 2 birthdays!  Happy Birthday to Millie Kate and Hudson! :)

We got some wiggles out in the classroom this week by playing with our scarves.  We shook them up high, down low, to each side, behind our back, etc.  Then we talked about all the different colors in our scarves, especially the ones that had green, since that's our color of the week.  We also measured to see who had the longest and shortest scarves as well. This was a great lead-in to some other measuring activities we did with our feet as well.  We read, "The Foot Book" by Dr. Seuss and then measured our feet in cubes and paper clips and practiced tracing the numbers for our measurements.  It's so much fun to do math!

Time to exercise our minds and bodies in the Minds in Motion Room!

Have a blessed week!