Easter

Easter Egg Drop Experiment.

We create our own Easter egg drop from a ladder outside.
I asked the children what would happen if we dropped an egg onto the floor.
Then i asked them how we could wrap up the egg so that it wouldn't break.
They came up with some fun answers like:
Tape
Band aids
Kleenex
then i suggested a few
Bubble wrap
Cotton balls
Parachute
Balloon
etc
Then i let the children wrap up the eggs and we took them outside to check
I drew faces on the eggs to make it more fun!
The kids of course thought it was so funny when the eggs went splat!!!!
What a fun day!

Art appreciation

I recently posted some famous art work in our art area to inspire the children. They all seemed interested in the Kandinksi picture that i posted. So i made my own version of his work and let them create.
We always save our dried out markers and use them with small water cups. Using the markers with water gives them a water color feel.

Frogs

This week we are learning about frogs.

I used kirkland brand wipe tops to make a pop up life cycle

Dr. Seuss Day

Dr. Seuss day is one of my favorite days to be a preschool teacher!
We footbook paint, make green eggs and ham and read read read!!!!!!!

This year i spent the whole week celebrating

I collected these Dr. Seuss characters over time from Kohls cares for kids!

I made a Hop on Pop game using rhyming words from the story and bubble wrap.
(Cat Mat, Hop, Pop, Tall, Small etc)
The kids loved playing hopscotch on it!

 I also had some on hand for the children to pop using their fingers

 We also made Moose Juice and Goose Juice.... i used a simple combination of Orange, Pineapple and Lemonade for Goose Juice and Cranberry lime for Moose Juice

 Fox in Socks sock toss was the biggest hit this year. I used a hula hoop to make the sock toss and provided funky odd socks to toss

 Foot book painting! Enough said....

 I also made a cut of of Thing one and Thing two for the children to pose in...

I also served Green Eggs and Ham deviled eggs and Thing one and Thing two jello cups

Rasberry jello with buttercream frosting and blue food cotton candy hair.

DO NOT PUT THE COTTON CANDY ON UNTIL READ TO SERVE... i wasted so much cotton candy. It desolves :(

Construction Zone

I recently made my block area into a construction zone.
I put caution tape all over the walls, added photos of real buildings and bridges for the children to look at and added photos of buildings for them to copy using blocks. I like having a wall in the block area because i think it's easier for the children to build their buildings higher if they can lean against a wall. Since moving the area we have had a lot less fighting because there is more space.
I also added some tools, tape measures, construction hats, rocks and diggers to please my boys!

Winter Fun

I'm always looking for new things to keep our kids busy in the winter.
This year i decided to make a play house for our reading center. We had been advised by Project Star (an awesome resource in our area for behavioral and developmental screening) to have a quite zone for a few of our more "rowdy" boys to go when they need some alone time.
I decided that a gingerbread house was a perfect idea and we could keep it up all winter.
I pre- cut a door hole in the box and put a roof on the top using extra box pieces. (i left the front of the roof open so that i could see inside easily)
The children painted the box brown on the first day
Then on the second day they decorated candies to add to the house. I let them glue them wherever they wanted.
We also made frosting out of white paper and i added a white table cloth (bunched and stapled) to the roof to look like snow.
The candy cane is made from a wrapping paper tube.
It turned out great and the children love to go inside and read stories. It's been 2 months and the house is still in great shape :)

Winnie the Pooh Day (Jan 18th)

I love celebrating Winnie the Pooh Day!
We read tons of Pooh books and even learn about A.A. Milne.
This Winnie the Pooh day the children all brought in a Pooh character for our teddy bear picnic. I layed out a blanket with plenty of play food for the animals and we all had an inside picnic.

We served teddy grahams and Pooh Bear apple juice for a snack

We made honey bread in the shape of Pooh.
(Mix and roll out bread dough in honey and form in the shape of a bear)

We also had Winnie the Pooh music (from the library) Winnie the Pooh puzzles, Winnie the Pooh memory match and of course Winnie the Pooh coloring pages :)