Birds and Eggs / April

Finally april but still snow! We have been keeping busy with our Birds and eggs theme. the children really seem to love learning about birds and how they grow. We have learned all the parts of a bird. We learned a song to help us to head shoulders knees and toes but instead put in head,beak, wings and feet. We also dance around to a silly song called shake your tail feathers! The children really love shaking their booty to this one.

we have also made some neat projects. We have made bird beaks, feet and wings. We have colored eggs and made birds with our handprints and shadows!

We are currently learning a dance called the "The bird feet beat". Hopefully I will be able to video and learn how to upload this onto our blog.

MARCH FUN BIRDS AND EGGS

Finally our computer fixed so I will be able to once again keep you informed.

the children have been having a lot of fun with our new theme. currently, they have learned about different types of nest,eggs, hatchlings, and the different types of food birds eat. They have also learned some common area birds like, red breasted Robin, cardinal, blue jay, blue bird and chickadee and living on the seacoast, SEAGULLS.

Some fun projects have been:

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  painting with rubber worms


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  building a nest


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  egg rubbings

Fun activities have been:

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  Wiggling worms


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  flying like a flock of bird


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  bird feet beat


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  Head,beak, wings and feet

We also celebrated DR.Suess's birthday by having green eggs and ham and doing a fun foot project.

DRESS-UP JOBS

Its been a while! I had lost my camera and I finally found it... it was where it was suppose to be!

The children have been busy learning about different jobs. We have been learning about the tools they use as well as how they dress. We had fun this week learning about construction workers, engineers, police officers and bus drivers. We had a police parade with our police hats and horses, played johnny hammers with five hammers, danced like snowflakes, and played a Fun bus game learning about the colors of the traffic light. We finger painted, made buses, and colored a book about jobs. We turned our post office into a doctors office and Vet.

Next week we will discover the jobs garbage collector and plumber.

Good bye to 2010

This is our last week of Farms and Barns. The children have really loved this theme. Their final projects are goats, mice, and cheese. A Happy Birthday to Valerie!! She is 4 years old today. Tomorrow we will be celebrating the "New Year" with a Chinese food treat. We made party mask to wear during our celebration. Please check out our facebook page to view our final photos of 2010.

Don't forget to view pictures of our Christmas party. Santa came to visit for the first time and the children really had a blast!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

We will be finishing up our farms and barns theme this week. The children have had a blast.... Children love animals so farm themes are always a hit.

Christmas party this Thursday... dont forget to send your child in with a swap gift.($5:00) If money is an issue please let me know and I can supply the gift. We still have some snacks to sign up for if anyone is interested.

12/30 we will be having our NEW YEARS celebration. We will be having chinese food again this year. Dont forget to send in $5:oo along with your child's favorite item wish.

Let us know if your child will not be attending vacation week or only some of the days so we can plan accordingly.

FARMS AND BARNS

FARMS AND BARNS

We will be finishing up our theme "Farms and barns" by the end of the month. So far this month, the children have had fun; making doe letters, making butter, playing farm games like "farmer in the dell" and "mulberry bush". We have made farm animal books and postcards will be going home today of the farms they would like to have!

As CHRISTMAS approaches we have been singing Christmas songs and learning dances to "UP ON THE HOUSE TOP" AND "JINGLE BELL ROCK". They are also learning the lyrics to "RUDOLF" AND "SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN". All the children have been very good so far; Santa better have some good stuff for this group of children!

Newsletter will be in their folders today explaining the Christmas party.

Reminder: we are closed 12/24 and 12/31

Farms and Barns

We had a fun week beginning our new theme "farms and barns" Our first farm animal was the chicken. They learned about roosters, hens, eggs and chicks. They also learned about sun rises and sun sets. Francis was the "rooster" for the week that had the special job of "cockadoodle-dooing" when he saw the sun raise. We made chicken and rooster masks, counted eggs, played with corn meal in the sensory table and cracked an egg open to see and feel what was inside. We learned the chicken dance and also a rooster dance to not leave out the boy chickens!

This week we will finish learning about chickens and learn about planting seeds.

Color of the week: red

Shape: triangle

Letter of the week: Cc

Numbers of the week: 3 and 13