Week 3: Outdoors

This week we learned about butterflies and seeds again.  We actually did lots of different little things.  On Tuesday we watched a clip of butterfly's life cycle.  Then we went outside and spent some time cleaning some foam butterflies in the water tables.  I only had enough ponchos for the girls to keep them from getting wet.

We did a group activity pretending to be seeds again, using water mist, and I fed them "sunlight" and "plant food."  On Thursday we focused more on seeds, watching a clip of a seed turning into a flower, and then we planted some seeds outside.  We dug out own holes, and could have lots of seeds.

Week 1 & 2: Easter and The Outdoors

One day we decorated Easter baskets made of plates.

We did a play dough station, "gardening" with seeds and flowers.

The week after Easter, we celebrated and did an Easter party, along with some Easter festivities.  We had a lot of fun looking for eggs for our Easter Egg hunt.  I really enjoyed our play dough station this past week, and I showed them all how to plant seeds, water their pots with pretend water, and then using flowers to make arrangements.  We also pretended to be seeds during singing time, and we grew into flowers.  I used mist to "water" everyone, and the kids giggled and ask for more.

Week 5: Numbers

I moved the trampoline last week and suddenly it was the hot item of the day.

I always love it when we do play dough centers.  They are one of my favorite activities. We talked about identifying numbers and used number cookie cutters.  I'm excited for our gardening play dough center next month.

Week 4 - Numbers

This was really cute.  All of the kids were given a number to decorate, and we played "I spy" with the numbers.  Each kid got a turn.

We talked about the number 5.  I showed everyone that they have 5 fingers on each hand, and we did a craft using their hand print.  Then they played with sidewalk chalk outside.  The cute kids loved doing the paint and especially washing it off in the bowl.  I'm going to have to plan some water activities soon.

Week 3: Numbers

This week we mostly focused on St. Patrick's Day.  We made some St. Patrick's Day hats, and then Thursday we went on a treasure hunt outside to find our cloud dough.  Cloud dough is amazing.  They will play with it from 20-30 minutes, which is a long time for 2-4 year olds.  It's magical, and a huge mess, but so fun.

Week 2: Make-up week

Magic bubbles (fan with bubbles)

This was a make up week.  We got to do out magic bubbles outside, which is one of my favorites!

Week 1: Numbers

One of our centers had duplo towers and cards to match!

We did an activity using play dough mats and numbers.

This week we were practicing our counting and numbers.  Everyone was so good at counting 1-10, and they were excited to show what they know.