Porcupine Craft

Check out these cute porcupines we made this week :)

(Sorry the pictures are sideways - they won't turn!) 

Owl Number Sets

We have been practicing counting to 10 starting at different numbers. We have also been working on indentifying the numbers before or numbers after. We used these owl number sets to practice before and after.

(Owl patterns from www.childcareland.com)

Where are the animals hiding?

We are just wrapping up our Farm Unit!
We used "piles of straw" and animal sticks to help us practice our shapes.

One student hid the animal behind one of the straw piles.

 

 

The other student picked a shape and looked behind it.

 

If they were correct, they found the hiding animal!

 



If You Give a Cat a Cupcake - Shaving Cream Cupcakes

I absolutely love the If You Give A ... books. I think they are my favorite. Although none of them will compare to the Mouse, the other ones are pretty awesome. :)

We read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff.

 

 

Our book extension activity, I think, has become my new favorite "shaving cream and glue" project. We made our own cupcakes! The shaving cream/glue mixture was the frosting. Then while it was still wet, we added sprinkles!

 

 

 

The final products were adorable!

 

(usually I post the kids artwork, and not my own, but their pictures were still VERY wet and they were hard to move)

 

I love when new art project ideas turn out - teaching success!

 

Playdoh Dog Food Game

We have started our Pets Theme. This is definitely one of the kids' favorites because almost all of them have something to contribute!

 

We played a game where the kids used their fine motor skills to roll Playdoh balls to make pretend pieces of dog food. I rolled the dice and the kids rolled the number of balls that showed.

 

The kids could have done this all day!

How Will I Get to School This Year?

I can't believe school has started already! :)

I absolutely love class-made books! We make tons of them throughout the year. We were able to make our first one on the second day of school - pretty impressive ;)

We read How Will I Get to School This Year? by Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki. Then we thought of a funny way that we could get to school. They were pretty cute!

Peacocks

Today we made coffee filter peacocks!