Busy Bees

Oh the weather outside is frightful....

Clouds
Share: Bring or wear something Blue
Literature:
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
This is a classic.
"Sometimes, it looked like a tree, but it wasn't a tree."
"Sometimes, it looked like an ice cream come, but it wasn't an ice cream cone."
"Sometimes, it looked like spilt milk, but it was just a cloud in the sky"
To make the story more interactive, I drew and cut out my own shapes out of white felt. The children took turns guessing what the shape was, and sticking it up on a big, blue flannel board.
Literature: Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Little Cloud separates from the group of larger clouds and changes into several shape before rejoining the others again. The kids had fun guessing the shape of the clouds (the clown was their favorite) and were really excited when I told them we would be using paint to create our own cloud shapes.

Sensory: Shaving Cream
No Photos here...all energy of mine was used to keep the shaving cream out of eyes, mouths, and off of my furniture. Next time, I will definitely do RediWhip instead for this age. My house smelled freshly shaved for a few hours, though!

Fine Motor: Cotton Balls Clothespin Transfer
Math: Number 3

Art/Critical Thinking: Inkblot cloud formations on blue paper.
Following the text from It Looked Like Spilt Milk, I wrote "Sometime it looked like______" at the top of the blank paper and had the children answer to fill in the blank when they opened their creation.

These were so fun. I was surprised at how original and unique the kids answers were when I asked them what their inkblots made. Their responses were: "a boat. no a butterfly", "a ghost...I'm not scared", "a giant", "a clown!!!", and "Tiana the frog" (from The Princess and the Frog... of course, my kid would see a Disney Princess).

Science: What is a Cloud?
I got a couple books about clouds from the library. We flipped through them and the kids looked at the pictures with a magnifying glass while I gave a simple explanation that clouds are made of tiny drops of water up in the sky.

Art/Fine Motor: Stamp Painting a Cloudy Sky:
Another use for clothespins and cotton balls
Practical Life: Today we did a refresher course in the potty routine.

Music and Movement:
Song: (to twinkle twinkle)
Floating clouds up in the sky,
Changing shapes as you pass by.
Floating by without a sound.
Won't you come and touch the ground?
Floating clouds up in the sky,
Changing shapes as you pass by

Song: Freeze Dance (What kid doesn't love this game?)

I was totally impressed during music time when one of the kids did a sweet air guitar and busted out with a little, "Hey! Ho! Let's Go!".
The Ramones?!
Those kids are so awesome.