Share: Wear Green for St. Patrick's Day!
Book: What Makes a Rainbow? By Betty Ann Schwartz
Book: The Umbrella By Jan Brett (I love her books...check out the website janbrett.com-great stuff!)
Sensory: Taste the Rainbow (no...not with skittles, with fruit!)
I gave the kids little umbrella (U is the letter this month) toothpicks to their fruit with.
The photo makes this look totally gross, but it really was a pretty yummy snack.red apples, orange orange slices, yellow pinapple chunks, blueberry yogurt dip, green kiwi (that only Quincy was willing to eat...and I think she ate all of it!) and purple grapes.
Science: Color Mixing
I filled canning jars with yellow and blue water, and gave them pipettes to transfer the water into empty jars and create green.Fine Motor: Cutting paper strips for art
The children were given several strips of colored paper to cut into squares for our sticky art.
Language: U-Words and U art. We added to our list of U-words (underwear, utensil, umbrella...) and then I drew large pictures on sheets of cardboard for the children to color.
Art: Class Rainbow Sticky-Art
A large rainbow is drawn and labeled with colored pens.
I then put strips of double stick tape down in each of the layers of the rainbow.
The children placed colored paper pieces that they had cut up earlier onto corresponding rows to make a giant rainbow. This center was open all day, and each of them took turns adding to the rainbow. They were impressed with the end result. Teamwork!
Art: WatercolorsThe kids painted while I read "What Makes a Rainbow" to them. I'd suggest using card stock for this age group. Some of the artwork got a little soggy, but they had fun exploring with paint and colors nonetheless.
Dramatic Play: Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr
I made (and laminated, of course) silhouettes of the animals from the book and the children acted out the story. This is a good one to act out because the lines are simple and have a call/repeat pattern of lyrics.Class: "Brown Bear Brown Bear, what do YOU see?"
Child (holding the bear): "I see a Yellow Duck looking at me."
Class: "Yellow Duck Yellow Duck, what do YOU see?"
Child (holding the yellow duck): "I see a Red Bird looking at me"
Class: "Red Bird, Red Bird, What do YOU see?" ...etc
It's the cutest thing ever. I should recorded it.
3 comments:
This looks so cool. They must have the best time at school with you!
sooo cute...i have brown bear cut out in felt pieces for flannel board story time. its a BIG hit with the kids.
i miss teaching preschool EVERY time i read your busy bee posts. most def going to open a school one of these days!
Such cute lesson plans! That fruit looks SO tasty!
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