Feeling Lucky

Theme:  St. Patrick's Day Party

Snack:  Green Smoothies & Green Rice Krispy Treats

Games:

• Building Leprechauns
• Build a Rainbow/Jump over the rainbow
• A Leprechaun played a trick on us and left some Chocolate Gold Coins for us

Art:

• Shamrock Shakers
• Hot Rocks

Books:
   

Sweet & Salty

Theme:  Letter S
We noticed that both upper and lower case S have the same shape.  We had fun pulling S shapes out of a sack and then did a corresponding activity with each shape.  We focused on some fun S words like swim, sun, skin, see, soft, silly, slimy, sweet, speak, snack, string, sing, song ....We also learned that when H follows S it makes the "sh" sound, which includes words such as shoulder, shine, shark, show, shake, and shush.

Choosing Time:  Silly Scissor Cutting Collages, Shapes, trains, doll house, dress-ups, jewels,....

Show & Tell:

 Songs

 Squares & S

 Swords

 Super Hero

 Saber-tooth Tiger & Snakes

 Who is longer?

 Can you coil into a spiral?

Science:  We learned about Signs of Spring--I asked the kiddos, "What kinds of changes do you see outside?"  Many of them replied, "Rainbows!"  I laughed.  And, just so you know, some also answered, "Birds!"  Hopefully now, we'll also be looking for brown to turn to green--on the trees, in the grass, in dirt...and for butterflies and bees to start showing up.

Music & Movement:

• Dancing Snowmen
• Rain is Falling
• See Me Run
• Everything has a Shape
• Stand Up
• Put Your Hand inside the Circle
• Make a swirling shape
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

Writing:  We practiced R/r

Snacks:

• Popcorn & fruit Snacks
• Square Crackers with String cheese
• Kid Cliff Bars

Art:

• Salt Dough Sculptures that we created and then painted
• Super Hero Capes
• Sponge Painting (with a challenge to put the sky shapes  and the ground shapes in the right spaces)

Books:
    

Rainbows, Rockets, & Rabbits

Theme:  Letter R
We practiced the letter R sound.  We made big R with our bodies.  We noticed that little r has a rainbow shape.  We thought of several words that use the R sound:  rabbit, rat, rain, rainbow, red, read, rock, roof, reverent, ring, raccoon, rhyme...

Choosing Time:  Robots, Rainbow fruity necklaces, Rubber-bands, ...

Show & Tell:

 Rainbow dress

Rhino, Rabbit, & Raccoon

Rope

Snacks:

• Popcorn, Pears, & Oranges
• Frozen Go-gurts & Goldfish Crackers
• Clementines (rainbow shapes) & "gold" crackers

Music & Movement:

• I'm a Little Rabbit
• I Can Sing a Rainbow
• Rain is Falling
• Row, Row, Row the Boat
• If all the Raindrops were Lemon Drops
• A Chubby Little Snowman
• Ring Around the Roses
• If You're Wearing Red Today
• Little House in the Middle of the Woods

Math:  We Had a hunt for numbers

Art:

• Watercolor & Salt Rainbows (we first had to trace the rainbow and black glue over the lines)
• Rainbow Collage
• Rockets

Science:

• What happened to the painting when we added salt?
• What 3 things do we need to make a rainbow?

Books:

Falling for Rapunzel

The White Rabbit's Color Book

Red Riding Hood

Roses are Red