Turtles & Tortoises

Theme:  Letter T
Letter T is fun to make and it has a fun sound to say.  We took turns pulling off "tulips" off of our Temple poster.  Each Tulip had an idea for a fun T activity. Some of our focus words included:  turtle, two, ten, tin, tent, turkey, twist, tiptoe, touch, taste, tongue, tiny...

Choosing Time:  Trains, Turtles, Tracing Puzzle Pieces

Show & Tell:

 Tea Set

 Tiger

 Turtle

Sea Turtle

Snacks:

• Tasty Painted Toast--Each kiddo was able to paint a piece of bread with red, blue, and yellow milk paint and then we toasted it, Yum!

Art:

• Turtles
• Triangle Collage

Science:  We compared turtles and tortoises.  We had a tortoise come and visit.

Games:

• Touch & Taste:  I put several marbles and peanut M&M's in a bag.  One at a time a child put his hand into the bag to attempt at pulling out an M&M instead of a marble.  Even if a marble was chosen, each kiddo got an M&M to eat.

Music & Movement:

• Tiny Turtle
• Twisty and twirling T's
• Tiptoe 
• Sesame Street's "Plain White T's"

 Writing:  We traced S/s's and Wrote T's

Video Clip:  Cookie Monster Introduces Letter "T"

Books:

a book about seeing through touch

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: