Dr. Seuss - Fish Bowls

Enjoying this book today, we created fish bowls.  The blue is corn syrup and blue food coloring.  We used beans for the rocks at the bottom and goldfish crackers for the fish.

 

The kiddos enjoyed the project.  Both the threes and the fours.

Dr. Seuss - Fish Book

The kiddos got to create their own fish book, based on:
Ahead of time, I cut out the fish, printing the words, and created the books. 

Then I walked the kiddos through each page.  Some kiddos liked adding details to their fish.

My fours were able to mostly read the book.  I glued the word strips in the books for the threes ahead of time.

Below:  the set up.  I had the word strips in order bottom to top.  We just did the first couple of pages about the fish from Dr. Seuss' book.

Dr. Seuss - Graphing Fish

Today the book we focused on was:


So we did a bit of graphing.

I gave each kiddo a bowl of colored goldfish and had them match the colors and line them up on the graph.  They could eat the fish after they were finished graphing.  My fours enjoyed comparing graphs and seeing how many fish of each color, one another had.  My threes enjoyed counting the fish.

Learning Station - lacing pasta

For today's learning station I pulled out the dyed pasta from the fall and set it out for the kiddos to lace.

This four enjoyed lacing her fingers too!

Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs For Snack!

 I let my fours explore a bit with their eggs.  They got to crack them and stir them up.  Then it was time to turn them green.  Oh dear!  Ms. Sara only has blue food coloring, what should we do?!  Ha!  The kiddos weren't worried a bit.  They were too smart for me.  They knew that blue and yellow make green!  And so it did!

The eggs do look a bit un-edible.  But they were eaten!  One of my fours would not try them for anything!  Ha!

By the way, we ate our green eggs in a house, with a mouse! 

Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham

This week we are enjoying the fabulous books of Dr. Seuss because Saturday, March 2 is his birthday!
    Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today we focus on:

 We made paper green eggs and ham today...

Counting Practice

I found a set of number cards in the dollar bin at Target.  I used them with my threes this week to work on counting. 

We used our fabulous 'counting sticks' (ie:  Q-tips) to count out the number on the cards.  I have the kiddo count aloud, matching their words to the sticks as they put them down.  Insuring accuracy with their one to one counting skills.

Dental Week - Gluing Teeth

I cut out lips (red) and the inside of the mouth (pink) and let the kiddos glue on teeth.  I had small cups of glue and Q-tips for the kiddos to use (to put the right amount of glue on).  I wrote along the top "I will brush my teeth twice a day."

I got this idea from this blog.
She has several great ideas for dental week.

Dental Week - Marshmallow Mouths

We created these cute mouths by gluing mini marshmallows on like teeth.  I drew little circles on the mouth to show where the "teeth" should go and the kiddos dipped the "teeth" in glue and then stuck them on.

 Once the teeth dried, one of my threes tried out his mouth.  (below)  He also used the mouth to gobble up a few toys.

 With my fours, I chatted a bit about flossing and how it helps our teeth.  Then I cut pieces of yarn so the kiddos could "floss" their marshmallow mouths.  Ha ha.  It worked pretty darn well!