Learning Station - Foil F

The kiddos created a letter F with their foil. 

 I saw this great idea at this source:  Here!

Learning Station - Flowered F

The kiddos enjoyed gluing and gluing and gluing flowers.  One of the kiddos, while gluing, exclaimed:  "This is a big F!"  Yep, it is.

I had a ton of scrapbooking flowers, so I pulled those out.  I also put out felt scraps and feathers, but each of the kiddos went for the flowers. - Fun!

The youngsters dipped into all the fun possibilities.

 

Ll Week!

Welcome to Ll week!  Light, lip, laugh, leg, lamb, lion, line, little ....

Circle Time - We sang "5 Little Llamas Jumping on the Bed".  It was an instant favorite!

Feely Bag - Ll Week - 


Journal Time - Ll week - Ladders, lamb, L ...

 
Look Binoculars - These binoculars helped the kiddos look for thing and at things!

Left! - We printed our left hand today and discovered we have a letter L there!

Letter Writing - The kiddos wrote themselves a letter, then we put it in the mail box and in the next day or two they'll get their letter at their house!  We talked about what happens to a letter after the mailman picks it up.  (It goes in their truck, they take it to the post office where it gets sorted, then out it goes on a truck to be delivered!)

The kiddos were super excited to mail their letters.  We were bummed our mailman didn't come during class time (sometimes he does).  It would have been fun to hand the letter right to him.

 

Ladder - The kiddos were super excited by this ladder and that they got to climb it and jump off of it!  Wahoo!  We also realized that while waiting for their turn, we formed:  a Lovely Ladder Line! 

Lemon Scented Play Dough - Oodles of fun!  The kiddos tried out our new letter stamps I found at Goodwill.  

 

Science - Lemons - We cut open a lemon to see what it looked like inside.  We also took a few tastes.  We found that a lemon has segments like an orange and seeds! 

Lemon Juice = Lemonade! - The kiddos were excited to create their own lemonade today!  They squeezed lemon wedges really hard, then we sprinkled in some sugar and took a sip.  Yum!

The kiddos really enjoyed this messy bit of fun.  Great for their hand muscles too.

Lemon Painting - The kiddos drew the segments, seeds and the lemon's belly button on their small paper plate with crayon.  Then they painted it.  I was going to scent the paint with lemonade Kool-Aid, but I didn't have any.


Letter L Yoga - Here is our L! 

Lizards! - The kiddos were surprised to find lizards in the backyard bucket lift.

Magnetic Letter Board - Toddlers - The kiddos were moving around the magnetic letters on the calendar, so I pulled out this board (from IKEA) and our baggie of letters and let them go to it.   They loved it!  I think I'll pull this out for the older kiddos tomorrow!

Journal Time - Lollipops!


Craft Stick Lizards - These turned out so cute, I wish I had all the classes make them, drat!

For the legs, I used one pipe cleaner and just bent it to create them, and then hot glued them on.

 Ready for painting.

Rolly Polly - We were excited to discover a rolly polly making his way down the driveway.  The little critter got to walk on everyone's hands, it was a bit tickle-ish.

Learning Station - Length

Today we discovered the length of many of the objects in the classroom using measuring tapes from IKEA.  (Thanks IKEA!)

 

Learning Station - Pom Pom Carton -Toddlers

The kiddos used their fine motor skills to put pom poms in each egg cup and then to take them out again.  We also talked about colors as they worked.

Learning Station - Lego L -

The kiddos built a letter L today.

Learning Station - L with Labels

The kiddos Loved this.  They formed an L with labels then they stuck labels all over the other side of the paper and themselves.  Ha!  These labels were from a donation - perfect for Ll week.  Thanks!

Tt Week!

Welcome to Tt week!

Circle Time - We chatted about all sorts of Tt things today.  Trucks, turtles, toes, triangles, toothpicks, tape .... .  We also learned the sign language for Tt.

Milk Cap Turtles - We looked at pictures of turtles and talked about where they live (ponds and streams).  Then we looked at tortoises and noticed how they were different (bigger shell, claws, scaly legs) and talked about where they live (desert).  Finally we enjoyed some pictures of sea turtles.  We knew where they live.  We also chatted about what these animals eat.

Once we decorated the shells of our turtles, we let them go for a swim.  We had a wet pond and a dry pond to play in. 

The toddlers added a few more animals to the pond.

Toothbrush and Mouth - The kiddos created a mouth with teeth and a toothbrush to clean them. 

I love that this kiddos created a face for her mouth!

Tape Road - No Tt week would be complete without a tape road!  The kiddos enjoyed driving all over it.


Backyard - Bucket - Over the weekend Mr. Adam rigged us up a bucket-pulley system.  The kiddos had a BLAST taking turns pulling the bucket up to the top and letting it back down over and over and over again.  Our bucket carried pine cones, rocks, sticks, leaves and of course:  Turtles!  

I got the great idea for this from a blog, find it:  HERE!

Tacos! - The kiddos created paper tacos with all the toppings today!  Yum!  Maybe we should have made the real things!

We painted a small paper plate the class before, then today we filled it!  It saw this great idea:  HERE!

Free Play - Tent! - Ms. Sara found these tents on clearance yesterday!  Just in time for our Tt week!  Terrific! 

 

Toothpick Twirlers - These fabulous "helicopters" were lots of fun today.
I found this idea at this source:  HERE!


Envelope Trash Trucks - This is one of my favorite activities we did last year.  I have a kiddo who LOVES trash trucks, so we did it again.  It was perfect for Tt week.  The kiddos used scraps from the recycling bin to fill the truck with "trash".

The back is a large envelope that were wonderfully donated.