Learning Station - Binocular Hunt

The kiddos used their binoculars to look for hidden letters.  They had so much fun they wanted to do it again and again.  Which was dandy until kiddos forgot where they hid letters.  Ha!  We're still looking for the letter D.  ...  It'll turn up eventually.

 

 

The younger kiddos hunted for colors.  They picked a paint sample color off the table and then looked around the room for that color. 

 

Learning Station - Box Stacking

The kiddos had to stack a tower or wall.  Trickier than it sounds!  Knocking/kicking/punching it down was the best part!

 

Uu Week

Welcome to our unique Uu week!

Freezing - When we checked the temperature during weather, we saw that it was freezing, so the kiddos wanted to freeze water again!

 

Utah Book - Our state starts with Uu!!  We learned a few of our state items...

Uu Clothing - Ms. Sara had unicorn socks on and this toddler has unicorn shoes!

We also found the letter Uu on these cereal boxes!

Up House - 

 

Snow Play - Today the kiddos climbed the snow mound at the end of the driveway and greatly enjoyed chucking snowballs into the road.  (No cars insight).

 

Snack - Umbrellas - We got umbrellas for our drink today.  So fancy.

Snow Plow - Lucky us, we got to see the snow plow go by today!

Journals - Under - Ha!  We did our journals under the table today!

Egg Unicorns - Ha!  These turned out pretty cute!  Another good use of leftover Easter eggs!

 

I found these on this blog: Here!  These are teacher labor intensive (hot gluing), but they turned out cute.  The kiddos picked their eyes and hair color.  The horns are glitter cardstock.

Deer Tracks - The kiddos were super excited to see these tracks.  They went off hunting for some more.  ...  They found more deer tracks and also some rabbit tracks!

 

Smashing Pumpkins - While digging, the kiddos discovered our mini pumpkins from Halloween.  They were slightly squishy, so they decided to smash them open...

Learning Station - Uno - Uu Week

I LOVE playing games with these cuties!  Game playing teaches so many wonderful things, like turn taking, numbers, colors, patience, good sportsmanship...

Learning Station - Up!

The kiddos had to keep their balloons up in the air!  Great activity to help with winter wiggles! 

Learning Station - Don't Break The Ice

The kiddos greatly enjoyed playing "Don't Break the Ice" for their learning station.  They worked on fine motor skills and sharing.

Ii Week

Welcome to our incredible Ii week!

Igloo and Ice - Our snow cave has become an igloo this week (ha!) and we discovered some ice on the porch.  It reminded us of our little cups of ice we made a few weeks ago.  Wow!  It must be freezing outside again today!

Ii Clothing - Ms. Sara was sporting her ice cream socks!

Snack - Ice Cream - The long awaited week of deliciousness!

Glittery Icicles - These turned out fancy!  We thought it would be fun to hang in the trees outside.  They are a little tricky to see in this picture.  They are tinfoil crumpled in the shape of an icicle.  Then we painted them with modge podge and put them in a take out container with a tight lid and some glitter and shook them.

I found this fun idea on this blog:  Here!

Igloo - We created this lovely igloo with mailing labels.  We talked about how igloos are made from ice cut into squares.  Outside, Mr. Adam's snow cave was made from a pile of snow.

I got this idea from this blog:  Here!

Free Play - Perfect week to play with the ice cream cone!

"Igloo" - 

Circle Time - If - We read this book about some silly what if's, then came up with many of our own.  I should have taken notes, because some of them were fabulous.

Journal Time - Inches - We were adding inch tape to our journals, and I was showing the kiddos how to measure with the tape, then I pulled out the rulers ... lots of measuring in inches happened.  It was great.

 

Ice Mound - The kiddos pushed the snow off to find our lump of ice.

Inchworm - These turned out so cute!!!  I showed the kiddos a video of an inchworm in motion, and then we beaded these little cuties.  The bottom worm is how I prepped them for the kiddos to bead.

I found this cute idea on this blog:  Here!

 

Eggs - Toddlers - One of the kiddos pulled out our egg carton of eggs to play with.  Soon that kiddo had a mob of friends.  So I grabbed our bucket of eggs.  So much fun!