Learning Station - Marshmallow Stacking

Tasty and tricky!

Learning Station - Marshmallow M

Tasty!  The kiddos drew an M on their paper, then set to work gluing.  For the younger kiddos, I drew the M for them.  These are still a work in progress, I neglected to get finished pictures, drat.

Learning Station - Magnetic Wands

The kiddos hunted throughout the school to discover which items were magnetic.

 

Zz Week

Snow Slide! - Thanks Mr. Adam for making this awesome slide!!

Zz Clothing - These kiddos both had a Z on their clothes!  We also realized that we all had zippers, either on our clothes or our coats!

 

Book: Dear Zoo - Love this book, we read it in circle time.  Then the kiddos created their own version!

 

 

 

 

 

For the Toddler class, I just made them a single page:

Snack - Zoo Animals - Very tasty!

Zip Line - The kiddos LOVED doing this!  It's just a jumbo craft stick cut in half with an opened paper clip hot glued to the back.

Snow, Sunshine and Chalk - 

Snack - Zucchini Muffins - Yum!

Play Dough Zoo - We made Kool-Aid play dough then enjoyed playing with the animals in it!  ** The kiddos got to take their play dough home with them **

We use our alphabet magnets on our calendar to help us remember which letter we are working on in a given week.  One of the kiddos asked if she could borrow the ones off the calendar so she could make the alphabet.  Sure!

 

Learning Station - Zap!

 We worked with static electricity today.  The kiddos rubbed a balloon on their hair, then tried to pick up as many tissue paper pieces as they could.  Great fun!

Learning Station - Zoo Animal Pick Up - Toddlers

The kiddos LOVED this.  They played with it through all of class!  Using tongs, the kiddos moved the animals from the bowl to the container, dumped it out and did it again.

Vv Week Part 2 and Valentine's

Circle Time - With Valentine's Day fast approaching, we practiced drawing hearts today: draw a V and then put an m on top!  Taa Daa!

Clay Volcano - Day 2 Painting - We painted our volcanoes mountain color, we'll add the lava on Friday!  We also watched some videos showing volcanic eruptions and oozing lava!

Valentine Box Decorating - I cut these out of cereal boxes (we still had a bunch after box week).  We tried painting them, but even with two coats of paint they looked like this.  Next time I'll cover them with paper.

The kiddos enjoyed using lots of stickers, tape, glue, hearts ... to decorate their boxes.  Also, I printed their name of on pink paper for them to glue on the front.  In the chaos of our Valentine's parties, I neglected to get a final picture of the kids boxes.  But here is a pre-picture...

Valentine Heart Wreath - To help decorate your home!  The kiddos enjoyed gluing all sorts of festive items on their heart wreaths!

Delivering Valentines - I love how excited the kiddos get about this!

Dot Hearts -  This was fun to try today!  And we always enjoy working with the bingo paints.

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!

Ms. Sara's Valentine's - This is what I put together for the kiddos this year...

 Some goodies and fun items...

View Master - The kiddos found the view master today and gave it a try!  I love it when old toys are just as fabulous now as they were then!  And it's perfect for Vv week!

 

Moving Candy Hearts - Toddlers - This cutie spent quite a while moving hearts with the truck.

Love Trucks - Toddlers - The kiddos put their truck together and added hearts to it.

Clay Volcanoes - Day 3 - Lava! - The kiddos added pipe cleaner lava to their fabulous volcano sculptures.  A few kiddos painted water to make their volcano an island.

Lava Cupcakes - I TOTALLY forgot we did these for Ll week in the fall!  Ha!  Silly Ms. Sara!

Backyard - Yeah for sunshine!  It was melty and muddy and we found LOTS of deer tracks and deer poo!