The Rainbow Fish- Read out loud

 

GOING GREEN! (Earth Day song for kids about the 3 R's- Reduce, Reuse, an...

Easter Preschool Party

Fun Preschool Easter Party Ideas

 CRAFT

 Cotton bunnies

Look how cute their bunnies and paper mache eggs came out!

 CRAFT 

 Making bunny ears

Language Arts

Beginning letter sounds

MATH

Jelly bean, sorting, counting, and graphing

Measuring with Robin Eggs



 

PARTY GAMES

played Easter edition of  hot potato. We passed around a puppy and played Easter music.

The person last holding the stuffed animal won a princess or super hero GIANT pen.

The "WINNER" won a pen and the stuffed animal.

PAPER MACHE EGGS

They each took their eggs home filled with goodies in addition to their baskets filled with eggs from our Easter eggs hunt.

EASTER PARTY SNACKS



What Rhymes with HEN?

LANGUAGE ARTS

Word Family -en Activity

 

here are some words my students came up with: ken, ben, pen, men, den, ten, "wen", zen, jen...

I found this picture on www.lucylearns.com then copied and pasted it on Word to make it a little bigger. I used the "text box" to add "__en" on the eggs. That's it; easy peasy!

  

Final product^^^

You could use this Hen instead. It is much nicer, maybe next time.

  

HELLO CHICKS!!!!

One of the parents had chicks, so she brought them to share with the class.

How to Milk a Cow

Science

How to milk a cow by hand

I found this precious idea on Little Kinder Warriors. I decided on this activity kind of last minute, so I didn't have time to make a cute cow like Katie.

VIDEO

We first watched this youtube video, that explains how to properly milk a cow.

Massaging the udder to make the milk come down

And MILK IT!

PUZZLES

here's the link: Melissa-Doug-Farm-Cube-Puzzle;You can buy it on Amazon.

it's a little challenging, but my kids enjoy it, with a little help.



Insects- All About Butterflies

BUTTERFLIES GALORE

Circle Time

We reviewed the life cycle; click here to see how I incorporate creative movement, to help my students remember the butterfly life cycle. After they had all turned into beautiful butterflies I took my little ones on an adventure. We searched high and low for flowers. Finally when snack was ready, I gave a holler and said I FOUND FLOWERS FULL OF NECTAR. All my butterflies flew to the tables and sipped their "nectar" through their proboscis.

Snack

I used a die cut to make the flowers and poked a hole, in the middle, with a pencil. The straws were too long and had be shorten to fit their dixie cups.

ART-butterfly bracelets 

They REALLY enjoyed playing with these.

In the classroom

and outside.

SCIENCE-Life Cycle

Coloring the life cycle stages



It best to print it double sided so that the children do little less cutting and use less paper. I found this cute butterfly life cycle on CutesyCrafts.com, as a free printable. Make sure to read her posting, or you'll miss it. It's a click HERE link.

THE STAGES

Caterpillar

 

Chrysalis 

Butterfly



 

Their antennae fell off :(

 MAGIC SCHOOL BUS butterfly episode





St. Patrick's- Exploring Rainbows

Language Arts
printing color names on the rainbow
Click HERE for template

SCIENCE: Acting out the Butterfly life cycle.

Music and Movement
Making learning fun!!

I lay my eggs on a big green leaf.

My butterfly larva begin to eat their way out of their egg shell. Of course my hungry caterpillars pretend to eat and eat and eat.

Then they get ready, by hanging upside down "hanging J" and shed one last time. They are now in their chrysalis. When I give them the cue the begin to slowly move and make their way out flapping their wet small wings (chicken wings). after a while their wings are "dry" and full size. I let them fly around looking for flowers to drink some nectar.

This is such a fun way to review the butterfly cycle. I've done this inside the classroom as well as outdoors. They love it!


Chinese New Year FREE PRINTABLES

This site has TONS of free Chinese New Year printables:
1. http://www.disneybaby.com/blog/free-printables-for-the-chinese-new-year

 Chinese New Year Coloring Pages:
1. http://bestcoloringpages.com/chinese-new-year-coloring-pages
2. http://www.childbook.com/Chinese-New-Year-Coloring-Pages-Pictures-s/10.htm

Free Character Cards
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese-character-cards

YEAR OF THE DRAGON IDEAS:

ART

Smush paint dancing dragons

 Year of the Dragon

Click here to download printable: http://www.crayola.com/free-dragon-parade-puppet-coloring-page

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!