Dr. Seuss

Dr. Suess celebrated his birthday on Monday, March 2nd.  He would have been 111 years old! What an amazing author, kids continue to love his books! He has left such a wonderful legacy to our children!!  In honor of his birthday we read several of his books this week.  We started the week with reading the book Ten Apples up on Top.  After we read the story we all made a project using a picture of ourself and counting out the apples needed to write our names on our head!

In addition to being a great language activity it was also a terrific math activity!!

Carter was our Maple Leaf of the Week!

On Tuesday, his Mom and Dad came in to talk to us about farms.

Scott grew up on a farm and brought in a lot of farming equipment and animals for the kids to use.  He also brought in a replica of the barn that belongs to his family!  We heard a story about tractors and then we had a special snack....tractor tires and hay bales!!

Wednesday we heard the Dr. Seuss story One  Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  Mrs. Jenkins came in and we had music and Betsy came in to read us Carter's favorite book, Ideas.  

After we heard the book we used marshmallows, toothpicks, and our own ideas to create shapes!

When we were all finished, we got to eat a marshmallow too!!

On Thursday, we painted fishbowls.  When they're dry we'll put in a red fish and a blue fish! We talked a lot about rhyming words and listened to There's a Wocket in my Pocket by Dr. Seuss.   We had a special snack of fresh grapes, strawberries and a lego sucker! When the kids came in for circle time there was a lot of excitement because our amaryllis finally bloomed!! We also had a great time sharing the things we brought in for Show and Tell!

Grandma Debbie (Carter's Grandma) came in Thursday to teach us about exercise and taking care of our bodies.

  We had so much fun moving to the different songs she brought in.  We moved to Happy, Awesome (from the Lego Movie), Let's Go Fly a Kite and a bunch of other great songs! 

We had so much fun....it was AWESOME!!!  Thanks Carter for sharing your family with us this week!!  

Friday we heard The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss.  Then we painted our feet and made footprints!  We turned our footprints into puppets.  We also talked about right and left and put stickers on our right foot to help us remember our different sides.  It was nice outside so we went out to play, it felt so good to be outside!!  Hopefully spring is on its way!!