Green, Glitter and Gold

During circle time on Tuesday, we found a rainbow and a pot of gold that Lucky the Leprechaun hid in our class!  We had fun peeling off the gel pieces and putting the rainbow together. When we finished we added the pot of gold at the end.  We're trying to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow...ask your kids to see if they know!

During the first half of the year we learned to recognize our first names, now we're  learning to read our last names during circle time too.  We're also starting to print our last names occasionally.  We heard the story The Shoemaker and the Elves today and then we made leprechaun ladders using pipe cleaners, straws and shamrocks.

Here we are making our leprechaun ladders.

Tuesday was an extended day where some of us stayed for lunch.  We had a little extra time to play and we made rainbow art.  We put all the colors of the rainbow on a tray then put paper on top and used a rolling pin to spread the paint.  These are the designs we made.

The kids used blank paper to create these designs.  We had fun looking at them and trying to decide what they looked like.  We had a rainbow sky, 2 rainbow fish, a fire breathing dragon and a bumble bee!  

We used a paper with the letter R printed on it, put it on the paint and rolled it, then cut it out and glued it down when it was dry.  What beautiful "Rainbow R's!


Wednesday and Thursday we painted paper plates green then sprinkled gold and green glitter on top.  We turned them into leprechaun hats on St. Patrick's Day.

We had our hammer and shapes set out all week during activity time...it is one of the kids favorite!  We also had playdough and rainbow colored beans and mosaics available all week.

Our beautiful pots of gold with the rainbow coming out...the colors are in the same order as a rainbow in the sky!

We used glue to make the letter G and a shamrock, then sprinkled gold and green glitter on top!

Thursday was "Wear Green to School Day".  When we arrived at school our leprechaun ladders were hanging on our hooks with a gold coin for each of us!  The leprechauns left some gold "leprechaun dust" on the ladders so we knew they were there!  We went on a hunt around the church to look for leprechauns, we didn't see them but Miss Lucy said she heard one run by her office and when we looked around, sure enough, there were gold coins left for us in the church narthex.  We had fun collecting them...each of us found 7 gold coins to take home.  Back downstairs, it was time for snack. Lucky had left his favorite snack, we opened it, poured it in a bowl, added milk to it and stirred it up...it turned green and thick!!  It was green pudding!  Yum!!

"May the sun shine all day long, everything go right and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true!"

Rainbows and Leprechauns

We started out the week talking about rainbows and colors. Curing circle time we mixed colors and then made a rainbow with our colors.  We heard Two great stories, Mouse Paint and What Do You Need to Make a Rainbow?  In Music, Mrs. Jenkins had us singing songs about rainbows too!  During activity time we used water colors to paint rainbows.  We also had rainbow colored beads to play with in our sensory tub, magnetic rainbow colored mosaics to use and colored shapes with hammers and nails to pound into cork.  We used rainbow colored pattern blocks to create shapes too! 

I love how each rainbow is so unique...just like each child! 

Wednesday a leprechaun visited our class!  He was so sneaky we didn't see him but he turned the numbers on the calendar upside down and backwards and left us a story called The Night before St. Patrick's Day. Here's a link to the video of the book we read.  The kids might enjoy watching this, we did not watch it in class.  The Night Before St. Patrick's Day read aloud

We had fun going outside and playing on the black top.  The grass was still a little too muddy to play on but we used sidewalk chalk, tennis balls, and badminton rackets and had a lot of fun!

Both of our frogs are back in our classroom again, we think maybe the leprechaun helped make Rocky feel better.

When we came back inside we finished painting our rainbows and used gold and green glitter to make the letter G with Mrs. Chyko.  We also played with cars, trains, blocks, colored beads and mosaics.

Thursday our leprechaun played more tricks on us.  He left us a note and we know his name his Lucky.  He left Lucky Charms in our circle time room....we had to look around and find them.  We had them for snack today.  He also left us lime scented green play dough...we had fun using shamrock cookie cutters with it during activity time. And he left us another story....Jack and the Leprechaun!!  We learned a little about Ireland with this story and we listened to Irish Music while we had our snack! 

Jack and the Leprechaun video

 It was so nice we went outside and today the grass was firm enough for us to play on...boy did it feel nice to climb on the equipment and run around on the lawn again! 

The kids enjoyed eating Lucky Charms and finding rainbows, and other shapes in the cereal!!   

 

Robots, Transportation, and Sports Day

We talked about robots the last week in February.  We had a lot of fun listening to Robo-Pete, another book in the Pete the Cat Series. Click the link above to hear the story as a read aloud video.
We also had a great time celebrating Naomi's 5th birthday!  She brought in delicious cupcakes for a snack!

Our Tuesday snack, home made funfetti cupcakes...so good!

Of course we sang Happy Birthday in English and Spanish!!

Naomi brought animal masks for all of us!  We had fun wearing them during indoor movement time and pretending to be the different animals...thanks for a great day, Naomi...Happy Birthday!!

We had fun using shapes to make robots.  Here are just a few of our creations.  We also had fun looking at the robot located in our big activity room...we named it Wall-E.

Other exciting news is that our amaryllis bloomed !  The kids were so excited to see it during circle time.

The beginning of March came in like a lion with a snowstorm!  We were talking about transportation during the week.  Show and Tell was the highlight on Tuesday, with all the kids bringing some type of transportation toy to school.  We had remote control cars, hot wheels cars, air planes, and trains.  The kids had a chance to play with their show and tell during activity time. We heard a lot of stories about planes, trains, cars and construction equipment.  We also listed things that make us go.  We came up with ideas like roller skates, scooters, strollers, cars, vans, busses, our feet, boats and trains! We had fun singing the song The Wheels on the Bus during circle time.

 Matthew was our Maple Leaf of the Week.  On Tuesday he brought in posters about himself, his family and his friends at school.  He told us all about the cool posters he brought in.  On Wednesday, Matthew's mom, Karen, came in and read us the Dr. Seuss story Wacky Wednesday.  The kids loved looking at the pictures and finding all the things that went wrong!  Here's the link to the video...show your kids this, I know they will love it!!

On Thursday, Matthew brought in a yummy snack of cupcakes and chocolate milk and then his family came in and created a sports day for us.  They set up a station for basketball, bowling, soccer and a ball toss.  The kids had an absolute ball (ha, ha) rotating through the different activities. Matthew's 2 big brothers, his Dad and his mom came in to work with the kids at each station.  What a great way for us to move around on these cold days in March!

Bowling with Tommy and soccer in the background with Dad.

Ball toss and catch with Mom, basketball with Chuck.

All the athletes!

Thanks Willers for a great way to end the week!