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!!