Fairy Tales and Seasons

I have to apologize for not getting the last 2 weeks posted sooner. We had a gross sickness going through the family last week and I completely forgot to post the week before. To top it all off when I went to download my pictures they were gone. I think my 2 year old may have got to the camera and deleted them. So I have just taken a quick few pictures to show you some of the fun activities we did.

Fairy Tales: We were able to read a couple of my favorite fairy tales. The Frog Prince was the first one and the kids loved making these frogs out of paper plates. I think there favorite part was gluing on the tongue and then making their frogs ribbit over and over again.  I love how fairy tales teach a life lesson. In The Frog Prince we learned that it is important to keep your promise if you say you will do something.

We also red the story The Little Red Hen. We talked about the importance of helping out with the work if you want the reward at the end. They were then able to help roll out the dough and help me make scones. We did this activity last year and the kids always love the scones. Even though they usually put way too much cinnamon sugar on it. 

Seasons: We have also been talking lots about the seasons and how the weather changes for each season. We have been doing a lot of sorting to practice learning the difference between each season. The kids have been doing really well at the sorting games and seem to be catching on well. We have read some fun books as well to go with each season. We collected leaves one day. We talked about the leaves that were still on the trees and those that had fallen on the ground. They loved to see all the different colors that the leaves were changing. We then practiced tracing our leaves onto paper and then they got to paint their leaves all the different fall colors.