Community Helpers

The last couple of weeks we have talked about a few people in the community and what their different jobs are. We talked about farmers and all the hard work they do to supply us with fruits and vegetables. We learned about the job of a police officer and made some hats and police badges that the kids got to wear so they looked like a police officer. We also learned about the job of a baker. How they get up so early to start baking all their foods and have to make sure they measure the ingredients and follow each recipe. We made chocolate chip cookies this day. Next we talked about Fire fighters to go along with our field trip that was today. For cooking we made smores. I originally wanted to make a camp fire to cook the marshmallows but thought it would probably be a little too much work. I am glad I passed on it because we were running out the door after a busy day with melting chocolate all over the kids faces. Our field trip was great. The Fire Fighter reminded the kids to get down low to stay away from smoke and to get out of the building as fast as they could if there was a fire. We also got to see all the trucks they drive and got to look inside of them.

Making Barn animals for art.

Cooking yummy smores and making some fire fighters that looked like themselves.

Trip to the Lehi Fire Station: Getting ready to watch a movie about Fire Safety.

 Crawling out of the building.

Getting help up to see the Fire Truck.

 Heavy, heavy coats they wear.

 Happy to all get our own little Fire Hat.

 Make a silly face :)

We had lots of green on today since it is St. Patrick's day. Before the field trip we had a great time eating a green breakfast and finding out that our Leprechaun traps didn't catch a Leprechaun but he did leave us some gold. :)

Nursery Rhymes

The last couple of weeks we have been working on nursery rhymes. I am posting some pictures of some of the projects we did to go with them.

Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse went up the clock,
The clock struck one, the mouse ran down.
Hickory Dickory Dock.

We memorized the rhyme and also have been practicing making our own rhyming words. We also discussed telling time on a clock. We always keep the big hand on the 12 and practice just moving the little hand to tell time.

Hey Diddle the Cat and the fiddle 

The cow jumped over the moon. 

The Little Dog laughed to see such sport

And the dish ran away with the spoon. 

We learned about the different phases of the moon and then they got to use moon and star stamps to make a picture. 

Such a cute picture! I love the dish and the spoon :) 

Next up: 

Star Light, Star Bright

First Star I see tonight. 

I wish I may, I wish I might, 

Have the wish I wish tonight. 

We did a fun little art project. First I had to teach the kids how to make stars. Then they drew stars on their paper with white  or yellow crayons. Afterwards you have them paint over with blue or black paint. They love watching their stars, moons, rockets and whatever else they made magically appear. Just make sure you do the crayon pretty heavy or else they don't show up as well. 

Our last nursery rhyme was:

Little Miss Muffet 

Sat on a Tuffet

Eating her curd and Whey. 

Along came a spider who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet Away. 

For this activity it was cooking day and so we made spiders:

The recipe is 

 2 tablespoons peanut butter

2 Tablespoons powder sugar

2 tablespoons crushed graham crackers. 

Add a little milk to mix them together well. Roll dough in coconut if desired. I really liked it with coconut and it made the spider look more hairy. But some kids didn't want it.  Then roll into balls and add raisins for eyes and licorice for legs. This makes one spider.   

This guy didn't have all 8 legs. 

THis one was an octopus from a little guy who loves everything about the ocean!