Plants, Mother's Day and Bugs

I have to say sorry for taking 2 weeks to finally get back to posting. I try to usually post every week but I think that being in the tail end of this pregnancy has been tiring by the time I am done teaching and then picking up the house. All I feel like doing is taking a nap. I can't believe how quickly this year has gone by. We only have 2 weeks left! It has been such a fun year and I have loved watching how much these kids have grown. Most of them were 3 when they started and they seem so grown up now. Last week we talked about plants and the different parts of a plant. We also talked about the difference between fruits and vegetables and have been working on identifying which foods are veggies and which ones are fruits. This has been tricky but they are starting to get better at it.

I pulled up a tulip from our yard and showed them all the parts of a plant. They were so fascinated to see that plants have roots. For Mother's Day we painted terra cotta pots and then they were able to plant their mom a little flower in it. We also made up a list of things they loved about their mom. It was really funny to see when one person mentioned something that their mom bought for them the rest of the class kept saying things that their mom had bought for them too and that was why they loved them the most. :)  Don't worry moms I know there are plenty of other things they love about you! 

This week we were able to go outside a lot with the nice weather. We looked at lots of bugs and talked about how many legs insects have. Here are some the activities we did. 

We watched and sang along with this cute video about ladybug

Ladybug song

We then made our own little ladybugs. One little guy informed me that " ladybugs are red Miss Julie. " I told him he was right but we were going to make all sorts if different colored bugs. He still wanted all red so he colored some of his red. They were able to put dot stickers on the bug's back and count how many each had. 

For cooking we made some of these yummy snacks that looked like different insects.

Fabulous Foods Insect Snacks