Plants and Butterflies

We have been learning about Plants and Flowers! We planted some of our own plants and I love hearing the kids talk about how their seeds have lots of roots. Or as my little girl calls them "roops". Here are some of the fun activities we have been doing with flowers. 

We made these flower masks out of their hands. This activity works well if you trace their hands the class time before. It takes way too long to cut out during class time. I have learned this from experience. ;) Also, I love having the kids practice making patterns with the colors. 

We practiced drawing flowers on our white boards and included the 3 main ingredients to grow a plant: Water, sun and soil.

This picture was taken because this little guy really wanted his mom to see his cool tower he made today! Hope you enjoy it Nicole.

For cooking we had to make dirt! I love this recipe, it is always a favorite and so yummy. Chocolate pudding, oreos, whipped cream and gummy worms.

So I am so excited to now have a new house with our preschool in the basement! The kids were so excited for the first day of class in their new preschool. I am loving the fact that at the end of class I can leave the mess and come back to clean it when I get a bit of a break. Here are some pictures having fun with some new costumes I got for our dress up box. 

 Super Hero Cape: But this guy loves being Harry Potter in this costume. I love hearing all the spells he is casts.

 The Big Bad Wolf. This one is a favorite. I think I need to get more animal costumes.

 Little Angel

The Chef

Here is our new water table that is the new favorite thing to do during centers. 

We also just started our Butterfly Unit. I ordered our caterpillars and we read the book The Hungry Caterpillar. We made some fun stuff to learn about the butterfly cycle. 

This is a sensory butterfly. We used a large plastic bag and added lots of fun things to it. Such as; feathers, pom poms, buttons, crete paper, ribbon, cellophane, glitter and whatever else I could find in my box of art supplies. We took time to use adjectives to describe what each object felt like or looked like before putting it into the bag. I love some of the words they used. Slimy, soft, hard, rubbery, slippery, tickley, crinkly, spiky, and there were many more. Afterwards, close it shut and blow a little air in it. Take a pipe cleaner and tie it so you have the wings and 2 antennas. 

 We also made butterflies out of food for cooking today.

Here are our butterfly life cycles made out of pasta. Well, all except the egg. I used a seed for the egg. But the caterpillar is rotollini, the cocoon is a shell shape, and butterfly is a bow tie. I let them color them with markers to add more color. They really love this activity.

It has been a great last couple of weeks! We also went on a field trip to Macey's grocery store. It was so much fun and the kids got so many freebies! I found out 2 new things about Macey's. They have a meat tumbler that you can have your meat tenderized and marinated and then they vacuum seal it for no extra cost. And you can also get a cake with a picture of yourself put on it made out of sugar. Both sound like something I would like to try :)