Sorry, I got a little behind the last couple of weeks.
Here are some of the things we did.
Ocean Day:
We read this book. I love talking about all the rhyming words in it and I also have the cd that goes with this book. The kids love listening to it and all the fun sound effects it has.
We also played a game. If I said the name of a land animal the kids would pretend to walk like the animal, if I said an ocean animal they would swim and we added in animals that fly and would pretend we were flying. They really liked the part when they got to be the teacher and pick an animal for us to act out.
We also made octopus for art today. We just traced the 4 fingers on each hand and then connected them with a curve. They got to decorate them and add suction cups on their tentacles.
For farm day we started the day off reading a book of Old MacDonald and sang along. We then came up with a list of all the different animals and crops that a farmer has. We added them to a big poster board and talked about what each animal gives us. i.e. Cows give us milk and beef, pigs give us ham and bacon, bees give us honey.
They got to play with the poster board during centers today.
Miss Lyndsey had fun reading books with them about farms.
I even got out all my Fisher Price farm toys from when I was a kid.
And finally we made our own butter. Just whipping cream and a little salt. Put it in a jar and have the kids take turns shaking it up. Then we had it on crackers. Yum Yum! I had leftovers and just had it on corn on the cob last night. I think everyone should make their own butter. This stuff is DELICIOUS!
