Valentine's Day and Dental Health Week

Just a few of the things we did during Valentine's week:

We measured things in our classroom with conversation hearts and practiced writing our numbers.

We made animals and valentine's out of hearts.

Valentine Party: We decorated cookies, played spin the bottle (They had to say something nice about whoever the bottle landed on), played bingo, and hid a valentine lion and had to find him.

 Passing out Valentine's.

For Dental Health Week: 

We Brushed our teeth on paper with white paint and then added some sparkles. 

Some of the books we read:
I love this one because it talks about how the Tooth Fairy can only take sparkly clean teeth.

This Dora book explains everything that happens at the dentist. The kids loved telling me about their visit to see the dentist.

We counted 20 baby teeth in their mouths and then they got to make their own mouth with teeth out of marshmallows.

We even practiced brushing and flossing our teeth.

We also ate an oreo and then looked at our teeth to see how dirty they were. After the oreo we then ate an apple and watched how the apple cleaned all the oreos off. We then discussed eating healthy food to keep our teeth from getting cavities.

Next we put hard boiled eggs in different liquids. We put them in milk, tea, soda, grape juice and vinegar. The vinegar represented all the plaque we get on our teeth when we don't brush well. We left them in for 2 days.

Then pulled them out.
This was the one in soda. It was very brown and when we tried to brush it, it didn't clean off very well.

Grape Juice, stained and also hard to get clean. We talked about not wanting our teeth to turn purple or brown.

 Tea: This one cleaned off really well.

Vinegar (Plaque): This one was definitely the grossest. It no longer had a hard shell and was soft and bloated. We discussed how not brushing eats holes into our teeth and causes cavities. It also makes it so our teeth won't be as strong.

The Milk Egg was nice and white and hard. But one little guy squeezed a little too hard and it broke open. So I guess even if we don't brush when we drink milk, it can still make our teeth a little weak. :) 

We had a visitor come talk to us about healthy foods. Amy from SuperHealthyKids came to see us. She played a game with the kids and let us try some new foods. 

We colored our plates with healthy food choices from different food groups. 

She even sent each kid home with a fun plate and bowl to remember all the food groups to eat. Thanks Amy! You can check out more about her and try some of her yummy and healthy meals at superhealthykids.com

Happy New Year!

We started off 2013 with a ton of fun! 

We made some new year resolutions: 

Clean my room more

 Clean my room

 Play with my puppies

 Eat healthy food

 Help mommy make cookies more.

We put New Year party hats in order from smallest to biggest.

We learned about the Arctic and polar animals. 

Some great books we read. 

The kids got to paint their own penguins. They turned out so cute.

We practiced being daddy penguins and  made sure our baby penguins and eggs didn't fall out from under our legs. 

Hurry, pick it up quick. :)

We learned about Polar bears and all the blubber they have under their fur to keep them warm. We put together sentences about polar bear facts. We discussed capital letters and punctuation.

We made polar bear puppets afterwards. Some wanted to make theirs into frogs. :)

And we made a polar bear snack out of oreos, bananas, and chocolate chips. 

We stamped Legos onto our Letter L's on letter L day. 

Iceberg day: We played with snow (shaving cream). We practiced writing our letters in it and had fun just getting messy. 

We melted our icebergs that were floating in an ocean.

And we had a iceberg snack. (Just blue Kool aid mixed with sprite and then a iceberg (vanilla ice cream) floating on the top.)

Letter N day we practiced our numbers and played some fun games with numbers. Then glued a bunch of numbers onto our letter N. 

We also have been working on our nursery rhymes. We practiced Hickory Dickory Dock for one of them and made some clocks to practice telling time. 

Letter O day we made necklaces out of cheerios and fruit loops shaped like o's. 

Letter Q- Q tip painting.

Made Quarter Books

 And tossed real quarters into bowls.

Nursery Rhyme- Star Light, Star Bright. We made telescopes by punching holes into black paper. Then when you look up at the light with them it looks like stars twinkling in the night sky.

Magic Painting- we colored stars onto white paper with crayons and then painted on top of it to watch the invisible picture appear.

Also turned letter Q's into quilted queens.

 And ate yummy quesadillas.

 Letter o- ocean fun. We finger painted our own oceans and glued on some fish.

 Then ate some blue jello with a swedish fish at the bottom. The fish was all soggy, so next time I will let them put the fish on top rather than putting it at the bottom when I make them. :)

Sorry for SO many pictures! Whenever I pull the camera out they all want me to take a picture of them to show their moms and dads. Too cute! Can't wait to see them again. Hopefully my little guy will get feeling better real soon. Thanks for you understanding.