Our brainstorming board of the bugs we could think of and learned about is quite full! We learned about butterflies, army ants, beetles and cockroaches. We discovered facts about these bugs that we didn't know before such as beetles can live frozen through out the winter and cockroaches don't have a brain! We also learned a lot about what these bugs eat, who their predators are, the roles they play in the ecosystem and within their own species, and how they use their senses to survive.
Our bug theme and Eric Carle inspired art came together nicely through Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We love that book! We even enjoyed a few rounds of our caterpillar crawl game that involved colours, numbers and sequencing.
We continued our Eric Carle inspired art this week and created a few "painted" papers using feathers, plastic letters, pine cones and pine needle twigs. Using these and the papers created last week., we created new art work (beaches, butterflies, volcanoes, and the underground).
Our letters this week were R and K. In addition to our songs and puzzles, the kids practiced identifying and writing letter R, and drew pictures that started with the letter k.
It was Bella Dog's birthday this week so the kids spent an afternoon making lovely posters for Bella. It was all their idea, and a very sweet one at that.
Some other activities that kids did this week included threading beads, exercising finger, hand and arm muscles by picking up little blocks with "clippers", puzzling, and climbed/played on many little snow hills.
Our bug theme and Eric Carle inspired art came together nicely through Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We love that book! We even enjoyed a few rounds of our caterpillar crawl game that involved colours, numbers and sequencing.
We continued our Eric Carle inspired art this week and created a few "painted" papers using feathers, plastic letters, pine cones and pine needle twigs. Using these and the papers created last week., we created new art work (beaches, butterflies, volcanoes, and the underground).
Our letters this week were R and K. In addition to our songs and puzzles, the kids practiced identifying and writing letter R, and drew pictures that started with the letter k.
It was Bella Dog's birthday this week so the kids spent an afternoon making lovely posters for Bella. It was all their idea, and a very sweet one at that.
Some other activities that kids did this week included threading beads, exercising finger, hand and arm muscles by picking up little blocks with "clippers", puzzling, and climbed/played on many little snow hills.
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