Thursday, May 20, 2010

Pasta Scales!

Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Reptiles.
Project - We again sang the reptile song from Day 2. (Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot" I'm a little snake, my oh my. My skin has scales; it's nice and dry. You may think I'm slimy. What? Not me! I'm a reptile, yes siree! (Substitute appropriate reptile name).

Directions: Use enlarged tagboard copies of reptiles. Cut the reptiles out. Brush glue on the reptile and press the melon shaped pasta on the glues. When the glue is dry, brush paint over the pasta to complete the reptile. (Source: The Mailbox Magazine June/July 2008)
Materials Needed - reptile copies, scissors, paintbrushes, glue, melon shaped pasta, paint

Learning Activities
Today's Activities:
Alphabet - writing H, beginning sounds
Numbers 1-10- 9, recognition, counting, following directions
Reading Readiness - Shapes - circles and triangles
Transition Math - writing numbers

5 comments:

  1. OOOOOh! that actually looks slimey and "reptilish"--Tell Connor that G'ma doesn't really like reptiles very much:(

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  2. Oh how cute, my daughter would love this! The painted turtles from the other day are really cute, too.

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  5. What a great way to get scaley reptile skin. My children would really enjoy this and I will be keeping this in mind for when we want to make some reptile creatures. Thank you for sharing.

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