Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Learning Projects

Coffee Filter Coconut Letter Tree

Skills:  letter identification

Cardboard Tube Letter Tree

Skills:  Letter Identification

Handprint Coconut Tree

Skills:  name writing, letter counting, name identification

Here is the link for the fill-in-the-blank template

Learning Activities

Coconut Tree Letter Stamp

Skills:  letter recognition and identification

Here is the link for this Coconut Letter Tree

Coconut Tree Color by Shape

Skills:  shape identification, following direction, colors

'Here is the link for the Coconut Shape Tree

Coconut Tree Rhyming

Skills:  rhyming

Here is the link for the 2 rhyming activities

Coconut Tree Cut and Paste Rhyming

Skills:  cutting, pasting, rhyming

Coconut Tree - Spin and Write

Skills:  letter recognition and identification, tracing, writing, matching

Here is the link for the spin and write activity

spinning

writing

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Projects

Tissue Paper Caterpillar

Cut red and green tissue paper into circles.  Apply Mod Podge to the circles to make a caterpillar and to secure them to the paper.  When dry draw on legs and facial features

Sponge Painted Caterpillar

Beaded Caterpillar

Skills:  fine motor

Learning Projects

Caterpillar Name Writing

Skills:  name writing, counting letters in your name, 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link for these pattern cards and templates

If I were the very hungry caterpillar . . . 

Skills:  writing, tracing, beginning writing

Here is the link for the writing template

Learning Activities

Caterpillar Tracing

Skills:  tracing, prewriting writing

Here is the link for this Fun Caterpillar

What is Different and Letter Tracing

Skills:  finding differences, tracing, letters, beginning writing

Here is the link for the What is Different, Letter Tracing and What Comes Next

What Comes Next

Skills:  what comes next

Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Skills:  counting, following directions, spatial recognition,shapes

Here is the link for Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Drawing and rolling

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!

Rain, Rain Go Away!

 

Rain Crafts

Cupcake Liner Umbrella's

Cut cupcake liners in half

Cut pipe cleaners into 6 inch pieces

Glue cupcake liners to white paper

Bend the pipe cleaners into a J

Glue the pipe cleaners underneath and below the cupcake liner to make the umbrella

Dip a Q-tip into blue paint and press onto the white paper for rain!

 

Paper Plate Umbrella

Cut a paper plate in half

Decorate with spring time stickers

Cut a J shape from brown construction paper

Cut blue string or yarn into varying lengths

Cut raindrops from blue construction paper

Tape or glue the brown handle to the back of the paper plate

Tape the blue string/yarn to the back of the plate

Tape the blue raindrops to the blue string

 

Watercolor Umbrella and Raindrops

Painting their umbrella's
 

Two of the finished products

 Draw an umbrella onto white paper.

Use watercolor paint to paint the umbrella

Paint spots around the umbrella (to be made into raindrops)

When dry, cut out the umbrella

Glue to a piece of blue construction paper

Cut our raindrops from the paper and glue to the paper and umbrella!

 

Rain Learning Activities

 

Cloud and Rain Counting activity

                         Rolling the dice, counting the dots           Tana's finished activity
                            and gluing on the raindrops

Cut out cloud shapes and glue them to a large piece of black construction paper.  Cut out blue raindrops and set aside.  I typed and printed off the following saying . . .  It's Raining, It's Pouring . . .

Rain is falling form the clouds, count the drops as the fall down!

 

Directions:  Roll the dice.  Count the dots.  Write the number on the first cloud.  Count out the matching number of raindrops and glue the raindrops below the cloud.  Repeat. 

(If you get the same number roll again)

 

Addie's finished activity
 

 

Cloud and Raindrop Name Writing

Cut out a cloud shape from white paper (make sure it is big enough for your child's name)

Cut out large raindrops from blue construction paper. 

Have your child write each letter of his/her name on a raindrop. 

Glue the "Raindrops" in order on the cloud. 

 Glue the finished cloud onto black construction  paper. 

Add a few blue raindrops falling from the cloud
 

Songs/Rhymes

 

Rain, Rain Go Away

Rain rain go away
come again some other day
Little  (insert child's name)
Wants to play

Rain rain go away.
 

 

It's Raining, It's Pouring

It's raining; it's pouring.

*The old man* is snoring.

He went to bed and bumped his head,

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

*I inserted names into this spot*