Spring!!

Spring

Projects

Fork Print Flowers
Press a plastic fork into paint
Press the tines of the fork onto a piece of paper to make flowers
Use green paint to make the flower's stems

Melted Snowman
Paint a white BLOB with paint
Glue on arms, eyes, nose, hat and scarf - cut from construction paper

Hand Print Flower
Paint hand green and press onto a paper plate
Press pointer finger into paint (any color) and press onto the plate to make flowers

Rainbow Ribbon
Cut a rainbow shape from white paper
Draw the rainbow and then color it in with the appropriate colors
Tape ribbon onto the back, bottom side of the rainbow

Robin Footprint
Paint foot brown
Press onto paper
Paint the belly of the robin red and draw on beak, eye, and feet

Rainbow Cloud

Draw a cloud shape onto white paper

Cut colored ribbon into long pieces.

Directions:  Cut the cloud out and draw on a face

Tape the ribbon to the back of the cloud

Learning Activities

Flower Counting
Skills:  counting, one-to-one matching, number recognition
Draw 5 stems and label the stems 1-5
Directions:  Glue on the appropriate number of buttons for each flower

Tulip Name Writing
Skills:  name writing
Cut out tulip shapes and stem shapes
Glue the tulips and stems to paper
Write your name on the tulips

Flower Name Writing
Skills:  name writing

Caterpillar Counting
I created a chart on a Word document with then numbers 1-5 along with 5 caterpillar heads!
Directions:  Say the number.
Glue that same amount of pom poms onto the caterpillar
Draw on legs!

Letter Garden
I cut out flower shapes from colored construction paper
Directions:  Write upper and lowercase letters on the flowers.
Glue the matching upper and lower case flowers above/below each other.

Add stems with a green marker.

Spring Flower CVC Words
I created a document with flower shapes on it
I laminated the Spring Flower CVC Words page so we could reuse it
I cut out flowers from construction paper and wrote beginning consonants on each flower
I wrote i and t on the 2nd and 3rd flowers
Directions:  Make CVC words on the flower mat using the paper flowers!

Addie made the word sit

Making another word

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*

Fingerpainting Clouds!

Day 1 of our week. The theme this week is Books.
Project/Learning Activity - Fingerpainting Clouds - We talked about how we sometimes see shapes in the clouds, and they shared different shapes they had seen. I then introduced our book by saying that it is about a little cloud that turns into different shapes. I read Little Cloud by Eric Carle out loud to Connor and Lauren. After the reading, we reviewed the different shapes that the little cloud made during the story. Project - I showed the illustrations in the book to Connor and Lauren again and prompted them to notice how they appeared to be fingerpainted. I then, place a dollop of white fingerpaint on a piece of light-blue paper. Connor, Lauren and Addie spread his/her paint around to make individual cloud shapes. Then, Connor and Lauren described their cloud shape and wrote it down on after the writing prompt on the blue paper. Source - The Mailbox Magazine June/July 2008 Materials Needed - Little Cloud by Eric Carle, white paint, blue paper, marker.

Learning Activities:

Today's Activities:

Alphabet - writing, A, and B, beginning A and B sounds

Numbers - 1, 2, 3, recognition, following directions

Math Readiness - writing numbers, counting, following directions, recognition

Reading Readiness - smaller

Writing - journal writing