Friday, January 1, 2010

Art Activity: Sponge Painting Butterflies


We gave the children large sheets of paper shaped like butterflies. They used various colors of tempra paint and sponges to decorate their butterflies.

Art Activity: Quilt Collage

On this day we once again broke out the fabric squares and glue to make quilt collages.

Art Activity: Bat Painting


For this activity we gave the children used water color paints to decorate bat shaped paper.

Story Books for October 19-23, 2009

These are the story books we read for our theme of Number Stories for the week of October 19th-23rd:





Art Activity: Creepy Charcoal Drawings


For this activity we gave the children pieces of charcoal and let them draw creepy drawings like found in the book A Creepy Countdown by Charlotte Huck.

Art Activity: Fish Scale Rubbings

After reading the book Ten Little Fish by Audrey Woods we did the Fish Scale Rubbings activity again.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Music Activity: One Elephant Went Out to Play

For this music activity we first used masking tape to make a spider web on the floor. Next we sung and played the One Elephant Went Out to Play game.