i saw this on line somewhere and can’t remember where (let me know if it was you!).

during Y week, we focused on flowers and forsythia give us the perfect yellow blooms.

i drew a light pencil line of branches and the children painted over with brown watered down paint.

those dried very quickly and then we added scrunched up yellow tissue paper for blooms.

beautiful!

in honor of cinco de mayo, we made “preschool salsa.”

we tossed the juice of a couple of limes, about half an onion and a few cans of tomatoes with green chiles in the blender.

it was no surprise that there were quite a few “eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww” when i cut the onion.

but the whole process was quite entertaining.

ingredients were divided into baby food jars and each had a turn to dump a jar into the blender.

it was a great surprise to see so many children delighting in chips and salsa for snack!

hemos hecho una buena salsa…

a few more earth day images…

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since it was “x marks the spot” week and those pirates were pulling tricks, they also hid a couple of the letters from our EARTH DAY sign (the big paper is what was left over from our paper plate earth project).

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last summer i couldn’t resist buying these little paper recycle cut outs…but since i don’t do bulletin boards, i didn’t know what to do with them…so, in the journals they went in honor of earth day.

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we had soapy water, plastic animals and plastic plants in the tub table this week.

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i made earth cupcakes for part of our snack.  sweet.

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just an image of our paper plate earth painting that went a little far:

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yes!  the missing letters were found!

AARGH!  what a good time we had!

everyone had a box (from home and from the church recylcing).  we needed those for all the treasure we found!

there were clues leading us all around.

those silly pirates hid all the little boxes and the big treasure box!  what a hunt it was.

but then the treasure box was found, opened and AARGH!  TREASURE!

thank you, families, for bringing so much loot!  you’re the real pirates!

to create an under water scene, we did the classic crayon resist and blue water paint (food coloring in water…it was april and all our liquid watercolor was gone).

a project well done outside.

coloring happened on the sidewalk and painting happened in the grass.

i imagine there will be a bit of culture shock in kindergarten when each child has her own box of crayons and his own cup of paint.  until i see photos, i kind of forget how often we do things as a “school family.”  this means plenty of asking someone to pass the white crayons, waiting for a color, thanking for the crayon, etc.