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h is for hungry animals

during our the very hungry caterpillar week, even the animals that usually live in the block corner got hungry. they moved to the play-doh table and left instructions. good thing. p.s. can you see how our play-doh is all mixed up like the butterfly’s colors at the end of the book?

f is for food

we had some caterpillars around the classroom who were very hungry. good thing there were also paper plates and crayons so we could draw them some food! not pictured here is these thrifted fake fur caterpillars stuffed in sections of thrifted (but new) pantyhose cocoons. : )

s is for snake

this was not in my lesson plans, but when we trimmed some of the puddle projects to make flowers, we were left with the outer ring. upon seeing one of them, one little friend piped up, “oh! i want a snake!” you got it! i think we also mastered the concept of saturation: that whenContinue reading “s is for snake”

p is for puddle

we were given hundreds of HUGE coffee filters a few years ago. i fear we may finish them up this year. we used them with colored water (food coloring and liquid watercolors) and pipettes. when they dried, we added the text strip: “here is my puddle, oh what a muddle.” the kids loved saying thisContinue reading “p is for puddle”

b is for box car children

they weren’t so much the box car children, but children making box cars and box trucks and box trains, etc. with old snack boxes, stickers, tape, tickets, crayons, scissors (though tearing works as well sometimes), paper fasteners pencils and glue, they made more transportation! some knew they wanted “smoke stuff” to come out of thatContinue reading “b is for box car children”