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v is for very favorite food

as part of our learning from the very hungry caterpillar, children were invited to bring their favorite foods for us to taste at snack time. our snack routine is the same every day. we find out who brought the snack (a fruit or vegetable…sometimes they bring more than that, otherwise we have crackers/pretzes/animal crackers atContinue reading “v is for very favorite food”

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”

u is for under

one year i might get brave enough to do something with u is for underwear, but until then i will stop at under. you get the idea. i suspended a piece of fabric across two shelves and used good old duct tape. this provided a long stretch for children to crawl (or walk) under sinceContinue reading “u is for under”

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”

t is for tracks

my idea was to have trays of fine colored sand to move trains through to make tracks. i even matched the train cars with the color of sand. i didn’t expect it to stay seperate, but i was curious how long it would. the children were interested in this for about 15 minutes. then theyContinue reading “t is for tracks”