Letter N

Some of today's letter Nn activities . . . 

No Noise . . . 

Lots of Noise!

This picture makes me laugh . . . a perfect peak into the fun we have!

  These boys are having a very animated discussion about 

exactly where Santa Clause lives in this Atlas. 

It was pretty funny :)

Creating Noodle Art . . . 

Noisy blocks and cars . . . 

Nifty Newspaper Nines for our Me Books . . . 

A Number game center . . . 

Looks like Letter N is Nifty, Nice and Neat! :)

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

We had so much fun reading this book we had to read it again! 

Then we made our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees.  

I gave each child a brown paper strip, 

5 small green rectangles, glue, scissors, and alphabet stickers 

and let them do the rest.  

I love how each child's picture is so unique! 

This was a fantastic fine motor activity . . . all that cutting, gluing, and sticker placing 

kept little fingers and hands busy!

Here's a little peek of other fun . . .

See you Friday! Don't forget it's Show and Tell day! :)

C is for (more) Color Creations!

We started out the day listening to this great Alphabet Pals book . . . 

Penelope pig wants to paint her pig pen purple . . . but Zac keeps mixing the wrong colors.  

Will she ever get a perfectly purple pig pen? 

Then it was time to try our own magical color mixing with paint . . . 

Each hand was painted a different primary color (ex. left hand red, right hand yellow) and put on the paper to make a print. Next, hands are rubbed together (while saying magic words, of course!) and a new color appears! 

I try to do new things each year so kids who come multiple years get fresh activities, but this is one is such a favorite it's a guaranteed repeat :)

Letter U is for Umbrella

Want to know what U says?  Scrunch down low by your feet, hold some balloons in your hand and say, "U says, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-" (stand a little taller with each "uh" until your on your toes) "uh-uh-UP into the air!" (and let your balloons fly away).

Today we were visited by an indoor rainstorm . . . 

We took turns standing under the umbrella, being squirted with water, as we sang,

"Rain is falling all around,

On the housetops, on the ground.

Rain is falling on my nose,

On my head and hands and toes."

Watch out! Sometimes the rain slips under the umbrella and gets your nose!

And of course we had to top it off with a fun art project . . .

The supplies . . . 

(I poured the blue paint in a bowl and really watered it down)

The kids then traced the U handle and the little u and covered their umbrella's with U's of all colors and sizes. 

Then it was time to move away the chairs, turn pictures upside down and get messy! I just spooned a little paint across the top of the pictures (which was now the bottom) and the kids used straws to blow the rain all over! It as a huge hit!

For more entertainment, you can always use this method . . . 

Here's a sampling of our stormy letter U umbrella's . . . 

Hold on tight or they might just carry you "uh-uh-uh-uh-up into the air!"

T is for Terrible Troll!

We had so much fun learning about the letter Tt!

First we had a play in our puppet theater about the Three Billy Goats Gruff.  I used this narration

and these puppet patterns (I used just the heads, enlarged & colored them and put them on popsicle sticks).  The kids LOVED it!

We also had a TON OF FUN acting out the story again and again and again (complete with a bridge and trolls under it).  These kids make great goats and trolls!

Finally, during Art time, we made our own Terrible Letter Tt Trolls . . .