Learning Fun

This week our focus was


White
Crescent
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We used our chalkboard this week!  It's still a huge hit around here!  I printed letters snd numbers (shapes for the little boys) and they used paintbrushes dipped in water to paint over the chalk lines.  Great fine motor practice that's a LOT of fun!

A playlist if a couple videos we used for Spring!

Seasons Song and Five Little Ducks

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Qj7NSGwqn68q105dfIKqK0-kr-oJm3I

Learning About Spring

Welcome Spring!

We did lots of activities this week, however I didn't take many pictures because it was a little to chaotic this week with everyone being here full time!  Everyone was having adjustment periods - including me!

Here are a few activities that we did do!  Enjoy!

Gross Motor:  

Puddle Jumping: I cut some "puddles" out of blue construction paper and the boys jumped from puddle to puddle. First we jumped from one to one, the. We tried jumping further and skipping puddles in between.  A great way to jump and move in the house when you live places where Spring takes a LITTLE longer to arrive.

Intellectual:

Sequencing from seed to food.  I used a template for this from one of my books, however you could easily find pictures from the internet and make your own sequencing activity.

Art:

Flower Printing

I bought some fake flowers from the dollar store and they served three purposes.  

1. I used them as a decoration in a vase for my Easter display.

2. We sketched them one afternoon and drew some beautiful pictures.  Sorry there are no pictures for this activity.  It was a busy day with full time daycare in full gear.

3. I cut off a few petals and put out some paint for the boys to dip and dab (or smear) and they turned out really cute!

Painting Snow

Yay for warmer weather and being able to get the kids outside.

In the past, I have tried spray painting snow with coloured water in spray bottles, but that always turns into a very frustrating activity with all the mittens, jackets and cold weather.  I will never give up and will try that another day, however today, we painted the snow with paint.  Yep, just basic paint from the Dollar Store, placed in cups (of course to match the colour) and used our regular paint brushes (the biggest ones).  Easy.  Fun.  Exciting!

Snowball Targets

FINALLY I think Spring might be here!

We have been spending TONS of time outside in the yard these past few days and doing some awesome Pinterest finds!  Here we have some snowball targets.  Probably best done on a wooden fence if you have one, but the side of our little deck worked just fine for us.  Make sure you go over the rules with your kids (and your significant others if you have one that acts like a child as I do) so that no one (especially mommy) gets hit with snowballs . . .