thanksgiving!! day home

For the week before thanksgiving i planned activities on a thanksgiving theme.

one day we 'stuffed' turkeys (paper bags and bunched up newspaper)

we did turkey basting measuring

 nic made a big leaf pile with the kids one night, then the next morning the day home children joined in on sliding down the slide into the leaf pile! hours of fun!!

 my harvest themed water table.

 turkey puppets! i saw somewhere to use gardening gloves to decorate so they could wear them. but since i couldn't find gardening gloves i bought black knit mittens, unfortunately the glue didnt hold to them really well, but the children still enjoyed the craft!

friday i had planned on doing a thankful tree, writing the names of what the children are thankful of and they can make a tree college, but i had early pick ups on friday and we never got around to the activity.

T,U,V,W,X,Y, and Z! day home

all crammed into one week!

T- was towers and tortilla's, we made apple and cinnamon tortillas for snack and built towers.

U, V, X we read books with corresponding letters. cant remember if we had an activities....they were kinda tricky!
W was water play,
Y-yellow college, and yellow toys in the water table.
Z-we made zuccinni cake!  yes i let the children use the grater, and yes it was very closely supervised!

As we did this i took pictures and printed them to put on a board, oh and i see now that for the letter N we did names, i had dotted names made for each of the kids names so they could practice writing names.


So lunch times are crazy at my house, i have really been struggling with the children getting so worked up and crazy instead of eatting.  So i have come up with a solution! i read them books at the table! it calms them down and they listen and eat. so during the alphabet month each day a read a book started with the letter of the day.

O, P, Q, R and S, day home

O- owls! ( we also read, over in the meadow, by jack ezra keats)
we made an owl college, and owl sandwhiches.

of course, this idea came from pinterest!

P- we painted! and had peaches for snack.

Q- we sang the duck song, 'with a quack, quack, quack!'

R-rainbows!
we made a rainbow college, and made rainbow cake, we did the same rainbow cake for st patricks day, it should be on the blog if you want to see the finished product!

S- we went swimming!

J, K, L, M and N Day home

i am not great at keeping up a blog! lets see if i can remember what we did for these letters!


J-had jello for snack and made jewelry.

K was a bit of a stretch, we made kettle corn, and Kings crowns! no pictures of the crowns without the kiddos though!

L- we made Lemonade! (and of course had it with snack)

M- we made masks, and i cant remember what snack was!

i can not remember what we did for N and cant seem to find my planning sheet....