leaves- DAyhome

Well it appears i am a little behind on the blog again!
Going back to October, after our thanksgiving week we had a week on Leaves. Here is what we did!

 so we started the week off with a tree.

 i put out supplies, scissors, wrapping paper, tissue paper.

then the children cut out leaves and decorated our tree! I realize this is a bit of a backwards activity for fall, but it was a big hit! the kept coming back to this activity throughout the week.

 This did not relate, just an activity my sister told me about. i used medicine droppers, then vinegar and food coloring in an ice cube tray with baking soda in a container.  it was a great activity! i did it in the morning with the 2 year olds and again during nap time with the 4 year olds and it kept ages interested and entertained!

 Decorating leaves.

 my kids!

Of course for leaf week we also went on a couple walks collecting leaves and other items to use for a college, un fortunately we never made our colleges! We were side tracked by other activities and forgot all about them!

 Our thanksgiving books from last week.  The problem with doing seasonal themes, is everyone is doing seasonal themes and its pretty slim pickings at the library!  I've been trying to resist ordering books everytime a scholastic order comes my way, because we make such good use of the library! but i decided i can purchase seasonal books as it is so hard to collect them when you want to use them!

Leaf books.
oh and i had leaf cookie cutters in the play dough, and filled the water table with leaves and water.

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....

F,G,H and I- Day home

F, G, H and I.

Tuesday, F.
We went fishing at the river stone park, had fruit and freezies for snack, and played with frog feet!

 i have no idea how to rotate photos on this blog!

 These shoes are hilarious! I got them from super store on summer clearance, they squeek when you step and the little pink tongues stick out. sadly of the 2 pairs, 1 is already missing the tongues.

As i have mentioned before i do not post pictures of the day home children, so there is no pictures from fishing that i can actually post, but they really enjoyed it!

Wednesday is G,
We had a guessing game.  I made a box with a small opening, the children reach in and try and guess what they have grabbed before they pull it out.  I had it filled with things that start with G, glasses, grapes, girls, g.i.joes, giraffe, gorilla, and i few other i can't remember. Again, can not post pictures from this! and of course we had grapes for snack.

Thursday, H!
H is for Heart!
We made heart shaped cupcakes, to try and avoid everyone eatting a lot of icing we had them with strawberries and powdered sugar on top.  The cupcakes were from scratch and i used less sugar then needed, so they actually weren't too terrible of a snack.
our activity was heart hopping. i taped foam hearts to the floor and the children hopped from heart to heart.

Friday, I.
I is for Ice cream!
We made ice cream!  The children added the ingredients, stirred it up and i had them roll up the teddy grahams to make cookie crumbs for cookies and cream ice cream. it was tasty!

ABC's Day home!

In the day home for the last 2 weeks and the coming 3 weeks we have been exploring the alphabet.  Everyday is a different letter and i have planned an activity or 2 that corresponds with the letter and tried to plan a snack as well.

Here is a look at our first week, A, B, C, D and E.

Monday, A!
A is for Alphabet!
We had alphabet puzzles, alphabet stamps in play dough and of course apples for snack!

Tuesday, B.
B is for Beach!
We went to the beach (park lake) had bananas for snack and played ball.

 

Wednesday, C.

C is for cookies!

We baked cookies, which we ate for snack, and did some (shaving) Cream painting.

Thursday, D.
D is for Dancing!  We danced! sadly i can not post the pictures, but they are awesome!
and we had dirt for lunch! (cookies crumbs on top of our pudding.)

Friday, E.
E is for eggs!

We had eggs in the water table to play with.  E was a tricky one for me, so that was all a came up with!

And of course the books.

next week is F, G, H and I!