There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Tuesday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week

Tuesday!

Crafts:

• Chick Mask: Paper plate half, orange construction paper, two 12" lengths of yellow yarn, yellow paint, several small feathers, scissors, hole puncher, glue, paintbrush

1. Paint the paper plate half yellow.  Let the paint dry.
2. To make the mask, cut the rim off the plate to make the 3 bumps on the head.
3. Cut out two eyeholes above the straight edge of the mask.
4. Cut out an orange triangle beak.  Glue the beak and feathers to the mask.  When the glue is dry, fold the beak up so that it points forward.
5. Punch a hole on each of the mask, just slightly above the right and left eye.  
6. Tie a length of yarn to each hole.

• Plastic Eggshell Chick: Plastic egg, yellow paint, cotton balls, plastic bag, construction paper, scissors, glue, index card

1. Place some yellow paint in a plastic bag.  Drop two cotton balls inside the bag.  Shake well.  Remove the two yellow-colored cotton balls.
2. Glue the two cotton balls together to form the body and head of a chick.  Glue the chick inside an empty half of a plastic eggshell, so the chick is just peeking over the eggshell.
3. Cut a tiny beak and eyes from paper, and carefully glue them to the head of the chick.  If the eggshell half does not set up easily, glue it to an index card or a small piece of paper.  

• Crayon-Resist Egg: 9 x 12 inch sheet of manilla paper, crayons, light colored paint

1. From a 9 x 12 inch sheet of manilla paper, cut out a large egg shape.
2. Color designs on the egg with crayons, being sure to press very hard!
3. Then paint the egg with a light color of thinned tempera paint.

Activities:

• Egg-on-a-Spoon Relay: Plastic spoons, plastic eggs, 4 buckets

1. Divide into two or three teams.
2. Place an empty bucket at the finish line.
3. Place a full bucket of plastic eggs for each team at the start line.  
4. Each team get a spoon.
5. On your "Go" the first players run to the finish line with an egg on their spoon to put it into the bucket.  If a player drops their egg, they pick it up and must start over again at the start line. Then they must run back and give their spoon to the next player.  
6. The first team to get rid all the eggs from their start bucket wins!

• Underwater "Eggspert": Fresh egg, deep cereal bowl, hot tap water, yellow food coloring

1. Carefully place the egg in the bottom of the bowl and fill the bowl with hot tap water.  Quickly add a little yellow food coloring.  Watch the egg closely for several minutes.
2. Streams of tiny bubbles rise to the top of the water from the submerged egg.
3. When the air inside the egg is heated by the hot water, the air molecules expand.  Many of the new crowded air molecules push their way out of the egg through some of the almost 7,000 openings, or pores, in the egg's shell.  These heated air molecules exit the egg, usually without cracking the shell, and rise to the water's surface as bubbles.

• Craft Apron and Printables for old lady story at Teaching Heart Website

Snacks:

• Ice cream with easter sprinkles

Music/Rhyme:

Turn Yourself Into Mr. Bunny:

"The Swinging Bunny": Have your children walk around in a circle as you say the following poem to a rap rhythm.

I'm going down the street

Going hippity hop, hippity hop, hippity hop

I'm going down the street

Going hippity hop

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

" The Cool Bunny": Have your children to be a Cool Bunny (strut and move shoulders up and down with a swinging motion and walk in a circle snapping fingers.

I'm going down the street

Going bippity bop, bippity bop, bippity bop

I'm going down the street

Going bippity bop.

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

Ask the children to walk in a circle on their tiptoes.

I'm going down the street

Going tippity-top, tippity-top, tippity top(walk on tiptoes)

I'm going down the street

Going Tippity-top

Hey there, look at me.  (point to self)

Ask the children to walk in a circle with their knees bent and shaking their pretend tails.

I'm going down the street

Going dippity dop, dippity dop (bend knees and shake tail)

I'm going down the street

Going dippity dop

Hey there, look at me. (point to self)

Tell the children the last bunny is tired and sits down to rest

Show me your bunny eyes

Show me your ears

Show me your nose

Show me your mouth.

When I say lippity(smile)

When I say lop(frown)

Lippity(smile)

Lop(frown)

Lippty(smile)

Lop(frown)

I'm going down the street

Going lippity lop(smile and frown)

Lippity lop(smile and frown)

Lippity lop(smile and frown)

I'm going down the street

Going lippity lop

Hey there, look at me.(point to self)

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. by
2. Use this word in sentences, so your child understands the meaning of the word and how to use it.  Example: The candy bar is by the stove.  Dad is by the car.  

• Word Holder:  Envelopes, scissors, glue or stapler, index cards, black marker, poster board

1. Take an envelope, seal it shut and fold it in half.  Cut it in half.  Then take the halves and cut about a half inch more off the top.  Make 26 halves.
2. Take an envelope half and write a letter of the alphabet on each one.  Glue or staple the envelopes to the poster board in alphabetical order.
3. Use this word holder to put in your child's word of the day cards and any other words they may know.  
4. If you want them to have more cards, put more words on index cards but put pictures with words, so they can put the words and pictures together.  You can put the pictures on the back of the index cards if you want.

Numbers

• Egg Carton Number Count: Small items like beans, coins, paper clips, shells, pebbles, cereal, beads, crackers, jelly beans, egg carton, black permanent marker, paper bags

1. Cut the top off the egg carton.
2. Place the items into their own bag. Pennies in one bag, coins in another, etc. 
3. Write the numbers 1-12 on each egg section on the bottom or side.
4. Then have your child start placing the items in the egg section according to the number.  They can put 1 bean in the number one slot, 2 pennies in the number 2 slot, etc. 

Books:

• Home For A Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
• Bunny by Pam Adams
• Bunny Numbers by Dick McCue
• Sunny Bunny Tales(Max and Ruby) by Grosset and Dunlap 
• The Baby Chicks Are Singing by Ashley Wolff

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick Week: Tuesday!

Easter Week: Tuesday

Easter Week

Tuesday

Crafts:

• Box Baskets: Corrugated cardboard boxes, paints, fabric, toothpicks or craft sticks, cardboard, metal paper fasteners

1. Cut off the top flaps, then paint the boxes or cover with fabric.  Add details, such as a fence made from toothpicks or craft sticks.
2. Make a handle from cardboard.  Glue it on, or attach it with paper fasteners.
3. More Ideas: Leave two flaps on top, if you wish to cover whatever's inside.  Fill a basket with gift items and use it as a present.

• Funny Bunny Hangers: Five craft sticks, construction paper, markers, thin ribbon

1. Glue three craft sticks together at the ends to form a square without a top.  Glue two craft sticks as crosspieces about 1 inch apart.  
2. Cut a bunny from construction paper.  Cut a grassy strip of green construction paper.  Cut two small Easter eggs from different-colored paper.
3. Draw a face on your bunny, and decorate your eggs with markers.  Glue the grass strip to the bottom craft stick, then glue the bunny over the grass.  Add the eggs.
4. Glue ribbon to the top fence posts.  

• Bunny Planter: Plastic laundry scoop, 2 wooden craft spoons(ears), 2 tiny black pom-poms(eyes), small black pom-pom(nose), 5 brown pom-poms(feet and tail), brown paint, glue, black permanent marker, paintbrush, soil, marigold seeds(or other flower seeds with a short germination period)

1. Brown glue: to make glue paint, mix equal amounts of glue and brown paint.  Then add a few drops of dishwashing liquid(this helps the paint adhere to the plastic.)
2. Paint one side of each craft spoon(ear).  Then paint the sides and handle of the laundry scoop.  Let the paint dry.  
3. Glue the wide end of each ear to the inside of the laundry scoop(planter). You can clothespins to hold the ears in place while the glue dries.
4. Glue pom-pom eyes and a nose on the flat side of the planter.
5. Glue a pom-pom tail on the handle; then glue two pom-pom feet on each side of the planter.
6. After the glue dries, use the marker to draw whiskers, a mouth, and other details.
7. Fill the planter with soil; then plant a few seeds in it.

Activities:

• Plaster Eggs: Large plastic Easter eggs, water, spoons, petroleum jelly(such as Vaseline), Plaster of Paris, large bowls, tape, markers or tempera paint

1. Cut off a small part of the bottom half of each plastic egg with a sharp knife or craft saw to make a hole.
2. Rub the inside of the two halves of the plastic egg with petroleum jelly.
3. Tape the two egg halves together after making sure they fit tightly.
4. Following the directions on the box, mix the plaster of Paris with water in a large bowl.
5. Quickly pour the wet plaster in the hole in their eggs using spoons (small pitchers and funnels may be helpful).  After the eggs are filled with plaster tap the eggs to remove any air bubbles and place the eggs upright in an egg carton to dry and harden.
6. When the plaster of Paris is completely hard remove the tape and open the two halves of the plastic egg to reveal the plaster egg.
7. Decorate the eggs with markers or paint.
8. The decorated eggs can be used for an Easter egg hunt or as paper weights.

• Egg-Shaped Card: Construction paper, scissors, glitter, glue, markers, sequins, anything to use as decorations

1. Fold over a sheet of construction paper from each end so the ends meet in the center of the paper.  Round off the corners to form an egg.  Now you have an egg-shaped card that opens in the middle!
2. While the card is closed, decorate the outside to look like an Easter egg.  Then open up the card and color an Easter scene on the inside center.
3. Write your message or greeting on either of the inside flaps.

Snacks:

• Carrots, celery or lettuce (Things that bunnies like to eat)
• Jello Eggs
• Bunny Marshmallows 

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the Day: Index card, pen

1. From

• Word Bingo:  Thin cardboard(for cards), black permanent marker, markers(cardboard, beans, or anything handy), white paper, pen, container or hat, use words from the last 25 word of the day

1. Twenty-five words can be placed on a card(five rows and five columns) in random order with a card for as many students.  
2. One person calls off the words in random order or draws the word cards out of a hat or container.  
3. Markers can be small squares of cardboard, beans, or anything handy.  
4. The first one to complete a row, column, or diagonal line wins.  
5. You can even play until the entire card is filled.  
6. Each player must have a card with the same words, but arranged in a different order.   

Numbers:

• Book Of Numbers: Construction paper, glue or paste, hole puncher, yarn 

1. Look through old magazines or store ads to find pictures of the numbers 1 through 10. 
2. Then, cut out the pictures with numbers in them and glue or paste each number on its own piece of construction paper.
3. Punch four holes down the sides of your paper; then thread yarn through the holes to hole the book together.  

Music/Rhymes:

• Easter Songs and Easter Rhymes on Preschool Rainbow website
• Songs are at the bottom of their website page

Books:

• The Grumpy Easter Bunny by Justine Korman
• The Royal Easter Tea Party by Megan E. Byrant 
• Peanuts: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schultz

Easter Week: Tuesday

Color Week: Week 22: Tuesday!

Color Week

Tuesday!

Have your child wear yellow or green or both today!

Crafts:

GREEN:

• 3-D Trees: Watercolors or watercolor markers, two 9" x 12" pieces of construction paper (green for tree, yellow for frame), glue, scissors, classified ad section of the newspaper, medium-point  black markers, paintbrushes

1. Cut a 7" x 10" rectangle from the newspaper ad section.
2. Color some blocks of ads using a variety of different colors.
3. Outline the colored blocks with a medium-point marker.
4. Glue an ad section to the corner of the construction paper (frame).
5. Make a 3-D  tree.  Cut out a tree pattern (Large irregular leaf section and a truck section) and glue it to colored ads.
6. Cut two smaller leaf sections and glue the center sections to the center of the tree pattern's leaf section.  (When dry, fold these sections out to create a 3-D effect.)
7. Fold edges of construction paper ( about 1") toward the ad to make a frame.  Pinch and glue the corners.

• Twinkling Traffic Light: Half sheet of yellow construction paper (cut lengthwise), piece of cardboard, red, yellow, and green colored corn-syrup paint, glitter(red, gold, green), pencil, paintbrush, hole puncher, yarn, scissors, glue

1. To make corn-syrup paint, stir food coloring into clear corn syrup until desired color is achieved.
2. Trace three circles onto the cardboard.
3. Using the corn-syrup paint, paint  the middle circle yellow, the bottom circle green, and the top one red.  Sprinkle the corresponding color of glitter on each circle. (Allowing approximately three days for drying time.)
4. Trace three circles onto the yellow paper and cut them out.  Glue the remaining yellow piece onto the painted piece.
5. Punch a hole above the red circle.
6. Attach a yarn hanger to the top of the traffic light.

• Critter Keepers:  Green felt, egg carton, black marker, gogglie eyes, red foam paper, 2 plastic-foam balls, glue

1. Cut a piece of felt big enough to cover the lid of an egg carton.  It should be at least 7" x 15" in size.  Glue the felt to the lid, tucking in the edges as you would gift wrap and gluing them securely.  Let glue dry.
2. For the eyes, glue 2 plastic foam balls to the top of the carton. Glue eyes onto the balls.
3. Cut out tongue shape from red foam paper and add detail with marker.  Glue the tongue on the inside of the lid.

YELLOW:

• Duck Cozy: 2 Gogglie eyes, plastic 2-liter soda cap, 2 yellow pipe cleaners, glue, orange paint, yellow feathers, orange foam, yellow foam cozy, scissors, paintbrush

1. Paint soda cap orange. Let dry.  Glue onto cozy. 
2. Cut a beak upper and lower from orange foam craft.  Glue one around the top of the cap and one around the bottom of the cap.  Let dry.
3. Cut 2 duck feet from the orange foam and glue it on the bottom of the cozy.
4. Cut the yellow pipe cleaners in half.  Glue one feather onto each pipe cleaner.  Let dry.  Glue the feathers onto the back of the cozy.  
5. Glue smaller feathers on the side for wings.  

• Sunflower Vase: Cylindrical potato chip can, construction paper(green and yellow), glue, pipe cleaners(black and green), pencil, ribbon, scissors, small, plain paper plate, sunflower seeds with shells, transparent tape, stick without leaves

1. Clean the inside of the potato chip can.
2. Glue green construction paper around the can to make the vase.
3. Use a pencil to trace your child's hand 6-8 times onto yellow construction paper.
4. Cut out the handprints, then glue them onto the paper plate to make a sunflower.  Glue them around in layers.  Bending them inwards.
5. Bend black pipe cleaner into a circle and glue to center of sunflower.  Glue the seeds inside the pipe cleaner circle.  
6. Twist pipe cleaner around the stick, leaving enough room at the top to tape or glue the sunflower.
7. Tape or glue sunflower to stick, then place in flower vase.
8. Surround the base of the stick with newspaper or tissue paper so the flower stand up tall.
9. Tie ribbon around the top of the vase.

• Sunflower Pom Pom Magnet: Pom Poms (1" Orange, 5 mm Yellow), 5 mm googlie eyes, yellow and orange foam craft, magnet, black pipe cleaner

1. Cut out a sun shape out of the yellow foam.  Make sure to have several points around the sun.
2. Cut out little orange triangles and glue them by the points.
3. Glue the orange pom pom into the middle of the sun.  Let dry.
4. Glue eyes onto the orange pom pom.  
5. Make a little pair of sunglasses to go over the eyes.  Just make 2 little loops out of the black pipe cleaner.  
6. Glue magnet onto back of sun.

• RAINBOW: Cardboard egg carton(cut in half lengthwise making a strip of 6 cups), Construction paper scraps of 6 different colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, and black), 1 pipe cleaner, black marker or crayon, glue, piece of yarn (12"-16" long)

1. Children cut out one circle from each colored sheet of the construction paper.  The circles can be drawn on the paper to make is easier for younger children.
2. Children glue one circle on each hump of the upside-down egg carton strip.
3. Children bend the pipe cleaner in half and insert it to make the antennae in the first egg cup.
4. Children draw eyes on the first egg cup.
5. Make a small hole in the front of the first cup for the string.
6. Children push a piece of yarn through the hole in the front of the first egg cup. The yarn is knotted and it makes a pulling handle. 

Activities:

• Thread the tube game: Cardboard tube, paint(yellow and green), yellow yarn, large button, scissors, 

1. Decorate a bathroom tissue tube anyway you like. Like green and yellow stripes going down.  
2. Punch a hole near one end of the tube.  
3. Get a piece of yarn that is 12"-18"long.  Tie one end through the hole in the tube and the other end to a large button.
4. To play, hold the tube in an upright position.  Swing, the button in an upward motion, trying to get it to go into the tube.  

• Leap Frog:

1. Have the kids line up single file.  Everyone must squat down close to the ground.
2. On "go," the last player jumps over the line of squatting player, one at a time. (Be sure there is enough room between players!)
3. When he reaches the front of the line, he squats down there.  Then the next player from the back starts "leaping the frogs." 
4. Continue until the original "leaper" is again at the end of the line.  You can also continue if you want.  

• Red Light, Green Light:

1. One player is chosen to be IT. The others line up single file about 20 feet away.
2. IT turns his back to the group and says "green light."  The players in line start running toward "IT".  Meanwhile IT counts quickly to 10.  Then he calls "red light" and whirls around.
3. The players must freeze when they hear "red light." If IT sees anyone moving, he sends him back to the starting line. 
4. The game continues until a player gets close enough to tag IT before he can call "red light." This player is then the new IT.

• Discovering Green:  Paint(yellow and blue), clear plastic container with lid, yellow and blue cellophane (or colored plastic wrap) shapes, 9" x 12" white construction paper, glue, green construction paper, markers

1. Pour some yellow and then blue paint into a clear plastic container.  Secure the container with a lid.
2. Have your child the container and have them observes what happens to the color.
3. Give each child a piece of white construction paper and ask them to glue yellow and blue cellophane shapes to the paper, making sure they overlap some of the shapes.
4. Mount the cellophane pictures on green construction paper and display. 
5. Using the appropriate colored markers, label the display Yellow + Blue = Green.

Activity Worksheets, Coloring Pages and Flash Cards at first-school

• Color Collages: Green and Yellow pictures from magazines or newspapers, thin cardboard, glue, glitter(Green and yellow)

1. Glue all Green pictures on a piece of cardboard.
2. Cut out the letters GREEN out of the newspaper or magazine and glue on top of pictures.  Add a bit of glue over the top to add green glitter.
3. Do the same thing for the Yellow pictures.
4. If you want you can just add the green and yellow pictures together too.
5. Add yarn to the back for hanging up if you want.

Snacks:

GREEN:  Peas, broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, pear, celery, pickles
YELLOW: Bananas, mac-n-cheese, cheese, corn, lemons, lemonade

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day: 

1. IS
2. Practice this word and yesterday's day IN with today's word.
3. Make up sentences with this word. Like: The sky is blue.  The cat is up the tree.

• Word Practice: Index cards, markers, scissors

1. On an each index card, write a simple 3 or 4 letter word, leave spaces in-between each letter. Like cat, hat, dog, ball, tall.  Then put squares around each letter.
2. Then cut up blank index cards like the squares on the other index cards.  Then right the letters that are in the words onto each blank square, to make word tiles. So for dog, you will need a D O G.
3. Then mix up the tiles(letters).  Have  your child try to find the right letters to put on the index cards.

Math:

• The Doghouse Math: Small, clean milk cartons, craft sticks, glue, crayons or markers, construction paper

1. Cut off the top portion of the milk carton and glue construction paper to cover the remaining sides.
2. Decorate your milk cartons to look like doghouses.  Label the front of one carton with an addition sign, another with a subtraction sign, and the remaining carton with the words "Pet Number Sticks."
3. Turn your craft sticks into dogs or cats and number each stick from 1-10 at the bottom.
4. Use the craft sticks to practice addition and subtraction by using the numbers written on the bottom of the sticks.

• Sock Sort: 4 0r 5 pairs of socks

1. Mix up the socks and spread them out on the floor.
2. Count how many socks there are.
3. Pick one sock and find the one that matches it for a pair.  Now match up the others until your child has used up all the socks.  How many pairs do you end up with?

• The next time someone in your family does the laundry, ask your child if they can help sort all the socks.  They can sort them out in colors first, like a white pile, red pile, etc. Which socks do you have the most of?  The Least of?

Music:

• Make sure to have your child play their guitar, while singing
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Little Ducks Songs

Nursery Rhyme:

Daffodils

Daffy-down-dilly has come to town In a yellow petticoat and a green gown. Star Light Star Bright

Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the wish I wish tonight.

Reading:

• Colors by Tana Hoban
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
• Red Day, Green Day by Edith Kunhardt
• Green Bear by Alan Rogers
• Growing Colors by Bruce McMillian

Color Week: Week 22: Tuesday!