Summer

Dramatic Play
We continued our Ice Cream Shop we started last week.

 
Blocks
We had out the Duplo Legos, one of the kids' favorite toys.

Art
Day 1, I had out green paper, pencils, and scissors and asked them to make leaves for our tree. It was great cutting practice for them! They could just cut, or draw their own leaf, and a couple asked me to draw their leaf for them to cut.

Day 2, we painted with watercolors.

Small Manipulatives
We had our counting file folder games out again.
 
Counting ice cream sundaes, with a numbered cherry to add to the sundae with the matching number of candies.

Pom pom shape mats

Writing
I added the colored pens to their regular writing supplies

Outside
Another rainy week!! So we had to play inside again :(

Large Group
We read The Day Before Summer Vacation and talked about fun things they like to do in the hot summer. Then, we reviewed all the seasons. We sing them each day with our weather song, but it's good to review! We then had journal writing time for them to write some of their favorite things to do in each season.

Day 2, we read a Tree For All Seasons, and focused on the summer tree, and the green leaves they added to our tree. We then made our 4 seasons books. Each page was just a blank tree to start.
For summer, they painted green leaves.
For fall, we painted fall colored tissue paper on with starch.
For winter, we painted with "snow paint" which is glue, shaving cream, and glitter.
For spring, we glued on split peas to be leaf buds.

Small Group
We stuck to the summer ice cream theme.

My group had ice cream cones and we matched the rhymes.

Miss Kim's group had ice cream cones with capital and small letters. They put the cones in ABC order, then added the matching ice cream on top.