Healthy Bodies

Following up our Safety unit with Healthy Bodies was a great transition.  We went from keeping ourselves safe, to keeping our bodies healthy. With only 3 days in this unit, though, I feel we barely scratched the surface!

Dramatic Play
We played in a doctor's office, complete with tools like real (and pretend) stethoscopes, bandages, medicine bottles, medicine dispensers used as shots, and other tools to check ears, eyes, and reflexes.


For some reason, that's my only picture, but you can check out last year's here for an idea.

My favorite part was, like last year, they'd sit and patiently wait in the "waiting room" for their turn. Our doctors were great at diagnosing too (and I recently learned they know the word diagnosis thanks to Doc McStuffins; I hadn't heard of her last year). We wrote our diagnosis in our notebooks for writing practice, and got a lot of good reading done about the human body too.
On Day 3, we changed a little to add dentist items, and the kids played a mixture of both doctor and dentist.

Art
We decorated faces. Some added the hair and eyes in correct spots, but most just explored with the items and made great collages.
 
We also painted with people-shaped sponge stamps. They asked for eyes, so I got the googly eyes back out and they ended up covering their paintings.
 
I loved this project because I watched 2 kids over there (who usually don't do art) playing together for 30 minutes. It's what preschool art is about....the process, not the product. They started with people and added 2 eyes (they were the ones who requested it). I was in the reading center reading to a few kids and watched these 2 transform their pictures into all different creations with the paint, stamps, and eyes. They were laughing and talking as they described the silly things they were making. Another reason I love open-ended art. I provide the supplies, and they put their imaginations and language to work.

Blocks
We built and played with Mega Blocks and cars, just because they're a favorite.

Small Manipulatives
We did a community helpers and a Doc McStuffins puzzle.
We played with the community helpers sorting we game we had done in small group last week.
Played DocMcStuffins memory.

Large Group
Day 1 we read The Amazing Human Body and talked about it. Seriously, that took the whole 15 minutes. It wasn't meant to, but we had great questions and discussion. We talked about our hearts and lungs and exercising. We found and flexed our muscles. We found our bones and skulls and blood vessels. What a fun day of discovery and vocabulary!

Day 2 we learned about germs and how they travel and enter our body. We watched a short clip from Sid the Science Kid that helped them visualize how a germ can travel from one person or thing to another, and then how washing it down the sink got rid of it. One kid sat there with his hands in front of him, totally disgusted, then got up to wash his hands once we were done. All the kids requested some sanitizer too. We then learned our new songs.
tune "Happy and You Know It"
When you go to the bathroom, wash your hands,
When you go to the bathroom, wash your hands,
When you go to the bathroom, then you need to wash your hands,
When you go to the bathroom, wash your hands.

When you need to sneeze or cough, wash your hands,
When you need to sneeze or cough, wash your hands,
When you need to sneeze or cough, then you need to wash your hands,
When you need to sneeze or cough, wash your hands!

We also sang another verse about sneezing or coughing into your elbows to not get the germs on our hands.

Day 3 we learned about keeping our teeth clean. We read a book called Going to the Dentist. We then practiced brushing teeth with our giant teeth and toothbrush. Each kid got a turn to brush, following the directions on our poster. Then I lined them up shoulder to shoulder to be the teeth, and I used a giant piece of floss to floss between them and get all the plaque out.
 
 
We has started an experiment on Tuesday, and checked on it Thursday. We had 2 boiled eggs and put one in Coke and one in water for 2 days. We compared the differences after, and talked about the effects that unhealthy food and drinks can have on our teeth. We were able to brush off some of the brown stains and talked about why it's important to brush.
 
 
We also sang the Raffi song, Brush Your Teeth.
When you wake up in the morning and it's quarter to 1, and you want to have a little fun,
You brush your teeth, ch ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch ch, you brush your teeth, ch ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch ch
...quarter to 2, and you want to find, something to do,
...quarter to 3, and your mind starts humming, tweedle dee dee,
...quarter to 4, and you think you hear a knock on the door,
...quarter to 5, and you just can't wait to come alive!

Small Groups
Week 1 we only had 1 day, so we did 2 10-minute small groups.
In one, our volunteer grandma helped the kids cut straight lines, and it was no easy task! They had 2 lines to cut on a picture with the outside and inside of the body. It was great practice for them, and lots of work.
In my group, we wrote in our journals about ways to stay safe (reviewing last week).

Week 2, we learned about healthy foods and exercise.
Our mom volunteers helped the kids sort (sneaking in some math skills) our play food into healthy and unhealthy foods. Then they drew their favorite healthy foods in their journals.
I talked to the kids about exercising. We read From Head to Toe by Eric Carle to get our bodies moving like the animals. Then I showed them a healthy bodies app on the ipad and we looked at the heart and lungs. We could make the person "run" and watched their heart beat faster and lungs go faster. Then we did some exercising to get our hearts and breathing to go fast. It was a lot of fun!

Snacks
We had to eat healthy all week, so we tried some fun things.
We tasted 4 different types of apples, then picked our favorites to color and add to our fall tree. We learned about apples growing in the fall too.
We made egg salad. They each got to peel their own boiled egg (which was tedious and time-consuming, but a good fine motor skill) then we mixed them with mayo and a little salt and pepper for our salad. They devoured it on crackers.
I don't remember the third snack, but I think it was just crackers and juice that we ate, and then also got the rare treat of watching a video during snack. Dr. Rabbit taught us about sweets and soda causing plaque, and how to fight the plaque with flossing and brushing.
You can go to Colgate's website here for more videos and games to help teach your children about dental hygiene. I know this lesson helped me be better with my own daughter (we weren't flossing and often only brushed at night, but we're doing much better!). I also printed off a chart from here, a smaller version of the classroom one I have, that shows her all the parts of her teeth we need to brush.

Congrats to all your kids who finished their homework and teeth brushing chart. They were thrilled to earn their toothbrush prize! (although 1 did ask what the real prize was :)

We wrapped up the unit with a journal entry on their favorite way to stay healthy. Most said eat strawberries. At least they learned 1 good thing!

Whew! In 3 days we covered body parts and functions, nutrition, exercise, oral health, dr and dentist visits, and germs. Hope they caught onto something here!

Safety

Field Trip
We started out Safety week with a field trip to the fire station. Thanks to all you you who came! The kids had a great time. We started with a video about fire safety that talked about having a plan to get out of your house in case of a fire. The fire fighter also taught us about not playing with fire and matches to stay safe, and we practiced Stop Drop and Roll and calling 911 in an emergency. Then we got to tour the Fire Station! Most kids liked it, and others were nervous. It can be a scary thing, and fires can be scary to kids, but I think it helps to meet the firefighters and see that they're nice and there to help you. Especially when they show the kids what they look like in their full gear, they're showing the kids that if they come to help them dressed that way, they can trust them. Some kids took a turn to drive the truck and hold the hose. We also got fire hats they all thought were cool! We ate snack at the park and played a few minutes on the Fire Station playground too. Back at school, the kids got some free play time before we did small groups.

Dramatic Play
We played Fire Station all week. I had more fire fighter coats this year and that made it a lot of fun! They had lots of fun dressing up and playing firefighters all week, and I think it was great to go to the fire station first so they could see what they do.
 
I even made oxygen tanks by spray painting pop bottles yellow.




The second week, after they had learned and practiced calling 911 and being dispatchers, their play really expanded with them using the phones to call and giving an address to the firefighters. There were pictures of houses on the wall in the block area with numbers, and they were good at giving those numbers as their address. Learning math and life skills in play!


 

Blocks
The block area had a doll house the first week, with dolls and some firefighters. My firefighters were about half the size of the dolls, but they didn't seem to mind! They had some great make believe play!
 

The second week we had out the car mat and cars. Both were a great extension of the fire station, as the kids used them together to put out fires in the doll house and in the buildings on the car mat.

Art
We played play dough.
We made collages with glue and a variety of different things to glue on our papers.
We made fall leaves for our tree. We did marble painting, by rolling marbles in paint, then dropping them in large cans with our papers inside. We shook the cans to spread the paint, then took our papers out when they were ready. Once they dried, I cut out the fall leaf shape and added them to our classroom tree.
 
 



I somehow forgot to get a pic of the finished tree!

We also finger painted. I tried this recipe, but it didn't turn out great. It kinda dried to a gelatin consistency. I added more water and stirred more and it worked, but it was lumpy. The kids still enjoyed it and it was a great sensory experience (like our gelatin molds), but I don't think I'll use it again.

Small Manips
We did 2 different fire fighter floor puzzles.
We played a community helpers game and did a community helpers floor puzzle.

Outside
We had wheat in the sensory table, and added the firefighters to it the second week.
We also had out balls and other toys.
The kids are loving the swing set and spend most of the time swinging and sliding!

Snacks
Besides the regular snack rotations, we made traffic lights for snack one day. The kids spread their frosting on their graham crackers, then added skittles to make it a traffic light.

 
 

Songs
We learned 2 new songs, one about fire trucks one about calling 911.

Hurry, hurry, drive that fire truck,
Hurry, hurry, drive that fire truck,
Hurry, hurry, drive that fire truck,
Other verses:
Hurry, hurry, turn that corner
climb the ladder
squirt the hoses
Slowly, slowly, back to the fire house

911 (tune of Bingo)
There is a number you can call when you need someone's help.
You call 911, you call 911, you call 911 when you need someone's help!

Large Group
Day 1 was the field trip.
Day 2 we had eaten our traffic lights for snack, and learned more about them in large group. We read about traffic safety, then played Red Light Green Light.
Day 3 we read about Playground Safety, and did a safety experiment on our playground. We took 2 apples outside. We made predictions about what would happen if we dropped them on the grass and cement. Then we did it. The one dropped on grass had nothing happen to it. The one that I dropped on the cement broke open and juice came out, which they immediately connected to being blood if it was them that fell. We talked about the safest place to run on our playground, and they knew it was the grass because if they fell, the wouldn't cut their knee open and bleed.
 
Day 4 we read a Sesame Street safety book and wrote in our journals how we can stay safe.

Small Group
I taught the kids about calling 911. We practiced using real phones, and one child got to be the dispatcher while another called to report an emergency. We also talked about what emergencies are that we would need to call 911, and times when we shouldn't. As with most lessons this week, I emphasized with the kids that they are small enough there should always be an adult or baby sitter watching them who would know what to do in an emergency and they could count on them to know if they needed to call 911.

Our mom volunteers read an interactive safety book to the kids that posed different situations, and the kids got to pick the safest answer. They pushed the button to see if their answer was right. I was so glad to have small groups to get to use this book, since they love having turns to push the buttons and that's hard to do in large group!

Week 2, I read the kids a book about strangers and we talked about "stranger danger." Hopefully you read my other blog post about Strangers with links to great articles on how to talk to our kids about this topic. We talked about the situations in the book and what would be safe (like not wandering off from our parents and finding a "safe" stranger like a mom with kids or a cashier or police officer if we did get lost).

Our mom volunteers played a community helpers game with the kids, and also helped them place ambulance cards with numbers 1-10 in order.

Shapes Shapes Shapes!

Here's some of the fun we had during shapes week!

Dramatic Play:
Pizza Restaurant


 
 Added literacy with job charts and signs for ordering. Also great math with this.

 Math and sorting. Pizza toppings made with shapes I cut out from foamie sheets. Each day at clean up, the kids had to sort them back into their right spots. It took time, but it's an important math skill!

 




 
We had a blast making pizza this week in DP! We had play dough and toppings so they could make their own, plus some plastic pizza pieces too. It was a hit all 4 days. They were so cute as workers dressed in their aprons and chef hats, and taking orders (always filling out the order forms and receipts) and serving each other. One day, 2 kids were working like crazy while the others stood in line to order and sat at the table waiting. The "workers" were running around like crazy taking orders and making pizzas and one said, "It's so hard to work at the Pizza Restaurant when it's so busy!" We recruited a few more workers and they got through the busy rush. This play was serious business. Check out these great pizzas:

I tried a new play dough recipe this week with baking soda and cornstarch. It was great the first day, but then got super sticky, so I went back to my go-to recipe I use all the time. I didn't get it here, but it's the same one I had from college and I know it works.
 

Blocks: 

The first week, we set up bowling. The kids loved the pizza restaurant and bowling alley together. One kid even planned his birthday party there and invited the others to come eat pizza and bowl. It was perfect.
 

Day 3, we had masking tape shapes on the ground and a basket of objects to sort by shape like this, and day 4, we had a giant foam number puzzle with shapes for each number.

Small Manipulatives:

We did several shape puzzles (large floor ones and small), played with pattern block and other shapes magnets to make pictures and patterns, and played shape dominoes.
 
We also used pom poms to make shapes. They loved this one!
 
Art:
Shape sponge painting
Q-tip art in small circles (the point was to use their fine motor skills to make dots, but they all just painted all over the pages).
Gluing foamie shapes to make pictures
 
Play dough with shape cookie cutters

Sensory Table:

We had 2 more days of rainbow rice since they loved it so much. Week 2, we had cloud dough, which is flour and baby oil mixed together. It was the perfect consistency for our ABC molds.

Writing:
Shape stamps (made putting stickers on milk carton lids) thanks pinterest
 
Shape tracing


Large Group:

Songs:
Jake the Snake is similar to Mitch the Fish and Scat the Cat, except Jake makes different shapes with his body. I have pictures of Jake wrapped around shapes in a folder, and they switch as we sing the song.

I'm Jake the Snake,
I'm happy and awake.
I'm a magical guy,
I can change my shape.

We also sang 2 songs from Dr. Jean's cd Totally Math, Shape a Loo and I Spy a Shape.
We danced and sang about shapes, and searched for them around the room as we sang.

Shape a Loo
Here we go shape a loo, here we go shape a lay, here we go shape a loo, all on a happy school day.
We put the triangles in, we take the triangles out, we give the triangles a shake shake shake, and turn them all about.
(repeat with other shapes)

I Spy a Shape
Do you spy a rectangle? A rectangle? A rectangle? Do you spy a rectangle, in the room?
Yes I found a rectangle.....
(repeat with other shapes)

We did a shape each day for 4 days (circle, square, rectangle, triangle) and hung pictures on our shape wall, then played I Spy a Shape and found them all over the room.
We read many great shape books too.

Small Group:

Thanks for your help with this one, parents! We made a book based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, using shapes. With pre-cut shapes, the children made a different animal for each page. I still need to bind them and have a child who was absent finish theirs, then they'll be coming home. They look great and I'm excited for the kids to "read" them to you. They learned so much with this activity, and I was impressed listening to you moms helping and reviewing their shapes with them. The Kindergarten core wants the children to be able to use shapes to make a picture, and that's what we were teaching here.

Some great shape resources to keep teaching your kids at home:
Shape Play
Colors and Shapes
Name the Shapes
Big Bird's Shapes
Different Shapes
Creating with Shapes
Shape o Bots
and so many more once you find these, you'll see the rest!

Your Child's Safety

This theme has been on my mind all summer. A friend shared some articles on how to protect your child from sexual abuse and it's been on my mind ever since. As uncomfortable as it seems to discuss this topic, we all know it's something we have to teach our children. (One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.) I vaguely remember being taught about it in school, with groups coming in and doing skits and talking about our "uh-oh" alarms. We also had the Safety Kids books and tapes as kids and I remember the song about "sometimes you just gotta yell and scream." Stranger Danger was a popular concept to teach back then, but we know now that most child abuse and abductions happen by people we know.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I am a concerned teacher and parent. I've researched and read a lot about this topic and want to share what I've learned with you so you can better protect your child. One of the biggest ways to prevent our children from being sexually abused is by having a close and open relationship with them. Predators go after the weak, and are unlikely to harm a child if they know that child will tell someone. Through the "grooming" process, they often test the boundaries and if a child tells a trusted adult at this phase they will often back off (Time magazine had an article about Jerry Sandusky that discussed this tactic. It was scary to learn how many kids did tell, yet he still hurt so many who didn't.)
I will not be discussing with your preschoolers how to stay safe from child predators during our 2 week Safety Unit. I believe this is something that you should be teaching in your home and did not feel it was appropriate for me to talk about with them.
We will talk a little about strangers with a book called Don't Talk to Strangers by Christine Mehlhaff. It gives a general overview of who strangers are and why we don't talk to them and what to do. I think a valid fear in parents is that a stranger will hurt your child, but we don't want to scare our children so much that they are scared of everyone. Another fear of mine is my child getting lost when we are out somewhere. A general rule I'm trying to teach her (and I'll talk about with your kids) is how to find someone to help them. At a grocery store, they can go to the front where you buy your groceries and tell them you're lost. They can look for a police officer in uniform. I have also taught her to look for a mom with kids. A mom with kids is a stranger you can trust (I hope!). Another person would be a grandmother.
As a mom, I'm scared to talk about this topic with my own child, and so I've tried to arm myself with information to help me. I hope to do the same for you. Here are links to articles I've read and found helpful and hope that you do as well.

Stranger Danger:
Tricky People are the New Strangers
Dr. Phil
How to Teach Your Child Stranger Danger
Stranger Danger Resources
Tips for Parents
10 Ways to Test Your Child about Stranger Danger

Protecting your child from sexual abuse:
Protect Your Child From a Predator
10 Body Safety Rules
Books to Teach Kids Appropriate Touch
I Said No
Lessons to Parents from the Sandusky Verdict
In Plain View: How Child Molesters Get Away With It

ABC Books

This is a little unrelated to preschool, but this was on my list of things to share this summer, and I totally forgot. For my end of the year gift to all the kids, I made a cool (at least I thought so) ABC book for each child. I did a page for each letter of the alphabet, printed them and put them in dollar store albums and they each got their own book with pictures of them and their friends from the preschool year.

Well, here's my secret to the book. I am an avid digital scrapbooker (here's the blog I actually update regularly for that), and used this amazing ABC kit by AmyDane Designs.

I didn't even have to make the pages, because they are brag book pages I bought pre-made. So, I can brag all I want about this book, because all I did was slip pictures (with photoshop) into an already made page, and add the journaling. I don't see the brag book pages for sale anymore, but she does have this great quick page pack that would make and amazing alphabet book!

I'm sharing this now because AmyDane Designs is going out of business this month! So all her kits are 75% off and then they'll be gone forever. So, if you're into scrapbooking, or want to make an ABC book for your child, go grab it now because at the end of September, it will be gone! 

Colors, cont'd

Love this video. Shared it with the kiddos and they loved it too.

Click here for a cool game too!

Colors

I have been scheming this theme in my brain for a year now! I always planned on combining it with Eric Carle, but as I planned it, there are just way too many fun things to do that just focus on color, that I couldn't fit all the fun Eric Carle things too. So, he got bumped to his own theme later in the year.

My goal with this theme was not to teach colors (they already know them), but to teach about mixing primary colors to make secondary colors, and to also introduce sorting (since sorting by color is usually the easiest). I definitely think we accomplished those 2 goals!

Dramatic Play: Paint Store
Thank goodness for college lesson plans, because I wasn't sure what to do here. The paint store was tons of fun. They loved working there (cash register is ALWAYS a hit and never gets old), and they loved painting! They "painted" the whole room over and over again and had a great time doing it.

Blocks: Mega Blocks and Legos
They're colorful, right?

Art:
Painting with primary colors. Great introduction to mixing colors and discovering what they do on their own. Didn't snap pictures, but we had some great art!

Gelatin molds. SO FUN! We called these "breast implants" in college.
 
It's just Knox Gelatin (3/4 cup boiling water to each packet, plus a little butter spray in each mold to make sure they come out) in bowls and various containers (the cool whip ones were great). The kids each had 2 small cups (old spice containers) with colored water (primaries only, for mixing) and eye droppers (generously donated, and also collected from my baby's Vitamin D drops). This was a HUGE SUCCESS! Some kids stayed here the whole hour. It starts with just squirting the water in, but pretty soon they have them torn to pieces and they're just loving rubbing their hands in it. What a FUN sensory experience and one we're going to have to repeat, they loved it so much. I only had 6 containers, but all 9 kids started the day doing it and no one complained when I asked them to scoot to add more chairs and to share their gelatin. They were awesome at sharing.


Colored bubble paint. Fail. It looks awesome on this pin, but not so awesome in our class. We tried it 2 ways, one with blowing a straw into the bin of colored bubbles and placing the paper on it to make prints. It's fun, but I guess I didn't use enough color. The kids preferred blowing them anyway. They had fun, and got some color on their papers, but barely. It ended up just being very messy, with bubble solution inside. (oh, and I did try it the night before and knew it wasn't going to be great, but still did it) Bubbles are better for outside!


Elmer the Elephant tissue paper painting. I had this fun book Elmer's Colors for the kids at the art table, then they got to choose one of 2 elephants, and then use liquid starch to paint colorful squares to their elephant.  I rarely do art that seems "crafty" like this one did, with an already-planned end result (colorful elephant), but it went great with our theme, and tied in literacy. I sat at the table and read the book over and over again as they painted, and that got the kids bringing more books over to read and I spent almost 30 of the first 60 minutes just reading out loud as they painted or listened.


Manipulatives:
Color puzzles
Color book with coordinating CD
Paint chips with clothespins (not really interested)
Color sorting file folder games (not interested)
Colored horses with clothespin legs (loved this)
Pom Pom rainbows (really liked)
 
Pom Pom drop (fun and different way to sort, seemed to like it)
 
I liked the clothespin activities because of the great fine motor-building activity that it is, but I think that's what got them frustrated. They really do have a hard time opening them and would really only try with me helping, showing how, and encouraging. It's surprising to us how hard a task that is for little fingers (which is what makes it great for strengthening those tiny muscles).

Reading Center:
SO MANY great books about colors and mixing them.

 

Outside:
They are loving the swing set and some never leave it!
We also had colored water to mix in the water table on day 1. They had it all mixed to brown within a few minutes (which was the plan) and had fun.
 

Day 2, I had the primary colors in squeeze bottles and soap containers to make it take a little longer and it did! They loved mixing the colors and showing me what they made.


 

We also had colored sheet spraying both days, with primary colors in squirt bottles that they coud spray on a white sheet.

Week 2 we had rainbow rice in the sensory table and they loved that too! I made the colored rice by mixing 6-8 cups of rice in a bag with a few drops of food coloring and 2-3 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol. Once all the colors dried, I mixed them all together. This was really popular and we'll be keeping it out next week too.

Snacks:
Rainbow goldfish (to sort then eat)
Painted toast (milk with red and blue food coloring). They each got to "paint" a little on their bread with a pastry brush and they all learned how to make purple.
Smoothies. We mixed together a lot of different colors of fruit in our smoothie and made guesses what colors it would make. The kale won out and we had green smoothies!

Large Group:

Songs:
Color Soup
(not sure of the tune name)
Take some cherries, put 'em in the pot. Stir it, stir it, stir it a lot!
Pour it out and what will it be?
The prettiest red you ever did see!

(repeat with orange, lemon, lime, blueberries, grapes)

Red, and orange and yellow and green,
Blue and purple colors are seen,
Mix them together and what will it be?
The prettiest rainbow you ever did see!

Scat the Cat
(file folder has cat cut out, with colored papers inside)
I'm Scat the Cat, I'm a happy cat,
If you don't like my color, you can change it like that! (pull out colored paper to change cat)

Mitch the Fish
(file folder with fish cut out, and colored papers inside)
I'm Mitch the fish, I can swim and I can swish,
I can change my color, if you wish!



Week one, we tried this paper towel experiment that taught us about absorption, and mixed our colors! They loved coming back Thursday to see them all mixed together.

Week two, we did another experiment with celery to watch it absorb colored water. It wasn't as obvious as the first experiment, but we still made awesome predictions and got to check out our results, and see where the colored water had climbed the celery.

We also made patterns, read great books, and sang songs. This is such a singing group (YAY!) so we've had lots of fun singing. They are also LOVING their classroom jobs and helping with that, and it's making it easier to have only some kids help hold song props too. They could not handle taking turns with songs last year. They all needed a song prop, and are doing great this year at just singing when they're not helping.

Small Group: Big Success!
The first 2 weeks were awesome and I am SO excited about this! Thank you 100 times for being willing to help, because we are doing great things in small group! I loved being with just 4 kids to do an activity. I could level it to each group (some we just mixed colors, and others we found the letters in the color names, etc.).

In my groups, we mixed colors.
Week 1, were the playdough color wheels (you can get primary color play dough at Dollar Tree. Love it.
 
Week 2, we mixed colors with paint. Some were patient and stayed with me, and other had interesting color mixing, but we all learned through fun :)
 
In the other groups, they sorted and mixed.
Week 1, moms read Freight Train and helped the kids order their train, then sort objects by color. Awesome math skill.
 
I also put this in the block area, week 2, since they loved the train so much. They sorted and played!

Week 2, moms helped kids make new crayons by mixing up our old ones. I didn't get any pictures, but you should have seen your kids' creations come home. They turned out great a colorful and are fun to color with! It was a great way to use up last year's broken crayons.


SUCH A FUN WEEK!!! SO much great learning in science, math, art, and literacy. Loved it.