Easter Songs and Fingerplays - better late than never

A few Easter Songs and Fingerplays that we like:

March Mad Scientist Week 2011: Chemistry

Baking soda and vinegar anyone? I found these easy and fun experiments here. My girls love experimenting with baking soda and vinegar. Have fun with them, too!

Here are my slightly modified versions

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March Mad Scientist Week 2011: Biology

Each year during March Madness I like to do a March Mad Scientist Week with the girls. This year I'm separating it into 5 days  in 5 areas of science:

1.Biology: The Life cycle of a Butterfly
2. Chemistry: Baking Soda and Vinegar
3. Earth Science: Air
4. My Body: Food Science
5. Physics: Color/Rainbows

My goal was to have each lesson short enough to just last one day and give the girls a taste of science (probably my favorite subject in school).

I may not get the rest of the lessons posted on here, but I thought I'd share our butterfly lesson since it's ready.  Our caterpillars arrived in the mail yesterday and the girls are SUPER excited about them. They have named them  and check on them hourly. It will be a long couple of weeks watching them grow and change into butterflies :)

Here it is for you to enjoy:

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Here is a link to where I got most of my ideas and plans:

http://scienceforpreschoolers.com/

CTR Towel

I made this a couple of months but I thought I'd still share it. There is nothing fancy about the towel and I like it that way. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, children are able to be baptized as members of the church at age 8. You can learn more here. My niece was baptized in February. It was wonderful to be able to support her. We gave her this towel and poem. I couldn't find a poem that I liked, so I made up one. You can use it, too, if you want.

P.S. If you don't already know, "CTR" stands for "Choose the Right".

Baptism Towel  Poem

The Circus Ship

I have been working on this lesson for weeks. I just don't have as much time to work on preschool as I used to. Hope you enjoy it.

So here it is:

The Circus Ship

We LOVE this book and if you haven't read it, you need to. I promise your kids will like it.

Lesson Plan

Songs and Finger plays

Animal Action Cards

Shoe Box Circus Ship

Hide and Seek Animals

Camo Art

Big Time Fun with Word Families

Math Mats

I didn't keep track of where I got some of these ideas. Sorry, if you know, comment and I'll fix it.
*clip art from letteringdelights.com*

A few things for President's Day

I made a few quick things you can use for President's Day if you're in the mood.  Nothing spectacular, but I thought I'd share anyway.

Songs/Activities

U.S. Presidents Cards

Here are two of links if you're looking to make some presidential head wear:

Lincoln

Washington

Love Quote Love Notes

Sweetheart's Week starts tomorrow!

As you know, I'm doing a game theme.

Here's my easy plan for my sweetheart, Brigham.

*A handwritten love note 

with favorite quotes about love that I found.

*A "game type" treat.

*A game to play together each night

...I'm just using games we already have.

You can use my Love Quote Love Note papers if you want. They aren't spectacular, but they work.

*I printed mine 2 per page so they aren't so big.

Guess Whooo Loves You?

I am excited to play this game. 

To make it even more fun, you need to go make one of these.

Here is mine:

Isn't he cute?

And here is the game. The descriptions are personal for my family, 

so I've included some blank cards if you want to personalize them.

Guess Whooo Loves You?

You Were "Mint" to Be My Valentine

I haven't finished the girls Valentine's yet, but I wanted to show you the first step anyway.

Materials:

candy canes

An Oven at 235 F

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 235 F.

Place two candy canes into an overlapping heart shape on a cookie sheet/jellyroll pan.

Bake for 8 minutes. Keep an eye on them. Any more would have made mine bubble and change in appearance.

Take them out of the oven and pinch the tops of the candy canes together. Push the overlapping candy cane into the bottom one.

Let cool and remove from pan.

Place in a bag. 

Attach cute saying....Maybe "We should be Sweethearts" or anything with a cheesy "Mint" line.

Valentine's I-Spy

Time for more of my Sweethearts Games.

This one is for my oldest. She loves I-Spy games

so I took a few pictures of stuff around the house and used some photos we already had...

....the girls love pictures of themselves.

Then I made them into a photo book

because it was my lucky day

and there was a code for a FREE book!

But if there hadn't been, I would have just ordered 5x7 prints and laminated them. 

I wish I would have time to make more custom I-Spy pictures

but I think they'll like it anyway.

Here are my photos if you're interested in using them. They aren't that great but you're welcome to use them anyway.

Candy:

 Hearts:

 Pink and Red: