Community Helpers

February 21-25

Books/Movies

• Movie- Amazing Heroes: Spend a Day with FireFighters
• Clifford the Firefighter

Crafts

• Community Helper Coloring from Edhelper.com

Activities

• Community Helper flashcards from Edhelper.com
• Community Helper puzzle

Dinosaurs

February 14-18

Books


       
Danny and the Dinosaur - Syd Hoff
                                
 

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?- Jane Yolen and Mark Teague


Dinosaur Opposites- Paul and Henrietta Stickland



The Littlest Dinosaur- Michael Forman

Music

• I Am a Paleontologist- They Might Be Giants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDDU7JqGs0E

• Walk the Dinosaur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733O0xJDx8o

Crafts

• Dinosaur picture painting

Activities

• Dinosaur Magnetics (Melissa and Doug)- Creative Play
• Dinosaur file folder matching activity (for image see blog post Jan 2010)
• Backyard dig for random objects
• Cornmeal dig for laminated dino bones/puzzle

Pieces for cornmeal dig

Ways to Say "I Love You"

Books

• Snuggle Puppy- Sandra Boynton
• How About a Hug-Nancy L. Carlson
• Polar Bear and the Rainbow- Moira Butterfield, Illus Sanja Rescek
• I Love You This Much- Lynn Hodges, Sue Buchanan, Illus. John Bendel-Brunello
• I'm Special

Discussion

5 Ways to Say I Love You

• Hugs
• kind words
• spending time
• doing something nice
• giving gifts

Used pictures of kids doing these things to explain

Crafts

• Valentine Hearts for friends at school and family - simple hearts cut out of construction paper with stickers and glitter decorations.
• Coloring pages- Piglet with heart balloon and a human heart
• Making a Family Mail Box
• Fuzzy Felt Heart People- (for next time)
• Heart Crayons- (for next time, use crayons in a heart mold and melt)

Baking

• Jello hearts for class
• valentine cake for valentine's day dinner

Black History Books

At the library we learned that February is black history month. One week we read several books with this theme. There were also books set out on top of the shelves.

Here are some of the ones we read and or checked out.

• He's Got The Whole World- Kadir Nelson
• Don't Say Aint- Irene Smalls, Illustrated by Colin Bootman
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Martin Luther King audio book

Musical Instruments

Books

• Learned about different notes with posters

Music

• Instrument Exploration
• Djembe showing
• Clarinet demonstration

Art

• Painting music notes with stamp paints

Wish I planned more for this week but it didn't happen.

Creative Projects to Be Green

Sometimes I go to the library story time or science time. Here in science time we read a book about recycling and not having too much stuff. We made a project afterward out of old cardboard and newspaper. It was a cool idea to use stuff we already had! I made a boat!

-Zachary

Astronomy

January 17-21

Art

• Painting with stamp paint the solar system
• Making a Mobile of the solar system (Hobby Lobby craft kit, comes with cool poster!)

Music

• How Many Planets- They Might Be Giants
• What is a Shooting Star- They Might Be Giants
• Why does the Sun Shine-They Might Be Giants

Science Experiment

Planets Going Around a Drill- Teaches about how the earth goes around the sun.

Movies

• Squibs by Ignite Learning, In Space: Earth, Moon, Sun and Beyond (very captivating for the kids although it was a lot of information for him and didn't sit past 30 minutes. At the SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY
• You Tube: Space Shuttle Launch
• Solar System Slide Show (home made from Google Images)

Imagination

• Put on astronaut costume and drove his home made spaceship. Joystick and old computer keyboard while watching the space shuttle launch.

Baking

• Cut out stars in jello (idea for next time)