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)

Staying HealthyS

January 17-21

Books

• Bernstein Bears Too Much Junk Food
• Text Book

Art

• Cutting out food from magazines and making a balanced meal.

Music

• Vegetable Rock (Songsfotteaching.com)
• Popcorn- Greg and Steve
• Dem Bones

Activities

• Print out food pyramid and laminate. Use during meals.
• Played soccer in backyard.

Winter/Winter Animals

January 10-14

We did not do a lot this week but we did do a few things. We will be trying to do one big theme week every month and then do a few small theme based activities the other weeks.

1. Books

• The Winter Visitors

2. Art

• Paper Snowflake

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/snowflake/

3. Movie

• Disney Nature Migration- found at our library