Feet!

To help us in the transition between learning transportation to learning human bodies we talked about feet! We practiced our running, jumping, skipping and walking. We tried walking with no feet but it didn't work very well, they realized when they tried they were either crawling or slithering :)

We made a painting using our feet as well. One had a blue foot and a yellow foot to make green, another blue and red and the last had red and yellow feet. Not only was it good messy fun but it taught us color mixing and patience waiting for their turn to go on the paper as well!

Games

Sometimes the best games are the ones the kids invent themselves. We have lost a lot of the shapes to our shape sorter so I was going to tuck it away until little dude found a new use.. Putting animals in it! This has been his favorite game all week :) it's also great to teach him about how things can be too big to fit at times

Track painting

Painting is fun but it's always more fun when you get to use tools to paint that normally aren't allowed! Today we decided to gather a bunch of cars and make a track painting. It's great for learning color mixing when the tracks go over each other and just super fun :)

Monster trucks

Today we focused on monster trucks and decided to make our own! We started with a template found at http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Monster-Truck-Collage.html and painted them using water colors. Once they were dry we glued them to paper with colored plastic in the windows (quality street wrappers work great!) and used foam for the wheels. Then we attached the wheels with brads so the kids can drive them!

Calendar

Every month we have a new calendar that goes with our theme.. This month is transportation so we put the numbers on a monster truck, a helicopter and a boat for land, air and water. We do our calendar every morning to learn patterns, numbers and dates

Word families

So I still can't find a program for my iPod that lets me put the pictures through the post. I know one exists since I used to have one on my iPhone but I can't remember what it was! If anyone by chance knows please let me know :)

This month we are starting to work on recognizing word families. I thought the -ar would be great to do with our transportation theme so I made a little car out of poster board where they can spin the wheel and make all the -ar words.

Transportation

Now that all my little ones are back from holidays we are starting our transportation theme! Today we started by talking about different modes of transportation (they were amazed to find out people ride elephants!) and worked on our January calendars.

To make them we used their feet as the body of the plane and their fingers as the wings. Then we added a calendar and a poem we found at http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/transportation/m-songs-airplane.htm