The kids world... and frogs

The theme for this month is "The World I Live In" and so,

for todays activities, we started with books about frogs. This one being one of the favorites.

This book gave us a great idea for a spare the moment Gross Motor activity (or PE) in which we answered the questions in frog book by showing that we can hop, dance, stretch, and croak like a frog. We also added frog tag into the activity as well.

For our science and sensory today our frog theme continued as the kids learned about the life of a frog and played with frogs in a "Pond" (aka, water beads and lily pads).

For literacy today we learned about the world in the eyes of the kids. We did this by showing our world pictures to each other and gluing them into their notebooks. We then told stories about how our life began (or something about their lives). The kids LOVED that activity as we sat in a circle and listened to each other. We started our stories "once upon a time their was a little (girl or boy) named..." and then continued with something about their life and world, and ending in "the end" or "and they lived happily ever after". I wish I could have taped their stories because they were the best!!

For math we started our notebooks with numbers 1-5. We traced the numbers and then added something in the notebook representing that number. Usually we go outside and collect items but with the rain today we decided to use stamps showing something from outside :)