| Frog Art |
| Frog Science |
| Firefly art Firefly Math |
| MAY 2009 |
| This month we talked about pond life and the insects, reptiles, and amphibians we might find around a pond or swamp. |
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| The children learned about fireflies, or lightening bugs. We don't have any here in our area so this was a new concept for the children - a bug that lights up!! They were enthralled. They used glitter to make their fireflies sparkle. For a little math activity, the children each selected a bug jar and identified the number on the jar and then used their fingerprints to make that many fireflies in the jar. |
| We learned the life cycle of a frog. |
| We practiced cutting out a circle and created a pretty cool frog. |
| We added foam lily pads and some plastic frogs to our water table for some sensory play. We added a little math to the fun by seeing how many frogs we needed on each lily pad to make it sink. |
| Literacy and Language Development L is for Lizard. We added the body parts to a letter L to make some really cute lizards. |
| We ended our school year with a "See You Later, Alligator" theme. |
| The children loved painting their hands and creating a swamp full of alligators. |
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| Our Science Center had alligator books and pictures, as well as pictures of their habitat, and even an up close photo of alligator skin. |
| We practiced number recognition and numerical order by arranging our alligators for an alligator parade. We learned that alligator babies hatch from eggs. |
| Literacy and Language Development We learned a poem about alligators and circled all the letter A's we could find. We also identified rhyming words. |
| Egg Carton Alligators |
| Copyright 2009 Patricia Hinton / Greatest Resource Educational Care Greatest Resource Educational Home Childcare and Preschool Goodyear, Arizona 85395 |
| We finished off the school year with a big bar-b-que in the afternoon and the children performed a small skit showing off some of the things they learned this past year. See You Later, my little Alligators! Have fun in Kindergarten! |