Snail Craft...

Shim, Shim, Shimmy

Written by Nancy Foss

Sing to the tune of "London Bridges".

Make a snail trail

Follow me

Follow me

Follow me

Make a snail trail

Follow me

Shim, Shim, Shimmy

We made Homemade pizza's too!

This is always a fun and rewarding lunch! The mess was CRAZY, but it was all worth it!

 WE used Turkey Pepperoni on one pizza and just cheese (a classic) on the other and sprinkled some parmesan cheese ALL over!!!!

We made play dough!!!

They are VERY serious about their work!

Bug Week!!

We're learning all about BUGS this week.

We've been busy reading insect books and making fun crafts.

Monday: Caterpillars

Tuesday: Lady Bugs

Wednesday: Stag Beetles

Thursday: Dragon Fly

Friday:  Slug/Snail

Wednesday Book and Craft time!

Oh Dear! Our poor little turkey friend is having a hard time finding a good hiding spot from Farmer Jake!

This story is so silly, the children will surely giggle!

"Turkey Trouble"

by: Wendi Silvano

Illustrated by: Lee Harper

and our craft of the day is all about

Hand Print Mayflowers! (Pinterest idea)

Two very proud Artists!

Block Time!!

How high can we build before it "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" Falls!!!

New ways to help scissor skills

I've been working on scissor skills with the younger children. We've been doing a lot of fine motor skill work such as these listed in this really helpful and neat website.

click on --->Creative Connections for Kids

Have your child snip narrow strips of paper with scissors.

This one is run!!!

click on --->Colander and some pipe cleaners!  

Monday, November 19th Todays Craft

This weeks theme is Thanksgiving! (go figure). We're going to learn all about Thanksgiving and share some of the things that we are thankful for! I am thankful for all my daycare children and thankful to be able to take care of such great little ones!

Today we're going to make Paper Bag Turkeys!

All the books at the library were OUT! :( But, that didn't stop me. I found an online story about a Turkey who lost his sandwich "Tick Tock and the Disappearing Sandwich" . We'll also be readying about Thanksgiving Day and why we celebrate it!

Friday's Book and Craft!

Today marks the end of our Animal Week! It's been a fun week, reading about funny animal stories and doing fun animal crafts!

See you Monday everyone!

Friday, November 16th Book and Craft

Wednesday Fine Motor Skill

We used a tea bag infuser (found at Ikea) to grab the pom poms and count as we picked then up and transferred them to the cup.

 

Animal Sensory Table

Today we have our Sensory table filled with Black Beans and all sorts of Animals! 

Animal Week!

This week, we're learning about all the different animals and what they do and where they live and what sounds they make. In addition to all that, we're learning what letters each animal starts with and how they sound! Each Day I have a book and craft ready for the children!

Monday we went to the local library and the Librarian read us 3 books and afterwards we did a Hamster craft! H..hhh hhh is for Hamster!

Wednesday: 

We are Reading :

and Crafting a letter FOX.. fff fff is for Fox

This craft can be found on "Miss Maren's Monkey's Preschool" Blog

November 12-16 It's an Animal Themed Week!

This week we will be learning all about animals and the sounds of the letters they start with (ex: Cow - "C"). We will be making animal crafts and read animal related books!!! Today we read  "Click Clack Moo" and we did a fun "sheep art project" .

First Day of The Little Monarch's Day Care!

November Planned Crafts!

If you would like to make these fun crafts at home, click on the links under each picture to see directions !

Pilgrims

Mayflower

Hand Turkeys

There were no directions for this picture, but as you can see, all you need to do is trace your hand, cut it out, glue on feathers, eye, lips and dress up the clothes pins with fun paper and clip onto hand cut out.

Wallah! A fun little Turkey Hand!

Paper Bag Turkey