5 A Day Books

5 A Day Books

If you would like to participate in the 5 A Day book challenge you can read about it HERE.

Here's our books for the week!

Hello, Red Fox

by Eric Carle

 This book is about a little frog's birthday, opposite's, and complementary colors.

Birds 

by: Kevin Henkes

This book is told from the perspective of a child. 

Bird colors, shapes, and with beautiful illustrations through out makes this a delightful read. 

Cat's Colors

by: Jane Cabrera

Cat talks about ten colors in this book and tells which ones are his favorites.

Planting a Rainbow

by: Lois Ehbert

This book is about a mother and child who plant flowers each year the colors 

of the rainbow in their family garden.

Why Is Blue Dog Blue?

A Tale of colors 

by: George Rodrigue

Blue dog will change many colors through out this book! 

This is a very fun book from a wonderful artist from Louisiana!

So I am very excited to read this book to the kids this week and give them a little brief

synopsis of  him. Also you can read here about the 

George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts:Youth Development

I love his Art!

 Have a Wonderful Week!

Letter Uu Week and Introduction to Lap Books

We began our week by reading their U books I made made for them.

We read them together and they color the pages on the inside.
I make a book each week to go with the letter that we are on.

U is for Umbrella
After reading the book we made a fun umbrella with rain drops craft I found over at Mama Jenn.

First we put an umbrella together and and added dots of glue all over the paper.
I always tell them one dot is a lot. :)

And then they were hung on the blinds to drip down to look like rain drops!
They loved watching this!

This is what they look like dry!
These will go into their binders. This was a fun craft!


Introduction to Lap Books


Today I introduced the kids to lap books. I felt like I didn't quite know what I was doing here.
However they seem to enjoy them. One child called it his scrapbook! Love it! :)

 Here's the inside. This total concept came from Pocketful of Posies
The Uu tracer sheet is from DLTK-kids

 Do you know the umbrella man?

This is the cutest little book! I didn't show the whole book but it's in their lap books.It's sung to the tune Do you know the muffin Man? They really enjoyed it!


The back of their lap books..

They worked on patterns here. I thought that would be fun for them.

Let's Make it RAIN!

Today we did a little science experiment to see if we could make it rain!
For this experiment I needed
a jar
plate
boiling water
and ice

 First pour the boiling water about a 1/3 way full in the jar and put the plate on top.
Wait a couple of minutes and add the ice

 After a bit you will notice the condensation building

You can see a little in this picture it's dripping along the sides.
I explained to them how heat rises touching the cold plate causing it to drip along the sides.
I found this idea here and you can read more at Weather Wiz Kids they also have a Facebook page


They also worked on tracer/pre-writing It's Raining sheet

Letter U Do A Dot

Umbrella Matching

 This will go into their binders

Find the hidden capital U and color it purple 

and the lower case u and color orange

And that was our week!

:)

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Foto Friday #14: Upside Down

I thought this was a good theme for the week!

This is the picture that came to mind!

My daughter ^ and her best ^ friend!

Same girls in last weeks theme!

This photo just makes me laugh out loud!

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Father's Day 2011 - He's the Best Dad Hands Down!

I recently stumbled across a blog who found this on Pinterest.

Their version was put in a frame. So beautiful!

Our's is laminated with ribbon as a hanger.

 We started here with stamping little hand prints with tempera paint in their choice of color.

 I cut all the letters and numbers with my Cricut and glued to the cardstock.

I really think stickers would have been easier, oh well, I enjoyed myself!

I laminated them all and hole punched two holes at the top for the ribbon hanger.

All the children had their ribbon choices ready for me to tie in place.

They all went home yesterday.

We usually wait till the end of the week to send home gifts, but what always happens, someone will stay home. So, home they went! You know mom has something special for Sunday anyway!

Happy Father's Day!

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5 A Day Books

In Honor of Father's Day

We are theming it up again this week!

Because Your Daddy Loves You  by: Andrew Clements

When things go wrong during a day at the beach like a ball that drifts away or an ice cream mess, a dad shows his love.

Just Me And My Dad by: Mercer Mayer

A father and son go camping! But who is really taking care of who!

Me and My Dad! by: Alison Richie

This rhyming text book tells a story about a bear cub and his dad!

My Dad! by: Chae Strathie

A little girls father always tells her outlandish tales, but despite his far-fetched stories she knows that one thing will always be true!

My Dad Is Awesome by: Nick Butterworth

A young boy extols the virtues of his father.

I hear this so often from the kids that I thought this would be a great book to read to them!

If you are interested about taking the 5 A Day book challenge,

you can read about it here at The Imagination Tree !

Happy Father's Day to All the Wonderful Dad's out there!

:)

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Homemade Watercolor Painting

This has been on our To-Do-List for awhile!

Pocketful of Posies shared this recipe on her blog and I knew we were going to make it! 

Recipe 

   3 tablespoons Baking Soda

3 tablespoons Cornstarch

3 tablespoons vinegar

1 1/2 teaspoons light corn syrup

Liquid food coloring

Styrofoam egg carton

bowl 

spoon

measuring spoons 

Each child took a turn putting the ingredients in the bowl. 

 Adding the vinegar cause the mixture to fizzle and foam.

They were excited and amazed!

Next I stirred it all together and placed it in the cartoon.

 And then added food coloring.

 And mixed it with a spoon.

 They decided they couldn't wait to paint.

So we began right away.

 Here's some of their art they created.

A Rainbow

 A Fleur de Lis

 This child painted on his paper, held it up so the watercolors could run down the paper!

They really loved this!

Yay! Good day!

:)

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