Spring Crafts and Books

Spring is in the air and so are the allergies and pollen which has brought a stuffy nose and cough for R. We are doing some of the spring related crafts.
We did this Umbrella craft from Notimeforflashcards

And a flower garden

and some flower prints from cookie cutters

The Books which we are reading are

Flower Garden By Eve  Bunting and Kathyrn hewitt

Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert

Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres and Nadine Bernard Westcott

Mother's Day

We read a book "A present for Mom" by Vivian French and Dana Kubick and we loved it. Its a wonderful book about a cat who wants and tries diffrent gift ideas for his mom on the Mother's Day. R loves this book and since we read it for the first time we have been reading it everyday. 

PLaydough Mats

These mats which I got from HomeSchool Creations are great for fine motor skills and also we later turn our playdough play into a imaginative and creative play.

Space Theme Activities

We started with the few books and crafts related to space. The books we read were

Roaring Rockets by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker

Space Boy by Leo Landry

I want to be an astronaut by Byron Barton

We did this rocket craft inspired from Notimeforflashcards.com

And we did an astronaut craft from DLTK crafts

we did sequencing of the rockets in order of the size, the print is from Homeschool Creations

We played a Roll a Rocket game. I just cut the shapes for the rocket from the construction paper.

A is for Astronaut magnet pages from Makinglearningfun

Letter writing practice of space related words

Then we did the counting excersise for the count ofnumbers above 10. The print is from Makinglearningfun.

Lastly we did a rhyming words file folder game. This game is from File Folder Fun.

Letter of the Week - R for Rainbow

I thought this would be the perfect time for us to do Letter R. We made this R for Rainbow craft inspired from notimeforflashcards. Basically you paste color construction paper stripes on the letter. It came out beautiful.

We also read the book "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfitzer. We did a rainbow fish craft too. R drew a fish through guided drawing and I am so proud that he did this. He then colored it orange (his current favorite color) with a crayon and then he pasted various colors of scales. For the shiny scales, we used the aluminium foil. It looks really pretty.

We also read the book "Cock a doodle Quack Quack" by Ivor Baddiel. And then we made a lowercase craft "r" for rooster craft. The craft is inspired from Totally Tots blog.

St. Patrick's Day Crafts and Activities

Book we read -
Thats what leprechaun do by Eve Bunting

We made this garland of shamrocks inspired from Notimeforflashcards. First I had cut shamrocks from the coffee filters. R mixed yellow and blue to make green color and then we also added golden glitter on top.

We also did a basic shamrock sun catcher. Cut the construction paper with a shamrock template and paste contact paper on the paper and then stick tissue papers on the contact paper.

 I also made a sensory box for the St.Patrick's theme by putting green color rice, yellow lentils, Green pom poms, gold coins, tongs and cups.

We did some letter wriitng practice. I wrote the theme words with a highlighter and asked R to trace them first and then copy them in the blank boxes below. I was surprised at how his handwriting has improved. Some of the words were just so fine.

We also did a Leprechaun craft from a paper plate with orange beard and green hat.

We had a rainbow craft with VIBGYOR colors.
I drew the rainbow with the markers and made R paste the tissue papers, pompoms, scrapped papers and buttons. R really enjoyed doing this especially pasting the buttons. It came out beautiful too.

We did some counting too. Since R had been counting good things 10 or so I decided to work on things above 10. I got the print from Musings of me, She has wonderful packs for various themes.

We also did an activity to focus on phonics. R had to separate the pictures starting with sh and those which don't. He really enjoyed that. I got the print from makinglearningfun.

We also played a game of roll and color. I got the game from makinglearningfun

Finding the four leaf clover. Print is from Kidssoup

Treasure hunting for gold coins. I had written clues on sticky notes and hidden gold coins and then gold coin candy in the last clue. R really enjoyed it.

Size sorting shamrocks in small, medium and large. The print was makinglearningfun

Some of our current favorite books

These are our latest favorite books

1. Purplicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann

2. Mr Pusskins:A Love story by Sam Lloyd

3. Otis and Sydney and the best birthday ever by Laura Numeroff and Dan Andreasen

4. Sheila Rae, The Brave by Kevin Henkes