Dinosaur Skin

What colour were dinosaurs?

What did their skin look like?

Those are a couple of questions that were asked today around the art table.

We used various sized bubble wrap to give the effect of skin.

The children loved painting on it,

as well as popping the occasional bubble.

We kept adding new colours because we don't know what the true colours are of dinosaurs.

Then we pressed the paper on top to make a print.

And voila we created our own dinosaur.  

What to name it?

 Hmmm?

There's the Daddy Dinosaur.

 Big Dinosaur Skin

 Coloured Dinosaurs

And a Valosorapter.

A Week of Spiders

We have been playing with spiders this week.

Making webs with paint but using different methods.

We used strings dipped in paint.

We used marbles and paint.

And we used styrofoam trays to make web prints.

Of course on all of them we had to add spiders.

The overhead projector was used to play with spiders and their silhouettes.

And we tried to weave our own web.

 Over, under, over, under...

But the delicious part of this week was making spiders to eat.

Glue Gun Spider Webs

A few weeks ago I posted about using the glue gun on coffee filters to make autumn leaves well today we did the same thing but made spider webs.

They turned out great.
But what I liked even more is hearing the parents teach their child how to use the glue gun safely and on their own.

After they glued on the web they used watercolour paints to add colour.

We also tried using white crayon on the coffee filter to make the webs but the results weren't as great.

All week we'll be making spiders at the art table using different methods.
Stay tuned.

Hallowe'en Day

What a fun day we had.
Lots of families dropped by to show off their costumes and play.
Here are a few things we did today.

Costumed rubber ducks swimming in green jello.

Pumpkin carving by hammering holes.

Ghost races.

Blow the ghost balls across the table to the finish line.

Sugar cookie cutting and baking.

Songs.

Stories.

Shaving pumpkins.

A favourite - tin foil painting.

Pumpkin puzzles.

A visit with the dental hygienist.

A visit from the grade 2s to share a Hallowe'en poem they've been learning.

And look who we saw during the school's costume parade.

Hope everyone had a fun and safe Hallowe'en.

Halloween Literacy and Numeracy

Here are a few activities that we've been playing with for the past couple of weeks.

Hallowe'en story stones.

Pumpkins with numbers to match and fill.

Hallowe'en fingerpuppets to match, sort and sequence.

Fingerplays to manipulate.

Our question of the week.

Sign of the week - spider

This week we will learn how to sign spider.
Definitely not a difficult sign to learn - cross your wrists and wiggle your fingers.

We'll be singing the "Eensy Weensy Spider" fingerplay.

The eensy weensy spider
went up the waterspout
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain.
And the eensy weensy spider
went up the spout again.