Itsy Bitsy Spider Fun

Bugs!

There are so many different bugs.

Can you guess which one we are playing with here?

Right, it's the Itsy Bitsy Spider.

 

I taped a large cardboard cylinder to the wall and made a cloud with rain drops from a paper plate and a sun from yellow paper.

The spider is tied to a string, on one end, and a pencil on the other.

She loves putting it back in the water spout.

 Dad came in to watch and noticed that the tape was already starting to rip away from the wall.

He had an idea to attach the tube to this wooden stand.

It works perfect!

We will be able to use this "tube tree" for other activities in the future.

Muffin Man

Last week our Nursery Rhyme was

The Muffin Man.

First we played with muffins.

Counting, sorting, pretending to cook and eat.

Then we put our pretending to practice and made 

Banana, Carrot, Raisin Muffins.

Pat-a-Cake

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man

Bake me a pancake as fast as you can.

Roll it and pat it and mark it with a 'B'

And put it in a pan for baby and me.

The children made their own little pancakes this week.

Following the recipe,

measuring,

adding,

stirring.

While they were cooking they said the nursery rhyme to help past the time.

Hickory Dickory Dock

This month we are touching on nursery rhymes.

This week we played with Hickory Dickory Dock.

At the art table families found materials with a question,

"Can you make a mouse?"

So what do we do with our mice once they are made?

We made a big paper clock to hang on the wall.

The children attached their mouse and played with the clock hands.

They were encouraged them to think of a rhyming word to go with the number

they chose.