Spuds in Tubs

Today is a professional day so no families attending. I thought I would share one of the science activities we are doing.

Spuds in Tubs is a fun experiment to grow potatoes indoors. It teaches children that food comes from the soil not the grocery store.

We planted the potato seeds in a clear container so we could check on the roots. When not peeking we wrap the tub in black paper.

Soon we'll be putting the tub outside during the day.

We have an ongoing survey on what are the favourite ways we like to eat potatoes.
We hope to harvest the potatoes by mid June before school is finished so we can cook some of the favourite dishes.

glove chick

This morning's craft had a very definite outcome and didn't allow for to much creativity although we did our best to encourage the children to choose anything off the craft shelf to add to make their chick theirs.

I had prepared the gloves before hand by first cutting a styrofoam egg in half and hot gluing a half egg on to the palm of the glove.

When the children arrived
they picked out a glove (with egg attached) and liberally squeezed glue on to the egg. (To me this is such an important job because it works the muscles in their fingers and hands - all prep for eventually holding a writing instrument.)

Next came the fake feathers - we used yellow Easter grass. It was tricky because it's so light and once it has glue on it, it will stick to everything - especially hands.

Then came the creative part - some children used old puzzle pieces for the chick legs. Others cut beaks out of paper. They all liked using the googly eyes.

We had to let them dry before trying them on.

grass egg heads

Today we painted and planted.



Using cardboard egg cartons and egg shell halves we painted both.












Then filled them with soil, sprinkled on grass seed and watered.
Now we have to wait.
In case someone else wants to make one, I left the materials out.

Day off work

It was a beautiful day outside and managed to get in a walk with my husband in the morning.
Then after lunch I headed into school to do some clean up.


It was time to pack away all things pirate.

The families had a lot of fun playing in the pirate ship and acting as pirates.

We buried gold nuggets (painted rocks) and doubloons in the sand box.

One family built a cannon for us and it was a hit.

cookie cutter painting

We were busy making scrambled eggs today for snack so I put out paint with cookie cutters.

There was an egg shape cutter plus different shapes of things that hatch from eggs.

A few children did the craft but I also changed the paint pots at the
easel to bingo dabbers - which turned out to be very popular.

cottonball chicks

This week we continue are crafts related to eggs and what hatches from them.

This morning we used cotton balls and egg carton cups to make a cute little fuzzy chick.



Use egg carton sections, cotton balls (any colour - I found yellow and blue a few years ago at a dollar store), paper and glue.

The egg carton cup can be coloured or painted first (on the outside). Then put a drop of glue in the inside of the cup. Put one cotton ball on the glue. Another drop of glue on top of that cotton ball. Add second cotton ball on top of that. Cut a beak out of paper and use a hole punch to make two round eyes to glue on.

One of the children decided that their chick was hungry and we found some wool to add as a worm.

What creature am I?

On Friday for craft we thought of different things that come from eggs and what would they look like if we combined them with ourselves.


This was based on a riddle activity that has been out for the past couple of weeks.

I made myself into a Moicken. Some of the other creatures were a Tider (Tia and a spider, Maluck (Malik and a duck), and a Branesaurus Rex(Brayden and tyranasaurus Rex).

We used paper cut in an egg shape with a partial flap so they could draw there creature on the inside and write a riddle on the outside.

I found new pencil crayons. I love the brilliant colours and the triangular shape for an easy hold.