N is for noises on the farm-Infant and preschool lessons

Scripture:Exodus 20:9,10 (Hard work)
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

We talked about how we need to get all our work done before Sunday.We also talked about working together and having a good attitude to make it go faster and so we can have more fun.There was a bit of eye rolling at first.I mentioned a story that shows how one man saw beyond his daily labor. A traveler passed a stone quarry and saw three men working. He asked each man what he was doing. Each man’s answer revealed a different attitude toward the same job. “I am cutting stone,” the first man answered. The second replied, “I am earning three gold pieces per day.” The third man smiled and said, “I am helping to build a house of God.”
Letter:N
Number:6
Nursery Rhyme: This little piggie
Music and movement:
First we read Senses on the farm

 Songs
Old McDonald had a farm
Ei-ei-o
On the farm he has a cow
Ei-ei-o with a moo moo here
Moo moo there
Here a moo
There a moo
Everywhere a moo moo.
Old McDonald had a farm.Ei-ei-o
Continue with other animals,horse,pig,chicken,cat,dog


Sung to the tune of Row Row Row Your Boat.

Milk, Milk, Milk your cow while sitting on the stool.
Pulling, squirting, pulling, squirting till the buckets full.

"Barnyard Dance" Act out this poem while someone reads it to you. The barnyard dance is about to begin, So hitch up your pants and jump right in! Pick the apples! Husk the corn! Crow with the rooster in the early morn! Bow to your partner! Wave hello! Clap your hands and tap your toe! Feed the chickens! Milk the cow! Hoe the weeds and push the plow! The barnyard dance has come to an end, So kick up your heels and start again!

For baby-6months and up.We read teach my baby Sounds and first words on the farm.I asked my Preschooler what sounds each animal made.We also did the this little piggy rhyme.Here is a fun way of turning this rhyme into a counting game.

Craft:paper plate cow.
What you need is paper plates,pink and black construction paper,glue and scissors.I
just drew the ears and nose on the pink paper,and legs on the black.Cut and paste.Easy peasy!My kind of craft!

My daughter named her cow Flopsy and
the boys called theirs Awesome dude.

They did a little dance for the baby.It was too cute!

Review letters K-T

Faith is like a little seed.....                                      
We talked about faith and hope as we read Hebrews11:1.Afterwards we did the activity,or you could say it's a finger play,found here

This week is review week for us.We are going over K-T.We start this off by walking on letters with music.When the music stops they say what letter they are on and the sound.My 2 year old recognized a few!My Kindergartner practiced writing her letters.

We focused on letter K-M.As we read books they tried to find those letters.We read blue train,green train and Fire Truck by Peter Sis.These books were the favorite from our Transportation theme last week.We actually read for over an hour.

We noticed a lot of words ending in ck:

Here is what we foundTruck,clickety-clack,track,back, sack,stack,thick,and trick.

Road Map Day and the letter N

Little Bo peep has lost her sheep and we don't know where to find them.Are they North South,East or West?I labeled where North,South and so on.Little Bo's sheep were hidden and the kids had to go find them.I made these cute little sheep with construction paper,cotton balls and q tips.You can find the idea here

Next the kids took turns being the hider and would hide items that started with the letter N.Then they would make a treasure map to help us find it.More pictures to come!

What is road map day without planning a trip?We chose the North Pole.What will we take and need?What will we do when we get there......?Find out next week as we plan our pretend trip and travel over the ocean.It might take a while to get there.How creative will we be?

Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?

N is for noses and nature

Yesterday was find a rainbow day.I have been having computer trouble so it is late being posted.We went outside to look for colors but we really could only find green and blue sky.

We talked about noses and smell.How sometimes we use just one a few or all our senses.Isn't that a cute nose!

We played a game where the kids closed their eyes and smelled different things and then wrote down what they thought it was it was really good spelling practice for my Kindergartner.

The line up was as follows peppermint tums,vinegar,bacon bits,vanilla,chocolate chips,basil,hair gel,garlic powder,lotion,peanut butter.

 

 We went outside to see what we could smell.We talked about some of the buds will turn into flowers and then they will have a fragrance.They smelled pine cones,grass,wood and even the baby!

They found a stick with animal trails maybe beetles or termites.

They found some chalk and starting collecting sticks and coloring them.I love when they get creative!

We also made something for the baby we put all our nature findings in a bottle of water.He is really starting to study things and kick his feet.He is also getting stronger and holding his head up longer.We have been doing Little Bo Peep who lost her sheep this week and next week!

Letter of the week N and 11 ways to use your plastic eggs.

We are working on letter N.I made a Nest and using Happy Easter Mouse by Laura Numeroff as my inspiration.Each page has eggs in different color in numerical order.For example the first page has 1 yellow egg.Next,2 red eggs.So I made eggs out of construction paper and put them in the nest.

I made corresponding squares of the same color.

What the kids did next was to pretend like they were the Easter bunny.I put down a mattress so they could hop like one.As you can imagine they had a lot of fun.Then they brought the eggs back to the right color square.

Who doesn't have plastic eggs after Easter.There are so many things that you can use them for year round.
1.Learning- letters,numbers,math,reading
2.Decorating.There are a tom of ideas I have seen all over the Internet.I haven't tried them though.
3.Games-I gave the kids the eggs and had them come up with a few ideas.They called it poppers where they squeeze the bottom and it pops off.

4.They also spun them on the ground to make tops.
5.Another idea was to scoot it on the floor like shuffle board.
6.to put snacks in
7.Music shaker for baby
8.Stack them

 

9.Memory game where you can hide something under it and have the baby find it
10.Color matching
11.I saw these paper bag nests with birds made from birds @blog.kangarooboo.com
We didn't get a chance to make this but hopefully we will.