The start of our Bees & Butterflies theme: Homes...

Welcome back everyone!  After an 11 day break, we have resumed again in our new location!  I am so excited for this change and so are the kids!!!!

After a lot of exploration and sharing stories of our Easter and spring breaks we got started on our first Mother Goose Time lesson for the month of April!

 Each month Mother Goose Time supplies us with a written newsletter...

 This is the weekly breakdown for this month...

 We started our lesson at the tables.  We sang, "The Bees in the Beehive" to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus."

 A hexagon is the shape we are learning about this month.  The kids were asked to cut 6 strips of paper and then form them into a hexagon.

 They also explored what else they could make with 6 strips of paper!

 Mother Goose provided us with new name tags to practice writing names on...

 What do you think is inside a bee's home?  

There are cells inside of all bee homes where bees store food or lay eggs.

Mother Goose provided us with these supplies to make a beehive stamping craft...

 The kids used the bubble wrap as a mitten to stamp the hexagon shaped honeycombs on their artwork...

 Then they used the leftover scraps of paper to cut, paste, and color bees for their beehive...

 The kids tucked their bees in their beehive and had fun playing with them...

 Mother Goose provided us with this new Rhyme Time Poster...

 Mother Goose also provided us with these new attribute blocks!  The kids played with them in the afternoon and I encouraged them to build a honeycomb.

 This was our book for the day...

 Our first pizza party at the new house!

 We celebrated K's 5th birthday!!!!

 I love this photo!  10 years I have been working in a basement with no big windows!  I can see even the kids appreciate the view as much as I do!

Easter 2016!

On the Tuesday before Easter we celebrated Easter using our Mother Goose Time celebratory packet.  I was so very thankful that we ended up celebrating Easter on Tuesday, because the very next day we had a HUGE snow storm!  I was limited in some supplies, because this was the last week at the old house, but Mother Goose Time sure made it easy for me! 

This was our Easter packet that was included in March's box of curriculum...

 Charade picture cards...

 All of this was included!

 We also got a new "Pin the Tail on the Bunny" game!

 This guy got his tail exactly right!

 I supplied the kids with these backs and stickers for our Easter egg hunt!

 I videotaped the Easter egg hunt (see Facebook).

 Next, the kids made these bunny masks from Oriental Trading!  We made these last year too.  They are so easy to assemble and super cute!

 Happy Easter!

 Next, the kids did egg and spoon races with the supplies Mother Goose Time provided us with...

 After our egg races, we filled the eggs with rice and then taped two spoons around each egg.  They became a fun maraca to dance and sing with!

 The kids pretended their maraca was a rattlesnake tail.  Can you tell we have been learning about the desert? :)

 Mother Goose also provided us with this "5 Little Bunnies" fingerplay.

 Mother Goose provided us with these bunny cards, and I used them with with our "Feed the Bunny" fine motor activity I got at Lakeshore Learning.