Tot School: Orange fish

Again, I'm so behind on these.  I had these pictures loaded in this draft now for months....

 

Orange Fish week for Brown Bear Brown Bear Unit.

 

Color: Orange

Bible Story: Jesus Feeds 5,000

 

Orange Jello fish

I have seen these printables, but I just quickly drew one up.  Raelynn counted the fish for each bowl...then ate them of course



Declan matched the fish to the picture on the paper...then ate them of course



 

 

 

 

 

We had some lanterns left from Raelynn's hot air balloon birthday party.  I remembered one was orange, so we had fun watching that go up in the air!

 

 

 

 

I made a fishing game that all the kids enjoyed.  Bought a large piece of orange foam and cut fish out then glued little pieces of the sticky magnets to the back.  As they get older I can add letters or numbers to the fish to practice identification.

 

 

 

 

What better way to finish orange fish week than with buying some orange fish?!

Dora, Green, and Sarah....the newest members of the family.

printables

 

 

 

The kids had fun making their orange fish with hand prints

 

 

 

 

I make my own laundry detergent and I knew I was needing more.....so for a sensory activity and just for fun because I know the kids love pushing buttons and helping me, we shredded some more soap in the food processor.  Looks like cheese, doesn't it?!

 

 

Jesus Storybook Bible

another printable we did this week

Tot School: Purple cat

This is Purple Cat week from our Brown Bear Brown Bear unit.  We did this several months ago and I'm finally getting it published! I don't It was a fun week!

 



 

When Raelynn was learning to spell her name I would give her lots of letters and tell her to pick out the letters of her name.  Even today, now that she can write her name, she still does it backward sometimes.

We have Three Little Kittens!

 

We watched and read The Three Little Kittens a lot this week and then the kids loved acting it out themselves and singing the song

 

Fun trip to Grandma's to feed the cat and drink purple kool aid

I had Declan stamp the dot marker on top of little marks I made on the paper then he was to put the little plastic animals on the dots.  He did great!

covered Barney the purple dinosaur with stickers

 

Tot School: Green frog

Continuing our color theme through the book Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? And slowly but surely I am getting these posted:) 

 

Green was a very fun week.  Another week with so many options of things that are green! And so many fun frog activities. 

 

Color: Green

 

As we have done with the other colors, the kids colored the coloring page with markers, crayons, and colored pencils.  They also explored the green bucket of items I gathered from around the house.

 

 

 

2. Bible Story/Scripture:  The Ten Plagues (specifically the frogs over the land) in Exodus 8

 

The Jesus Storybook Bible has this story with pictures of frogs on the pages. The kids did green dot markers on a coloring page

The Gospel Story Bible has the story in it and the kids did an activity gluing pictures of the plagues on a paper as I read the story.  I think I found the pictures from a Sunday school curriculum through a google search

 

3. Hands On Craft:  Green Frog

 

 

 

4. Food Experience: Celery, Green apples, Kool-Aid popsicles, Green Grapes

 

ants on a log

The green apple frogs were fun to make and the kids loved them!  The eyes are banana slices with chocolate chips, arms and legs are green grapes, and I used peanut butter to hold the pieces together

 

 

 

5. Memorable Experience:  Growing Grass and learning the song "Little Green Frog" and "Five Little Speckled Frogs"

 

The kids planted grass seed at the beginning of the week.  It was perfect timing because daddy had just planted our winter grass in the back yard and this week it was sprouting! The kids had fun watering their grass and watching it each day.

 

 

By the end of the week the grass had grown very tall! And of course we kept it around for a while after "green week" was over.

 

This is our log and our speckled frog.  Not real cute or exciting, but the kids LOVED it! Loved singing the song and acting it out with the frogs.

 

This was a very last minute impromptu activity.  I had green crate paper but didn't know what I was going to do with it...but the kids love riding their bikes around the island so it was perfect to hang in there and make a "car wash" for them to drive through!

 

I cut lily pads and numbered them.  I had Raelynn put them in order and then we all played leap frog with them.  They enjoyed that for a while.  Then we took the plastic frogs and counted them onto the lily pad.  Lastly, before they were ready to be thrown away I had Raelynn dot marker the correct amount of dots on each lily pad.

6. Sensory Experience: Painting with Shaving Cream

I added a couple drops of food coloring to some shaving cream and the kids all had a paintbrush and had fun in the shower.  It was an easy clean up because we just turned the water on! They also had a green kool aid popsicle in the shower and I threw in some frogs so they could remember our Bible lesson from the week.
 

 

 

Another fun activity the kids enjoyed was telling the story with the felt board.  I traced each animal from the story onto felt and when we read the story they like to go up and put their piece on and then take it off.  It was easy to make...a little time consuming, but really easy!