Posts by stephaniecooper

We learned a couple of great rhymes and songs about rain forest animals this week! One was about toucans which we acted out with finger puppets: Five little toucans sitting in a tree…The first one said, “Won’t you look at me?”The second one said, “See my pretty bill?”The third one said, “Your voice is rather shrill!”The…

We took a short break from learning about so many animals to celebrate Valentine’s day!  We read lots of stories and talked about how we show love to our friends and family.  These darling children all wanted to give their friends hugs after reading some books about giving hugs!  This age is so sweet and…

This week we got to touch and hold a number of different objects from the ocean.  The kids loved seeing the various sizes and shapes of seashells, listening to see if they could hear the ocean in them too!  We also had a sea star, crab pincer, barnacles, and sand dollars that they got to…

In preparation for our field trip to the pond, we talked a lot about pond animals, in particular, about mallard ducks.  We learned why the mama mallard ducks are brown and not colorful like the dads–so they can stay camouflaged when they are sitting on their eggs in the nest.  I love how much these…

For the month of March, we will be learning about a few of my favorite children’s books authors.  We started off the month with Dr. Seuss since his birthday is March 2nd!  Dr. Seuss books are always so entertaining to read and also enhance creativity and rhyme recognition.  The children loved painting their own “Cat…