Happy St. Patricks Day!!

We started out with paint and a variety of items to paint with.....

It starts out pretty mellow....

Bryan is counting and lining up his circles....he made three sets of 5 which = 15....and yes!!...this is how he self talks to himself. I love it!! Notice how each set =5, but in different order. so one is long, and two are bunched up and they all =5!!

I was wondering how long before they started using their hands!

Green hands...they love to 'wash' the paint all over...

new paper...new interest!

um...coooool!


Ali is 'helping' Addy paint her own hands. My first reaction was to tell her she could do it herself...but this was soooo sweet!

St. Paddys Pots o Gold

Today we placed out yellow tissue paper, green paddy garland, glue, and brushes along with a black pot.

shamrocks....

I put out some shamrock shapes, gold tinsel, glue, and some paint.

Olivia wanted something 'sparkely' so we got out some sequins....I didn't have the energy for glitter that day. :)

St. patricks day...more pics

SO cute!...eatin tree's...We had gold coins (ritz crackers) with green cream cheese...Connor loved to make it...just not so sure about eating it.Quinn of course wanted more...and more...and more.I brought some clover (shamrocks) into the room for us to investigate...also there is a little wooden shamrock puzzle

Jackson investigator extraordinaire.....

These two are so cute together! Anna reads and Bryan is listening.....hmmm....Painting Shamrocks....

St. Patricks Day....

I added Letter and number Gold Coins to the rainbow rice and a couple magnet wands so they could fish the coins out.We made silly shamrock wands using this very cool rubbery clay that dries over night.

Hammering rainbow colored golf tee's into potatos.They really loved this...although Olivia really wanted to 'peel' her tomato...potato.I spray painted rocks so that we could have gold! We put some of the gold at the playdough table with green playdough and shamrock cookie cutters.

Happy St.Patricks Day!

Today we had green milk and green butter on the toast. One wouldn't drink the milk, but amazingly ate everything else (you know who you are) and a few said the milk tasted especially good today! It is funny what happens when you color things....The milk does look quite yummy....but it just tastes like plain o'l milk. Here is one of the activities we did today. We added blue and yellow paint to make......GREEN!

Rainbows

This week is Rainbows/St.Patricks Day. Some are learning how to put a rainbow together, how rainbows are made (the sun reflecting off the rain drops), and color mixing, and some are learning their colors and the shape of a rainbow.
Jesse makes his own rainbow.... Mixing colors....they start out with red, blue, and yellow. The primary colors. They are doing it on the light table so the colors glow.

Gluing green macaroni

A group gluing project. For some...a mess....for me.....Building.
Building muscles for writing (the squeezing of the glue) Building manners (sharing) Building relationships, Building conversation, Building spacial awareness (from friends, glue, macaroni) and...building their creations. Can you think of any others?
Dotting......
Squeezing and placing...... Dotting, squeezing, and placing....
All of the above plus sooo much more. She ended up with a 2" macaroni mound!