Grouchy Ladybug

The children have been enjoying the Grouchy Ladybug story so with all of their excitement with the book we had to make our own grouchy ladybugs. 

Here is a creative writing sheet that we will be using this week.

 Children will mark the clock to a time by drawing arrows on the clock and then they will draw a picture of the grouchy ladybug and what it came to.  Children can draw a picture of any animal it does not have to be one from the book.

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Caterpillar Transition Game

When it is time to transition children away from group time and into a different activity it is always good to have a transition game. This allows children to move more slowly to the next activity with less confusion.

Make a large caterpillar with different color circles and black legs.  This caterpillar will be placed on my flannel board in the circle area or on the floor.   

On the back of each caterpillar body part (circle) is a different action movements for the children to do.

As the children come up to play the game they roll a large cardboard box dice with color dots to match all of the caterpillars body parts (circles). A child comes up and rolls the dice identifies the color and then finds that color caterpillar part from the caterpillar. Once child finds the color the teacher reads the movement that child needs to do before moving on to the next activity.

I have a class of 24 children so to make things run smoothly I have two to three dice going at the same time. I run the game and my assistant is making sure that the children are following the plan that they gave to us as to what they will be doing during say free choice time or making sure that they wash their hands for snack and find their seat.

I made the dice out of a 6 X6 mailing box.

A Life Size Very Hungary Caterpillar

The story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar has come to life in our out door play area.

The children through out the weeks have been enjoying finger paint, roller painting, splat painting and any other kind of painting that you can think of.  What they didn’t know was that we turned their art into a life size Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  We made the caterpillar body part out of a large appliance box.

The children have been using the hungry caterpillar as a play tunnel.  By creating this play area this story has come to life for them.

Caterpillar Color Bingo

Prepare a supply of caterpillar bingo mats by cutting out different color circles and forming a caterpillar out of them.  Make color cards using the same circle cut outs.  Have children flip the color cards over and identify the color.  Once the color has been identified have the children find and place a matching color pom poms on that color circle.  Once the caterpillar has all its pom poms game is over.  If your children need to work on fine motor skills have them pick up the pom poms with tweezers or tongs.

Ladybug Dice Game

Make a ladybug out of construction paper, glue onto green scrapbook paper and laminate for durability. (I used scrapbook paper that looked like grass) Get a supply of black pom poms.  Have child roll a dice and identify the number on the dice, next have the child count out the number of black pom poms to match the number on the dice. Once child has the right amount of pop poms have child place them onto the ladybug. When the ladybug is full of spots child is done. With this dice game all children are winners.  You can exchange the dice for number cards if you like.

If you need to challenge some children have them use two dice and add them together, once child has added the two dice together have child count out that many pom poms and place them on the ladybug.

You can also use different styles of dice.

Ants, Ants and More Ants

The sun came out and along with the sun came the ants. The warmer it got the more ants we got simply amazing. The children sat around the pile of ants and observed what was happening.

After seeing all those ants we took the opportunity to read Hey, Little Ant

Once back inside some of the children went to the creative art area and made their own version of an ant.

And some took the opportunity to write about what they saw in the writing center.