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May Day Flower Basket
May 1, 2012
May Day Flower Basket
In celebration of May Day, we will make a paper basket with tissue paper flowers. We'll be developing our small motor skills as we create our paper flowers.
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Measuring Rainfall
May 2, 2012
Measuring Rainfall
On a rainy day, set out a container to measure the rainfall. Measure how much rain fell that day. Continue to measure the rain each day and record for a few weeks. Ask children to predict how much rain will fall.
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Fingerprint Raindrops
May 3, 2012
Fingerprint Raindrops
Supply children with white paper and a blue stamp pad. Have the children make fingerprint raindrops on the paper.
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Rain Sticks
May 4, 2012
Rain Sticks
Seal off one end of a paper towel tube by taping tag board to the end. Poke holes using a small nail in the sides and insert toothpicks into holes. Seal the other end after adding dried peas and you'll have a rainstick!
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Spring
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Seed Sorting
May 7, 2012
Seed Sorting
Talk about where plants come from. Use a bag of mixed beans and/or different seed packets and encourage children to sort by size, shape and color.
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Window Garden
May 8, 2012
Window Garden
Put lima beans in plastic baggies with a moistened paper towel. Seal and attach to your windows. Observe the beans daily as they sprout and then begin to grow.
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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
May 9, 2012
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
We'll say the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary", and make up our own version using different things that grow in the garden.
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Parts of a Plant Puzzle
May 10, 2012
Parts of a Plant Puzzle
Make a plant with leaves, stem, flower, pistil, stamen and roots. Cut it apart and have children reassemble.
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Garden Shop Dramatic Play
May 11, 2012
Garden Shop Dramatic Play
We'll turn our Home Living Center into a Nursery with pretend plants, seed packets, gloves, watering cans, pails and shovels. The cash register will ring up our purchases.
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Garden
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Veggie and Fruit Printing
May 14, 2012
Veggie and Fruit Printing
Using cut potatoes, peppers, apples and pears and paint we'll create a delicious painting!
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Fruit and Veggie Taste Test
May 15, 2012
Fruit and Veggie Taste Test
We'll taste a variety of fruits and vegetables and classify them by texture, sweet, sour bitter and by smell.
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Graphing our Favorite Fruit
May 16, 2012
Graphing our Favorite Fruit
After tasting a variety of fruit we'll graph our favorite, and compare results.
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Read: Eating the Alphabet
May 17, 2012
Read: Eating the Alphabet
As we read the story Eating the Alphabet, we'll talk about the different fruits and vegetable that we see in the story.
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Make a Salad
May 18, 2012
Make a Salad
Using a variety of fruits and vegetables, we'll create both lettuce salad and fruit salad to eat at lunch time.
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Fruits and Vegetables
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Play Dough Ants
May 21, 2012
Play Dough Ants
We'll use play dough to make ants, making sure they have three body parts: head, abdomen and thoraz, and six legs.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
May 22, 2012
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We'll read the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and discuss how they change into butterflies. We'll also talk about good food choices that help us grow big and strong.
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Buzzing Bees Kazoo
May 23, 2012
Buzzing Bees Kazoo
For music, we'll make a 'Buzzing Bee' kazoo using a toilet paper tube, wax paper and a rubber band. We'll decorate it to look like a bee.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly
May 24, 2012
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
We'll demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly using a paper plate, beads for eggs, pipe cleaners wrapped in yarn for the cocoon and a plastic butterfly.
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Bug Hunt
May 25, 2012
Bug Hunt
When outside we'll search for insects and observe them in their own environment.
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Insects
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Closed: Memorial Day
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Hand Print Flower Garden
May 29, 2012
Hand Print Flower Garden
Using our hands, we'll make a beautiful flower garden.
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Read: A Reason for a Flower
May 30, 2012
Read: A Reason for a Flower
We'll read A Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller and learn about what flowers become and what they do for our world.
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Paint with Flowers
May 31, 2012
Paint with Flowers
We'll use real flowers to paint with and create beautiful works of art!
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Flowers
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