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Tuesday, June 29

American Flag: streamers, contact paper and a wooden dowel

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This was a really easy flag to make with preschoolers. As soon as the first person was done marching around the room with their flag it really encouraged everyone else to hurry up so we could have a parade!




The materials you need:
*contact paper ( I used Clear Laminate)
*red and white streamers
*blue poster board
*white paint
*a star stamper
*a 3/16 inch wooden dowel cut in half (so about 18 inches long)




I measured the width of the contact paper and realized that
3 small stripes and 3 long stripes could fit.




The star stamper I made by cutting a nice piece of wood from the
firewood pile into 7 wood chips.




I cut out a star from of this rubber-foam shelf liner and hot glued it onto the wood chip.




Then stamped out stars onto the blue poster board with white crayola washable paint.
(The kids didn't get the stars as exact...more like a burst of chaotic fireworks.)


As the paint was drying, I told everyone that we were going to learn a new song called: 
"That's My Flag" from Brite Music  I Have A Song For You series, 
About Seasons and Holidays.

"See it waving there, that's my flag; Blowing in the air that's my flag. 
For I live in America and that's my flag....How proud, how grand,
how tall it stands. THAT'S MY FLAG!"

I grew up listening to brite music as a child!  
It's so fun to teach the children the songs I learned and loved.




After the stars were semi-dry it was time for more flag fun.... Contact Paper!
The bottom piece of contact paper was about 18 inches long.
The top was about 22 inches long.




This clear laminate kind of contact paper was really forgiving, which was great especially when the kids thought it wasn't possible to fix really crooked stripes. 



This is how River's turned out!


Once the wood dowel is on the contact paper remember you have about 4 extra inches in the top piece of contact paper to secure the dowel in place. Any extra you can just wrap around to the back. Once the top piece of contact paper was in place I had the kids push really hard to smooth it out like a steam roller!




Getting ready to march around with their new flags!



Then we invited some friends over for some 4th of July parade fun......


You gotta love the dog joining us with the baby in the background!




 We even had a jeep in the backyard they were able to hop in. It was a great parade! 
 Happy 4th of July!



I will post later the fun way I taught the preschoolers the Pledge of Allegiance ...my son has been wanting to the the activity like 3 times a day.
Here is the post..we even made our first youtube video








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Monday, April 12

Letter U- Umbrella song

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I am a person who loves music! I know most people will say that they love music, but I still can sing songs I remember as a 4 and 5 years-old, yeah, yeah, yeah, you say that's not soo special. So when I was in the 1st grade my Mom went to a presentation to become a Brite Music Distributor (she has got conned into doing a lot multi-level-marketing schemes). However, I am really glad that she decided to become involved with Brite music because much of my love for learning and music can be contributed to it.

So I have made up quite a few songs as I have grown up. When I was in the 6th grade, I made up the tune on the piano and sang away. It's called, "Raindrops are falling". It goes like this...

Raindrops are falling
People are dying
Why are you still buying 
things that you don't need
While I am singing
you could be bringing
things to help each other
so why don't you please

(It's funny to read those words and realize that as a 12-year-old I didn't really know a lot of world issues and problems, but I was always acutely aware of the needs of other people.)

Then in my sophomore year of High School I wanted to raise the most money ever for the drama department! So I knew I needed a little advertising jingle in order to become the biggest success selling candy bars and laffy taffy.

Here is the candy bar song that I would perform between 3- 10 times a day depending on my customers (other classmates)...

Chocolate, chocolate, it's so good
Everybody's eatin it in your neighborhood
You eat it in the morning, you eat it at night...
Anytime you eat it, it will be alright.

So I did go on to raise like $2500 for the drama department....winning myself the "Top seller award".

Now about 13 years have passed since my candy selling days and I still like making up little random songs, but now they are preschool focused.
This week we will be focusing on the letter U, with the theme being "April Showers bring May flowers". So without further ado the Umbrella song sung to the tune of Rain is Falling All Around by Moiselle Renstrom.

Rain is falling all around
on the house tops on the ground
Rain is falling on the plants
on the grass and flowers and ants

Time to get your Umbrella out
April showers are here no doubt
pretty May flowers we soon will see
lavender, roses, and daises


p.s. I would love if you would share the songs you still remember as a kid!

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Tuesday, March 9

Letter K- Knowledge about our bodies

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I found a cute song for the week from PreschoolRock.com. Also I loved Brite Music when I was younger and am lucky enough to have a Mom who doesn't throw anything away...so we have the complete set of books, tapes, activity books, puppets, charts, etc. So we pulled out "My Body Machine", it's a story with a lot of songs about a little girl names Shiny Brite and her big brother Brawny who teaches her about the good foods to eat to keep her body machine super clean, but the villains King Sugar, Sir Salty, and Ms. Grease try to hide in all the food, to take away her shine. Every time we put in one the Brite Music tapes I am transported back to the late 80s, when my desire to sing and dance was at it's peak. Well at least one of many peaks :). A lot of information is covered in "My Body Machine" like all the body systems (circulatory, digestive, etc.) and all the good foods to eat, so we are focusing on this as our book for the week.

Here is the song from Preschool Rock:
Eyes , ears, hands, mouth and nose,
Which one of these can smell a rose?
(yell out an answer)
Which of these can see the sky?
(answer)
Which of these can taste a pie?
(answer)
Which of these can pet a dog?
(answer)
Which of these can hear a frog?
(answer)
(HUGE CELEBRATION!)

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