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Thursday, March 25

Worm under the Spring Tree

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We have been reading the book "Bob and Otto" by Robert O. Bruel. I think this book does a great job describing the life cycles and basic purposes of a caterpillar and an earthworm.

So when I saw this wonderful spring tree from Frugal Family Fun, I thought we could do an illustration of what the earthworm Otto does under a spring time looking tree.

Here is the pic from book that we tried to re-create.

The materials we used to make our illustration were:
A filing folder cut in half. ( I use those folders A LOT)


the ends of q-tips


paint 
( I was hoping he would pick the white with brown or red combo, but oh well)


Mix the paint around with a q-tip 


Then dip small q-tip buds onto stick tree

The tree is just about done


For the worms you can use yarn or long pasta noodles


We also used a pipe cleaner W the worm, 
River said, "This is kinda like a stamp."



Then he dipped the yarn in brown paint and wiggled it around the paper while saying, "W-w-w".

I really liked the way the W made a stamp and looked like a worm!


The wonderful W the worm digging beneath the earth under the spring tree.

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Wednesday, March 24

Letter W- Duck Tape puppets

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We have been reading Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin and River decided that we needed to make sock puppets of worm and his friend spider. I was more than willing to oblige his "really, really, really good idea".

(We have a joke about good ideas in our family. One day my husband asked River, "So what do you want to do today, do you have any good ideas?" Since then River is always announcing his "new good ideas", to his Papa, to me, to his friends, cousins, aunties, etc. wanting the acknowledgment of his idea. The funny thing about it, is that most of the time his "good ideas" really are good ideas! Occasionally, I will tell him something I would like us to do, and he will respond, "Mama, I don't think that is a good idea, I think that is a bad one. Can you think of a new good idea?")

So I got the materials to make the puppets....

socks


google eyes

Wait where is the tacky glue?? We didn't have any! I asked River, "Do you think we can wait just a little bit longer...we need to go to the store and buy a different kind of glue."
"No." He replied. "I want to do it now."

So I began racking my brain for an alternative, glue gun..nope not here..glue stick...don't think it would hold up.... duck tape....hmm, that just might work.

River than instructed, "Mama, let's make somersaults with the tape." I laughed pretty hard at that one! So we went on to make quite a few somersaults, with the duck tape.



I let River decide how he wanted to make HIS puppets and I love the simplicity of them both. No need to add legs to spider, google eyes for a nose, and duck tape somersaults around the pipe cleaner mouth.


What do you think? I was happy with them (once I let go of the fact that this was HIS project, not mine) plus I thought maybe this could be the always changing black stripe sock puppets, who needs Velcro, who needs tacky glue?

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Monday, March 22

Diggin for W the Worm

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Most of my "good ideas" come to me in the shower, they always have and I pray they will continue to. So I was a little surprised when this one came to me before dozing off to sleep because it is one of my better intro to the letter ideas. 

Since this week is W the worm, with the theme of weather, and the focus being spring, I thought what would be more appropriate than to go diggin to find the letter W the Worm. Today we are using this sensory tub to introduce our new vocab words that are written on paper in the shape of worms, with other Ww's hiding around. We used W foam letters, pipe cleaners in the shape of W, and gummy worms in various sizes.

The materials needed for this Diggin for W the Worm are......


 A bag of potting soil

A deep container 
(We had to dump out the legos, and duck tape a crack 
so we could use this one.)


The worm words (I had a thick, textured paper I was saving...it worked great!)


The wWw. (My good 'ol foam letters, and the laminated W from the activity book.)


Wiggly gummy worms 
( Some are full size and some I cut up in pieces, so that we could put them on the dotted W for each worm word. At first I was a little nervous when we couldn't find the small pieces right away because the sticks, rocks and other great pieces of debris from the potting soil were fooling us. But it worked out great!!! River had such a great time sorting through the soil trying to find all the worms attempting to find out to what color the worm was after scrapping off the dirt.)



He loved digging around finding all the W's


As River was digging around he said, "Look Mom, I can make X the Fox!" A little while later he said, "Look I made L the Lizard".  I loved that he was able to make those connections by the various ways he ways moving the dirt around. I then showed him how easy it is to make W the Worm. (Digging around in the dirt is so great for all ages, there is something very therapeutic about it. )


Here are some of the worms words we worked on after the diggin was finished.
One with a pipe cleaner W, 
and the other with the small gummy worm pieces.



We both had a great time doing this activity! I loved that we speculated about the color of each gummy worm as River scraped off the dirt. After getting all the items out he began to sort everything out into groups. This activity incorporated so many aspects of learning that came forth spontaneously, which made me so happy as a mother and as a teacher!


The books we are reading this week are:
 "A Diary of a Worm" by Doreen Cronin
"The Worm Family" by Tony Johnston
"Bob and Otto" by Robert o. Bruel

"Wake Up, It's Spring" by Lisa Campbell Ernst
"The Busy Spring" by Carl Emerson
"The Whole Green World" by Tony Johnston

"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi & Ron Barrett


There is a great song by Deborah at Teach Preschool about worms.
We are also singing the Brite Music "Spring, Spring, Spring" song this week.






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