Bee Mine - Valentine's Day Gift for Parents

Here is a picture of the Valentine's Day surprise the kiddos and I made for their parents.  They turned out really great! Once again, the photo quality isn't the best, but I'm hoping to get a new phone with a better camera in the near future.  I just used construction paper for the bee and wax paper for the wings.  I printed about a picture of them to paste on the bee's head.

Review Week

It is review week this week.  I had my students review letters A though N as well as their sounds.  Here are a few of the projects we did.  

The first one is inspired from Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom! Students got to choose a letter from A to N and they had to come up with a word that went along with that letter.  The students loved this book and loved pointing out the letters they recognized from the story.

Another project we did was painting letters.  I had created flashcards and put them on the table for students.  I randomly chose different letters and they had to identify them as well as the sounds.  They loved being able to paint their letters and it helped with fine motor skills.

The last doesn't deal with letters, but math. I do math every Friday.  This activity correlates with Valentine's Day next week. I have students a certain amount of hearts and they had to count them out of a pile or add some back to the pile.  We only pasted 1-5 on the paper, but the kids had a blast with it!

Thumbprint Counting Book

Hello all! It is N week and we are concentrating on numbers! I made a My Thumbprint Counting Book with my kiddos.  We did numbers 1-10 and on each page they used their thumb prints to create different things; apples, dogs, fish, bunnies, etc.

Here is what the cover looked like.

I made sure to put one of each thing we made on the cover.
The following pictures are pages 1-10.

One Red Apple

Two Green Frogs

Three Black Spiders

Four Purple Butterflies

Five Orange Pumpkins

Six Brown Dogs

Seven Pink Bunnies

Eight Red Ladybugs

Nine Yellow Bees

Ten Orange Fish

This was a long process and with little help and Catholic Schools week going on, it took me four days to do it.  The students had fun doing it and were learning at the same time so that was the important thing.  I'm sure they will be just as happy as I am that these are going home tomorrow.  

Sorry about the picture quality. I am having to use my phone and it isn't the best picture taker.  Hope you enjoy and I hope that you try this out with your kids!