and more Eric Carle...

We finished our unit on Eric Carle this week.
We started the week making colorful seahorses from Mister Seahorse. We mixed paint colors into shaving cream, then pressed the mixture onto a seahorse cut out.  When it dried, we added eyes, and hair!  What a messy but fun project!

We continued working on our colors and numbers, matching colorful circles to a a colorful caterpillar, and counting caterpillars on leaves.

We had fun with the sensory bin, finding airplanes in the clouds (like in Little Cloud) and looking for chameleons and snakes in the the "dirt" (The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Will You Be My Friend?)

We played a matching game, using pictures from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and worked on our fine motor skills by picking up "clouds" with tweezers.

We talked about what it means to be grouchy (The Grouchy Ladybug). Here are some of our best grouchy faces!

 

We painted the covers of our Eric Carle books, mixing different colors just like Eric Carle!

We dot painted caterpillars, and made grouchy ladybugs by coloring them red, them dot painted black circles on them.

We even made caterpillars out of playdough and pompoms!

    

And yesterday we baked butterfly cookies that we are going to decorate today.  

  

  

We always have fun when Morah Lilly comes!

 But the most exciting part of our week was the arrival of our caterpillars!!  We've been watching them every day as they eat, get big and fat, and climb to the top of the cup to start spinning their cocoons.

Each child had a chance to spin a "cocoon" and see what it is like to break free and become a beautiful butterfly!

We can't wait for the caterpillars to turn into butterflies!

Shabbat Shalom!

Eric Carle, continued...

We continued our unit on Eric Carle this week.  We read "The Grouchy Ladybug", and talked about how it is much better to be happy than grouchy.We read "Little Cloud" and had fun playing with "clouds" and making our own clouds out of cotton balls.  We also balloon painted this week!  We used balloons to paint both the caterpillars and colorful butterflies from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." We used water colors to paint the leaf fish and the seaweed from "Mister Seahorse." And we fed "flies" (pom poms) to our chameleons from "The Mixed-Up Chameleon.

balloon painting butterflies

counting dots on the ladybugs

counting clouds

making clouds out of cotton balls

balloon painting a caterpillars

making butterflies out of playdough

we love playdough!

"feeding" flies to the chameleon

making our mix-up chameleons

"Feeding" the caterpillar the fruits from the story

painting leaf fish

 When we weren't learning about Eric Carle, we were...

having fun on the playground!

celebrating Esti's birthday!

 playing drums with Morah Danit!

building with blocks together!

making the letter aleph out of playdough!

Doing yoga with Morah Bayla!

What a fun and busy week!

Shabbat Shalom!