Along with ducks this week we also learned all about dinosaurs, with a fun song and crafts as well.  We even had a dinosaur march around the room, stomping and roaring like dinosaurs.

Sing With Me

The Dino Pokey

(to the tune: “The Hokey Pokey”)

Put your claws in, put your claws out.

Put your claws in and scratch them all about.

Do the “dino pokey” and turn yourself around.

That’s what it’s all about!

continue with:

Put your teeth in…chomp them all about.

Put your feet in…stomp them all about.

Put your tail in…wag it all about.

Story Time

We read “Stomp” by Ruth Paul and “Dinosaurs Galore” by Giles Andreae.  “Dinosaurs Galore” takes a look at all the different kinds of dinosaurs from big to small.  We then talked about what it would be like if we saw a real dinosaur?  What would they feel like?  What colors would they be?

Craft Time

We made dinosaur foot prints.  The children took our dinosaurs from the science center, dipped their feet into paint and had them march across the paper.

We painted wooden cut outs of dinosaurs and after they were dry we added tiny google eyes too.

D is for Dog too!

We also made adorable paper plate dogs to go along with the letter Dd.  The ears are attached with brass brads to make them go up and down.

Snack Time

We had many parents bring in a special snack for our class on Friday.  D is also for doughnut!  What a sweet treat to end our week!

We had a great week learning all about ducks and the letter Dd.  We sang, made a craft and read books all about these feathery, floating animals.  We watched a short video on ducks too!  Click here to watch real ducks and here to see a fun song about ducks by Elmo!

Sing With Me

Quack Quack Went the Little Yellow Duck

(to the tune: “Gung, Gung Went the Little Green Frog”)

Quack, quack went the little yellow duck one day.

Quack, quack went the little yellow duck.

Quack, quack went the little yellow duck one day.

And his feet went,

Flip, flap, flop.

Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went out to play,

Over the hills and far away.

Mother duck said, “Quack, quack, quack”

And only three little ducks came waddling back.

*continue until you get to no little ducks then sing the following verse:

Sad mother duck
Went out one day
Over the hills and far away
The sad mother duck said
“Quack, quack, quack.”
And all of the five little ducks came back.

We used my felt finger play glove to sing “Five Little Ducks” and the children got to take turns taking a duck off as we sang.

Story Time

We read “10 Little Rubber Ducks” by Eric Carle, “Make Way for Ducklings” by Robert McCloskey and “Have You Seen My Duckling?” by Nancy Tafuri.

Craft Time

We made paper plate ducks just like the rubber ducks from “10 Little Rubber Ducks’  The feet are actually star shapes that we glued to the duck.

Elephants were on parade in our classroom last week!  We had such a fun week learning all about those large, lumbering creatures.  We made crafts, read books and sang songs all about the elephant.  We also observed real elephants without leaving our classroom with a clip from Youtube, click here to see and hear a real elephant!

Story Time

We read “Elephants” by Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz and “National Geographic Kids, Great Migrations, Elephants” by Laura Marsh.  These were fascinating up close books all about real elephants.

Sing With Me

Edna Elephant

(to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”)

I am Edna Elephant.

Watch me play.

I play with Ed Elk every day.

When we sit beneath a big elm tree,

We will have eggs and tea.

Eloise Elephant

(to the tune of “Yankee Doodle”)

Every morning Eloise

has hard boiled eggs for breakfast.

She never eats them fried

’cause boiled eggs are the tastiest!

Eloise the elephant

thinks that eggs are dandy.

She eats eleven every day

and says they taste like candy!

Arts and Crafts

Paper Plate Elephants

We used grey paint and made elephants out of paper plates.

Hand Print Elephants

The children’s hands were also transformed into elephants too!

Game Time

We had a blast playing Elefun!  The kids scrambled to catch butterflies as they flew out of the elephants trunk!

Snack Time

My assistant, Ms. Lia brought in Spanish Oreja pastries or elephant ear cookies!  The kids loved sampling these yummy treats.

A child in our class also brought in Edamame to share with the for the letter E.  A few adventurous children tried these beans.

The bulletin board has changed one last time for the year. It is hard to believe that in a few short weeks the school year will be over and my little ones will be soon on their way to VPK!