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Showing posts with label Reading Month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading Month. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2012

Trash Can Old Lady

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly!
This is our old lady! I made her with a flip lid trash can. Then I found an object that goes with everything that she swallowed. I hand them out to the kids. When it comes to their object in the book, then they "feed" the old lady!

Horton Hears a Who


Paper Plate Elephant
The trunk is a gray sock and the "speck" is a pom glued on top of a pipe cleaner!

Yertle the Turtle

 Paper Plate Turtles

Rolo Turtles

You will need:  Square Pretzel, Rolos, Pecans
Lay out pretzel and place a rolo on top of each one.  Put in oven on 350 degrees for 4 minutes.  Remove and place pecan on top of each rolo.  Let cool.  Enjoy!
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Are You My Mother?

 Birds in their nest treat!  Melt peanut butter chips in a bowl and stir in Rice Krispies and Choy Mein noodles.  Drop on wax paper and form into nests.  Add Peeps bird and jelly beans for eggs!




Bird treats!  Spread peanut butter onto a toilet paper tube and roll in bird seed.  Slide onto a branch and hope that the squirrels don't steal them!

 Paper Plate Baby Bird

Green Eggs and Ham




The Cat in the Hat





Saturday, March 27, 2010

We read "Curious George Goes to the Beach". We had a beach day! The kids wore their suits and brought their beach towels! We had soooo much fun!

Luke loved the Lightning McQueen beach chair!

Belle loved the beach balls!

Reegan was sunning herself in the inner tube!

We made fruit kabobs for a yummy snack!
Luke REALLY likes pineapple!

Reegan thought it was so funny to eat her fruit off of a stick.

Belle filled her stick end to end!

We decorated buckets and dug for seashells in the sand!


We also did a little hula dancing!


Luke didn't want anything to do with the hula dancing. Although he was very polite about it. Whenever anyone asked him to dance he would say, "No thank-you".

We made Mr. Crab with our handprints!


I actually made these beach cupcakes for my son's kindergarten class. They had a beach day also. The sand is graham cracker crumbs, the beach ball is a gumball, and the inner tube is a gummy lifesaver! What a fun snack!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

It's Curious George Week!
Curious George Books by H.A Rey

Curious George Goes to a Movie
Curious George Goes to the Beach
Curious George and the Puppies
Curious George Feeds the Animals
Curious George at the Fire Station
Curious George and the Pizza
Curious George Visits a Toy Store
Curious George and the Birthday Surprise
Curious George Takes a Train
Curious George's Dinosaur Discovery
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
Curious George Makes Pancakes
Curious George Goes to the Aquarium
Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop
Curious George Takes a Job
Curious George Rides a Bike
Curious George Flies a Kite
Curious George's Dream
Curious George's First Day of School
Curious George Goes to School
Curious George Visits the Library
Curious George Builds a Home
Curious George and the Pizza Party
Curious George and the Dinosaur
Curious George and the Dump Truck
Curious George Goes Camping
Curious George Visits a Police Station
Curious George Goes to the Hospital
Curious George at the Baseball Game

*These are just the books I have, I'm sure there are many more!*
Today we read, "Curious George and the Puppies". We made Puppy Chow!

Recipe for Puppy Chow
You will need:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups powdered sugar
12 oz. bag of chocolate chips
12 oz. box of Crispix cereal
In a large pan, melt the butter, chocolate chips, and peanut butter until smooth. Pour in the cereal and stir well to coat all the cereal. Spread the mixture onto wax paper and sift powdered sugar over all puppy chow until coated well! Very yummy!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Today we read, "Curious George Visits the Firestation". We dressed up like firefighters and we played with our firetrucks. We also did a practice fire drill!




Monday, March 22, 2010


Today we read, "Curious George Visits the Aquarium". We made paper plate fish!

Mr. Wiggle's has a very sad story to tell. Someone has done some very bad things to his book! He teaches how to use books and what not to do with books! At the end he asks the kids to be his friend, very cute book!

Sunday, March 21, 2010


Five Little Monkey Books
by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
Five Little Monkeys With Nothing To Do
Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car
Five Little Monkeys....Don't Wake Up Mama!
Five Little Monkeys Bake a Cake
Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Today we read, "Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car". We washed our little cars in the sensory table! They all had soooo much fun!