ice and watercolors

 For our week of The Mitten, I added ice to one of our water bins. I made the ice the night before using small plastic bowls and storage containers. I plopped it into our water bin, added a palette of caked watercolors, a dash or two of glitter, and paintbrushes.

 There were also mittens available if the children wanted to pick up the ice with mittens or not. The paintbrushes, however, were most popular.

 This young lady spent most of the day painting the ice. There were a lot of comments about the water changing color, mixing new colors, and feeling the water to see if it was still "Icy, Icy, Cold!"

Thank goodness I brought extra ice to the classroom! I really loved the dialogue that was happening between the children as they visited the table. My co-worker who shares the room with me on alternate days, added water to balloons and then had the children add color before freezing them. I did not get photos but they were really gorgeous and the children loved exploring their sculptures. I'm going to have to try that as well...perhaps when the weather warms up!

dr. seuss fun

We're in the throes of our week of Seuss and I wanted to share with you what we are doing. The children are having a blast and I am loving most every moment of it! There will be even more later in the week but here is what I set up the classroom with so far.

*cotton ball art for truffula trees via In Lieu of Preschool (the lorax)
*straw cutting 
*pool noodle sculptures (this was one of those would this work ideas that I am quite pleased with)
*felt egg sorting; which I thought of forever ago but then discovered it all lover the place. I like Pink and Green Mama's post (green eggs and ham)
*Seuss eraser matching & sorting in blue sand (found the erasers at Target $1 spot and sand came from Michael's)
*Cat in the Hat Memory Game (found ours at Target this year)
*cork and button building via No Time For Flashcards
*crazy play dough fun
*magnetic fishing (one fish, two fish)
*sock sorting (fox in socks)
*cup stacking via Mom on Time Out (cat hats minus their stripes)
*the cotton ball set up
*star hunting and graphing using star shaped post-it notes (sneetches)