January-March (but February got lost!)

Here are some of the things I have been doing the end of winter and beginning of Spring. I am not sure why I didn't document much in February. Must have been a busy, short month!!

January:
We worked on the snow theme and made some cute snow globes with marble paint (put the foam snowman cut out onto these cute snowglobes I made out of construction paper, put them in a box lid, and put marbles dunked in white paint in and shook to make it snow!)

We also read a story that was hand made by a speech pathologist I met and it was a sequence of making a snowman and adding the things he had on him. Students sequenced the story using different cut outs, we also did shaving cream and glue snowmen as a sensory activity:

Dr. Seuss:

I did a lot of the common themes, Cat in the Hat, Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Green Eggs and Ham, Fox in Socks, The Foot Book, etc

For the Cat in the Hat, they made their own hats following the AB pattern, white/red, etc. We identified characters and events, etc. For The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, I made an alphabetical order activity that is just like the book:

We also did the Foot Book, measured our feet by tracing them and counting out Unifix Cubes:

We did Green Eggs and Ham-we are working on shaking head up and down for yes and side to side for no, we also made green eggs and ham using vanilla pudding, green food coloring and a vanilla wafer in the middle as the "yolk". Here is a switch we used while reading the story:

We also did One Fish, Two Fish, and sorted out colored gold fish. We made some counting flip books using Dr. Seuss stickers.

St. Patrick's Day/March:

Sorry these are sideways and/or upside down:

Here is a game called the Shamrock game that focuses on simple counting 1-10. We put the large dice in a big bin and shake it, then stop, because students had a hard time rolling the dice. They have a marker of some type (we use little counting bears as their markers) and they move the amount they rolled, so they are counting 1:1 and then counting up to a number and stopping. If they land on a Shamrock, they get a Shamrock card. As soon as all the cards are gone, the game is over (makes it easy for you to control the end of the game). Whoever has the most Shamrock cards wins.

I printed this cute scavenger hunt off online and the kids love it. They are looking around their environment, looking for color identification, remembering a sequence (rainbow order), and at the end the leprechaun left us a surprise (it was pistachio pudding, add water and this magical white powder turns green before your eyes! How magical..we did not eat it we just watched it change and then I tossed it).

Pots of Rainbows! I used those same foam popsicle sticks and students had to count out 6 sticks, one of each color, then remember the order and what ROY G. BIV stands for. They had a lot of fun!