it is like someone threw up rainbow on my kitchen table

i don't even know where that title came from

but its the thought that crossed my mind 

when I took this picture

and this isn't even all of the pictures that were created!

We did a little rainbow free art

I provided the kids with different materials

paper, pom poms, buttons, sequence, jewels, crayons, 

scissors, and glue

and then I set the materials on the table and just let the kids GO WILD!

i love putting the materials on a separate table

its fun for the kids to get up and move around 

and it frees space up on the working tables so kids have more room to work!

this is the face of a kid that just took a giant bite of a gluestick and said "mmmmmmmmmmmmm"

(if you look close you can see it all over the bottom of his teeth)

don't worry I pinned him down and scrapped it out!

FUN TIMES!

the thing I hear the most of when we do projects

"Jill do you like my picture!"

to which the kids will hear

IT'S FABULOUS!!!

I love the way you glued all those different color stripes on your paper!

can you tell me about your picture?

(i use that one when I have no idea whats going on and don't want to hurt their feelings, works like a charm my friends!)

you are the such a creative little genius!

I use a lot more comments depending on the project and what the kids have created

The reason I am sharing this with you is because I want to encourage all of you

not to just to say

"good job" or "way to go" 

"beautiful picture" or "Its fabulous" 

("its fabulous" is my favorite)

I challenge all of you to talk about your child's photos 

let them tell you the story that is behind their creation

sometimes you might hear

"i don't know!" and they walk away

and thats ok, but if you keep asking you will be amazed 

at the language your kids are using!

so...

no more good jobs, and nice pictures

talk about those projects!

The End!

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its raining...

i know you were all thinking men

common this is a daycare blog :)

But we did a little project on rain and water!

First we talked about clouds

if we could touch a could what would it feel like:

pillows, soft, fluffy, cotton candy

if we could taste it, what would it taste like:

gross, feathers, cotton candy, sticky

We then made a cloud with cotton balls

glue + cotton = fun!

hmmm where should this piece go...

look at that face of pure concentration!

even "babies" can join the fun!

We then made rain drops!

i took a couple toilet paper tubes and folded one side to make it look like a raindrop

busy busy boys!

Here are some of our finished products!

and then we did some water play!  

we talked about how after a rain storm we can always find lots of frogs and snakes and other pond animals.  and so we had a few "ponds" and animals inside!

there may have been some alligators and sharks that made their way to our pond as well!

oh I also had to put a stop to water play to lay down some towels (should have done that first!)

they were getting a little crazy and the water on the floors was making me a little crazy!

poured some water in the babies trays and WOW! 

that was a HUGE FUN MESS!!!

look at that face of pure happiness!!!  

These crazy boys played in their water tray with spoons and medicine cups 

for over 30mins!  

They then screamed at me as i took their trays away!

but don't worry the screaming stopped once they got outside...

only to begin again when they had to come back inside!

CRAZY BOYS!!!

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Show and Tell #92

what are you doing on this wonderful Tuesday day??

ROOOAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!

in like a lion and out like a lamb

i don't think this saying applies to 

south dakota

but we still made a lion today!

I got some of the idea from HERE! one of my most favorite teaching blogs!

even though my idea started from the blog above

we had to turn it into our own 

but doing a few things different!

Here is what you will need:

Brown Triangle

red, orange, yellow, brown paint

tooth brushes

spiral noodles

glue

we first glued the triangle to a white piece of paper

then we "brused" the lions hair on!

The tooth brush was a new tool for must of the kiddos

but they picked up on the brushing pretty quickly!!!

more brushing!

an annoyed child

-the story of his life lately!-

we also glued on the noodles and some eyes and made a mouth with the left over brown paint!

and then here you have our lions!!!

i love the way they turned out!

these kids are soooo talented!

I was reminded to do my lion craft from this new blogger!

Also linking this project up with Mingle with Us!