stART ~ The Three Little Kittens

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

This week we read The Three Little Kittens, retold by Margaret Barton. This is a book that is based on the classic nursery rhyme. Emily enjoyed the fuzzy pages while we read the story.

I was very excited when I found this book because we just did the cutest project at Mommy and Me based on the nursery rhyme The Three Little Kittens. This book went along with the puppet we made perfectly!

To make the puppet the teacher had all of the pieces cut out and ready at the craft table.

• Emily had to glue 2 gray circles together (a small one for the head and a large one for the body).
• Next, she glued on the ears, nose and mouth.
• Then, she put on the eyes, which are green dot stickers with a back circle colored in the middle.
• Emily drew on the whiskers with a marker.
• Finally, I helped her thread the white yarn through the holes that were punched out in the body of the cat and also through the mittens (she got to pick which color she wanted for her mittens, no surprise that she picked GREEN!!). The yarn goes around the back of the cat to connect the two mittens.

When you pull the yarn it makes the mittens go close to the cat’s body.

Emily’s Kitten found her mittens!!!

See Saw Knock on the Door

When Emily was a baby my Mother-in-Law would rock her and sing her this little rhyme.   It always made her smile and now Emily loves singing it to Juliette.

See Saw Rhyme

See saw knock on the door.

Who’s there?

Juliette Bear

What do you want?

A glass of milk

Where’s your money?

In my pocket

Where’s your pocket?

In my pants

Where are your pants?

I left them home!!

Friday Art Group

Coffee Filter Turkeys and Color Mixing Puffy Paint

We started with some Play Dough Free Play, we are still using the Pumpkin Pie Dough I made in October.

The Girls did a great job making their Coffee Filter Turkeys!

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First they colored a coffee filter with brown, red, yellow and orange markers.  Then they sprayed it with water to make the colors run.  We set them aside to dry.

While they were drying they put together the turkey bodies.  I had already cut out a brown body, orange beak and red snood so they just glued that all together and added a pair of wiggly eyes.

To finish the turkeys they folded the coffee filter in half and glued it together.  Then they glued the turkey body on top of that.

In between the two projects we did a cute Turkey Finger Play.

The Turkey
Original Author Unknown

The turkey is a funny bird.(Hook thumbs together and spread fingers to create turkey tail. )

Its head goes wobble, wobble.
(Wobble head back and forth. )

And all it knows is just one word:
(Hold up one finger. )

"Gobble, gobble, gobble."
(Make mouth shape with hand, opening and closing it while sounding like a turkey.)

 

Emily really enjoyed making puffy paint pictures during the summer so I knew that these would be a big hit at Art Group!! 

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I mixed up some blue and yellow puffy paint so that they could see what happened when the two colors got mixed together.   This project was a lot of fun!!

Today is...

Emily is learning the days of the week. I found a days of the week kit at the dollar store months ago and finally took it out...well actually remembered that I had it stashed away somewhere :0)

There are actually 3 holders, "Yesterday was...", Today is..." and "Tomorrow will be..." for each of the days of the week, but for right now we are just focusing on "Today is..."

So, every morning after breakfast we sit by the calendar and say the days of the week rhyme.

"There are seven days in a Week"

There are seven days, there are seven days, there are seven days in a week.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

I actually learned the rhyme when I was in middle school in my French class. We do not say it in French yet, however that will be the next step. Here it is:

Il y a sept jours à semaine (There Are Seven Days in a Week)

Il y a sept jours, il y a sept jours, il y a sept jours à semaine: lundi(Monday) mardi(Tuesday) mercredi(Wednesday) jeudi(Thursday) vendredi(Friday) samedi(Saturday) et dimanche(Sunday).

After we say the rhyme we go over what day today is and then talk about what we will do today.