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| Easter Lacing Cards |
We have had a wonderful and fun filled week at MCP (but that is true every week!) We have a lot of activities out for the children to do. Most of these activities are easy enough to do at home. In our Discovery Center, we have egg shapes and bunnies for lacing. Our lacing cards are take home projects. We create them from wall paper books. Cut two, staple together and hole punch. And forget about wrapping tape around yarn!!! Dip the yarn into glue....For more lacing ideas and directions--- http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2009/12/lacing-cards.html
Do you have a large bulletin board? A bulletin board in your child's room or playroom would be a wonderful ongoing art project! The bulletin board in our art center is called "The Garden". I started with blue sky and an empty winter tree. Our TTh class has added green grass to the garden. Soon green leaves, bunnies, flowers and birds will have this boring board springing into life! Need more bulletin board ideas? Check out 'Bulletin Boards' on our blog.
Most children can easily recite their numbers one through ten or even twenty. Our goal is to get them to count. We have lots of counting activities in our room. Our Easter counting activity is an empty basket that needs to be filled with eggs. The children have to recognize the number (another important skill) and glue on the correct number of eggs. After a teacher checks their work, they get to press the easy button.
The TTh class is working on numbers through ten. The MWF classes have baskets with numbers through twenty.
There's more!!! We have a bulletin board with an empty Easter basket (the basket is not great but the kids don't care). We have paper (from wallpaper books) and stencils in our art center. Our TTh classes have eggs that are already traced and ready to cut. When they cut an egg, you guessed it---they get to press the easy button. The MWF classes have to trace and cut the egg. They also place a tally mark on a chart and we will count how many eggs each class puts in the basket.
That should keep us pretty busy for the next couple weeks. Happy St. Patrick's Day to all and have a great weekend.
