Here's How Jelly Beans Are Made

Easter is so Egg-citing

A few ideas to keep the kiddos busy until Easter! Little hands make the cutest keepsakes!http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2012/04/flopsy-and-mopsy.html

Plastic eggs, carrots, soccer balls and more.  Use a sharpie and write numbers or letters for matching. 

Jelly beans make math fun.  Sort, count, create patterns, add, subtract or make a graph.  Ask your child questions using words like 'greater', 'less',  'more', 'equal' and 'zero'. 

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2019/04/fun-food-friday-jelly-beans.html

Hop to it and making learning a fun experience for your child. 

Ping Pong in Space

How You Wash Your Hair in Space

V is for Volcano Dance

Space Station Crew Quarters

Lost in Space

 

A simple demonstration on how craters are formed for you and your child.  

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/search?q=crater

The Bear Facts

 

Learn more about bears! 

Black bears-

https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/animals/general-animals/black-bear-facts/

Polar bears-

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/general-animals/polar-bear-facts/

and pandas.  You and your child can learn more about bears!  Thanks for coming to today's story time.  We'll see you soon.

https://www.natgeokids.com/za/discover/animals/general-animals/ten-panda-facts/

'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'

Across the Universe

 

We love our 'messy tub' at MCP.  Often called a 'sensory tub' or 'sensory bin' it is an important piece to the MCP curriculum.  If you do a search, you will find over four million results.  This will get you started:

U is for Universes so a couple years ago we added a space bin.  

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2019/03/mcp-space-rangers.html

Crinkle paper creates a garden or fun for the fall.

Giant bugs and  large silk flowers spring time fun.

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-big-box-of-bugs.html

Maybe next winter...a wintery bin with polar animals for artic adventures!

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-polar-plunge.html

How to and more info-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-messy-tub.html

Potato Sticks

 

https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/straw-through-a-potato/

Sesame Street: Irish Dancing School with Murray

Ireland

U is for Under

You would never know by looking at our art table but underneath is a hot mess.  It's not old dried out gum but crayon marks everywhere.  It makes me smile.  

It would be Letter U this week at school.  We traditionally tape the letter U under the table, place crayons in a small bin and the children lay on their backs and color (quite a bit of giggling, too.) 

At home you do not need a Letter U.  A piece of paper and some crayons will make your child happy.  Have your child crawl under the table and color up on the table.  Unbelievably simple. 

The Chicken? or the Egg?

 

This is not a sensory bin we have at MCP (yet) but it too cute not share for spring.  Find out more at:

https://modernpreschool.com/chicken-eggs-sorting-fine-motor-sensory/

(I would suggest crinkle basket filler paper instead of Easter grass)

My Lucky Day

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

Sam Goldwyn

Next week is St. Patrick's Day.  Simple shapes make a leprechaun.  

Green and orange paint with corks, cookie cutters or fingers! 

"Robot, play Irish folk music."  Music is needed to set the mood.  Here are some more ideas:

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2019/03/st-patricks-day-2019.html

Walking in Tokyo

Cherry Blossoms in Tokyo

Egypt: Pyramids

S is for Sea Turtles

Disney Sand Sculptures

Snow Man Freeze

MCP Storytime: The Mitten

Summer Dance Song

Letter S week mean we are pretending it is summer! 

Surfing Sea Lions in the Sea