C is for Caterpillar, Cookie, and Cars!

Letter C week was a busy one. Actually we didn't even get through everything planned. But, it was a fun week just the same. Here is a glimpse of the week!

C is for caterpillar! The story of the day was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle

Here Ava is finding objects that start with C in our letter of the week box. Daddy was in charge of filling it this week. She was pretty excited to pull out a piece of chocolate and a cookie in the shape of a letter C among other things!

We read the Very Hungry Caterpillar two times. The first time we read ift for enjoyment. The second time we read it as part of a sequencing activity. Every fruit that the caterpillar ate had to be beaded onto our pipe cleaner caterpillar. I found this activity at  http://greatgreenroom.blogspot.com/2011/04/montessori-monday-caterpillar-lacing.html.This activity also promoted great hand eye coordination. 

During art time, the kids made a caterpillar out of the letter C. 

Our sensory bin this week was filled with dried beans. We added cars and trucks to make a construction site. It was a hit! 

Each week Ava makes a new page for her alphabet book . 

We spent some time tracing the letter C. 

For math we worked on building a caterpillar by putting his body into numerical order on our magnetic board.

C is for Cookie! On cookie day we read Mmm, Cookies by Robert Munsch.

Using tin foil we I created a "cookie sheet" We glued paper cookies on the sheet and used a q-tip and black paint to add the chocolate chips. I precut and glued Dominic's cookies. He added the chocolate chips. 

I traced Ava's cookies. But, she did all her own cutting, gluing, and painting! 

Of course we had to make real cookies too! 

Since the story we read is about a boy who makes cookies out of play dough, we got out our play dough, cookie sheets, and cookie cutters too! There were some interesting cookies made. Ava said she was making chocolate mustard cookies. 

For math, I spread "cookies" with numbers 1-6 on a cookie sheet. Ava then picked from a pile of cookies with the corresponding number of chocolate chips. She had to count the chocolate chips and match the cookie to the cookie with the right numeral. 

C is for cars! Our story for the day was Cool Cars by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker.

For our art activity we explored painting with cars! The kid's enjoyed trying different cars to create different tracks on their paper. 

I created a car mat out of an old window shade. Thanks to Kyle for helping me paint it! The mat is also a math game. There is a race track in which players take turns rolling a dice and moving their car that number of spaces. The parking lot is also a game. I numbered cars to go in each numbered parking spot. Like it happens in any classroom, we never got to all the plans for the day. So for right now the car mat is for playing with cars. But, we will take it back out to play the math games soon! 

These are specific theme related activities. In addition to our school day we have circle time. During circle time we sing songs, use the felt board, do calendar activities, and weather activities.