Cahoon Museum of American Art

We took at stroll through the Cahoon Museum of Art in its temporary home at the Mashpee commons.

Happy Birthday Eric Carle!!

Yesterday was Eric Carle Birthday. We celebrated with the Cape Cod Children's Museum. 

First we went to Cape kids and did crafts and read books. Lily and Aj got goody bags.

Then we ate caterpillar cupcake at Cup Cake Charley's.

Eating Healthy!

We learned about eating healthy by reading books, doing arts and crafts and having fun.

Mobile about the 4 food groups we made.

worksheet

books and movie

The kids made a healthy dinner at the children's museum-

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today is St. Patrick's Day. We had A lot of Irish fun. We did a sensory bin activity, read books, colored pictures and had a yummy leprechaun lunch and a traditional Irish dinner.

 We did an experiment with gel balls the day before. After putting little pellets in a container of water they got bigger and the next day they turned into marble sized balls.

Sensory play- On St. Patrick's Day I used the gel balls along with ice, water, measuring spoons and cups to create a fun play station for the kids. They loved it and played with this activity for a couple hours. The kids also added some cars and trucks for more fun!

We had a yummy Leprechaun lunch which consisted of green mac and cheese, celery with peanut butter and animal cookies and a strawberry,blueberries fruit cup!

Next we colored pictures, made crafts and traced shamrocks.

Then the kids watched movies and read books.

For dinner we had corn beef, cabbage with soda bread and for desert shamrock sugar cookies.

Miss Rumphius

Title: Miss Rumphius

Author/Illustrator: Barbara Cooney

Award: American Book Award

Summary: Following in her Grandfathers footsteps, Miss Rumphius succeeds in her mission and stirs the hearts of the next generation.

We were ready for a book that was about spring time and flowers. Its been a long cold winter and we can't wait until it warms up. This book Miss Rumphius warmed our hearts and made us do tons of spring time activities.

Social Studies-(Geography, Maine)

Miss Rumphius lives "by the sea". In this story their is a boy wearing a t-shirt that says Maine on it. This is why we placed our story disk on Maine. We colored a worksheet and read some books about Maine too! The kids also enjoyed watching the movie of Miss Rumphius!

Language Arts-(writing, handwriting)

The topic of The kids writing assignment was "When I grow up, how can I make the world more beautiful?" They each drew a picture then wrote about it! They also copied a paragraph from the book in their best handwriting.

Art-(mixed media)

We used oil pastels, acrylic paint and marker to make Lupine Artwork. We talked about how we are not limited by just one medium when making art. Some of the best art is made by mixing media.

Science-(seeds,gardening)

Miss Rumphius fills her pockets with Lupine seeds and scatters them everywhere. Seeds are a miracle in themselves. We learned all about seeds and plants. First we played a seed matching game. Then we did a a few worksheets to learn how seeds grow and the names of the different parts of the plants. We also did an experiment.

Seed Matching Game-

Worksheets-(flower diagram, how seeds travel)

Experiments-

The kids planted seeds and put them in a dark closet to stimulate not having sun light. They found that if their is a lack of sun then their plants won't grow. We also put seeds in plastic bags to watch the roots grow and we planted flowers in cups.

Books read- We read books about spring and seeds.

Mathematics-(Money,counting,word problems)

Miss Rumphius sends off to the seed house to buy five bushes of lupine seeds. Lily and Aj did a worksheet about making their own garden. They had to choose which flowers to buy then figure out how much money they needed. Lily also did a Math word problem work sheet. We also used beans to count by 2's, 5's and 10's.

Field trip-(Brookwood Community Farm)
 We went on a field trip to the Brookwood Community Farm in Canton Massachusetts to learn about how seeds grow. We got to see how the farm plants seeds in their green house. We helped with planting seeds too! We also colored pictures.