Wordless Wednesday -Tea for Two, Two for Tea

Two Things She Loves

The Wee One loves the play food and the food cards from the red-light, green-light activity, so it would only be natural to put the two together.

And she thought

Maybe tomorrow...

Yes, I Can!

Mister and Ladybug are working their way through the pre prime sight words and I put together a sight word and gross motor activity for us. 

I had Mister and Ladybug meet me on the floor and I showed them the words "I" and "can."  They knew the word I, and we sounded out can.  Ladybug realized that can was also in our new word family.  I put down each of the cards and we made sentences with each.  Together we read, "I can jump (run, play, go)."  Mister and Ladybug each had an opportunity to pick a card and make a sentence.

Then, we went into the kitchen and played the "Yes, I can!" game. 

We reviewed the sight words before we played our game.

Mister and Ladybug took turns picking a sight word card.



We read the sentence together pointing to each word.



Mister and Ladybug completed the sentence by doing the action.

What's in the Fridge?

You can't have a nutrition month without vegetable stamping and painting.  So, when I found out Ladybug was confusing her shapes, I took the opportunity to make shape prints from vegetables.  Also, Mister  loved mixing colors and he tried out a variety of combinations.

The carrot was rolled and a circle stamped.  The potato and onion were also circles.  The celery leaves was a paint brush and the end was half-moon stamps.  The rutabegas were a rectangle, a square, and a triangle stamp. 

Even the Wee One was able to make prints.

Wordless Wednesday - The First Snow

The Pilgrims

History is a difficult concept for little ones because, well, they have a hard time remembering yesterday.  I love when we can make connections from history to our life and that was my goal for this activity.

First we read Pilgrims of Plymouth and we talked about how the Pilgrims were the same and different from us.  I was hoping they would notice that the Pilgrims learned to grow corn and they did.  Mister and Ladybug love to talk about how and where corn grows as evidence when we are driving and every cornfield is pointed out to me.

Mister and Ladybug attend leaves to the corn and then glued on popcorn.  We used Modge Podge for the popcorn.

I gave them the sentence starter, "The Pilgrims learned..." 

Green Means Go

I am putting aside my thoughts about Dr. Sears to tell you that his book Eat Healthy, Feel Great is one of the best books we have read this month.  It is an easy to understand book about eating healthy and how it makes our bodies feel good.  He uses green-light foods, yellow-light foods, and red-light foods, which made it easy for Mister and Ladybug to know what foods to eat and which foods to avoid.  Now at every meal they go through their plate telling using the green-light or red-light. 

After reading the book, I put a red-light, green-light activity on their shelf.

I believe the cards are from Lakeshore Learning, but were purchased about ten year ago.

We also did this activity, which is very similar to the above, but reinforced the idea of green-light and red-light foods. 


I asked Mister and Ladybug to choose at least five green-light foods and five red-light foods.