Worming Is A Verb
“Worming” around our house means digging for earthworms. When we go over to visit my parent’s house, Mrs. Sayuri and Pop-Pop (my dad) go “worming” in their back yard. She gets so excited when they find one. And surprisingly she giggles with delight when they squirm and squiggle in her hands. She often describes them […]
What’s The Weather Like Today?
Weather Song (to the tune of Clementine) What’s the weather? What’s the weather? What’s the weather like today? Tell me _(insert kids name)__ what’s the weather, What’s the weather like today? Is it sunny? Is it rainy? Is it cloudy out today? Is it snowy? Is it windy? What’s the weather like today? — No […]
It’s Eugene Ma’am.
That is one of my favorite lines from the book Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie dePaola. The story is of a boy named Joey, who takes his friend Eugene to visit his Italian immigrant grandmother. As they are walking to her house in the beginning of the book, Joey […]
The Colors of the Rainbow
We got the idea for this from Chasing Cheerios. Mrs. Sayuri and I snuck out back the other day, while Mr. Happy Feet was napping, to do this activity. The object was to find things in nature in different colors that coincided with the matching colors in her painted egg carton. She had painted the […]
On Thursday, he ate through 4 strawberries…
I made Mrs. Sayuri a portable felt board like this one. We have been working on making all of the elements for the story book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We’ve almost got it all done. It’s been fun retelling the story ourselves using our felt pieces. I’ve also made Mrs. Sayuri a […]
Rainbow Toothpick Art
This activity was inspired by this post. It was very easy because it didn’t require very many supplies at all – just a flat piece of styrofoam, colored toothpicks and markers. Mrs. Sayuri already knows her shapes and colors well, but she just loves playing with large quantities of itty-bitty things. So you can just […]
Recycled Greeting Cards
I have a really hard time throwing out old greeting cards. With each year of holidays and birthdays that goes by, my card pile grows bigger. Today, though, that pile is a wee bit smaller! Yeah! ‘Cause… today I thought of a use for some of those cards – Recycled collage-style greeting cards Mrs. Sayuri […]
