Nursery Rhymes and More!

This week we had fun reading many Mother Goose nursery rhymes, but focused on Humpty Dumpty.  Our art projects included making construction paper Humpty Dumptys, decorating an egg person, painting egg shapes with Daubers, watercolors, and sponges.  We traced the letter Ee for egg and put Humpty together again by putting puzzle pieces into an egg shape.

    

We read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, which teaches about other kinds of animals that hatch from eggs--including reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and birds.  Each student then chose their own animal to illustrate for "What's in the Egg?". We had octopuses, snakes, fish, chicks, and more! Our bean-filled sensory table had plastic eggs with dinosaurs inside!

We started egg experiments on Tuesday and checked them on Thursday.  We found out that eggs sink in plain water, but float in salt water!  An egg in vinegar for a few days will no longer have a shell-- the vinegar dissolves the shell!

Rhyming words was a new skill for us to work on. We played "Rhyming Basket" (finding an item in the basket that rhymed with the word they were told) and finding the other student who had the picture that rhymed with their picture.  The Rockin'/Rappin' Rhymes CD was a big hit!

hunting for dinosaurs

sponge painting fun

We counted dots on eggs and matched them to the corresponding number written inside the egg carton

What will happen to the egg in salt water?

Egg puzzles

Playing a game of Who has the egg?

Rhyming basket - find an item that rhymes with the word Diann selected

Find a friend who has a picture that rhymes with your picture