May was filled with lots of fun outings for us. On Friday, May 13th we went to Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. I forgot to take lots of pictures, but took a few of the geese and goslings. Reed, Eve, and I met up with one of his good buddies, Brooks, and his mom and baby brother. The boys loves running down the road, making up songs, looking at the fish, frogs, turtles, snakes, and geese. All-in-all, a fun experience for Reed.
Eve loved it until she fell and hit her head on the front of Jenn's (Brooks' mom) stroller - the front part was metal. Needless to say, it left a big bruise and she was a little emotionally bruised for a bit. Luckily, that did not last too long and she started having fun attempting to chase the boys around.
Here are the pictures with a little story behind it:
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| Reed thought it was awesome when he saw 2 geese and a little gosling. |
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| They were also by this beautiful pond with a cool-looking bridge that we were not allowed to walk on. |
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| Then, it was super exciting to see two goslings at the same time, although we were a little nervous when the babies started walking in our direction for fear the mommy and daddy would follow and get upset. |
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| Then, we left to meet up with Brooks and came back and saw a huge family of geese! |
May 11th was my turn to teach preschool. We talked about the letter B and butterflies! You never know quite how well the kids are going to like the subject or the books, so I always over prepare stuff, just incase one thing or another doesn't work. Well, the kids LOVED talking about butterflies.
We talked about what kind of weather butterflies like to live in, the life cycle of a butterfly, and how we can be nice to butterflies. We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and then did a little sequence game. We also colored pictures of butterflies.
We also went over the sound of B and that there is a big B and a little b. Afterwards, we tried to trace the letter, although most of the kids did not super enjoy that part and just colored the page instead.
We did our little butterfly craft and were about to do a second one, but decided that it would be moer fun to play outside since it was such a nice day. Sadly, no one saw any butterflies. But, apparently, the lesson stuck with a lot of them. I have had a few moms come up and tell me different things their children have remembered a couple of weeks later. Yeah for butterflies!
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| The kids put tissue paper behind the holds and taped them on. Then, we wrapped the pipe cleaner around a pencil and taped it on. It was a hit! |
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| This was the second craft that we didn't get to in class, but I did later with Reed. I just thought it was so cute! |
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| Our coloring pages |
May 18th Reed learned about farms and farm animals. We kept singing "Old McDonald" the entire day. Oh, he also insisted on having a green sun.
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| Reed's barn and sheep |
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