N is for Nest

On April 27th we learned about the letter N. We started our day by going on a nature walk and collecting nature in our bags that we could use for our nests. Even though it was super windy, the kids didn't want to come in they were having so much fun! Finally back inside after nearly being blown away, we glued our items from nature onto our rolled down sacks to make nests.

For a little added nonsense, we made neat footprint birds to go in them :)

We read lots of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and even practiced reciting a few.

For snack, we strung nifty cereal necklaces. We used Froot Loops and Chocolate Cheerios. Maybe you can see the lines of cereal on the table that I used to work on patterning with them.

I got a little needlessly perfect with mine :D

Next, we made noisemakers. We took so long on our nature walk and nests that Porter and Breck had left at noon, but we sent the supplies with them! I already had the noodles strung and tied on a loop of string, and Christian loved threading one end of the loop through the holes and putting the noodle through to attach it.

We decorated them with stickers and then made some noise!

I had them roll long triangles of newspaper (we used the comics) onto a pencil, starting with the wide end, and glue the point down with a glue stick. They then pulled the newspaper bead off of the pencil and strung it on a necklace.

Nice!

Lastly, I had them practice writing numbers (or more correctly, writing numerals) on a worksheet I'd made. Sierra did a great job and Christian decided to just draw a picture on the back {sigh}.

I'm pretty proud of the worksheet, all the numbered items start with N!

N is for Nest

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nest o' chicks

noodle necklace N's
noisemaker

number caterpillar
newspaper necktie

chocolate nests

nurse coloring page

name game

chow mein noodle nest

nature journal notebook

newspaper fashion show

number ordering

nest size sequencing

newspaper bead necklaces

number jar worksheets

pretty nests with wet felted eggs

nursery rhyme olympics

edible Noah's ark

spring nest craft

Nutter Butter flip flops

(and ballet shoes and soccer cleats)

N is for Nativity

December 9th we learned about the letter N and got ready for Christmas. We were excited to have Libby join us! They loved gluing pasta to cardboard circles to make noodle ornaments. There was definately some dry pasta consumed, even (I heard later from a mom) after it was glued on and hung on the tree!

The kids colored paper nativities.

They made magnetic Rudolph note holders.

They picked the color lights they wanted for their name necklaces.

We did lots of free play with the Fisher Price nativity set and other Christmas toys and we also read lots of Christmas books!