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Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn.

October 12, 2012 By Deirdre

Have you ever had a dream that you found gold at the end of the rainbow? Well, a hen has a dream that she will find a hidden treasure trove of corn and she sets out to find it in this wonderful book called Gimme Cracked Corn and I will Share by Kevin O’Malley.The hen convinces another hen to help her seek out the corn that she has dreamt she will find. They have quite an adventure. Yes, they do find the corn.

What did we do with Gimme Cracked Corn?

Corn Cob Math Match

Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn- Math Match

I made three corn stalks out of construction paper. Each corn stalk had a number on it. JDaniel had to shift through the corn cobs and find the cobs that matched each number.

Some cobs had dots on them that represented that number. Some had shapes with that number of sides. Some cobs had pictures with that number of objects on them. Corn Cob Painting

Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn - Corn Cob Painting

I found some pretend corn cobs at Hobby Lobby and decide that would be great for creating corn paint prints. We filled our turkey roasting pan with newspaper, construction paper, and paint.

12 Top Montessori Activities 2012 - Corn Cob Painting

We put blobs of paint on the right-hand side of the roasting pan and the construction paper on the left-hand side. Then JDaniel rocked the roasting pan from side to side.

When he painting was done, he decided he would be the photographer and I would do the painting. He zoomed up close to the corn cob for his shots. I think he did a wonderful job.

The corn made a really pretty print onto the paper.

Apple Pie Popcorn

I found an amazing recipe for apple pie popcorn on Super Healthy Kids and had to make it with JDaniel.

We mixed 2 cups of microwave popcorn, a dash of cinnamon and 1 cup of apple cinnamon dried apples. Then we put them in a mini pie plate to have for the snack.

Another Fun Corn Activity

B-Inspired Mama had a great guest post exploring concepts based on the book There Was An Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything on her blog. The guest post was written by Educator’s Spin On It.

Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share- Read.Explore.Learn. - Scarecrow Activities

How have you been exploring books this week

Ten Red Apples from Pat Hutchins : Read.Explore.Learn.

September 21, 2012 By Deirdre

We read the book ten apples this week. What fun counting book! The farmer tries to count the apples and his animals want to eat them. This book is filled with humor, problem solving and cute pictures.

What did we do with the book Ten Apple?

Apple Core Puzzle

Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins - Read.Explore.Learn.

I cut out an apple core out of white paper and cut it into puzzle pieces. One side of each piece would match only on side of another piece. Then I glued the red top and bottom the core pieces that would end up of the top and bottom.

JDaniel’s job was to put the pieces in order and then glue them onto a piece of blue paper. It took a lot of figuring to get the pieces just right.

Ten Red Apples Button Count

A counting strip with ten red apples was placed out with a cup of buttons for JDaniel to count with. He started by counting from 1-10. Each apple core needed to have the correct number of buttons on it.

Then I took away all the odd numbered sets of buttons and we counted by twos. We could have added the button onto the apple cores by twos instead. Maybe we will do that next time.

Here are a few wonderful posts that others linked up last week:

Ten Apples: Read.Explore.Learn.- Yarn Apples

3 Dinosaurs made a wonderful apple yarn craft to go with the book Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time!

After studying books on the octopus Joyfully Weary made this really cute octopus craft. The bubble wrap tentacles are super cool!

If you like these Ten Red Apples activities , you will like these apple activities too!

Red Apple Spelling Game

Preschool Activities- Five Little Apples Rhymes and Crafts

Building Word Families – Worms and Apples

Cool Math Games for Kids -Appleseed Counting

Sight Word Games- Apple Tree Words

Bad Kitty (An Alphabet Book)- Read.Explore.Learn.

September 7, 2012 By Deirdre

This week we explored Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel. Bad Kitty really likes to eat foods that are bad for her like chicken cheesecake, jellyfish jelly and nightingale nuggets. When shhe isn’t served what he likes, he does really bad things like overturn her cat box.She really doesn’t want mushrooms, xigua or vegetable stew.

Bad Kitty (An Alphabet Book)- Read.Explore.Learn.

Bad Kitty takes you through words from A to Z. Four times in this humorous book. Once when the good foods are shared. The second time when what bad things Bad Kitty does are shared. Thirdly when the bad foods are pictures and lastly when the kitty does good things to thank her people for the bad food.

What did we do with the book Bad Kitty?

Cat Whisker’s Counting Game

This cat game is a little like the starfish game we played a few weeks ago. JDaniel and I both had a cat who really needed whiskers and toe claws. We rolled a die to see how many we got to add each time it was our turn.

I tried to keep my cat symmetrical and someone else didn’t. The goal was to give the cat a total of twenty. I think we both saw the number twenty differently.

Hungry Cat Kitchen Search

JDaniel and I both had a cat game board. When it was our turn, we pulled a letter out of a bowl. Then we had to find something in the kitchen that started with that letter for the cat to eat. If we found one, we got to move our cat up a square on the game strip.

Remember Bad Kitty liked to eat odd foods and household items. He did in our game too.

More Book Extension Activities

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Mask

Zombie Goldfish Optical Illusion Activity

The Very Caterpillar Activities

Disclaimer: I was sent the book Bad Kitty and an audio cd of the book to review. All information and opinions about the book are my own.

The Pout-Pout Fish Themed Recycle Fish Mobile

August 17, 2012 By Deirdre

This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book called The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. The pout- pout fish has a mouth that looks down turned. He decides that it means that he needs to be dreary all the time. The other sea animals try to get him to smile. He just won’t. He says he can’t he doesn’t have a choice. By the end of the book he finds he does have a choice and a wonderful smile if he will only swim upside down. (Spoiler Alert: A kiss helps make him smile too.)

This wonderful book is filled with rhyme you will love reading it all of the time.

How did we explore the book The Pout-Pout Fish?

Recycled Bottle Fish Mobile

JDaniel has been asking for mobiles for his room for along time. I made him an American flag mobile earlier in the summer and decide to add a fish one to his room too.

We have a lot of sticks that fall from the trees in our backyard. JDaniel stores them in a beaver dam area behind some bushes. Whenever we need a stick, we just head into the dam and look for the right one.

Once we had found the right one, I spray painted it white and red to look like coral.

A simple wash of water and glue was applied to multi-colored tissue squares. The squares were then placed all over water bottles that had the back third of them twisted to form a fish tail.

When we had applied enough tissue, we added giant wiggly eyes to the fish. Later when they had dried I added a piece of fishing line to each fish and hung the fishing line from the branch.

One night a few day later we put glow sticks in the fish to make them bioluminescent. JDaniel love having his Pout-Pout Fish glowing fish mobile in his room.

Starfish Math Game

We are trying to work on some basic math and reading skills this summer. One of the skills we have been working on is counting to ten.

To practice JDaniel and I sat down with some starfish game boards, pom poms, and a die. We each got to take turns rolling the die and adding pom poms to our starfish. The first person to get to ten was done and had to help the other person fill up the circles on their starfish.

Here are some of my favorite Posts from last week’s Read.Explore. Learn. link up:

I love this Nemo fish created by Colorful Imaginations.

Make Way for Ducklings is one of my favorite books. I love everything School Time Snippets did to explore and extend the book. The math lesson below looks like a lot of fun.