We started our farm day by using our Farm Felt pieces and talking about the different kinds of farms, who lives on a farm, what is a barn and silo and what is stored in them, etc. Then I just let the girls play with the felt pieces. Lyla enjoyed this more than Stella.
Stella also worked on a farm puzzle and then the girls watched Mickey & Donald Have A Farm.
Our next farm activity was to listen and sing "The Farmer in the Del" song. I made stick puppets that go along with the song. This was a free printout from DLTK-kids.com. Stick puppets may sound a little hokey and old-school, but little ones love them. The girls held up their puppets and danced around the living room. So cute. I had a hard time getting a picture that wasn't blurry due to all the dancing.
In the afternoon, Papa and I took the girls on a little field trip to DeJong's Diary. A diary farm. The girls saw all kinds of animals and got to go inside the barn where a lot of the food for the animals was stored.
I think Stella is doing her "chicken dance" in the next pic.
Stella was quick to make friends with a little girl visiting the farm with her mother. These two little girls ran around the farm holding hands. Very sweet.
Tuesday was our "Fish" day. We started out reading Rainbow Fish and then went right into the sport of fishing :) Stella thought this was great. I printed out plain fish on card stock paper and then colored them and added glitter glue to make them sparkle. I slipped on a large paper clip at one end of the fish. Stella already had a magnetic fishing puzzle with a magnet pole, so we used the pole for this activity. I spread out a blue bed sheet for the ocean and voila! This activity was good for an eye/hand coordination exercise.
Stella also decorated her own fish. She had a difficult time squeezing the glitter glue tube. Her little hands are not very strong and she needed some help. This was a good craft for strengthening her fine motor skills.
Other fish activities included measuring fish using Goldfish crackers. Yum! Also, a fish puzzle.
On Wednesday, we read Dr. Seuss's The Foot Book. After reading, I showed Stella how to trace around our feet. She practiced tracing around mine, Lyla and her daddy's feet. Sorry, no pictures.
Other activities for this week included a hide-n-seek outdoor alphabet puzzle A thru F, scissor practice and some math pages.
I told you it was a full week! Oh yes, Thursday was Valentine's Day. We couldn't forget celebrating that. I put all of our Valentine's Day activities on my All The Buzz At Grandma's facebook page. Please stop by to check it out, and while you're there, please "like" my page.
Thank you so much for allowing me to share my precious girls with you. We have so much fun and I love sharing our week with whoever wishes to stop in and look.
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