Ms. Melissa's Crazy Kids! : Summer Fruits

Summer Fruits

Week of July 1, 2013

Monday

On Monday everyone got to paint their very own Cherry Tree. Wallach used a brush, while our little ladies decided they preferred finger painting.

Suzianne's Cherry Tree

Wallach's Cherry Tree

Amia's Cherry Tree

Fingerprint Cherry Tree

Use your fingers to create this easy apple or cherry tree.

The picture to the right is a photograph of the finished craft.

Stamp the side of your hand in brown paint and stamp it on the paper as the trunk.

Stamp your index finger in green paint and stamp it many times on the paper for the leaves (re-dipping in the paint as necessary)

Tuesday

On Tuesday everyone painted their very own watermelon.

Materials:

paper plate
green paint
pink and black paper (or you could use paint)
scissors,
glue paint brush

Instructions:

Before you start crafting, look around the house for a round object that fits just inside the plate (one that doesn't overlap the rim too much). We found that a saucer worked perfectly (you'll be using this object to trace a circle).
Set the plate on the table as if you're going to eat from it. Paint the rim of the plate green.

Set the plate aside to dry.
While it is drying, take the saucer and trace a circle onto a piece of pink paper.
Cut out the circle.
Cut tear drop shapes out of a piece of black paper OR you can use a hole punch to punch black circles out. These will be the watermelon seeds. They don't have to be perfect!
When the paint is dry, glue the pink circle into the center of the plate and then glue the black seeds onto the pink.

Wednesday

We had fun painting our Flags for the 4^th of July.

Wallach made a Fruit Collage from recycled grocery store mailers. He enjoys using the scissors which are also a great way to develop fine motor skills.

Thursday

*Eco Baby Closed* Happy 4^th of July!

Friday

Friday was a short day. Amia was my only visitor. We had fun playing outside, while her parents enjoyed a nice movie date :o)

Songs, Poems & Finger Plays

Finger play-Bananas are my favorite
Bananas are my favorite fruit (make fist as if holding banana)
I eat one every day (hold up one finger)
I always take one with me (act as if putting one in pocket)
When I go out to play (wave goodbye)
It gives me lots of energy (make muscle)
To jump around and run (move arms as if running)
Bananas are my favorite fruit (rub tummy)
To me they're so much fun! (point to self and smile)

Strawberry Patch
(Tune: Paw Paw Patch)
Where oh where are all the children?
Where oh where are all the children?
Where oh where are all the children?
Way down yonder in the strawberry patch.

Pickin' up strawberries, put 'em in the basket,
Pickin' up strawberries, put 'em in the basket,
Pickin' up strawberries, put 'em in the basket,
Way down yonder in the strawberry patch.

Take the berries home and wash em up
Take the berries home and wash em up
Take the berries home and wash em up
Way down yonder in the strawberry patch!

Slice the berries up and make a pie.
Slice the berries up and make a pie.
Slice the berries up and make a pie.
Way down yonder in the strawberry patch!

Picked A Strawberry
(tune: "Clementine")
Picked a strawberry,
Picked a strawberry
That was growing
In the sun.
Then I washed it,
And I ate it,
And I picked another one.

The Watermelon Patch Song
(tune: Are you Sleeping?)
Watermelon, (Make a circle with your arms.)
Watermelon,
On the vine, (Curve hands and arms beside body.)
On the vine,
Sweet and red and juicy, (Rub your tummy.)
Sweet and red and juicy,
Please be mine! (Palms together as though pleading.)
Please be mine!

Watermelon, (Make a circle with your arms.)
Watermelon,
Thump, thump, thump, (Make a thumping movement with thumb and middle finger.)
Thump, thump, thump,
I think you are ready- (Point, resting finger on your temple.)
I think you are ready-
Big and plump! (Make a circle with your arms.)
Bug and plump!

Sing a Song of Lemonade
Sing a song of lemonade.
We'll pour it in a cup.
We'll stir it with a straw
And then we'll sip it up.
It will be so refreshing
We'll have to have some more,
And we'll be drinking lemonade forever, ever more!

Have You Ever Had An Apple
Have you ever had an apple, an apple an apple?
Have you ever had an apple
And heard it go crunch?
Have you ever had an orange, an orange..Etc..
And heard it go slurp?
Banana...... go mush?
(think of other fruits and the noises that go along with them)

I Like Oranges
(Tune:'Three Blind Mice')
I like oranges. I like oranges.
Oranges are a fruit. Oranges are a fruit.
They are not animals, tools and such.
They are are good fruit that I like so much.
So, I eat oranges. I eat oranges.
An orange is orange. An orange is orange. It is not red.
It is not purple nor pink nor gray.
An orange is simply not colored that way.

What Is Orange?
(Can use any fruit)
(Tune: Frere Jacques)
What is orange?
What is long?
What is it?
Bunny loves to eat it!
Horses love to eat it!
So do I!
So do I!

Song-I like to eat apples & bananas

I like to ate ate ate apples and bananas
I like eat eat eat epples and benenes
I like to ite ite ite ipples and bininis
I like to ote ote ote oplles and bononos
I like to ute ute ute upples and bununus

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