When the kids arrived, I had them keep their shoes and coats on and we went for a walk first thing looking for signs of spring. Here is what we found:
baby leaves on the trees
birds chirping and flying
some flowers poking up from my neighbor's yard
We also looked for:
frogs eggs in our backyard pond (not found)
baby animals (not found)
It was not a long walk- it was pretty chilly and damp.
We read a book about Spring and then talked about how it rains a lot in the spring and makes puddles and read Mud Puddle by Munch. Kind of a stretch, but that was the book I had at hand (and one of my favorites to read aloud.
We also looked at the book Sunshine Makes the Seasons and talked about how the earth rotates to make day and night, and then goes around the sun to make the seasons. I used an orange to show them how the earth rotates. They all looked at me blankly, so who knows how much they got out of that part.
We watercolored painted on muffin liners (they sell 2 sizes at Target that are white) and then when that was dry we put them together for flowers for our moms (smaller liner inside bigger liner to make the flower- glue them to a craft stick for the stem)
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