Sarah's NV Blog

Vehicles and Transportation

2010-05-04T06:19:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends and Families!
It is finally Spring! We are going to have a lot of fun with this next theme: Vehicles and Transportation. Thanks for all of your support!
Sarah

Tues, 5/4: Sort items into land, sky, water
Wed, 5/5/: Special surprise for Mother's Day project
Thurs, 5/6: Planting flowers
Fri, 5/7: Make fruit kabobs for our celebration

Mon, 5/12: Pilot, bus driver, airplane skit by NV teachers
Tues, 5/13: Banana airplane
Wed, 5/14: Make paper plate sailboat
Thurs, 5/15: Make hot air balloons
Fri, 5/16: Train activity

Vocab: semi-trailer, 4-wheeler, land, sky, submarine, locomotives, vehicles, transportation, hot air balloon, helicopter, cruise ship, city bus, double-decker bus

Underground and Underwater Theme

2010-04-25T10:30:00.000-07:00

Hi Family and Friends!
Hope you have been enjoying the wonderful Spring weather and preparing for more warm days! We are starting our Underground and Underwater theme for the last two weeks of April. We have a lot of fun activities planned (especially some involving WORMS!) and I am excited to see how the kids like learning about these topics.

Thanks for all that you do!
Sarah

Mon, 4/19: Dig for various items in the dirt and see if they belong in there! ( a guitar?)
Tues, 4/20: Make play-doh to use as an ant farm Wed!
Wed, 4/21: Make different ant farms and use pretend ants to journey all over the place.
Thurs, 4/22: Dig for real worms and later have worm races with them.
Fri, 4/23: Make ants on a log with celery, cream cheese, and raisins.

Mon, 4/26: Play a sink/float and shallow/deep game pretending it's the ocean.
Tues, 4/27: Make an ocean with sand, water, and ocean creatures.
Wed, 4/28: Make an octopus with bubble wrap and a paper plate.
Thurs, 4/29: Make a jello ocean snack.
Fri, 4/30: Pretend to go scuba diving.

Vocab: jellyfish, underground, ocean, wave, scuba diving, squid, groundhog, dirt, mud, crab, lobster, tsunami, starfish, puddle, swordfish, whale, octopus and many more!

TOOL TIME!

2010-04-05T16:00:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends and Families!
Hope everyone had a nice, relaxing Spring Break:) We are moving into the final weeks of school and our next theme is Tools and Construction. I am very excited for the upcoming events and we have a lot of great language experiences planned for this theme.

Thanks for all that you do!
Sarah

Tues, 4/6: Fix "broken" things around the classroom with tools
Wed, 4/7: Fix an actual broken toy with our toolbox
Thurs, 4/8: Make toolbox
Fri, 4/9: Make a construction site road

Mon, 4/12: Intro.kitchen utensils
Tues, 4/13: Make nachos with all of the awesome kitchen utensils and enjoy!
Wed, 4/14: Make a crane and pick up light vs. heavy objects
Thurs, 4/15: Sorting tools
Fri, 4/16: Cooking show/Fiesta party

Vocabulary: construction worker, hard hat, dump truck, hammer, nail, screwdriver, tool box, fix, broken, flatbed truck, crane, foreman, building, skyscraper, backhoe, architect, tape measure, whisk, sawhorse, mixing bowl, ceiling, walls, pliers, brick, construction site, bulldozer, concrete, steel, cement, scaffolding, danger zone, safety goggles, cone, rubble, trowel and many more!

Space and Solar System Theme

2010-03-13T09:36:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
We had such an awesome royalty/fairytales theme over the past two weeks and all of the children looked so great for our royal ball we had at the end of the theme! We are moving into our next theme, Space and The Solar System. We will also be incorporating some St. Patrick's Day activities since it is this week. We have a lot of great activities planned and these will be the last two weeks of school until we have Spring Break! YAY! Thank you for all that you do and feel free to stop in my room anytime before or after school if you have any questions about the upcoming Spring Progress Report meetings coming up after Spring Break.

Thanks!
Sarah

M, 3/15: Read a book about Leprechauns and the crazy tricks they play and then act them out!
T, 3/16: Make shamrock shakes
W, 3/17: Dress a Leprechaun
Th, 3/18: Solar System Windsock
F, 3/19: Make a rocketship out of toliet paper rolls

M, 3/22: Make paper astronaut
T, 3/23: Make rocketship snack with crackers and cheese! Yum!
W, 3/24: Make coffee filter Earth with markers and water sprayed on them
Th, 3/25: Paint a Planet
Fri, 3/26: The NV teachers will put on a Solar System skit/blast off into space

Vocab: shamrock, gravity, leprechaun, rainbow, pot of gold, lucky, 4-leaf clover, trick, stars, outer space, constellation, falling star, craters, astronaut, training, space shuttle, footprints, spacesuit, float, helmet, oxygen tank, air, dust, lift off, countdown, plants, alien, UFO, moon buggy, explore, climb

Fairytales, Pretend, and Royalty Theme

2010-03-01T19:26:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
The children really loved the Winter Olympic theme and we had a great time pretending we were some of the athletes! Thanks again for all of your help and we are moving on to the next two weeks which will be the Fairytales, Pretend, and Royalty theme. We have some exciting royal experiences that I am so excited about! We even have a special guest doing magic tricks!

Thanks!
Sarah

Mon, 3/1: Special Magician will put on a show for the preschoolers!
Tues, 3/2: We are making colored sand castle pictures
Wed, 3/3: We will make King and Queen royal crowns
Thurs, 3/4: We will be making magic wands
Fri, 3/5: Make "royal punch" with a secret froggy surprise!

Mon, 3/8: NO SCHOOL----teacher work day--------
Tues, 3/9: Read "Cinderella" and act out
Wed, 3/10: Read "Snow White" and act out
Thurs, 3/11: Watch really cool clips of Rapunzel fairy tale
Fri, 3/12: Attend a Royal Ball/Manners Ball

VOCABULARY: horse drawn carriage, fruit punch, treasure, sword, knight, glass slipper, moat, 7 Dwarves (all by name), Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, cottage, forest, fairytale, pretend, court jester, prince, princess, tiara, magic hat, magician, dragon, shield, cape, royalty, magic wand, Fairy Godmother, ballroom, ballroom dancing, frog turning into a prince?, tower, deck of cards, spade, heart, diamond, club, king, queen, ace, jack

Winter Olympics 2010

2010-02-16T08:41:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
I hope you enjoyed your children reading their nursery rhymes to you out of their nursery rhyme books they made last week! We had a lot of fun and now we are starting a new two-week theme: the Winter Olympics! I can't wait for them to try out all of the sports and practice being future Olympians!!

Thanks,
Sarah

Tues, 2/16: Teacher Skit for the Olympic Games in the gym
Wed, 2/17: Make different flags from various countries for the games
Thurs, 2/18: Make a torch!
Fri, 2/19: Have an opening ceremonies parade for all of the children

Mon, 2/22: Special guest either today or Tuesday that will show the children how to cross-country ski OUTSIDE!:)
Tues, 2/23: Make bronze, silver, and gold medals
Wed, 2/24: Speed skating competition after making ice skates
Thurs, 2/25: Make popsicle treats for the Olympics
Fri, 2/26: Go sledding OUTSIDE!:)

Vocabulary: team, gold, silver, bronze, medal, speed skating, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, hockey, luge, U.S. Olympic team, American flag, bobsled, ice rink, opening ceremony, goalie, jersey, torch, awards, helmet, fan, torch bearer

Nursery Rhyme Time! 2/1-12

2010-01-31T20:49:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
We actually had a blast doing the mall theme over the past two weeks and thanks for being so supportive throughout!:) Who knew there were so many awesome vocabulary words/concepts that go along with the mall! So moving on to our new theme: nursery rhymes. We will be doing 5 total over the next two weeks (1 every 2 days) and adding pages to a giant nursery rhyme book every time we do a new one so your child will have a book to take home at the end of the theme! Should be a great theme and we have a lot of fun language experiences planned.

Thanks again for all that you do!
Sarah

Monday, 2/1: Jack Be Nimble-read story, talk about it, act it out/make book page
Tues, 2/2: Make candlesticks to jump over! FUN!
Wed, 2/3: Little Miss Muffet-read story, talk about it, act it out/make book page
Thurs, 2/4: Make "curds and whey" /oatmeal to experience Little Miss Muffet's drama!
Fri, 2/5: Mary Had A Little Lamb-read story, talk about it, act it out/make book page

Monday, 2/8: Mary...Ct'd: Make a lamb of their own to take home/continue with book assembly
Tues, 2/9: Humpty Dumpty-read story, talk about it, act it out/make book page
Wed, 2/10: Make eggs-raw and hard-boiled for an "experiment" to see which ones break, talk about all of the different things you can do with good old Humpty Dumpty!
Thurs, 2/11: I'm a Little Teapot- read story, talk about it, act it out/make book page
Fri, 2/12: Have a "tea party" with biscuits and tea and the children can "invite" a "friend" doll or stuffed animal to the party! PLEASE bring something for your child to have!:) Otherwise, I will have extra "friends" to share!

Vocabulary: Mother Goose, Jack Be Nimble, oatmeal, fairy tale, pretend, king, queen, frightened, candlestick, castle, Rapunzel, wool, Old Mother Hubbard, Three Blind Mice, Humpty Dumpty, raw, hard boiled, yolk, shell, cracked, jump over, teapot, tea party, tea bag, honey, invite, scone, stout, handle, men, curds and whey, beside, spout, steamed, shout, tip over

Shopping at the Mall Theme January 19-29

2010-01-17T07:11:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
Hope everyone enjoyed their nice little break with Monday being MLKJ Day. We have a lot of really cool activities planned for the upcoming theme as we finish the month with a Mall Theme. Your children are so much fun to watch progress and grow every day! Thank you for all that you do and have a wonderful week:)

Sarah

Tues, Jan. 19: Teachers introduce the mall theme with a skit showing all the different things you can do and stores you can visit at the mall
Wed, Jan. 20: Make purses and wallets to go shopping
Thurs, Jan. 21: Make a special, surprise gift for the upcoming Dad's/Significant Male Role Models Breakfast
Fri, Jan 22: Make jewelry that you would probably find at a jewelry store:)

Mon, Jan. 25: Shoe Store Mix and Match Games
Tues, Jan.26: Make homemade candy to sell at our "candy store" the following day
Wed, Jan.27: Sell our candy and buy other classmates' candy at the "candy store"
Thurs, Jan.28: Dramatic Play Pet Store in my room where the children can pet, feed, and "buy" the animals
Fri, Jan.29: Visit all of the NV "stores"/classrooms and "buy" items!

Vocab: mall, penny, quarter, nickel, dime, coins, money, ATM machine, shopping bags, Mall of America, price tag, cages, food court, elevator, escalator, book store, candy store, wallet, purse, boots, sneakers, high heels, shelves, dressing room, cash, mall security guard, kiosk, hangers, sale, crowd, shoe store, 1 dollar, 5 dollars, 10 dollars, Target, Wal-Mart, receipt, sales clerk, cash register, cashier, customer, jewelry store, credit card, sporting goods store, movie theater

Starting off 2010 with the 5 Senses!

2010-01-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends and Families!
Happy NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break and I am excited to see the kids! It is amazing how long two weeks away from them can feel!!!:) Hopefully they are ready to get back to the grind and have some fun back at NV! The next two weeks will be all about our 5 senses: touch, sight, hearing, taste, smell. We have a variety of fun activities for your children!

Thanks!
Sarah

Tues, 1/5: Make magic good with cornstarch and water to touch and play with while describing how it feels!
Wed, 1/6: Make a textured book to learn about how different materials feel.
Thurs, 1/7: Play a smelling/sensory game with different materials
Fri, 1/8: Smell and taste popcorn with a hot-air popper! MMmmm

Mon, 1/11: Tongue tasting activity with different kinds of food: sweet, bitter, salty, etc.
Tues, 1/12: Make pudding and taste the fabulous flavors
Wed, 1/13: Make pipe cleaner glasses and go on a nature walk to find different things we can "see" and talk about
Thurs, 1/14: Make mirrors and talk about all of the things we can see our reflections in
Fri, 1/15: Special guest Audiologist to talk about how we hear!

VOCAB: hear, smell, touch, sight, fleece, texture, bumpy, rough, sandpaper, shiny, soft, hard, sticky, slipper, gooey, bitter, sweet, sour, salty, itchy, stinky, reflection, audiogram, image, glasses, contacts, near, far, sniff, prickly, eye chart, blind, sparkly, rotten, smoky, nostril, dimples, knuckles

Jungle Theme 12/14-12/23

2009-12-13T17:01:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Wow, the weeks in December are flying by! We have been having a lot of fun at Northern Voices the past few weeks and we finished our winter/ice theme with great success! The upcoming theme that will lead us into winter break will be all about the JUNGLE!!!! Yaya! It is going to be great and I am sure your children will have a great time:) Thanks for all that you do!

Sarah

Mon, 12/14: Make toliet paper roll binoculars to start our week off so we will be able to "search" for all of the wild animals in the jungle later in the week.
Tues, 12/15: Make monkey bread! YUM!
Wed, 12/16: Make zebra masks out of paper plates
Thurs, 12/17: Make parrot sand art
Fri, 12/18: Make safari map with grocery bags and go on a hunt!

Mon, 12/21: Make paper plate spiral cut snakes
Tues, 12/22: Make tiger cookies with fudge stripe cookies and orange frosting
Wed, 12/23: HALF DAY AT NORTHERN VOICES!!!!
A special visitor may be coming to bring good tidings and joy!
Make swamp snack

Vocabulary: lion, crawl, splash, crocodile, aquarium, rainforest, galloping, vest, binoculars, hippopotamus, safari, khakis, scales, tiger, boa constrictor, tree frog, tarantula, scorpion, jaguar, parrot, toucan, levels of the rainforest: emergent, canopy, understory, immature, herb layers, safari helmet, elephant, cave, swamp, palm tree, swing, Tarzan, chimpanzee, map, fern, vine, flamingo, gorilla, zebra

Hello! Ice and Igloo Theme

2009-11-29T18:38:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Hope everyone had wonderful celebrations for Thanksgiving! We all had such a great time at the feast on Tuesday. The next two weeks, we will be talking about winter activities, ice, and igloos! It should be a lot of fun and maybe we will even get some snow in the next few weeks!!!:)

Thanks for all that you do!
Sarah

11/30-Make a snowman using construction paper and cut-outs
12/1- Make igloos using ice cubes and salt
12/2- Make ice skates using paper plates
12/3-Make hot cocoa with marshmallows
12/4-Teachers perform a skit about different winter activities

12/7-Make mittens with construction paper and yarn
12/8- Make snowman with balls made of ice
12/9-Make bird feeder with bagels and birdseed
12/10-Make a snowman snack
12/11-Make snowflake mobiles

Vocabulary-ice skating, skiing, snowflake, snow angel, igloo, snowsuit, ice skates, sledding, snow shoes, Eskimo, hot chocolate, ski mask, ski goggles, mittens vs. gloves, snowball fight, snow fort, snow globe, icicle, penguin, polar bear

Healthy Living and Gardening Nov.16-24

2009-11-15T14:15:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Thanks for all of your help keeping children home sick if they have been because we seem to be cycling through a lot of sickness at Northern Voices! We are finished with our houses/family/friends unit and are starting a new one: Healthy Living and Gardening! This should be a lot of fun and we will be doing great activities over the next week and a half before Thanksgiving break.

Thanks for everything you do!
Sarah

Mon, 11/16: NV teachers will put on a skit to kick-off the theme by showing how to keep our bodies healthy through eating and exercise.
Tues, 11/17: Talk about healthy vs. unhealthy food to eat and sample the food!
Wed, 11/18: Make butter with baby food jars...yum!
Thurs, 11/19: Make paper bag turkeys...gobble gobble!
Fri, 11/20: Make "Stone Soup" and talk about all of the healthy vegetables that go in soup

Mon, 11/23: Cook assigned food for the Thanksgiving feast the following day! mmmm!
Tues, 11/24: HALF DAY and we will be having our annual Thanksgiving feast with some of the food the children make!!!! Please come and celebrate this even with us starting at 11:15. Let me know if you can come to volunteer!

NO SCHOOL Wed, 11/25-Fri, 11/27: THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!! ENJOY your turkey and Safe Travels!

Vocab: grow, hole, plant, gardening gloves, garden, dirt/soil, watering can, dig, exercise, vegetables, fruit, junk food, healthy, unhealthy, meat, chocolate, turkey, Thanksgiving, American Indians, soup, chips, tv remote, butter, Pilgrims, treadmill, lifting weights, stem, roots, stuffing, pumpking pie, squash

Friends and Family Theme: November 2-13

2009-11-01T19:32:00.000-08:00

Hello!
We had a great time learning about recycling, Halloween, and Fall themes over the past two weeks. The kids looked GREAT in their costumes at our party on Friday, October 30 and we are gearing up to start a new theme: Friends and Family. This is a pretty broad theme and we are going to be focusing on a lot of house, routines, and how to treat our friends throughout the the next two weeks. I have been adding more vocabulary words the second week of our themes because your children are learning the words/meanings so quickly! YAY! Thanks for all of your hard work at home! Also, if you have any pictures of family and friends that your child would like to bring in, please feel free because that will help with our theme!!!
Take care,
Sarah

11/2: Make paper houses and practice all of the shapes: circles for windows, squares, rectangle door, triangle roof, etc.
11/3: Read either Goldilocks or The Three Bears and share books/flannel boards and make oatmeal, too!
11/4: Book switching as mentioned before
11/5: Make an edible house with cheese and crackers and practice all of the shapes again
11/6: Go on a walk, weather permitting, around the neighborhoods near NV to talk about all of the fun things we are learning about houses. Alternative if bad weather: paint "houses" to music with fast/slow strokes

11/9: NV teachers will perform a skit based on the "Be a Good Friend" book
11/10: Make cookies to send home to family as a gift
11/11: Make a big family tree with each child's family
11/12: Make trail mix to be shared with all students/other classes
11/13: Make paperbag puppets of themselves and have a curtain puppet show

Vocabulary: neighborhood, two-story house, ranch house, front porch, porch swing, toliet paper, triangle, circle, square, rectangle, stove/oven, aunt, uncle, cousin, apartment, house, townhouse, garage, fireplace, sink, microwave, married, husband, wife, wedding, rug, family tree, living room, patio, deck, phone #, address, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, brick, wood, siding, Windex, folding laundry/clothes, shutters, shingles (roof), chimney

EARTH Conservation Theme!

2009-10-18T19:01:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!
We had a great time learning about dinosaurs over the past two weeks (your children were like sponges with some of the incredibly difficult/long names of some of the dinosaurs we learned about...hello future paleontologists!) and can't wait to start learning more about the Earth and how to take care of it! IEP's are this week so I can't wait to see you then:)
Sarah

Mon, Oct. 19: We will be going on a "Fall Earth Walk" to pick up trash around the perimeter of the school as we learn about how to keep the Earth clean.

Tues, Oct. 20: Somehow my classroom will be mysteriously "trashed" with a variety of materials (paper, plastic, cans, etc.) and the children will need to clean it up and sort them into recycling bins.

Wed, Oct. 21: Make a trash collage

Thurs, Oct 22: Make water bottle vases to recycle these in a beautiful way!

Fri, Oct. 23: Possible trip to Goodwill across the street OR make a "trash" dessert with "dirt"

Mon, Oct. 26: Collect leaves and make pictures of leaf rubbings

Tues, Oct 27: Play with pumpkins and decorate them with Mr. Potato head parts!

Wed, Oct 28: Make a "Witch's Brew" to drink! mmmm

Thurs, Oct. 29: Make edible spiders with marshmallows

Fri, Oct 30: HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!!!!

Vocab: empty/full, glass, Goodwill, Earth, Fall, trash, recycle, jackolantern, spooky, litter, compost, new, clothes, donate, spring cleaning, metal, cans, recycle symbol, recycle bin, scraps, newspaper, used, tote bags, leftovers, disposable

DINOSAUR TIME!!!!:)

2009-10-05T18:06:00.001-07:00

Hello friends! The next two weeks, we will be talking about dinosaurs and the fascinating lives they led while they were on the Earth. We have a lot of fun activities for the next language experiences.

Thanks!

Monday, Oct. 5: Dig for dinosaur bones and dinosaur eggs that were spotted on the playground as fossils!!

Tuesday, Oct. 6: Make a dinosaur puppet that the children can put all of their fun dinosaur pictures and other fun things from school.

Wednesday, Oct. 7: Make a volcano! Watch out!

Thursday, Oct. 8: Make dinosaur toast to discover how the dinosaurs really lived and ate!:)

Friday, Oct. 9: We will be doing a dinosaur egg art project.

Monday, Oct. 12: Make a feelings/textures box for the children to understand what the dinosaurs' scales felt like.

Tuesday, Oct. 13: Pick apples from a tree and go on a fall walk to collect things around the school that are reminiscent of fall!

Wednesday, Oct. 14: Make apple crisp and experience dipping apples into caramel!

Thursday, Oct. 15 and Friday, Oct. 16: NO SCHOOL!!!! Midwest Listening and Spoken Language Conference and NO SCHOOL for teachers or students.

Vocabulary: dinosaurs, extinct, fossils, dinosaur skeleton, T-Rex, pterodactyl, stegosaurus, triceratops, dinosaur eggs, brontosaurus, claws, tail, scales, volcano, horns, paleontologist

Community Workers THEME!:) 9/21-25, 9/29-10/2

2009-09-17T19:48:00.000-07:00

Hello!
We had a great two weeks talking all about the children and about the body. I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the fun projects we did come home! Over the next two weeks into October, we will be talking about Community Workers and learn about their jobs. There are some great language experiences planned and we even have some special guests coming!

Thanks!
Sarah

Mon, 9/21: Play doctor and start off the theme with role-playing being at the doctor's office. We will make x-rays and talk about broken bones with casts.

Tues, 9/22: Make a doctor's bag to take home after learning about all of the instruments needed by doctors to take care of the sick or injured.

Wed, 9/23: Dentist day-Find out what eating Oreos does to our teeth and get a lesson in proper brusing and flossing!

Thurs, 9/24: Hairstylist day-talk about what a hairstylist can do and role-play some of the jobs-fixing hair, cutting a Barbie doll's hair, putting on hairspray, using a blowdryer, etc.

Fri, 9/25: Mail carrier day- we will be learning how to write letters and all of the components of the US mail system and send a letter to some friends!

Mon, 9/28: NO SCHOOL!!!! TEACHER WORK DAY!

Tues, 9/29: Police officer day-practice the vocab. in depth and "give" a ticket for different reasons....NV preschool teachers will do a skit!

Wed, 9/30: Police officer theme continued and make edible stoplights to enjoy for snack. Later, we will play red light/green light games!

Thurs, 10/1: Firefighter day-Tentative firetruck-firefighter visitors....we will be role-playing what we should do if there is a fire in the house and how firefighters save lives.

Fri, 10/2: Artist day- we will be having an aspiring artist visit the school to do a project with the children and teach them about what she does! The children will paint pictures and learn about how to mix colors.

VOCABULARY: firefighter, artist, easel, ladder, police officer, sirens, badge, handcuffs, hairstylist, manicure, hairspray, blowdryer, x-ray, mail carrier, envelope, stamps, post office, dentist, toothpaste, floss, stethoscope

New School Year! Happy Back to School:)

2009-09-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!
I am very excited to start the school year and get to know you and your children better! I will be blogging about our themes and activities (language experiences) every two weeks throughout the school year so feel free to check the blog online via the Northern Voices homepage, then find the "staff" page and click on my name. It will lead you directly to my blog! The first two week theme is "All About Me" and "Body". We have a lot of fun experiences planned and I can't wait! You will also find vocabulary for the theme at the bottom of the page.

Thanks!
Sarah

Tues, 9/8/: Play "I have something in my backpack..." with the students and find out all of the fun things we can find as we are back at school for the first day.

Wed, 9/9: Read a book together about a gingerbread man who runs all over town and we will have to help find him!

Thurs, 9/10: Go over "How to Be a Good Friend" book and rules at school as we role play manners and how to do a good job starting back at school with good habits!

Fri, 9/11: Talk about sharing and how important it is...make a part of a snack to share with all of the other preschoolers by adding in new ingredients, one by one.

Mon, 9/14: Butcher paper tracing of our bodies and then decorate.

Tues, 9/15: Pizza Snack Face! YUM!

Wed, 9/16: Paint feet and make footprints as an art project.

Thurs, 9/17: Make paper plate faces!

Fri, 9/18: Wash baby doll and other "people" and read "body" books to find out more about our bodies.

VOCABULARY: reading, brave, sharing, cheerful, explore, friend, imagination, juggle, leader, noisy, polite, yawn, shapes, letters, numbers, ruler, whiteboard, library, playground, drinking fountain, paper clip, notebook

Final Days of School! BUG Theme

2009-06-04T19:21:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Wow, has this year gone by so quickly! We are moving into our last theme of the school year: BUGS! This has been so much fun already and the children L-O-V-E looking for bugs and learning about all of the different names:) Thank you for all that you do!

Sarah

Mon, June 1: Make binoculars for bug watching
Tues, June 2: Make paper plate ladybugs
Wed, June 3: Make edible roll-up caterpillars with bread and butter
Thurs, June 4: Make egg carton spiders and make them crawl all over the room!
Fri, June 5: Make butterflies with clothespins and tissue paper

Mon, June 8: Bug watching and exploring the great outdoors
Tues, June 9: Traveling zoo in our parking lot
Wed, June 10: Fun activities outdoors to celebrate bugs and the last day of school

Vocabulary: spider, ladybug, caterpillar, dragonfly, bug catcher, net, ant, ant hill, antenna, grasshopper, butterfly, binoculars, bug

Under Construction Theme!

2009-05-17T21:06:00.001-07:00

Hello!
We are saying goodbye to the little cowboys and girls we have created these past two weeks and starting a new theme: Construction. Thanks for all that you do!
Sarah

Mon, May 18: Prepare for tomorrow's field trip to Dodge Nature Center (based on a Turtle theme) and make hard shell/painted rock turtles.

Tues, May 19: Dodge Nature Center Field Trip

Wed, May 20: Make our own houses using all different kinds of colors and shapes.

Thurs, May 21: Make edible graham cracker stoplights!

Fri, May 22: Fix broken things around the room with our "toolbox"

Mon, May 25: NO SCHOOL! Happy Memorial Day!!!!

Tues, May 26: Make paper cranes to wear and pretend to lift heavy and light items.

Wed, May 27: Make an edible crushed oreo road for snack!

Thurs, May 28: Make orange safety cones for games involving actions and prepositions.

Fri, May 29: The teachers will end the theme with a Northern Voices "Tool Time" re-enactment of all of the fabulous things the children have learned the past two weeks.

Vocabulary: crane, drill, stop sign, stop light, nails, hammer, ladder, screwdriver, hard hat, dump truck, saw, tool box, bulldozer, "to build", "pick up", "climb", cone

YeeeHAW! Cowboy/girl Hoedown Theme

2009-05-02T05:51:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,
We had a great time with all of our farming adventures and now we are moving swiftly into our next 2-week theme: Bring on the Wild, Wild West!!! We have so many great activities planned for your children and they may even come home singing country music to you or teaching you how to line dance!:)

Mon, May 4: Make a horse with clothespins and "ride" the horse all over my room like true cowboys and cowgirls!

Tues, May 5: Make a brown paper bag Wild West vest and paint it.

Wed, May 6: Make a secret gift for the upcoming Mother's Day events....it will be something special, I promise!

Thurs, May 7: Make Chili with the children to submit to our Mother's day Hoedown on Friday.

Fri, May 8: Mother's Day celebration! Wear your cowboy boots and cowboy hats! Yeeehaw!

Mon, May 11: Make paper cowboy boots to wear all over the Wild West.

Tues, May 12: Make Cowboy/Cowgirl trail mix for our long rides on the horses.

Wed, May 13: Horse shoe prints with cut-out sponges and make a trail with paper.

Thurs, May 14: Make paper cacti but be careful, because they are sharp!

Fri, May 15: Teachers will put on a "Hoedown" for the children during our language experience time as a culmination of all of the fun activities (we're talking line dancing, lasso'ing, and all other crazy Wild West stuff) they have experienced throughout the weeks.

Vocab: chili, cowboy/cowgirl, desert, lasso, cowboy boots, cactus, bandanna, "ride" (the horse), cowboy hat, horse shoe

THANKS!

THE FARM: April 20-24, April 27-May 1

2009-04-19T22:03:00.000-07:00

Hello!
We are very excited to start our "Farm" theme these next two weeks! The children had a blast learning about the forest/camping and now we are moving on. Time is flying by and I want to thank all of you for helping make our weeks so much fun:)

Sarah

Mon, 4-20: The teachers will act out different farm animals: pigs rolling in mud, chickens, cows grazing, etc. and the children will get to watch how different parts of our farm vocabulary will be introduced.

Tues, 4-21: Field Trip to Dodge Nature Center with the Farm theme! YAY!

Wed, 4-22: Make a 3-D farm with the children including all of our vocabulary items (animals, farmer, buildings: farm, silo, etc.) and then use this for syntax throughout the next two weeks!

Thurs, 4-23: Make chocolate pudding "mud" and have our "pigs" roll around in it!

Fri, 4-24: We will be using "real" cows to milk with rubber gloves and I know the kids will perfect their technique! :)

Mon, 4-27: We are going to "shear sheep" with big or little scissors and cotton balls! I can't wait!

Tues, 4-28: Plant a garden and use all of our gardening/farming tools.

Wed, 4-29: Make a chicken coop and scrambled eggs for our chickens!

Thurs, 4-30: Make beautiful garden flowers out of tissue paper.

Fri, 5-1: Make May Day baskets and deliver special treats to our friends.

VOCABULARY: chicken, pig, cow, horse, sheep, pond, farm, farmer, hay, silo, garden, pig pen, plow, tractor, fence, overalls

Into the FOREST...March 30-April 3 and April 14-17

2009-03-30T19:54:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends!

The Circus theme went awesome these past few weeks and your children had such a blast learning about the different animals, activities, and food (cotton candy?!?! Yum!) related to the circus. We even had an exciting circus show put on by all of the crazy teachers!

Now we are moving forward into our new 2-week theme: The Forest. We are going to be learning all about the forest for the next two weeks! There are so many directions that we can go with this theme and it will be fun to see how the children respond! We will be doing a lot of great activities/language experiences and I know the children will have a good time!
-Sarah

Mon, 3-30: Go on a "Forest Walk" near Northern Voices to collect many things found in the forest: sticks, stones, grass, pine cones, pine needles, etc. and then use them to make a collage.

Tues,3-31: Make edible bird's nests complete with "peeps" birds and robin's "eggs"...I can't wait to try them!

Wed, 4-1: Make textured paper squirrels that will have cereal on the bodies and fluffy cotton balls for the bushy tails!

Thurs, 4-2: Dye spring eggs all of the colors of the rainbow!

Fri, 4-3: Spring EGG Hunt!

********* HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! School will resume on Tuesday, April 14th for the children because Mon, April 13 is a Teacher Work Day. *********

Tues, 4-14: Make paper plate spiral snakes and paint with watercolors!

Wed, 4-15: Edible Deer faces with English muffins, pretzels, butter, raisins, and cinnamon. MMMmmmm!

Thurs, 4-16: Pack a backpack to go hiking in the forest and stay overnight!

Fri, 4-17: Build a fire and "go camping" in the forest with sleeping bags and stories told by the flashlight.....and a yummy assembly of s'mores for snack, of course!!!!!

Vocabulary for the next 2 weeks: forest, pinecone, squirrel, hiking, skunk, mushrooms, raccoon, bear, deer, nest, antlers, beaver, nuts, berries.

Thanks again!

Under the Big Top! Circus Theme March 16-20, 23-27

2009-03-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends!

We are going to be learning all about the circus for the next two weeks! I am very excited and the children are already interested in the vocabulary and games related to this theme. We will be doing a lot of great activities/language experiences and I know the children will have a good time!

-Sarah

Mon, 3-16: Make St. Paddy's Day Shamrock Bread with bananas and wrap up our theme from the past 2 weeks in preparation for St. Paddy's Day

Tues,3-17: Happy St. Paddy's Day! Bring your child's bike to school decorated and we will talk all about our final days of shamrocks and leprechauns!

Wed, 3-18: Here comes the Circus! Role-play circus acts and go over the meanings/actions of the new vocabulary (tight rope walking, all of the different animals' tricks, etc.)

Thurs, 3-19: Marble-rolled Tiger faces on a paper plate

Fri, 3-20: Make lion masks to use next week when we are all "trained" to do tricks!

Mon, 3-23: Play "Trainer game" and act out all of the tricks the animals in the circus can do (with animal cracker treats, of course!)

Tues, 3-24:Dress a Clown Game in which the children can choose their clown's color of hair (and if it is straight or curly), clothes, and shoes!

Wed, 3-25: Cotton Candy tasting and creating cotton candy pictures.

Thurs, 3-26: Acrobat and juggling tricks day...the children will learn all about different acts at the circus and we will practice some "stunts" (pretend! And with some of our play animals and people)

Fri, 3-27: All of the teachers will be putting on a "circus" for the children! I hope they remember their "tickets" and are ready for a lot of stunts, clowns, and tight rope walking!!!!!

Vocabulary for the next 2 weeks:
circus, clown, elephant, lion, tiger, zebra, giraffe, acrobat, trainer, ticket, juggle, tent, cotton candy, tight rope.

Thanks again!

Happy March! Rainbow Theme for March 2-5 & 10-13

2009-03-01T15:59:00.000-08:00

Hello Friends!

We had a great time the last two weeks with our Good-night, Sleep Tight theme! I think the kids really enjoyed all of the activities we did in which they could talk about what they do before they go to bed, what they wear, and if they sleep with anything special! I loved seeing them in their "jammies" and it was all around such fun (like always!).

The next two weeks, our theme is all about rainbows and all things color and St. Patrick's Day related. I am really looking forward to incorporating A LOT of color identification/memorization work with the children since there are still some colors not all of them have "down". :) We do have some days off and a field trip in the next two weeks, but the following outlines our schedule! Thanks for everything---I don't know what I would without your support and guidance with your children!

-Sarah

Mon, 3-2: Make rainbow fish (from the popular book) with all different colors and aluminum foil that they can swim all over the classroom.

Tues,3-3: Read and act out the Rainbow Fish book and talk about feelings/colors...the children will be able to hang on to their fish they made the previous day during our reading!

Wed, 3-4: Make stained "glass" windows with wax paper, multi-colored crayon shavings, and we will use an iron to make all of the colors melt together. I can't wait to see what the children think of them when we put them up the windows!

Thurs, 3-5: Make "Rainbow Fruit Salad" with all of the fun, brightly colored fruits out there (oranges, pineapple, etc.) while working on colors and verbs related.

Fri, 3-6: NO SCHOOL for teachers or children....Enjoy your weekend!

Mon, 3-10: NO SCHOOL for children-teachers will be having a teacher work day

Tues, 3-11: DODGE Nature Field Trip!

Wed, 3-12: Make flower garden scenes with all different colors of the rainbow! We will also be reviewing land, sky, water in our pictures

Thurs, 3-13: Make shamrock shakes with mint ice cream to get in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day and our theme. We will also be doing a shamrock scavenger hunt in my room for a pot of gold!

Fri, 3-14: St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun play as a group-each child will be able to participate in different stations in which they will dig for gold, follow shamrocks, etc. I can't wait!

Vocabulary for the next 2 weeks:

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, rainbow, shamrock, leprechaun, pot of gold, "touch", "taste"

Thanks again!

Good Night, Sleep Tight theme for Feb. 17-20, 23-27

2009-02-16T12:34:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome back!

After the past two-week theme of Good Morning Sunshine/Winter activities, we are starting our new two-week theme about bedtime routines/moon/stars. Thanks for all of your support and I always enjoy talking with all of you before or after school! Please note that we DO have "Show and Tell" almost every day during our "Conversational Language" time and it would be great if the children had something in their backpacks from home to discuss and show their classmates! Thanks! Also, please note that next Friday WILL be "Pajama Day" at school, so please send your child to school in his/her favorite pajamas and even a blanket or stuffed animal that they love! (Send a favorite book they like to read before bed, too, if you want!)

Tues, 2/17: Field trip to Dodge Nature Center...dress warmly because the theme is all about glaciers and outdoor snow fun!

Wed, 2/18: We will be making stuffed teddy bears to go along with our bedtime theme

Thurs, 2/19: We will be making "Bedtime toast" which we will paint different colors of the stars and moon then cut them out like stars and eat! Yummy!

Fri, 2/20: We will be making a moon and stars windsock craft with yarn and construction paper to go over some of our colors (paper and yarn), length (long vs. short) of yarn, and incorporate our vocabulary (see below) of moon, stars, planets, etc.

Mon, 2/23: Read Goodnight Moon book with the children and act it out with props!

Tues, 2/24: Glow-in-the-dark creations with markers, paint, crayons on blue and black construction paper with moons, stars, planets, etc.

Wed, 2/25: Astronaut activity craft-either helmets or moon shoes with a coloring activity

Thurs, 2/26: Go over bedtime routines such as brushing our teeth, getting our pajamas on, reading a bedtime story with a flashlight, turning out the lights, etc. We will also play a game with sequencing cards with photos of children getting ready for bed (brushing teeth, listening to story) Each child will place the cards in order relevant to their own home routine.

Fri, 2/27: PAJAMA DAY!!!! Please see note at beginning of this post about what your child can bring this day! We will be reading books and lounging together as we pretend that we are going to go to sleep!:)

VOCAB for the 2 weeks: sun, moon, star, astronaut, planet, solar system, Earth, teddy bear, toothbrush, toothpaste, pajamas, nightgown, constellation

Thanks and have a great day!
Sarah

February 2-6 and 9-13, 2009 Good Morning Sunshine!

2009-02-09T20:59:00.001-08:00

Hello Friends!
We are doing a 2-week theme with the students related to wake-up/sleep routines with a side of winter weather fun! The following is the plan for our language experiences:

Monday, Feb 2: We are making valentine's for sick children at Children's Hospital.

Tuesday, Feb. 3:Pretend outdoor winter play indoors with different stations ("sledding", snowball fights with cotton balls, making snowmen, and shoveling).

Wednesday Feb 4:We are making birdfeeders with bagels and birdseed.

Thursday Feb. 5:we are talking about breakfast food and making waffles in a toaster oven.

Friday Feb. 6:We will be going outside sledding FOR REAL!!!:) Please make sure your child comes with warm clothes and boots for our outdoor fun. We will also shovel the snow.

Monday Feb. 9: We will be making puppets and putting on a flashlight shadowed puppet show!

Tuesday Feb. 10: We are making paper plate shoe ice skates and skating on in our rooms on a "rink"!

Wednesday Feb. 11:We will be making ice cream with snow for a yummy winter treat!

Thursday Feb. 12:We are making Valentine's Day bags to get ready for all of the fabulous valentines we will be getting at school the next day!

Friday Feb. 13:Valentine's Day Party. There will be all kinds of fun stations for the children to cycle through: Pin the Nose on the Heart game, Cake Walk with Valentine's Day hearts, Making cards and valentines for friends and family, and a play-doh station with heart cookie cutters, etc.

Vocabulary: Depending upon the student's level of mastery of the first 100 and next 125 from our word list of categories, most of the children are working on words concerning play and weather: jump rope, football, baby doll, puppet, swing, slide, bubbles and then more winter-themed words such as snow, snowman, sled, icicle, snowmobile, skis, etc.

Other students are working on the next 125 food items such as: popcorn, sandwich, bread, carrots, strawberry, chips, candy, chocolate, corn, etc.

Thanks and stay warm as we make our way towards SPRING!!!!!

Sarah

Transportation Week 2! January 26-30

2009-01-25T18:49:00.000-08:00

Hello!
This will be our second week with the transportation theme and the kids did GREAT last week learning the new vocabulary and making fun crafts (with language opportunities galore!)
We will be keeping the same vocabulary to have the words at a mastery level expressively. The following outlines our week's language experiences!

M: Make edible banana and graham cracker airplanes and fly them all over our classroom!

T: Make sailboats that can float in a tub of water

W:Play a "Sink vs. Float" Game with a lot of different materials to predict which objects will sink or float (these two words will also be an addition to their vocabulary lists)

Th: Make edible trains with cargo and practice 1st, 2nd, 3rd with a human train!

F: Make a Transportation poster in which I will have different pictures of their vocabulary words and they will have to categorize which vehicles or modes of transportation go in the land, sky, or water! (Practice "The boat does not go in the sky", etc.)

Have a great week!!!

Travel and Transportation

2009-01-19T21:48:00.001-08:00

Hello Families!
I hope you are all ready to come back to school after a nice chilly break last week! We have a great week planned for your kiddos! Please remember to bring anything for Show and Tell that your child would be excited to talk about and place it in his/her backpack.
Take care and stay warm!

Tuesday- We will go on a Field trip to the Dodge Nature Center. We will learn about stars, the moon, the sun, and even the solar system!

Wednesday- We are making rocket ships and blasting them off in my classroom!

Thursday- There will be a Magic Show put on for the children with a real, live magician. The kids will hopefully remember some of the awesome magic tricks they learned last week and can possibly show the magician a thing or two!:)

For the language experience on this day, we will be creating a delicious fruit salad for Breakfast with Dads and Special Friends for the following day.

Friday - Dad's Breakfast begins at 8:30am. We will be making parachutes and hot air balloons today for our language experience and I can't wait to see how much fun we are going to have letting them "fly" in the air.

Vocabulary for the next two weeks related to our Transportation and Travel theme:
land, sky, water, bus, bike, car, parachute, helicopter, hot air balloon, sailboat, ship, boat, semi-truck, train, airplane, rocket ship.

"Pet Weeks": October 6-10 and 13-15

2008-10-05T15:49:00.000-07:00

Hi! For the next two weeks at Northern Voices, we will be talking all about pets and working on language structures related to this theme. There are many fun activities planned and we will be going over animals/pets that the students have previously learned in order to review, as well as throw in some new vocabulary and ideas all about pets!

We are starting "Show and Tell" every day this week and it would be great if your children could bring in any of their favorite stuffed animals and/or pictures of any of your pets at home or pets they would like to have!

Monday, OCT. 6: We are going to keep working on mastering last week's animals expressively mixed in with new animals that are pets for vocabulary. Throughout this theme, we will be reviewing animals that CANNOT be pets, but I think it is important to reach a level of mastery with these animals, so we will use this as a way to practice "not/cannot" for exposure to the negative syntactic element. For example, after explaining that a "pet" is something we have at home, I will ask, "Can you have an elephant at home for a pet?" and exaggerate why some animals cannot be pets. The children will practice, "An elephant is not a pet". We will play some games in which I will hide the different animals around the classroom and we will ask, "Where's the _____?" and the children will go on a scavenger hunt to find each pet. We will also be swapping our pet pictures or objects in for our game: "Who is at the door?" with knocking and asking each other "who" (or what animal) it might be.

Tuesday: Today we are going to be focusing on BIG vs. little with all of our pets when we look at many different pictures of animals in which the children will match which two (big and little) animals go together and then receptively and expressively point out the BIG and little animals using the names ("I want the BIG monkey"). This will also be continued practice with the "wh-" question, "Where?"

Wednesday: Today we will be working on drawing our favorite animals with fingerpaint on the tables and also on paper. This will help with the expressive use of the pet names and we will go over the sounds they make. I will also show them the pictures of the animals so they will have an idea of how they want their animals to look. This should be fun and of course the kids will love to sing the "Clean Up!" song when we are all done and can work together to wash the table and get clean hands.

Thursday: Today we will make paper bag puppet pets together in an effort to talk about our favorite animals and go over their body parts that we will cut out to glue on the puppets. We will have fun with these pets throughout the day and maybe their "pets" can help them work on some of their speech goals during "Speech" time!

Friday: We will be working on our "who" structure again today to reinforce what the children learned at the beginning of the week. We will play a new game in which the children will tell me which sounds the pets make and then I will show them a picture of the pet they are supposed to be and then have them act out (making sounds, movements, etc.) like the animal for the other children to ask, "Who are you?". After some guessing, we will find out which animal the child was and then take turns with all of the animals. We will also play the "who" game at the door as well.

Monday, OCT. 13: We will be kicking off this three-day week by going over our animals/pets from last week and adding in a few more! We will pretend our animals are sick and have to go to the vet. The kids will love pretending to be veterinarians and helping their new animal friends feel better!

Tuesday: We are going to "feed" our animals today and take care of them. This will include working on the N-V-N language structure so the children can practice saying, "The mouse eats the cheese" or "The cat drinks the milk". We will be doing receptive and expressive practice of these structures and we will even have special bowls that we will decorate for the animals to eat their treats.

Wednesday: Today we will be working on all of the structures we have been going over for the past week and a half and include some of the games that the children really liked, as well as incorporating more practice with difficult structures. We will have a "Parade of Pets" in my room in which the children will take all of the animals we have talked about and walk them around and dance to music as a celebration of learning so much about pets. We will also be sorting different animals and mastering the expressive vocabulary of the weeks.

VOCAB Wk 1: Structures with "where" and "who", big, little, pet, animal, dog, cat, duck, bear, bird, cow, frog, elephant, fish

VOCAB Wk 2: Continue from Wk 1 and add: horse, monkey, bunny, lion, pig, turtle, snake

Thank you!
Sarah

Peek of the Week Sept. 29-Oct. 3

2008-09-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to my new Northern Voices blog!

“Peek of the Week” September 29-October 3

Hello! I will be placing a “Peek of the Week” in your child’s bin this week to let you see a snapshot of what we will be doing and the vocabulary we will be working on. We are also moving into the future by changing our “Peek of the Week” updates to our online blogs after this week. According to our records, all of you indicated that internet access was available and I will include pictures on my blog of the vocabulary words if you want to do more practice at home! To find this online, just go to our new Northern Voices website at: http://northernvoices.org/ and click on “About Us”, “Staff”, and then on my name, Sarah Knoll, and it will direct you to my link! I will be putting this “Peek of the Week” up and let me know if you have any problem finding it!

This week at Northern Voices, the theme is “Friends and Family”. We will be working on different activities and language structures with your child related to this theme, as well as pushing for mastery of additional receptive and expressive vocabulary words.

Monday: We are really going to be working on knowing our friends’ and teachers’ names in our classroom and a lot of the social interactions such as saying to our friends, “Good job!” or “Hold my hand” when we walk in the hallway. We will read a book about how to be a good friend and practice some of the ways we can be nice to our classmates. We will also work on having Mommy, Daddy, and Baby sleep on the bed or sit down at the table. This will be in receptive and expressive forms.

Tuesday: We will be working on the “who” question structure today with a house and the children’s pictures in which I will be working on a song, “Who’s in the house?” and knocking on the door to see “who” will be at the door! This should be fun and I really want to encourage the students to ask each other “who” is in the house while taking turns. We will also look at the other pictures of the students who are not in the house and practice, “child is NOT in the house”. We will also be comparing BIG and little apples vs. bananas and BIG airplanes and little airplanes receptively and expressively.

Wednesday: “Where” game with different magnetic books in which the children will be able to manipulate Mommy, Daddy, baby, boy, girl, dog, and a cat in a house, on a chair, and outside. We will be working on practicing how to ask each other “Where’s the baby?” and then throw some prepositions in for the other child to answer, “The baby is on the chair/in the house/etc.” We will also be doing verb cards in which the children will be expected to listen to my directions of one of the following: “jump, turn around, run, walk, fall down” and then be able to expressively tell me what the other students do.

Thursday: We will be cutting up apples together in preparation for our field trip the following day and go over “cut”, “apple”, “seeds”, and do silly things like practice, “Do we drink the apple?” “NO!” we “eat the apple” and I will want them to tell me about it. We will also work on another “who” game this afternoon, manipulating different people doing different actions.

Friday: We will be going on our exciting (rescheduled from last week) field trip to Dodge Nature Center in the morning (please say there will be sunshine!) and the children will be able to see all of the apple orchards and go on a hay ride! This should be a lot of fun. In the afternoon, we will wrap up going over our house game, practice vocabulary and working on individual speech and auditory training targets.

VOCABULARY/Language Structures: (see pictures for most of these below)
Friend

Structures with “where”

Structures with "who"
"Good Job!"

Hearing Aid(s)

Cochlear Implant (Implants)
Jump/Fall Down

Turn Around

Walk/Run
Baby

Mommy/Daddy

Boy/Girl
Bear
Frog
Elephant
Bird
Socks

Pants
Coat
Shoes
Boots

Apples

Seeds
BIG vs. Little

Thanks!

Sarah