MARCH 2010  
Due to my part time children I will be running two days in a row the same!


 
MARCH 1 and 2


Circle Time: Weekend in Review
Children tell the most exciting or memorable thing that happened during their     weekend.

1)     Crafts: Vegetable Stamps
Dip different vegetables in paint to stamp to make a collage.

Theme Activities
Food Groups: Explain the food groups to the children, with examples of foods that fit in each
 category. Ask them to come up with other foods that would fit in one group or the other.
Match game with our food groups.

Snack Time: Veggies and Dip
Serve Bite-size veggies and dip for today’s snack. Good Vegetables to serve are carrots, celery,
 cherry tomatoes and peppers.

Music: The Vegetable Song

Story Time: Good Enough To Eat


MARCH 3 and 4

Circle Time: Good Day
Sharing with their friends their favourite toy, book, movie, etc. which they may bring today.

Crafts: Favourite Foods
Children will draw a picture of themselves and around the pictures will be different kinds of
foods that they love to eat.

Theme Activities
Favourite Food Graph, take a poll of what foods the children like best.

Food Safety, discuss which foods we should wash before eating and the good ways to clean up
after cooking. Brainstorm about washing dishes, wiping off the countertop, using different cutting
boards, making the oven or stove hot enough etc.

Music: Food Safety Song

Story Time:     Book on Foods



MARCH 5 and 8


Circle Time: Show and Tell
The children can bring in their favourite recipe from Mom’s Cookbooks.
    They can explain their favourite food, what goes in it, and why they like it.

Crafts:
Cut out pictures of their favourite foods and glue in a collage.

Theme Activities
Blindfold taste test!


Music: Go Bananas! Song

Story Time: Gregory, The Terrible Eater



MARCH 9 and 10

Circle Time: Student Spotlight
Children take turns talking about themselves and their families.

Crafts: Pasta Madness
Using different types of pasta we will create patterns, discover textures, and work on designs.
We will glue them onto a paper plate and paint the pasta in different colours.

Snack Time:  Fruit Melon Bowl
We will cut open different fruits and use a melon scoop to create tiny fruit balls. They can put the
balls into a bowl and have a colourful, healthy, sweet snack!

Theme Activities
How Do I Eat This? We will show different foods and talk about how you eat that food. Do you have
to cut it? Can you eat the entire food or are there parts we don’t eat?

Music: Basic Food Groups Song

Story Time: Popcorn at the Palace



MARCH 11 and 12

Circle Time:  Children will share their favourite Teddy Bear!

Cooking:
Rice Crispies in the shape of Teddy Bears

Craft:  Make a Teddy Bear Picture

Theme Activities:
“Teddy Bear Picnic” we will have our lunch on a picnic blanket with our teddy’s.

Music: Song Teddy Bears Picnic and Teddy Bear Teddy Bear

Story: The story of the Teddy Bears Picnic plus we will watch the video.


MARCH 15 and 16

Circle Time:  Discuss St. Patrick’s Day
Explain how St. Patrick’s Day came about and why we celebrate it.

Craft: Leprechaun Bookmarks
Make bookmarks with leprechauns on sticks.
Hand Print Rainbow and the pot of Gold.



Theme Activities
The children are part of a leprechaun village getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day. They must talk
in Irish accents and talk about the problem with being tiny and green.

Story Time: It’s Rough Being A Leprechaun

Music: The Little Leprechaun


MARCH 17 and 18

Circle Time: Discus the Four Leaf Clover

    What Time is it Mr. Leprechaun?

Craft:  
Decorate a Four-Leaf Clover and Pot of Gold

Theme Activities:
Have three and four leaf clovers mixed together. The children are to count how many of each?
Which has the most? How many clovers are there altogether?

Story Time: The Little Leprechaun

Music: Five Green Shamrock

MARCH 19

Circle Time:
St. Patrick’s Day and Luck. Where did the idea of St. Patrick’s Day and luck come from? What
 did St. Patrick do that made him so historical? What country is St. Patrick associated with?

Craft: My Green Book

Theme Activities:
Catch a Rainbow

Music: I’m a Little Leprechaun



MARCH 22 and 23

Circle Time: Telephone
Children can play telephone in a circle. I start the message then by the time it reaches the last
child we will learn how the original message has been changed as it goes around the circle.

Crafts: Bean Scene
Making a picture out of assorted dry beans. By drawing a farm scene, a house, an animal, or any
other picture they can think of.

Theme Activities
Table Manner Drama, we will pretend to be at a fancy dinner party. We will act out how we will
enter the room and behave at the dinner.

Music: Apples and Bananas Song

Story Time: Story about Food Groups

    

MARCH 24 and 25

Circle Time: Discuss with the children all about Easter and how it came about.

Crafts:  Easter Colouring sheets, Easter Egg Hunt, Egg Colouring

Theme Activities
Discuss and experiment with Easter colours and blending to see results.

Music: Action Song “Bunny Song”

Story Time: “The Three Little Bunnies and The Duck”


MARCH 26

Circle Time:
Practise our turn taking with our Easter Story Box.

Crafts:
Baby Bunnies made with pom-poms.

Theme Activities:
Separating eggs from bunnies and counting how many of each, what colours we have, and how to
build a pattern.

Music:
Something’s that Easter Brings

Story:The Easter Story, Where’s my Eggs?

MARCH 29 and 30

Circle Time:  
Story Box The Three Bunnies and The Duck along with the story book.

Craft:
Ribbon Basket’s

Theme Activities:
Easter Tic Tac Toe

Music:
Sleeping Bunnies


Story:
    The Three Little Bunnies and The Duck


MARCH 31 and APRIL 1


Circle Time:  
Bring your favourite Bunny and share with us why it is special to you.

Craft:
Finger Print Chicks, Bunny Hats

Theme Activities:
Hide the Bunnies, Hide and Seek

Music:
Little Bunny and Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Story:
Five Little Bunnies