Spring in The Friends Room

After our neighborhood unit, The Friends Room explored some of the cultures within our community. We spoke about other cultures and communities, and discussed what makes each distinct. We studied England, Japan and Australia and utilized the airplane we made in our imaginative play center.

We are enjoying Spring and have begun rehearsing our end of year play, The Little Red Hen.

The following songs, books and activities have been spread out amongst the AM and PM sessions.

During meeting time The Friends Room:

-Shared our vacation stories

-Began using our globe and maps

-Talked about England, Japan and Australia

-Learned Japanese words and phrases

-Made flags from the countries we spoke about

-Welcomed Bridget into our Friends Room community

-Is discussing spring

-Is observing our caterpillars

-Had a visit from Art Farm 

-Rehearsing our end of year play, The Little Red Hen 

During activity time The Friends Room:

-Made an airplane for imaginative play during our cultural study

-Made our Spring Break vacation book

-Made biscuits, candy sushi and tasted Australian lamingtons

-Made spring landscape watercolor paintings

-Is working on projects for the upcoming auction including a platter, a set of chairs, placemats and a Friends Room bag

-Is observing our caterpillars with magnifying glasses and making observational drawings

-Decorating pots and planting Marigolds for spring

-Is enjoying Spring by painting outdoors, having picnics at snack and outdoor read-alouds 

-Making goodbye gifts for Catherine

-Playing with peg boards

-Planting in our dirt table

-Creating the set for our play 

The Friends Room is Singing:

Kookaburra

3 Little Birds

Little Bunny Foo Foo

The Baby Song

Goldfish

Lots of Little Pigs

Bottle Caps

The Flower Song
Little Red Hen (by Stuart Stotts and Tom Pease)

The Friends Room is reading:

When Blue Met Egg by Lindsay Ward

Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel

Forever Friends by Carin Berger

And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano  

If You’re Hoppy by April Pulley Sayre  

Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Once There Was A Seed by Judith Anderson and Mike Gordon

Splish, Splash, Spring by Jan Carr

Fancy Nancy and The Boy From Paris by Jane O’Connor

Tea For Ruby by Sarah Ferguson   

How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills   

Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey  

A Visitor For Bear by Bonny Becker

Jack and The Beanstalk retold by Steven Kellog

The Little Red Hen by by Paul Galdone  

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes By Eric Litwin

The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

 

Lyrics:

The Flower Song

First you take the seed and you plant it in the ground,

Next a raincloud comes and waters all around.

Next the sun shines brightly without a sound,

And in just a few days, a flower is found!

Bottle Caps

I love to walk outside

I look down on the ground

What do you think I'll find?

What do you think I've found

A beautiful bottle cap

Purple orange silver gold and green

I'll take it home with me.

Collecting bottle caps bottle caps

Bottle caps bottle caps every one I see

Collecting bottle caps bottle caps

Bottle caps bottle caps every one I see

I love to pick up shells

I find them by the sea

I love to pick up shells

Some for you and some for me

I love to pick up shells

I'l bring them home with me

And put my shells on the shelf and keep

Collecting bottle caps...

I love to pick up rocks

Big and small ones too

I love to pick up rocks

Some for me and some for you

I love to pick up rocks

I'll take them home with me

And put my rocks in a box

And my shells on the shelf and keep

Collecting bottle caps...

I like to pick up string

I find it one two three

I like to pick up string

Some for you and some for me

I like to pick up string I'll take it home with me

And put my string in something

And my rocks in a box

And my shells on the shelf and keep

Collecting bottle caps...

I've got some new ones old ones

Blue ones gold ones every one I see

I've got some red ones brown ones

Flat ones round ones every one I see

Collecting bottle caps bottle caps

Bottle caps bottle caps every one I see

Lots of Little Pigs

Once upon a time there were lots of little pigs

And some of them thought they'd

Build themselves a straw house

So they built it they built it big and strong

So the wolves wouldn't get them

(And they shut the door-kachung)

On the next day some more little pigs

Decided to build themselves a stick house

So they built it they built it big and strong

So the wolves wouldn't get them

(And they shut the door-kachung)

On the last day the rest of the little pigs

Decided to build themselves a brick house

So they built it they built it big and strong

So the wolves wouldn't get them

(And they shut their big brick door-kachung)

In the meantime, the wolves were sleeping in the forest

Then the wolves woke up

And they stretched a big stretch

And they sniffed a big sniff

And they said, "I smell pigs!"

So the wolves marched on over to the straw house

And they knock knock knocked on the door

And they said,

"Little pigs little pigs, let us in"

And the pigs said,

"Not by the hair on our chinny-chin chins"

"Then we'll huff and we'll puff

And we'll blow your house in"

So they huffed and they puffed

And they blew that house in

And the pigs ran over to their friends

Over at the stick house

So the wolves marched on over to the stick house . . .

And the pigs ran over to their friends

Over at the brick house

So the wolves marched on over to the brick house . . .

. . . And they huffed and they puffed

but they couldn't blow that house in

So the wolves went around to the back of the house

And they climbed up the chimney

But the pigs heard them and put a pot of boiling water

Underneath the chimney

And the wolves landed in the water

AAAAOOOOOOOHHHHHH!

And they burnt their bottoms

And they went running back to the woods

Where they cooled off in a lake

And they looked at each other and said

"We didn't want to eat those pigs anyway

Let's go back and have a party."

So they did

Goldfish

Lots of little fish were sleeping on a rock

In the bottom of the ocean

They lifted up their heads

And they shook out their tails

And they said let's go swimming

Let's go swimming let's go swimming

Yeah let's go swimming

Let's go swimming let's go swimming In the bottom of the ocean

Then the little fish got so very very tired

That they came back to the rock

And they put down their heads

And they put down their tails

And they took a little nap

And when they woke up

They decided to take a shower

So whey washed their hair

And they washed their ears

And they washed their tummies

And they washed their beards

And they washed their nose

And they washed their toes

And then they said

"Wait a minute, we're fish!

We don't take showers!"

Let's go swimming let's go swimming…

Then the little fish got so very very tired…

And when woke up

They decided to brush their teeth

So they got out their tooth brush

And their toothpaste

And they squeezed a little on

They tried not to waste

And they put it in their mouth

They brushed north and south

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch

And then they said,

"Wait a minute, we're fish!

We don't brush our teeth!"

Let's go swimming lets go swimming…

Then the little shigh got so very very tired…

And when they woke up

They decided to ride their bicycles

So they rode to the left

And they rode to the right

And they rode all day

And they rode all night

They rode down the hill

And then faster still

And then they said,

"Wait a minute, we're fish!

We don't ride bicycles!"

Let's go swimming…

Let's go swimming…

Our Friends Room airplane

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