Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Butterfly Color Songs 1 & 2

Colorful Butterflies Help You Learn Colors...

And More Colors!


We Loves Butterflies
Do You?

Dear Reader,
What is your favorite color?
Try singing this song at home or school.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U



*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Listen to the song and sing along.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
Leave a comment you will be one of my 
SunnyDaz Kids.
I have had hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.

♥Sunny




Friday, April 12, 2013

THE LITTLE WHITE DUCK - Song

What Fun!
We Learned This Song Today.


Pantomime the little white duck swimming in the water and then biting the lily pad.
Then flapping his wings.
Continue to change with each verse.

Dear Reader, 
Try singing this song at home or school.
Thanks for stopping by :)
I'm wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U 

*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Listen to the song and sing along.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.
I have had hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.
  ♥Sunny

OVER IN THE MEDOW....

Sing About Animal Moms & Babies! 
Happy Babies, Happy Spring!
Happy, Happy Everything!

Dear Reader,
SunnyDaz Kids always love to learn about animals.
It is Spring and new babies are being born 
and some are hatching.
All exciting!

Try singing this song at school or home.
Hold up 1 finger to show the number of todies.
Change to 2 fingers with the next verse. 
Continue to change with each verse.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U

*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Listen to the song and sing along.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
Leave a comment and be one of my 
SunnyDaz Kids.
I have had hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.

♥Sunny


5 LITTLE SPECKLED FROGS!


What Fun!
We Learned This Song Today.
Have Kinder Kids hold up 5 fingers to show the number of frogs.
Then pantomime each frog catching a bug 
And jumping into the pool.
Change to 4 fingers with the next verse. 
Continue to change with each verse.

Sometimes we use these little frogs 
when we sing this song.
They are not speckled but they sure are cute. 

Dear Reader, 
Try singing this song at home or school.

Thanks for stopping by :)
Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U



*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Listen to the song and sing along.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
Leave a comment you will be one of my 
SunnyDaz Kids.
I have had hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.

♥Sunny



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

EGG-actly 10! PEEK IN TO SEE...

#4Easter Egg Extentions

Kinder Kids become EGG-pert at sums to 10.
This game sums it up perfectly!

Dear Reader,
The answer is always 10 but what is the question?
A Kinder Kid holds the pink egg.
They read the number & say: 
"4+what?=10"
The question is: "Does 4+6=10"
Then they pop open the egg to 
peek inside 
and see if they are right.
I love this game because it is 
self checking.
Kinder Kids love it because it is fun to 
guess and pop open the eggs!
Well that about sums it up.  
Enjoy!


This game is easy to make. 
Write a number from 1-10 on the top
half of the egg. Now write the partner number 
on the inside of the egg.
1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5, 6+4, 7+3, 8+2,
9+1, 10+0  

 How do you practice sums to 10?
Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U



*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
SunnyDaz Kids draw your own paper eggs. 
Write addends that equal ten on each
side of the egg. 
Write 4 on one side and 6 on the other.
Continue for each addend partners.
How fast can you learn your sums to 10?
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.

Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.
I have taught hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.

♥Sunny



THE Ff SONGS

2 Fun Songs for Ff and /f/...
First The Ff Song ( Sing Quietly Shh)


Next The Ff Song (Sing Loudly)

These are fun ways to practice the letter Ff 
and the /f/ sound.
Some like it quiet and some like it loud.
Getting all the letter sounds down can be tricky for SunnyDaz Kids.
This makes phonics fun!




Dear Reader,
 Try singing these songs 
with your kids at home or school.
Which song did you like best?

Thanks for stopping by :)
Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U


*1 Homework for SunnyDaz Kids*

Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Listen to the songs.
Do you have a favorite Ff song?
Vote for quiet or loud and we will see 
which one wins!
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.

Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.
I have taught hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.
  ♥Sunny



Thursday, April 4, 2013

SNOWMEN AT NIGHT - ARTWORK.

WINTER WATERCOLOR
Miss Carla's Kindergarten Class

I hope you enjoy your visit to 
my Kindergarten Classroom.
Here is Snowmen At Night, 
a wonderful story included in StoryTown 
as a Library Book.
It is fun to tie Visual Arts into
StoryTown, our Language Arts Program.

SETTING
First we studied the pictures to get clues 
about the setting.
Where did the story happen?
What time of day or night?
What season of the year?

We also learned that the author lived right here in Salt Lake City when they built a snowman that wandered during the night!
Many of my Kinder Kids have played at 
Sugar House Park.
They thought the sledding hill looked very familiar.
It was so exciting to see familiar places in a book!
WOW!
The setting was something they knew!

To create the setting for our snowmen we painted watercolor washes.
We reread Snowmen At Night.
We looked for details in the pictures again.
What were the colors?
Were the colors cold?
Were the colors warm.
How did the sky look at night?
Is the snow white or a mix of colors?
So many things to notice.
An artist needs a watchful eye.
(Does a reader need a watchful eye?)


My Kinder Kids painted beautiful settings!
Miss Maren, our wonderful volunteer, used a three inch brush to lightly wash each paper with water.
Then the Kinder Kids set to work with watercolors.
They loved how the colors ran and mixed.
So did I.
THEN
We needed to let the paintings dry.
It was hard to wait....

CHARACTERS
We learned characters in the story are people or 
animals that act like people.
Well the snowmen acted like people so...
 they must be characters too!
We studied 
Snowmen AT Night 
to check out the characters.  
There were lots and lots of snowmen 
and snow-women and snow-children.
Doing lots of things. 


My Kinder Kids were very excited 
to draw their characters.
We used pencils and markers to draw our characters.  It was fun to decide what they looked like 
and what they were doing.
Details are very important.
(Could that be true in reading or writing?)


We cut out our characters 
and glued them into the setting.
Our pictures were complete 
but our stories were just beginning...
(Can writing be art too?)
;)

I decided to stop at three 
because I could go on and on...
I have 25 Kinder Kids after all :)

I hope this inspires you to 
roll up your sleeves and 
get wet with a book too.
- - -

I am also very excited to say 
that there are 
3 pictures from my class 
shown here on the District web page.

The pictures are:
* Under-Water-Sea-Life (row 2 middle)
*Snowman-Cat-Snowballs (row 4 first)
*Snowman-Snowballs  (row 4 middle) 
fish printclay fishprints displayed
figures in perspective underwater sea lifeletter art - group display
painted white and black birdpainted red and black birdpainted quail
snowman, cat, and snowballssnowman and snowballspainted birch trees
Under-Water-Sea-Life was created 
while studying another StoryTown book.
Can you guess which one?
http://youtu.be/bgMlYDfXpiM
Drop me a hello in the comment box.
I would love to hear from you.
Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U

♥Sunny



Wednesday, April 3, 2013

WONDEROPOLIS - WEB-WOW!

A Wonderful Web To Visit
Wonderopolis.org

My Kinder Kids and I can visit for 
5 minutes
but wonder for...a while longer.
Then start to write and write.
Lots to wonder about in this world!!!

Dear Reader,
I hope you enjoy this with 
your kids at home or school.  
Let me know your favorite wonder.
Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U

*1 Homework for Kinder Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Parent & Child visit Wonderopolis.org together.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
See you at school.  :)

Saturday, March 30, 2013

3 #EASTER EGG-CELLENT IDEAS! A Number of Scrambled Eggs!

#3Easter Egg Extentions

A Number of Scrambled Eggs!
Dear Reader,
What to do with all those plastic Easter Eggs?
Count your chicks before they've hatched.
NO!
Just count eggs and dots.
I have been waiting and waiting to be able to 
share these EGG-cellent ideas.
I love these colorful eggs and Kinder Kids do too.
This is a fun way to practice matching 
numbers to dots.

Write a number on the top half of the egg.
Draw dots to match on the bottom half of the egg.
Scramble The Eggs!
Pull the eggs apart and mix up the top and bottom.
Now match the numbers and the dots.

Thanks for stopping by :)
Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U

*1 Homework for Kinder Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Draw your own paper eggs 
with numbers and dots.
Scrambled the eggs.
Match them up.

Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.
Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.
I have taught hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.
  ♥Sunny


2 #EASTER EGG-CELLENT IDEAS! ABC Scrambled Eggs Letter Match!

#2Easter Egg Extention
ABCs Scrambled Eggs Letter Match!
FINALLY!!!
What to do with all those plastic Easter Eggs?
I have been waiting and waiting to be able to 
share these EGG-cellent ideas.
I love these colorful eggs and Kinder Kids do too.
This is a fun way to practice matching 
BIG letters to little letters.

Write a BIG letter on the top half of the egg.
Write a little letter on the bottom half of the egg.
Scramble The Eggs!
Pull the eggs apart and mix up the top and bottom.
Now match the Big and little letters.



Dear Reader Try this with some of the letters 
in your child's name.
OR
You might want to make it harder by mixing up the
color of the top and the bottom of the egg.
Please share if you have other ideas.
Thanks for stopping by :)

Where ever U are, in our
 Whole Wide World,
I'm Wishing...
Sunny Daz 4 U


*1 Homework for Kinder Kids*
Parents monitor your child as they do this homework.
Write letters from your name onto plastic eggs.
Or draw your own eggs with letters on a paper.
Scrambled the eggs.
Match them up.
Write a comment that says: I did it.
Parent & Child write your first names.

Leave a comment and you will be one of my SunnyDaz Kids.
I have taught hundreds over the years.
There is room for you too!
See you at school 
or back here at SunnyDaz4U.
  ♥Sunny