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Joyful Learning in April
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Bible Concept
April Themes
1) Baking 2) Birds
April's Songs and Poems
Related Links for April
Bible Concept:
God provides for my needs.
Themes:
1) Baking: Breads/Muffins/Cake/Pizza
(PDF containing a detailed planning sheet)
Bible Memory:
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Sample Activities:
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Examining Grains |
Bread Dough |
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Bread Dough |
Bread Dough |
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Bread Dough |
Painted Toast |
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Painted Toast |
Yeast Experiment |
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Yeast Experiment |
Yeast Experiment |
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Yeast Experiment |
Yeast Experiment |
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Muffin Tasting |
Golf Ball Muffins |
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Golf Ball Muffins |
Muffin Tin Crayons |
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Playdough Cake |
Reading Pat a Cake |
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Golf Ball Painting in Tins |
Golf Ball Painting in Tins |
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Golf Ball Painting in Tins |
Golf Ball Painting in Tins |
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Paint and Print a Pizza |
Paint and Print a Pizza |
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Paint and Print a Pizza |
Paint and Print a Pizza |
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Felt Pizza |
Sizing Up Pizzas |
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Sorting Ingredients |
Patterning with Ingredients |
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English Muffin Pizza |
English Muffin Pizza |
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Pizza for Dinner! |
Pizza for Dinner! |
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Pizza for Dinner! |
Pizza for Dinner! |
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Pizza for Dinner! |
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2) Birds
(PDF containing a detailed planning sheet)
Bible Memory:
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Sample Activities:
Bird Bingo
Bird Watching and Graphing
Playclay Bird Nests
Edible Bird Nests Edible Bird Nests
Sorting Feathers by Color
Sorting Feathers by Size
Feather Painting
Feather Painting Bird Seed Collage
Eating with 'Bird Beaks'
April's Songs and Poems
Making Bread
(From childfun.com)
(Tune: ' Frere Jacques')
Making bread, making bread,
Mm-mm good. Mm-mm good.
I can smell it baking.
I can smell it baking.
Smells so good!
Smells so good!
Making bread, making bread,
Mm-mm good. Mm-mm good.
Now it's time for tasting.
Now it's time for tasting.
Tastes so good!
Tastes so good!
Dough Dance
(From More Toddlers Together by Cynthia Catlin)
(Tune: ' The Mulberry Bush')
This is the way to pour the flour, pour the flour, pour the flour.
This is the way to pour the flour into the bowl. (Bend to the side.)
This is the way the flour is sifter, the flour is sifted, the flour is sifted.
This is the way the flour is sifted into the bowl. (Jump!)
Continue with additional verses...
This is the way to mix the dough (Spin!)
This is the way to knead the dough (Pound on the flour with your fists.)
This is the way the bread is baked (Lay on the floor, curled up into a ball.)
This is the way we eat the bread (Pretend to eat!)
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Do you know the muffin man?
The muffin man? The muffin man?
Do you know the muffin man,
who lives on Drury Lane?
Pat a Cake
Pat a cake, Pat a cake
baker's man.
Bake me a cake
as fast as you can!
Pat it.
And prick it.
And mark it with a B!
And put it in the oven
for baby and me!
Cheese Pizza
(altered from the original in Mailbox Magazine, October/November 2003)
(Tune: Peanut Butter and Jelly')
First, you take the sauce,
and you spread it, spread it.
Pizza, pizza, cheese pizza!
Then you take the cheese
And you sprinkle, sprinkle.
Pizza, pizza, cheese pizza!
Then you have to wait,
While you bake it, bake it.
Pizza, pizza, cheese pizza!
Then you take the pizza,
And eat it, eat it!
Pizza, pizza, cheese pizza!
Birds
(Tune: 'The Mulberry Bush')
This is the way we scratch for worms, scratch for worms, scratch for worms.
This is the way we scratch for worms so early in the morning.
Continue with other verses...
peck our food
sit on our eggs
flap our wings
fly away
Pretty Nest
(From blacksheeppress.com)
I have made a pretty nest.
Look inside. Look inside.
(Interlock fingers, palms up.)
Hungry birdies with their beaks
Open wide. Open wide.
(Make both hands resemble birds, opening and closing their beaks - thumbs on bottom and all other fingers meeting.)
See my little birdies grow day by day by day.
(Place both hands together, palms in and gradually spread apart.)
Till they spread their little wings
And then fly away!
(Cross arms at wrists and flap hands.)
Fly, Young Birds Fly
(From More Toddlers Together by Cynthia Catlin)
Say as you are flapping your arms up and down and walking on your tiptoes...
Fly young birds, fly.
Fly like this, up in the sky.
Fly young birds, fly.
Fly, fly, oh so high!
Two Little Blackbirds
Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill.
(Sit with your legs bent up. Place two fists on top of your knees.)
One named Jack.
One named Jill.
(Raise one fist and then the other.)
Fly away, Jack.
Fly away, Jill.
(Fly hands away- behind your back.)
Come back, Jack.
Come back, Jill!
(Fly hands back and sit fists on top of your knees again.)
Once I Saw a Little Bird
Once I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop.
So I said, "Little bird, Will you stop, stop, stop?"
I went to the window to say, "How do you do?"
When he shook his little tail and far away flew!
Related Links for April
Baking:
Virtual Tour of a Bakery
Yeast Experiment Directions and Explanation
Making a Baker's Hat (The Treasure Chest)
Sequencing How to Make a Pizza (Kidzclub)
Birds:
Parts of a Bird Printable (Montessori Materials)
Learn About Bird Beaks! (Norman Bird Sanctuary)
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