Monkey School: Snowman

Monkey School was all about Snowmen today.  I started out by talking about shapes and I had the kids find different objects of each shape by digging through the sensory bin.  Then I put the shapes together to make a snowman.  We also read Snowman at Night.  

Next we played with "snow" (shaving cream).  They loved this. 

For snack we frosted rice cakes and made snowman faces.

 And for art, we made paper plate Snowmen.

Dinosaurs: The Paleontologist Edition.

I know most 2 year olds don't know what a Paleontologist is, heck, most can't even say Paleontologist but I am determined to raise kids who are interested in science and that requires early exposure.  So today in Monkey School we pretended to be Paleontologists.

First we went on a skeleton hunt around the room and ended up putting together a stegosaurus skeleton.

Then we carefully uncovered dinosaur bones hidden in the beans.

 Next we dug through mud (pudding) to find the dinosaurs (dino shaped fruit snacks).

And finally, we created volcanoes (baking soda and vinegar).  The kids had a great time and so did I.