Spring Fling
Academy Curriculum
Week of 3/20/17

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Collaborate Art Bunting
Children each paint on their own triangle (shape focus) to create a bunting.

Materials: Flowers in vase set up to invite the children to paint them. Paint, brushes and art paper.

Paint with Feathers
Materials: Feathers, Bird cutout, Paint

Flower Pot from Hand and Fingers
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Play Dough Provocation with Loose Parts
Materials: Play Dough, Colored stars and popsicles sticks, google eyes. beads, feathers etc.
Supply realistic bird photos from the story "Feathers for Lunch" . Document with photos.

Feather Sorting
Materials: Colored feathers and corresponding colored craft foam mats.

Be a Bee Hat
Materials: Yellow and black construction paper, yellow poms large, black pipe cleaner

Spell Your Name with Pipecleaners
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Pollenate with Dice Math Game
Materials:
Dice, Yellow Pom poms as pollen, flower cut out
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In a small group of three to four, give each child several "pollen". Each child takes turn rolling the dice and "pollenating" the flower until all children are out of pollen.
Materials- Shaving Cream, eye droppers, food dye, glass container
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Combine fine motor and science! Ask the children to predict what will happen.