Worms

Every month when the Mother Goose Time box arrives at our door, the girls open it immediately.  Elli always takes the dance n' beats DVD out and has me put it on so she can dance.  Addie likes to look in every bag, without actually opening them, and see what she'll get to do throughout the month.  In April when the growing gardens box arrived Addie was very excited to see there was going to be a worm day.  Every day since we started this months lessons she's been asking when worm day would be.  Well worm day wound up turning into 3 days.   The girls just loved this topic so much that we kept adding on to it.

We started off completing our circle time routine.  Then I brought out the pink color bird and the colored worm cards.  The girls took turns pretending to eat the pink worm with the bird.

Then we flipped all the worms over and the girls took turns picking one while we sang The Worm is Underground.

The worm is underground,

The worm is underground, 

Elli, what color have you found?

Green worm is underground.

Next the girls looked for rubber worms that I hid, and then used them to paint their worm pictures.

While the girls painted I hid the matching cards around the living room.  The girls found all the cards, and then we played a matching game.  

We talked about how worms are good for the dirt.  The girls practiced rolling worms with play-doh and cutting them into 10 pieces.

Next the girls lay down like worms on butcher paper and I traced them and helped cut them out.  Then they decorated the kid sized worms.

An Elli worm.

We also read some books about worms.  After reading Winnie Finn Worm Farmer, Addie decided she wanted to start her own worm farm.

Which brought us to days 2-3 of worms.  We spent 2 days collecting 38 worms and creating a worm farm.

Elli spent most of the time jumping in puddles while Addie collected worms.

I also had a worm hidden picture and a short story about worms from a Highlights High Five magazine that we did.

We also checked on our grass seeds that we planted over a week ago and recorded the results.

The girls created a subtracting worm book, which was in the Dance n' Beats book.

The girls worked together to create their book.

Then they danced to Wiggle Worm.

Since the kids were liking worms so much we went to the library and found another book abut them.

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