Mushroom in the Rain: Sentence Starters and Crazy Zany Mushrooms

Caden is 39 months old
Hannah is 21 1/2 months old

Letter of the Week: Our letter of the week was letter T so we used our letter T from our magnet Leapfrog game to press in our play-doe.

Crazy, Zany Mushrooms: In the book it talks about how all the animals used a mushroom as a shelter to stay out of the rain. So the kids colored the animals, and I cut them out then they glued them under their mushroom.

Sentence Starters: Our sentence starter was: When it rains you can... and Caden came up with the answers. It was so cute to watch his little mind wonder.

Mushroom in the Rain: Shelter and My Umbrella

Shelter: In this lesson we talked about how all the animals used the mushroom as a shelter from the rain in the book and that animals do not like to be in the rain. So they use shelter to stay dry.

I printed out this worksheet from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm and I had Caden and Hannah put the correct animal sticker in the correct shelter box. You can also draw the animals.
My Umbrella: I cut out some umbrellas and the kids used water color to paint them.

Mushroom in the Rain: Ordinal Numbers and Raindrop Collage

Placing the animals in the correct order of the story.

Ordinal Numbers: I cut out the animals of the story Mushroom in the Rain and made a sentence strip with the numbers 1-10 on it. We used a pocket chart to put the animals in the correct order of the story. We not only learned the order of the animals in the story and placed them under the correct number but we also learned about 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Raindrop Collage: First, I drew a raindrop on a piece of paper. Then, I put blue food coloring in the glue. Caden spread the glue on the raindrop with a q-tip. Earlier in the day I died the rice blue (well Caden added some green too). Then Caden placed the rice on his raindrop.