Green Day at Preschool

We celebrated St. Patrick's' Day in Suzy's little home preschool co-op this week. I declared it "green day" and we had all kinds of green fun. No Green Day music, but alas...

We even had two little special guests this morning. I wasn't able to get a sitter for Andy, so he joined us for circle time, took a two hour nap, and then ate lunch and played games in the afternoon. He's such a sweet little guy. We all had a really fun time.
We sang a few froggy songs with a puppet during circle. Lane was fascinated.
We had green cool-whip and crackers for snack.

We made yellow and blue home made play dough and combined them for.... GREEN!
I had shamrocks cut out with letters on one side and little motor skill tasks on the other. I know, I'm the ever multi-tasker. ;) So, the girls had to make their names with the letters provided. Then, we played the motor game at the end of the day. (No photos of that - sorry - it was too "hands on" for my part.)
Here is how Adeline spells Suzy's name. Cute.
We did some spring cleaning as well. I filled some bottles up with water and I honestly think this was the highlight for the girls.

Our story was "Green Eggs and Ham", of course. The circle time frog was our guest reader.


We had music time where the girls got to explore various instruments and play along to one of our little Heartsong songs.
This cracks me up. My brother has a Bass. So, Suzy can NOT be convinced that this instrument is a guitar. She says it's a "piano, just like Uncle Jeremy's." Funny on so many levels. She even "plucks" the chords while she sings.
What would music be without a group drum jam session?
I bought this cute hat at Wal-Mart and decided it was a leprechan hat. Each girl took turns wearing it and hiding coins in another part of the room.


The funniest part? They all hid them in the exact location - in the changing table. I even had Andy be the leprechan once to show them how to spread the coins around, but they would have nothing to do with it.
Whoa, baby brother! I just thought this was a funny photo of Andy as Suzy knocked his little hat off. Poor guy. Nice protective response though, eh fellow therapists? ;)
Once again, we had a great day with our little friends.