What's green and tall and spiky all over? A Cactus Hotel!

Tuesday, February 22nd

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Welcome: Color the Arizona State Flag. We talked about AZ Statehood day on February 14th and discussed what the flag stands for. Blue=Liberty (like the U.S. Flag), 13 Red and Gold stripes=Our beautiful sunset and the 13 original colonies in the U.S., the Copper star=our abundance in copper mines.

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LBQ: Which word begins with /r/? white, red, blue; rabbit, dog, snake; etc. Which word begins with /w/? Whale, turtle, horse; summer, wagon, ball; etc.

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Pledge/Weather/Calendar

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Song: tune of Wheels on the Bus

Verse 1:

Jackrabbit - jump in place

The jackrabbit in the desert hops like this, hops like this, hops like this

The jackrabbit in the desert hops like this, all night long.

Verse 2:

Coyote - cuff hands and howl

The coyote in the desert howls Awwww, Awwww, Awwww...

The coyote in the desert howls Awwww, Awwww, Awwww all night long.

Verse 3:

Rattlesnake - exaggerate hissing tongue

The rattlesnake in the desert goes hiss, hiss, hiss...

The rattlesnake in the desert goes hiss, hiss, hiss all night long.

Verse 4:

Roadrunner - run in place

The roadrunner in the desert runs fast like this...

The roadrunner in the desert runs fast like this, all night long.

Verse 5

Tortoise - slowly return to seated position

The tortoise in the desert goes slooow like this...

The tortoise in the desert goes slooow like this, all night long!

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Book: The Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson. This story talks about how a cactus is a home to many desert animals through it's whole life and even after it falls to the ground!

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Activity: Finger painting! The children got to finger paint their own saguaro cactus. It was fun to see the many shapes they came out as. :)

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Snack

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Review Numbers: The children took turns finding and counting numbers on the number chart, then they made their number 7 postcard by tracing the number 7, the word seven and adding 7 stickers.

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Review playground rules. We talked again with the children about the importance of our outside rules and about what can happen when we don't follow them. The morning class was able to see first hand the staples that Audrey had gotten.

Playtime