More Mud Fun

One of my favorite spring activities is making and writing about mud.  This year I changed things a little bit because we have just begun a school-wide unit on farms. During our Fairy Tale Unit, we used Fairy Dust Teaching's Guided Drawing directions to draw pigs.  I took those pigs and glued them to our mud poem.  On Monday we read one of my favorite books, The Piggie in the Puddle by Charlotte Pomeranz and James Marshall. It is the very silly rhyming story about a piggie who won't get out of a mud puddle. We then made our own mud.

The kids love playing in the mud.  After they have had their fill, we brainstormed a list of words to describe the mud. We then moved those words around in our "I Like Mud" poem.

After we reread the poems many times using different words to describe the mud, the children came to me in small groups to  write their own versions of the Mud Poem.

Finally, we added real mud to our piggie drawings.

As always, I love this bulletin board which showcases the kids' guided drawings, handwriting and personalities (in both the words they chose for their version of the poem and the way they added mud to their drawings:)

Mud Fun

This week we made mud and then wrote about it.

Preschool Lesson Plans wrote about me (actually my lesson :)

I was just looking at Pinterest and saw a picture that I knew I had taken but that I had not pinned.  It turns out that the Preschool Lesson Plans website has written about my "I like mud" activity.  So cool ... because they always have great ideas on that site!  I am doing the mud activity with my Pre-k'ers this week.  The original post was here.

I Like Mud - Adjective Activity

One of my favorite spring time activities is to make mud with my kinders.  We start by talking about the expression April Showers Bring May Flowers.  I then tell them we are going to make a bulletin board titled "April Showers Bring...Mud!"  After talking about how mud is made we make our own mud with dirt and water in a big bin in the center of each table.  We then brainstorm adjectives to describe the mud (ie. smooshy, dirty, yucky, brown, fun...) We then take turns adding the adjectives to our I Like Mud poem that is on a pocket chart. Finally, we go to our seats and finish our own "I Like Mud" poems and add a picture of us playing in mud.  The poem template is here: I like mud.pdf The kids pictures are often influenced by the photo that is on my desk of my four children playing in mud when they were little (one of my very favorite pictures :)