Playgroup!

 My turn to host Ivy's playgroup is OVER...woo hoo!

I had a fun time scheming up little activities and themes for these girls to do each day, but I'm glad to have my 4 hours a week back to MYSELF!  We got 2 more girls in our group, finally!  So we now get more weeks off than we did when we just had three.  Love it.  Aren't these girlies cute?!?

{Ivy, Aubrey, June, Brynlee and Maddy}

The last 2 weeks, the girls learned about Fish, Ladybugs (and the number 6) Colors with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, and then St. Patricks Day...

I was especially excited for the Brown Bear Day...here are some of the things we did:

We did a matching activity ( I do one of these most of the time) using the brown bear characters from the book.  They all did so good matching--they haven't always been so good at it, so its fun to see them progress!

 ...and because there's 5, I really can't help them much!  Stuff has to go fast, and there's hardly an one on one time...holy cow.  love it

By coincidence, I happened to find this idea on one of the blogs in my reader!  I found this idea here.  It's an i-spy bottle with the little characters from the Brown Bear Book.  As we read the book (which we did about 5 times this day) the girls had to shake their bottles around and find the character of the page we were on.  I did double-sided circle punches, and just got the little pics from off the internet.  

The other fun thing we did was to make a brown bear book of our own...I had each of the mom's send me a picture of the girls before hand, and I put together a little book for each of the girls.  When it comes to the "teacher" part, I got one of their nursery leaders to let me take her picture (we all love her!)  I think the girls liked it.  It didn't turn out the way I wanted...but it's perfect!