Tot School: Humpty Dumpty

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This week we wrapped up our Humpty Dumpty theme – ideas thanks to Itty-Bitty Bookworm…

Our books (I loved them all):

• The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Sarah Hayes
• Little Lumpty by Miko Imai
• Humpty Dumpty by Kin Eagle
• Tillie Lays an Egg by Terry Golson
• An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston

The video clip I watched over and over:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDyayfFnH90

My very favorite thing to do this week:  act out The True Story of Humpty Dumpty while Mom read!  First we used a stuffed Humpty I made out of paper (two ovals stapled together), stuffing, and brads to connect the arms and legs.  Then I acted it out with ME being Humpty – on a wall of pillows!


I made a lot of Humptys.  Here’s one I made out of shapes that Mom cut out of construction paper.


Here’s another one – Mom drew an egg on the easel paper, and then I drew in the face and a crack.  I bandaged up the crack with band-aids!


I drew a Humpty face on a real egg, too.


And I tried to put Humpty together again with glue.  First we put egg shells in a ziploc bag with a few drops of food coloring, and I crushed and smushed them up.  Then we laid them on a paper towel to dry.  Then I painted an oval shape with glue, put the eggshell pieces on the glue, and painted some more glue on top of it all!  Not quite like the original…


I made a pet rock Humpty with egg and chick stickers.


I did some upper/lowercase matching with plastic egg halves in my sensory bin.


I practiced cutting a zig zag shape on a paper egg.


I made a crown with glitter glue so I could be king of all the horses and men…


I practiced “reading” my very own Humpty book.  (Excuse the name – I’ve been practicing my trademark signature of both Es facing inwards, so some of the other letters get rushed…)


I did story sequencing with these sentence strips.


I put puzzles together, kinda like putting a Humpty together.


And I worked on my writing skills with some Humpty words, like “wall.”


I practiced carrying an egg around in a spoon.  This is harder than it looks!


And I cracked and fried myself an egg to eat!  (I put green food coloring in it, too – cuz I LOVE green eggs and ham…)