ASL word of the day ...Nurse

Nurse n. 
A person trained to care for ill people: Sariah wants to be a nurse.

• (Initialized sign similar to sign for Doctor)  Tap the extended fingers of the right N hand, palm facing down with a double movement with the wrist of the left open hand held in front of the body, palm facing up.

Bear Tales...Tree-Children

Tree-Children
mary carolyn davies

The little trees that to the breeze
Make quaint and timorous courtesies:
I like to come and play with these.

Each grown-up pine that stands in line
Is but a stranger great and fine-
The little trees are friends of mine!

Bird Word Search

SPRING IS HERE!

Bird Word Search

S N O I T A C O L B
T T E R R I T O R Y
R S C L A S S I C B
E P S O N G L I N L
A E A R S L G G P E
M I N T I N Y N E N
G B N P I H R W C D
S T S E L T S I H W


BLACKBIRD
LOCATIONS
TERRITORY
BRILLIANT
WHISTLES
CLASSIC
STREAMS
PATROL
PATCH
PERCH
WING
SONG
TINY

Eat Like a Bird "Tweet"

Healthy "Tweet"

1/4 cup olive oil
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsps honey
2 cups pumpkin seeds
2 cups sunflower seeds

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet until hot; add cumin and chili powder. Cook over medium high heat for 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Add sugar and honey and stir until sugar dissolves.
Stir in pumpkin and sunflower seeds. Cook for about 8 minutes, stirring constantly, or until the seeds are toasted and the mixture smells good.
Carefully spoon seed mixture onto a big piece of lightly greased aluminum foil
Cool completely. Store seeds in airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Theres a Lighthouse

There's a lighthouse
On a rocky hill
That beckons those who roam
To help them through
The stormy seas
And find their way back home

Though the  clouds
Are growing darker
And the seas crash with such might
Up ahead still burns
The torch of Christ
like a lighthouse in the night
                   vicki b wright

Happy Easter!

Asl word of the day...Christ

Christ n

• (Initialized sign following  the location of a royal sash)  Move the right C hand, from touching the left side of the chest near the shoulder downward to touch again near the right side of the waist.

This Little Bunny

Cut five bunny shapes our of felt or paper and decorate them to match the following poem
If using paper, glue flannel or felt to the back of each bunny.
As you recite the poem, place the appropriate shapes on a flannelboard.
(to make a flannel board...cover cardboard or foam core with felt or flannel)

Poem:
This little bunny has two pink eyes
This little bunny is very wise
This little bunny is soft as silk
This little bunny is white as milk
This little bunny nibbles away
At cabbage and carrots the livelong day!
               author unknown

Eggs-ercises

Slow Melt: Pretend you are a chocolate bunny melting on a hot day . Start by standing nice and tall, then slowly ooze to the floor

Basket Balance: Try balancing an empty Easter Basket (or plastic bowl) on your head as you walk across your yard

Rabbit Racers: Give a younger buddy a head start and race across the  park. Try racing three times. Is your younger buddy getting faster?

Egg Toss: Pretend a tennis ball is an Easter Egg. Standing close to your buddy, toss him or her the "egg". Each time you catch the "egg" take a step back. How far apart will you get?

Octopus Tag

Set up a rectangular ocean: To determine the right width, have everyone hold hands and spread out across the field. Build two side lines with markers.
The queen (king) octopus stands in the middle of the "Ocean" and cries out " I am the octopus queen (king) of all motion. Let's see if you can cross my ocean:
The fish try to run or sneak across the ocean as the octopus tries to tag them.
If tagged, they  become seaweed. Keeping one foot planted, the seaweed try to reach out and tag the running fish. If they are tagged, they become seaweed too.
Once everyone has the crossed the ocean and is on the other side, the octopus repeats the chant and the crossing contest starts again.
The game continues till all the fish become seaweed.
The last fish tagged becomes the new octopus.

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is Contagious

Be a Carrier

Bear Tales...The Playhouse Key

The Playhouse Key
rachel field

This is the key to the playhouse
  In the woods by the pebbly shore,
It's winter now: I wonder if
  There's snow about the door?

I wonder if the fir trees tap
  Green fingers on the pane;
If sea gulls cry and the roof is wet
  And tinkle-y with rain?

I wonder if the flower-sprigged cups
  And plates sit on their shelf
And if my little painted chair
  Is rocking by itself?

Homemde Word Necklace

Make a fun necklace using 

plastic lids(colored ones are great) 
and old magazines.

supplies needed to make charms:
plastic lids, old magazines, glue stick, clear packing tape, scissors, hole punch.

Does your child have a favorite band, favorite expression, favorite cool word? Now they can tell the world with these easy to make charms from recyclables,

• Cut out a bunch of words from old magazines and use a glue stick to to affix them to the  plastic lids. 
• Leaving enough space around each word to create a margin.
• Cut out the plastic back words, leaving room at the top end to punch a hole later 
• Seal the words with clear packing tape
• Trim any excess tape from the edges. 
• Punch a hole in the plastic and attach a key ring or large jump ring
• String all the words onto a necklace length ball chain, ribbon or crafting cord. 

Laugh

A day is lost

if one has not laughed

Asl word of the day...Hat

hat n. A shaped head covering, as one with a crown and brim

• (Location of a hat on one's head) Pat the top of the head with the fingers of the right open hand, palm facing down, with a double movement.

Bear Tales...Trains at Night

Trains at Night
frances frost

I like the whistle of trains at night,
The fast trains thundering by so proud!
They rush and rumble across the world,
They ring wild bells and they toot so loud!

But I love better the slower trains,
They take their time through the world instead,
And whistle softly and stop to tuck
Each sleepy blinking town to bed!

Who am I?

 PJ dreams of being this cat

Find the Capital letter in each clue below that does not start the sentence.
Unscramble the six letters to find the name of this cat that lives in the rainforest

I am the largest cat in the Americas
I am a solitaRy animal
I have powerful Jaws
I swim And climb very well
I like to ambUsh my prey
I snarl and Growl

Inexpensive party cake ideas

What I Make with My Hands
I give with my Heart...


You don't have to spend lots of money
on a bakery decorator cake.
Make a cake using a cartoon theme
by frosting a 9x13 cake a using colored frosting
to make up your design. Make a garden theme, by frosting the cake with green "grass" and blue "water" and add a plastic figure to make a fun inexpensive cake.

Joke of the Week

Q: Why did the bacon laugh?

A: Because the egg cracked a yolk!!

Asl word of the day...Dirty

Dirty adj. Not Clean: Please wash the dirty dishes. 
Same sign used for filthy, nasty, pollution,soiled

• (Represents a pig's snout groveling in a trough) With the back of the right curved 5 hand under the chin, palm facing down, wiggle the fingers.