* I received my caterpillars from insect lore this week so I tied in the letter
for the kids.  This is a great, easy project for anyone, in any grade.

Day One- Caterpillars, we gave the children 5 precut small circles in
different colors.  They used a marker to draw the branch their caterpillar
would be on then glued the corcles next to each other.  They added a wiggly
eye and mouth, antanae, and feet using the markers again.

Day two - The letter Cc ditto we colored and then glued on cotton

Day three - we made crabs using a circle folded in half and added precut
claws, legs and eyes.  They came out really cute.

DAy four - cater pillars using white circles for the body and the kids will
add tissue paper in different colors to decorate his body.  They will use a
markers to add features like feet and antanea(?)

Day five - this idea was from the loop, don't know who it was but many
thanks.  Make a cat using the kids handprint for body and tail and add a
circle for the head and then let the kids make facial features, sounds great
but haven't done it myself yet.


*             C IS FOR CELERY
            WHAT YOU NEED: 
            
            a.. Celery stalks 
                b.. Styrofoam trays 
                c.. Thick paint (just add glue to tempera paint to make it
nice and sticky) 
                d.. Paper 
                e.. Pictures of things that begin with the letter "c" 
                WHAT YOU DO: 
            
            a.. Talk about the letter "c". Name some things that begin with
the letter. 
                b.. Introduce the differences between "hard c" and "soft c" 
                c.. Spend some time reciting the following: cat, cup, color,
cloud, cake and coat. Try to find pictures of these object to help in the
understanding of "hard c" 
                d.. Spend some time reciting the following: cereal, cinnamon
and celery. 
                e.. Take some paint ... any color, and put in a tray. Paint
can be shared by groups of 2 - 4. 
                f.. Each child gets a piece of paper and a celery stalk. (If
you wish, you can cut out a letter "c" for each child to decorate. 
                g.. When dipped in paint and pressed on paper, a piece of
celery makes a "c" shape. 
                h.. Your kinderartists can fill their paper (or their "c"
cutout) with tiny letter c's made from celery. 
                i.. Make up a funny celery song to sing. "I love you, you love
me, I love eating celery ..."