songs for a rainy day

WEATHER SONGS
THE RAINBOW
Tune: “Jingle Bells”

The sun is shinning’
The sun is shinning,
Shinning all around.
Can you see the shadows
It makes upon the ground?
Rain is falling,
Rain is falling,
From the clouds up high.
Can you see the rainbow,
It makes up in the sky?
Jean Warren

PITTER-PATTER
Pitter-patter falls the rain,
On the roof and windowpane.
Softly, softly it comes down,
Pitter-patter all around.
Adapted Traditional

COLD WINDS
When cold winds blow
And bring us snow,
At night what I like most,
Is to crawl in bed
And hide my head,
And sleep as warm as toast.
Adapted Traditional

MY UMBRELLA
Here is my umbrella,
It will keep me dry.
When I’m walking in the rain,
I hold it up so high.
Adapted Traditional

from:http://www.preschoolexpress.com/music_station01/music_station_sept01.shtml

Busy Morning

Some one asked me recently how much time we spend each day doing homeschooling with my 3 and 5 year-olds. I guess it varies from day to day and most of what we do in our regular daily activities I think qualifies as preschool/ kindergarten work.
These are some of the things we did this morning
1. Sorting picture cards into three categories: animal, plant, or other object
2. Rhyming puzzle
3. coloring with color wonder markers
4. making pictures with shapes
5. ordering graduated shapes
6. reading aloud
7. phonics
8. Claire read little books to me

Physical Education

We've been doing a lot of P.E. this week. We did hanging and climbing and running at the park Tues. Emily did bicycling/triking Monday and Wednesday. She is getting good at steering so that I think she will be able to navigate on the sidewalk for a trip to the pocket park soon. The girls have both been practicing their gymnastics skills on a bar we put up in the door jamb with a crib mattress underneath. They are both getting brave and strong. I'm going to try to keep up the practice on a regular basis.
Scattered throughout each day are bouts of jumping on the trampoline and riding the exercise bike. We also took a walk to the pocket park yesterday and did sprints. I was the troll under the bridge and I would chase them across the sand and they would run away from me. Good exercise for all.