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Groundhog Day.
Ages 6m-4
Song: I see a little groundhog, furry and brown,
He's popping up to look around.
If he sees his shadow, down he'll go.
Six more weeks of winter - oh, no!
Groundhog Day activity: Printed out and colored by the children
Ages 6m-4

Discovery: Tell the kids that Groundhog Day Is really old. It started in the 1700s by German people who use to do it in theircountry. Tell them that if the animal sees its own shadow we will have more winter. If the animal doesn’t see it then summer is going to come soon. Ask the children if they want more summer or winter.

Chinese New Year.
Discovery: The Chinese New Year is different than ours because it starts the New Year when the moon is close to us. It is somewhere between jan 21 and feb 20. You give each othergifts to make sure the New Year starts good. You eat a lot with your family. The dragon means a lot to the New Year.
Age 6m-4
Cooking: Have the children help me cook rice. They can pass me ingredients and see how it is made. Then we add Asian flavoring to it to make it more chinese.
Chinese New Year activity: Since dragons are a really big part of the New Year. Im going to print out aChinese still festival dragon for them to color in how ever they want.

Things that go, overview:
Discovery: Tell the children there are a ton of different things that go. Things like bikes and skateboards you can move yourself. Some things go cause of animals like horses and dogs. Tell them about all the different kinds that go. Big ones, little ones, trucks, buses, and even electric ones. Theyhelp us out everyday. They take us to places and help us give people stuff.
Things that go on the road:
Age 6m-4
Song:
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round, round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All through the town.
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish"
The wipers on the bus go "Swish, swish,swish"
All through the town.
The door on the bus goes open and shut
Open and shut, open and shut
The door on the bus goes open and shut
All through the town.
Things that go on the road, Activity :
Materials:
a printer
paper
some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons
scissors
glue
Instructions:
Glue the large semicircle in the middle of a large piece of paper. (Flat side down)
Gluethe two small semi circles to the ends of the large semi-circle for wheel wells. (Flat side down)
Glue the black circles inside the wheel wells for the tires
Glue the smaller gray circles on the black ones for hubcaps.
Cut small circles from foil to make shiny hubcaps
Draw features like a steering wheel, the door and a driver.

Discovery: I can ask the children what favorite color they havefor a car. I’ll ask them if mom or dad has a car. Tell them to always wear a seatbelt because its safe. Only adults should driver cars. Tell them that cars have been around for a long time. There are a lot of cars in the world. Some are really big and some are really little.
Things that go, trains:
Age 6m-4
Discovery: Ask the children what sound a train makes. Have they ever been on a trainand was it fun. Trains were first built a long time ago by different people. Like Chinese people, Mexican people, white, and black people. Trains came before cars and that’s how we got places.
Song/Poem: "There's a train at 4:04," said Miss Jenny;
"Four tickets I'll take. Have you any?"
   Said the man at the door:
   "Not four for 4:04,
For four for 4:04 is too many."
Activity: I printout shapes for the kids and help them assemble it to look like a train. Then we go on to color it and place it on a sheet of construction paper and paint around it.

Things that go, in the air:
Ages 6m-4
Song: sing to im a little teapot.
I’m a little airplane, way up high
 With my great big silver wings, watch me fly! 
When the pilot tells me, I’ll come down,
Swooping and gliding, to the...