Dinosaur Week

A week and half late on the Preschool Theme....NOT cool!! But here it is, better late than never, right? This is always one of my favorite weeks to do fun activities and teach the kids...what is more exciting than DINOSAURS?! We won't actually be doing this theme til next week at our house, so if you have any great ideas PLEASE leave them in a comment. I love to hear what others are doing with their little munchkins too :)

Tuesday

Color or the Week (brown)

Number of the Week (4)

Letter D Tracer page

Sound Bag

Read "Dizzy Dinosaur" book

Dino Bones hunt with capital and lowercase letters (cut out dino bones and hide them all around the house, then have child match corresponding upper and lowercase letters on the bones)

Dinosaur coloring page

Dinosaur feet craft (Kleenex boxes)

Dino hunt snack (gummy dinos in chocolate pudding)

Thursday

Color of the Week (brown)

Number of the Week (4)

Letter D Tracer page

Sound Bag

Read "Dizzy Dinosaur" book

Dinosaur puzzle (Trace a large dinosaur on posterboard, and then cut into puzzle pieces)

Dinosaur egg matching game (fill easter eggs with matches of little plastic dinosaurs)

Snack time

Have a great week everyone!!

Friend Week at our Preschool

This week is focused on learning all about friends! This was a difficult week to plan because lots of the activites actually include "friends" (duh!:) Since I only have Kendall in the preschool I had to tweak some things to make it work.

I am really looking forward to preschool this week....wanna know why? Because we didn't end up doing it last week! Life took over and got a little crazy, so we are back at it this week and I can't wait! Here are the fun things we have planned:

Tuesday:

Color of the Week (Pink)

Number of the Week (3)

Letter C Tracer Page

Sound Bag

Read "Rainbow Fish" Book

Friendship Boats: Have child sit on the floor with you. Face each other and touch your outstretched legs together. Finally lean forward and grab one anothers hands. Then lean one way then the other in a rowing fashion while you sing 'Row row row your boat'

Two by Two Movement Activities: Play roll or toss the ball, skip across the room together, hop together, run, march, etc

Coloring Page

Rainbow Fish Craft: goes along with the book we read

Snack time (If you can think of anything that goes along with this theme, please let me know!! I was drawing a huge blank!)

Thursday:

Color of the Week (Pink)

Number of the Week (3)

Letter C Tracer Page

Sound Bag

Read "Rainbow Fish"

Measure My Friend activity: Have you and your child take turns measuring each other with string. Lie down on the floor and let your child measure you with string and then cut it. After you can compare the strings!

Fingerprint Comparison: Show your child how your fingerprints are different by stamping them on white paper

My New Friend Worksheet: I am just going to let Kendall name everyone that is her friend and have her draw one persons picture on the worksheet.

Make Friendship Bracelets

Snack Time

Farm Week at our Preschool!

Hey everyone!! I have to tell you, the first week of preschool at our house was a HIT!! It was so great to spend some one on one time with my middle child...she so needs it :) We had a wonderful time together, and she learned some great stuff too. With that said, here are the activities and links to some things we are doing this week, learning all about the Farm!

Tuesday:

Color of the Week (Orange)

Number of the Week (2)

Letter B Tracer Page

Sound Bag-Fill up the bag with items that all start with the letter B

Read Touch and Feel Farm

Farm Sound Discrimination Game-Get 8 plastic eggs and fill them with 4 different sounding food products. Two with sugar, two with flour, two with rice, and two with beans. Then have child take turns picking an egg, shaking them, and then searching through the basket to find its "sound" mate :)

Coloring Page

Make pigs nose craft- Cut bottome of egg carton, paint pink, cut out nostrils and attach with string.

Have "pig slop" for snack- Mix yummy snacks together like pretzels, M&M's, etc!

Thursday:

Color of the Week (Orange)

Number of the Week (2)

Letter B Tracer Page

Sound Bag

Read Touch and Feel Farm Book

Moms and Babies farm animal matching game- print and laminate pictures of mom and baby animals, have kids play matching game.

Farm Animal Sort-Cut out pictures of lots of animals, some farm animals, some not. Then have them put the farm animals in a barn, and the others outside.

Wooly sheep craft- Trace your childs hand, then cover it with glue and let them attach cotton balls. The flip it upside down so the fingers are the 4 legs, and decorate the thumb to be the face.

Have pigs in a blanket for snack time.

If you are doing anything similar in your home, please tell me what you are doing!! I am always looking for new, fun ways to teach my kids!

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Back to school!!

Preschool, that is!!!

I was so sad when I realized because of where we live I would'nt be able to take Kendall to the preschool I had been planning on. Skylar attended A Childs Garden Preschool for two years and loved EVERY minute of it! I was so looking forward to Kendall having some of those same experiences but if the last few months have taught me nothing else, I have learned the need to be flexible, adjust, and make the best of a new situations.

So with all that said, my solution was to do my very own preschool with Kendall, one-on-one! I have had SO much fun putting it all together and I thought I would share it with you so if you want to do something similar it will be all right here in one little place. Most of these ideas came from these great preschool resources: Preschool Express, Preschool Education and Everything Preschool.

Now as usual, I must warn you, I am a huge dork! But if I am going to do something, I like to do it right :) So here is our agenda for our little preschool:

1:30- Welcome Song / Pledge of Allegiance

1:40- Singing Time / Nursery Rhymes

2:00- Learning Time / Letter, Number, Color of the week

2:30- Craft / Activity

2:50- Snack Time / Free Play

Every week we will have a theme that reinforces the letter, number and color for that week, and some fun crafts and projects that fit in there too :) I really want to foster a love of reading in my children, so every week we will also read a book that ties into our theme. Another fun idea I got from Skylar's kindergarten teacher is to have a Sound Bag. Whatever the letter is that week, the sound bag is full of items that start with that letter. That way we are really reinforcing the sounds that letter makes and making the child more aware. I also have a card holder up that holds the flashcards for the letter, color and number of the week, and we will go over those as we discuss those items for the week.

This weeks theme is apples and here is our curriculum for the week:

Tuesday: Color of the Week (RED)

Number of the Week (1)

Letter A Tracer page

Sound Bag

Read The Giving Tree

Sorting and counting activity with apples

Rock "apples" craft

Make apple and peanut butter sandwiches

Thursday: Color of the week (Red)

Number of the week (1)

Letter A Tracer page

Sound Bag

Read The Giving Tree

Apple rhymes activity

Apple stamp craft with Aa template

Homemade applesauce for snack time

If you are interested in the specifics of any of these activities please feel free to leave a comment, and I will email you back shortly! I am so excited to start this with Kendall, and will continue to post our weekly curriculum. Hope you all have a great day!!