Preschool Fun

Community Helpers

2013-07-21T13:40:00.003-07:00

We spent two weeks learning about our community helpers. We recycled boxes and transformed them into a rockets hip, fire truck, Mail box, Army Tank etc. The kids loved painting them!

Earth Day FUN for Preschoolers

2013-07-21T13:35:00.002-07:00

We celebrated Earth Day by creating our own Earth Mobile with a promise on how we can help keep the Earth clean. We reused some boxes to make some colorful birdhouses for Spring.

Preschool letter Kk activities

2013-07-21T10:18:00.000-07:00

This week we made kites using our fine motor skills to make AB pattern, koalas, practice cutting to make our k collage and hopped around the classroom looking for k's to put in our kangaroo pouch! They could play this game for hours. It rained a lot this week... so we all brought flashlights to play I spy with my little eyes something that starts with k...point flashlights at the letter k. THEY LOVED IT!

Preschool letter Qq Activities

2013-07-21T10:14:00.002-07:00

Qq was very hands on. We painted a lot of Q-tip art, made our own fabric design for our quilts, practiced rubbing quarters and made queens out of our hands. The queens were our favorite. The students had to listen for a word that started with Qq.. if they heard a Q word like Quick they would hold their queen up. GREAT LISTENING SKILL!

2013-07-21T10:12:00.002-07:00

Learning Xx was a blast. We had 3 different treasure hunts where X marks the spot. The kids loved it! We used painters tape to paint Xxs and we made and X-ray out of Q-tips of our hands.

We also did report assessments. We had a pile of different objects and they had to pick up a picture and glue it under the corresponding shape. It was very easy to see who could sort and categorize by shape (which is what we have been working on all quarter!) Their growth this quarter was amazing!

Fun Preschool Easter Activities...

2013-04-03T11:45:00.003-07:00

Chick with the wings made out of their hands....

Yarn dipped in Elmers glue and a little bit of water. I used about 20 12 inch pieces of yarn I had pre-cut for the students. The smaller the balloon the better it turns out!

Traditional egg dying- all 8 of my preschoolers were so quiet doing this! They were concentrating so hard! They loved it!

We practiced cutting out the bunny head and decorated our baskets with it. Don't forget the cotton on the back for its tail.

Number recognition and match. They got to take the eggs and match the number, if they couldn't recognize the number they counted the dots.

Here is the Easter card we made for the parents! Quick but so cute!

Letter Nn preschool crafts and projects, Spring is here..

2013-03-22T11:37:00.000-07:00

This week we worked on the letter Nn. We built our very own Nests, necklaces, practice making numbers with Noodles, and celebrated the first day of spring by making Nine flowers. We continued our cutting practice by making our Ruby Rhombus person.

Letter L preschool activities, St. Patrick's Day Crafts

2013-03-22T11:34:00.002-07:00

This week we introduced the letter Ll by making lions out of shapes, lucky shamrocks, and leprechauns. We also made a rainbow with a pot of gold and had a GREEN vegetable and fruit party to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! If you need any directions on how to make anything let me know! I love to share!

Letter Y Preschool Projects and Dr. Seuss' birthday

2013-03-08T12:24:00.000-08:00

Yy is for yarn, yo yo, yellow and yummy food! We also celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading his books and eating GREEN eggs and ham this week. We continue practicing our name everyday! Writing has never been so much fun! We loved going outside and building our snowman with all the SNOW!

letter Oo Preschool Activities

2013-03-08T12:21:00.002-08:00

Oo is for ostrich, otters, octopus, ovals and octagons. The students' cutting skills are improving everyday! We really had a lot of fun playing red light green light with our octagon and oval shapes we cut out and colored! Especially since it has snowed all week... keeping us inside! We continued our pattern practice by turning our octopus legs into a pattern.

Letter J Preschool Craft and Activities

2013-03-02T11:57:00.002-08:00

We introduced letter Jj this week. We used water paint to create our jellyfish, counted jelly beans, sort then graphed them, color and cut out rectangle shapes for a hat and made Ricky Rectangle. We have practiced a lot of cutting and color activities to help our fine motor skills increase. We loved adding the Itsy Bitsy Letter Jj book to our book bags. http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/learning-letters/ib-book-j.htm

Letter U Preschool Crafts and Activities

2013-03-02T11:52:00.000-08:00

Uu is for umbrellas, under the sea and upside down. We focused on the trapezoid shape this week. This week we read books about Ground Hogs Day. We made predictions about his shadow and made Ground Hog Puppets that could go underground.

Letter H preschool activities

2013-03-02T11:26:00.001-08:00

Hh is for hearts, helping hands, hot dogs, hippos and horses. The students loved letter Hh. There were so many fun things going on this week. We ended the week going on a field trip to Midwest Twisters! The students had a blast running, swinging and jumping!

Letter Vv Preschool Crafts....

2013-03-02T11:17:00.001-08:00

Vv is for volcanoes, vegetables, valentines and vans. We learned and ate a lot of different vegetables, we made our own volcanoes and erupted them with homemadeplay dough vinegar and baking soda. We focused on our number sense with valentine stickers and ended the week with a Valentine's party. We put our valentines in our vans and shared with our friends! The kids had a blast this week!!!

Letter Dd Preschool Activities

2013-03-02T11:02:00.000-08:00

Dd is for drums, dinosaurs, dots and dirt. The kids had a blast this week making their own drums and parading around with them! We used metal coffee cans to decorate and drum. Unifix cubes gave us some great practice making AB patterns. We also celebrated Presidents Day by making a George Washington and Abe Lincoln to go along with our Chant! And yes, our igloo finally came down... I don't know if they had more fun with the igloo or playing with all the jugs once it tumbled down!e

Letter C preschool projects...

2012-11-04T07:33:00.000-08:00

Cc is for costumes....

Cc is for cookie color sort. Students used their cookies to sort by color. Great Assessment tool!

Cc is for corn with candy corn.

Cc is for a spooky cat made out of recycled pizza cardboard! The students had a blast painting them!

Letter P preschool projects...

2012-11-04T07:27:00.001-08:00

Pp is for pumpkins, parachutes, pirates and parties. We made pumpkin lanterns with modge podge and orange tissue paper. A mom donated pumpkins for the class, so we decorated them with elmers glue, glitter and eyes. The kids love it! Be careful where you display them though, rain will wash all the glitter off! We had a Pp party where the students each brought in an item that started with a Pp such as pringles, popcorn, pop tarts, pudding, pickles... The kids went PAZERK in the pirate hats!

Letter S preschool crafts

2012-11-04T07:21:00.002-08:00

We did a lot of stamping this week to practice AB patterns. We used the spider hands to put in their learning portfolio for the month of October. We also created a short formative set of closed sentences for the kids to answer. Which will also go in their learning portfolio. We asked questions like... My name is_____, my favorite color is _____, my favorite food is______, I like to play_____, I like school because_______, For Halloween I want to be a ____, my friends are ________ The answers came out so cute, we decided to start doing them monthly.

letter F preschool crafts

2012-10-14T10:27:00.001-07:00

Ff is for fall trees, fishbowl, frankenstein, 5 speckled frogs, fall leaf hunt....

fall leaf hunt

fall leaves

Counting fish bowl

frankenstein

5 Speckled Frogs

Vocabulary Development

2012-10-14T10:11:00.004-07:00

Every week when we are introducing a new letter we create a shape that the students can connect with. Throughout the week we brainstorm words that began with that letter. We try to put a picture next to each word to help with their comprehension and vocabulary development as well.

We also have expository pictures to play games with throughout the week.

Bb is for...

2012-10-14T09:28:00.005-07:00

Bb is for.....

Baker

Baseballs and bat

Beach

boat

bus

butterfly

Author Eric Carle

2012-09-16T12:36:00.001-07:00

This week we focused on the Author Eric Carle. The students loved all of his books! Each student got to create their own caterpillar! They loved it! We also read the Little Cloud and made clouds then wrote about what they could be.... so creative!

2012-09-09T05:35:00.004-07:00

The first week of school zoooooommmmeeedd by! The students are all excited and ready to learn. Everyday gets smoother and smoother. We focused on the author David Shannon this week and the students loved NO DAVID! It is a great way to introduce rules of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Everyday we did a craft that focused on gluing. The students favorite thing this week was races at recess.

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5x7 Folded Card

2012-09-06T19:16:00.001-07:00

Picture In Portrait 5x7 folded card

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Creative Crayon Welcome Wreath

2012-08-28T09:03:00.001-07:00

Here is a great crayon project to try.

We took a frozen pizza circular card board, cut it out spray painted it. Then we took two boxes of 24 crayons and glued them on with Elmers Glue. The crayons can be organized by color or randomly placed. It's up to you! The Welcome can be made or computer printed.

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