Sticker Beach Scene!

Day 3 of our week. Our theme this week is the Beach. The letter of the week is E and the number of the week is 6.

Project - Sticker Beach Scene. I used brown construction paper for the beach, by cutting a curvy piece to fit the bottom of the blue construction paper. Then, I cut curvy strips of dark blue construction paper for the water. I cut cloud shapes out of white construction paper. Connor and Lauren glued the shapes onto the light blue construction paper to make a beach. Next, they used the sand castle stickers to make a beach scene. I found the stickers for $1 at Wal-Mart. They also added fish, shark, crab . . . stickers to the water. They had a great time adding stickers to their beach. Materials Needed - light blue, dark blue, brown, white construction paper, beach scene stickers, fish, sea life stickers, glue stick, scissors.

Sticker Beach Scene!

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
1. The letter E, e - beginning sound
2. The number 6 - one-to-one correspondence
3. Shape review - recognition, following directions
4. The concepts fewest and most - following directions, recognition

Glitter Fish!

Day 2 of our week. Our theme this week is the Beach. The letter of the week is E,e and the number of the week is 6.
Project - Glitter Fish. I cut fish shapes out of green construction paper. Connor and Lauren glued the fish onto blue construction paper. They took glue and made designs on their fish. Then they sprinkled glitter on top of the fish. At the end, they glued googly eyes onto each fish!
Materials Needed - blue and green construction paper, glitter (any color), googly eyes, glue, glue stick, scissors

Glitter Fish!

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
1. The letter E,e - recognition, following directions
2. The number 6 - one-to-one correspondence, following directions
3. Shape review - recognition, matching
4. The concepts fewest and most - following directions and following directions

Egg Carton Clams!

Day 1 of our week- Our theme this week is The beach! The letter of the week is E,e and the number of the week is 6.

Project - Egg Carton Clams - I found this project in the July 2009 edition of Parents Magazine. I cut out 2 egg carton holders for each child. I taped the insides of each cup together. Connor and Lauren used pink markers to color in the mouth of lips of the clams. Then on each "clam" I squeezed vertical strips of glue. Connor and Lauren sprinkled gold glitter over the glue strips and glued on googly eyes. This is an easy fun project for any age. Connor and Lauren always have fun with glitter and glue. Materials needed- egg carton, gold glitter, glue, googly eyes, pink marker, scotch tape, scissors

The Egg Carton Clams

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities:
1. The letter E,e - recognition and writing
2. The number 6 - recognition, one-to-one correspondence, writing
3. Shapes review - following directions, recognition
4. The concept tallest - following directions, recognition

Paper Plate Lion!

Paper Plate Lion

Day 3 of our week - Our theme this week is zoo/safari. The letter of the week is D, d and the number of the week is 7.

Project - The kids made a paper plate lion to go along with our zoo/safari theme. They painted the outer edge of the paper plate orange and the inner circle of the plate yellow. After the paint was dry, Connor and Lauren cut 1 inch strips on the outer orange part of the plate. (the lion's mane) Then, they glued on googly eyes and used a black marker to draw a nose and mouth. This project could be made into a mask by cutting holes for eyes. Materials needed - paper plate, orange and yellow paint, paint brush, googly eyes, black marker, scissors

Lauren's Lion

The finished projects

Other websites for the zoo/safari theme: http://pre-kpages.com/zoo.html and www.prekinders.com/safariunit.htm

Learning Activities - have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities

1. The letter D,d - beginning sound

2. The number 7 - writing, recognition, one-to-one correspondence

3. Shape review - recognition and following directions

4.The concepts shortest and one one-to-one matching - recognition, following directions

Giraffe Sock Puppet!

Giraffe Sock Puppets

Day 2 of our week - Our theme this week is safari/zoo!! The letter of the week is D,d and the number of the week is 7.

Project - Giraffe Sock Puppet. I found the idea for this project on the website http://www.craftjr.com/recycled-crafts-giraffe-sock-puppet The sock puppet goes with our safari/zoo theme this week. All of the directions along with pictures are on the website. It is a very simple project - and fun!! Connor and Lauren "spotted" the socks with brown paint. After the paint was dry they glued on the googly eyes and I helped glue the ears and horns on the sock. Materials Needed- an old tan dress sock, 2 brown pom poms, brown pipe cleaner, googly eyes, scissors, brown and black paint, paint brush and a hot glue gun.

Connor and Lauren's Sock Puppet's

Other websites for the zoo/safari theme: http://pre-kpages.com/zoo.html and www.prekinders.com/safariunit.htm

Learning Activities-I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
1. The letter D,d - writing and recognition
2. The number 7 - one-to-one correspondence, following directions
3. Shape review - patterns, recognition
4. The concepts shortest and one-to-one matching - recognition, following directions

Egg Carton Elephants!

Egg Carton Elephants

Project- Egg Carton Elephants - I found this project on the website http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/ElephantCrafts.html The website provides wonderful directions and pictures. It even provided a template for the elephant head! This project really fit in nicely with our zoo/safari theme and it was really easy to do. I cut the shapes out of the egg carton and Connor and Lauren did the rest. They used pink chalk for the ears and googly eyes for the eyes. I helped with the hot gluing and the project was done! Materials needed - egg carton, hot glue or craft glue, googly eyes, pink chalk or pink crayon/marker.

The finished elephants!

Day 1 of our week - Our theme this week is Zoo/Safari. The letter of the week is D, d. The number of the week is 7.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)

Today's Activities:

1. The letter D,d - writing

2. The number 7 - recognition, counting and writing

3. Shapes review - recognition, following directions

4. The concepts Longest and Matching like items

Other websites for the zoo/safari theme: http://pre-kpages.com/zoo.html and www.prekinders.com/safariunit.htm

Egg Carton Turtle!

Egg Carton Turtles!

Day 3 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds and Turtles! Our letter of the week is the letter C, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).

Today's activities 1. The number 8 - number recognition, counting objects, following directions 2. The concept shortest - Recognition and following directions 3. The letter C, c - letter recognition. 4. Shape - triangle - Tracing and recognizing.

I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Connor and Lauren with their Turtles! - Smile Lauren :)

Project - Egg Carton Turtle - I found inspiration for this project this morning when I used the last egg to make waffles. I was going to throw away the egg carton when I thought it would make great turtle shells. First, I cut out two individual parts of the egg carton (where each egg sits) Then, Connor and Lauren painted their carton/shell green. Then they sprinkled green glitter onto the wet paint and we let the paint and glitter dry. After the shells were dry, I cut an oval head, 4 skinny oval legs and a triangle tail out of light brown foam. Connor and Lauren helped me hot glue the body parts to the underside of the shell. At the end they glued on googly eyes! Materials Needed - egg carton, green paint, green glitter, hotglue or craft glue, scissors, brown foam and googly eyes

The two turtles

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

Counting Frogs!

Counting Frogs!

Day 2 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds and Frogs! Our letter of the week is the letter C, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).

Today's activities

1. The number 8 - number recognition, counting objects, writing numbers

2. The concept longest - Recognition and following directions

3. The letter C,c - Writing the letter C,c.

4. Shape - triangle - Tracing and recognizing.

I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

How Many Frogs?

Project/Learning Activtivity - I found the above Frog counting activity book on the website http://thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html under the heading/link How Many Frogs Counting book (numbers). I printed off the book and Connor and Lauren read the numbers on each page and colored the frogs according to the color word. At the end of the book, I had Connor and Lauren write their numbers 1-5 under each frog! I am also using the website http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm

4 Yellow Frogs!

Connor's last page - he wrote his numbers and drew another frog in the empty space along with the number 6!

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

Paper Plate Turtle!

Paper Plate Turtles!

Day 1 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds! Our letter of the week is the letter C, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8.
Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).
Today's activities
1. The number 8 - number recognition, counting objects, following directions
2. The concept longest - Recognition and following directions
3. The letter C, c - Writing the letter C, c.
4. Shape - triangle - Tracing and recognizing.
I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Connor and Lauren with their Turtles

Project - Paper Plate Turtles. I turned a green, paper, salad plate inside out. I traced and cut out 4 oval shaped legs, a larger oval shape head, and a triangle tail on brown card stock. Connor and Lauren helped me staple the legs, head and tail onto their green plates. Then, they glued large googly eyes onto the oval head. As a finishing touch they decorated the turtle's shell with green buttons, yellow, green, and white tri-beads. Materials Needed - green, paper, salad plate, (or paper plate that can be painted green), brown card stock, stapler, googly eyes, craft glue, tri-beads, buttons or other decorations for the shell.

The finished turtles

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

Sponge Bob Kleenex Box!

Sponge Bob Kleenex Box

Project - Sponge Bob Kleenex Box. A couple of weeks ago, I came down the stairs with an empty Kleenex box. I was going to recycle the Kleenex box, but Connor got to it first. He grabbed it out of my hands and said, "Don't throw this away, let's make it into Sponge Bob!" So, we started the Sponge Bob Kleenex box project. First, Connor painted the whole box yellow. Then the box sat, and sat and sat for the last few weeks. We just haven't had time to finish our project until today! I don't have Lauren on Wednesday's and we don't do school on Wednesday's either, so today was a perfect day to finish our project. Of course, I had to find a picture of Sponge Bob, so I could begin the project and do it correctly! First, I cut a strip of brown and white paper for Sponge Bob's pants and shirt. Then, I drew a tie on red paper and cut it out. Connor glued the pants, shirt and tie onto the bottom 1/2 of the box. (We put the hole side down, so it would act as a puppet for Connor). Next, I drew a mouth on the box, and cut a tongue for the mouth on red paper along with 2 teeth on white paper. Connor glued the tongue and teeth onto the box. Then, I cut out two circles for eyes and Connor drew the inner circles for the eyes and glued them onto the box. I added the nose, eyebrows and cheeks with permanent black and red markers. Finally, I constructed hands and feet out of yellow pipe cleaners. I just bent and shaped them into hands and feet. I added black pipe cleaner for his shoes, and white, red and blue pipe cleaners for Sponge Bob's socks! Connor wanted every last detail!! I also drew Sponge Bob's collar and belt with black permanent marker. Materials needed - tall Kleenex box, yellow paint, paintbrush, brown, white, red construction paper, scissors, craft glue, black, red permanent markers, yellow, black, red, blue pipe cleaners.

Here's Sponge Bob!!!

Connor loves him. He set him up on our shelf in the living room and told me it was our new decoration. We even had to include Sponge Bob in our prayers at bedtime!!!

Pocket Plate Frog!

Pocket Plate Frog

Day 2 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds! Our letter of the week is the letter B, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8.
Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).
Today's activities
1. The number 9 and 0-10 - number recognition, counting objects, following directions
2. The concepts biggest and smallest - Recognition and following directions
3. The letter B, b - Writing the letter B, b.
4. Shape - Rectangle - Tracing and recognizing.
I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Project - Pocket Plate Frog - I found the idea for this project on the website, http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mfrogpouch.html I cut a Styrofoam plate in half and stapled it to the back side of another Styrofoam plate. Then Connor painted the plates and we let them dry. I traced the eye, legs and tongue template (provided by the website) onto green, white and red construction paper. Connor glued the inner (white) eyes onto the green circles and used a black marker to draw the inner eyes. After, the plates were dried, he glued the legs, eyes and tongue onto the plates to make a frog. *I stapled the bottom legs to the back side of the plate instead of using glue. The end project has a pocket or pouch. Connor is really having fun placing his "paper treasures" into the pouch! Materials needed - 1 full Styrofoam plate, 1 Styrofoam plate cut in half, green paint, paintbrush, green, red, white construction paper, black marker, stapler, craft glue, scissors, leg, tongue, eye templates (from the website, or draw your own).

The finished frog!

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html

Paper Frog Puppets!

Paper Frog Puppets!

Day 1 of our Week - Our theme this week is Ponds! Our letter of the week is the letter B, and the numbers of the week are 7 and 8.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart).

Today's activities

1. The numbers 7 and 8 - counting objects, following directions

2. The concepts biggest and smallest - Recognition and following directions

3. The letter B, b - Writing the letter B, b.

4. Shape - Rectangle - Tracing and recognizing.

I always do letter/number reviews and they always write their names.

Additional Learning Activity - Writing numbers and ordering numbers.

Connor and Lauren wrote the numbers 1-10 in the boxes below the original numbers. Then they cut their written numbers out and glued them in sequence onto a piece of construction paper. I attached the original row/grid of numbers to their sequenced numbers. I found the template for this activity from the website http://thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html It is called number practice printable.

Number Practice

Project - Paper Frog Puppets!

I found the idea for this project from the website http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/frog First, I folded a green piece of construction into thirds, to form a long rectangle. Then, I folded the long rectangle into fourths, to form a w. The W is the frog! Then, Connor and Lauren glued googly eyes onto the top fourth and added the red tongue I had cut out from red construction paper. All of the directions are on the above website. This is a very simple craft to do, with very little prep work. It was a perfect project for today - we were at a birthday party all morning, so we had to do our "school" after nap time!!

Materials Needed - green construction paper, red construction paper, googly eyes, glue, scissors.

Connor and Lauren's finished Frog Puppets!

Additional websites for a pond theme unit - http://www.prekinders.com/pondlifeunit.htm http://www.thevirtualvine.com/frogs.html