Pig Footprint

I read Three Little Pigs to the kids and then we made this adorable pig project!  I saw this cute footprint at Funhandprintart.blogspot.com   There are great foot and handprint crafts on her site - check it out!!  She even featured my rooster handprint from a couple of years back.  This pig was fun to make - the kids love having their feet painted! 

Tana's, Ty's and Addie's Pig Footprints!

Three Pig Houses!

Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is The Three Pigs. The letters of the week are Q, q, S the number of the week is 14.
Project - Three Pig Houses - I saw this project on http://www.prekinders.com/ under the Fairy Tales Theme. Directions - First, Connor and Lauren retold The Three Little Pigs story - emphasizing the order of the houses. Next, they each drew three houses with a pencil. Then, they glued straw (raphia), sticks (toothpicks), bricks (red construction paper cut into rectangles) onto each house, in the correct sequence. As finishing touches, they drew three pigs, a wolf and wrote "3 Little Pigs" on each of their papers. Materials Needed - white card stock, glue, pencil, raphia, toothpicks, red construction paper, scissors, markers
Connor "building" his stick house

Connor drawing the pigs

Learning Activities:
Today's Activities:
Numbers - 14, 9, 10, writing, counting, one-to-one matching
Reading Readiness - senses - hearing, emotion identification
Beginning Sounds - Consonant Review

Colors -Green
Writing Letters -Uppercase S

Egg Carton Wolf Nose!

Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is The Three Pigs. The letters of the week are Q, q, S the number of the week is 14.

Egg Carton Wolf Nose- I had another craft planned, but Connor and Lauren wanted to make wolf noses to go along with their little pig noses from yesterday. So, I created wolf noses made out of an egg carton! They had fun acting out the story with their pig and wolf noses! Directions: Cut 2 snouts out of an egg carton, paint the front part of the egg carton a dark gray (a circle shape), Let dry. Draw small circles on the side of the carton with permanent marker. Poke small holes and string pieces of fishing line through the holes (the whiskers) secure with tape on the inside - (I used a needle to poke the holes), Attach elastic with tape or staples ( I used the elastic from old birthday party hats). Materials Needed - egg carton, gray paint, paint brush, black permanent marker, fishing line, needle, elastic, tape or stapler, scissors

Learning Activities:

Today's Activities:

Numbers - 14, 9, 10, writing, counting

Reading Readiness - senses - tasting, touching, smelling
Beginning Sounds - Consonant Review
Colors -Green

Writing Letters -Lowercase q

Egg Carton Pig Snout!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is The Three Pigs. The letters of the week are Q, q, S the number of the week is 14.
Egg Carton Pig Snout- I usually have our weekly theme planned out ahead of time, or at the very least planned in my head - this week is the exception. I just couldn't decide what the theme should be. We read the book The Three Little Pigs (which the kids love), and I thought it would make a great theme for this week. Then I found out that March 1st is National Pig Day! What a coincidence. I saw the idea for the egg carton pig snout somewhere a while ago, and this ended up being our 1st project this week. Directions: Cut 2 snouts out of an egg carton, paint the egg carton pink. Let dry. Draw 2 circles with black permanent marker (the nostrils). Attach elastic with tape or staples ( I used the elastic from old birthday party hats). Materials Needed - egg carton, pink paint, paint brush, black permanent marker, elastic, tape or stapler, scissors

Learning Activities:
Today's Activities:
Numbers - 14, 7, 8, number review 5-8
Reading Readiness - between, left, right, summer, winter

Beginning Sounds - Consonant Review

Colors -Orange

Writing Letters -Uppercase Q