Dr. Seuss Week!!

Dr. Seuss Week!
The Letter X
X is for x-ray

X is for xylophone

Dr. Seuss Projects and Learning Activities

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Cupcake Liner Fish

One Fish, Two Fish Counting/Number Game

Skill:  Counting, number recognition, number order

Here is the link for the fish templates for this counting/number game

Counting the dots on each fish and matching the fish up to the correct numbered fish bowl!

Fish Coloring Page

Here is the link for the Fish Coloring Page

Fox in Socks

Paper Plate Fox

Fox in Socks Handprint

Socks Coloring Page

Here is the link for the Socks coloring page

Green Eggs and Ham

Cut and Color Green Eggs

Green Eggs Number Order

Skills:  counting, number recognition, number order, cutting, pasting

Where are my Eggs Tracing

Skills:  pre-writing, tracing

Here is the link for Where are my Eggs!

Green Eggs and Ham Rhyming

Skills:  rhyming

Here is the link for Green Eggs and Ham rhyming

The Cat in the Hat

Cat in the Hat Paper Plate Masks

Here is the link for the printable hat template

Cat in the Hat Patterns

Skills:  patterns, gluing

Here is the link for the Cat in the Hat Face I used.

Big Cat Little Cat Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching

Skills:  letter recognition, letter matching

Here is the link for Big Cat Little Cat Letter Matching

Pin the Bow Tie on the Cat

Here is the link for Pin the Bow Tie on the Cat

The Lorax

Paper Plate Lorax

Father's Day Projects

Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day Projects

Best Dad Hands Down

Create a document and print

2013 in top right corner and best dad in top left corner

Hands down centered on the bottom

Paint both hands and press onto the paper - hands down!

Dad Rocks!
Brainstorm words that describe DAD!
Type and print the words out
Cut each word into an oval shape
find appropriate sized rocks
Mod Podge the words onto rocks
Place them in a basket and give to DAD!

Fishing You a Happy Father's Day!
Cut out a fish shape
Tear colored construction paper into pieces and glue onto the fish. 
Glue the fish to a folded piece of blue construction paper.
Write, Dad - Fishing you a Happy Father's Day
Draw a line and hook.

 

Father's Day 2013 Questionnaire

I created my own questionnaire based off of one I saw

Addie's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer - My favorite thing about my Dad is . . . he drinks beer.

Oh the things children say!

 

Tana's answers about her dad!

My favorite answer(s)  - Daddy always tells me . . . to go in a time out.

and It makes my Dad happy when . . . me not naughty.

Dr. Seuss!!

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish!

Addie and Tana with their FISH!

Trace hand onto yellow, red, green and blue construction paper.

Cut out the hand prints.

Glue Yellow "fish" to the top of the paper.

Then green "fish" with the red "fish" overlapping the green "fish"

The blue "fish" will be at the bottom.

Write One Fish on the top , Two fish next to the green fish, Red fish next to the red fish and blue fish next to the blue fish. 

Draw eyes, mouth and gills on each fish. 

Draw bubbles with white chalk next to each fish!

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Addie and Connor did this project since I didn't watch any other children today - due to the nasty stomach flu.  It was really easy - except that I forgot to only paint 4 of the fingers red.  Oh well!

Here is the link to this adorable, cute, wonderful Thing 1 and Thing 2 project!

Addie's Thing 1

Connor's Thing 2

Lantern Fish!

We are doing an under-the-sea unit this week.  Today, we made lantern fish.  This project comes from the The Mailbox Magazine June/July 2007 Kindergarten-1st grade. 
Project:  Lantern Fish - Cut a fish shape out of blue construction paper.  Dip a cotton ball into white paint and press onto the fish multiple times.  Dip the end of a cotton swab into yellow paint and swirl it in the middle of the white paint spots to make lanterns.

Materials Needed:  blue construction paper, white and yellow paint, cotton swabs, cotton balls, scissors

Shining Fish!

Project:  Shining Fish!  Cut a fish shape out of construction paper (2 identical fish).   Cut a hole in the middle of the body of the fish and a triangular hole in the tail.  Place one fish onto the sticky side of Con-Tact Paper.  Stick small pieces of colored tissue paper into the holes of the fish.  Cover with the other half of the fish.  Cover with Con-Tact paper and smooth out. 

Materials Needed:  Con-Tact Paper, colored tissue paper, scissors, construction paper

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

Coffee Filter Fish, and the color black!!

Day 1 of our week - Our theme this week is the ocean and the color of the week is black.
Activity 1- Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letters j and w. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - worksheet 6 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/

Activity 2- The 2nd activity used another worksheet from http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/ Connor and Lauren completed The Color Black worksheet. They colored the pictures and traced the word black. They also wrote the word black all by themselves today!

Activity 3- Connor and Lauren did a cut and paste activity. They colored a banana, pear, lemon, apple, and grapes and then cut the fruit out and glued it in the correct basket. (The baskets were labeled with color words - yellow, green and purple).

Project- Our theme this week is the Ocean. I am using the websites, www.prekinders.com/themes.htm
and www.pre-kpages.com/ocean.html These two websites have wonderful, rhymes, projects, and math and literacy enrichment activities. I found the idea for our project off of www.pre-kpages.com/ocean.html The project title is Coffee Filter Painted fish. I had Connor and Lauren paint a coffee filter with watercolor paint. After the coffee filter was dry I made a small fish template traced it onto the coffee filter and cut out fish templates ( I ended up with 4 fish/filter - you could make just one big fish too). I also cut triangles out of tin foil. Connor and Lauren glued their fish to a piece of blue construction paper and paste the triangle tin foil pieces onto their fish. Then they glued 1 googly eye onto each fish. The end product looked like fish swimming in the ocean.