N is for Noodles!

Project:  N is for Noodles!  The site http://www.notimeforflashcard.com/ used noodles for her lowercase n.  We are still working on our uppercase letters, so we used the noodle theme for our uppercase N! 
Directions:  Cut an uppercase N out of construction paper.  Glue the N to a piece of cardboard or cardstock.  Dip different types of noodles into glue and attach the noodles to the N!
Materials Needed:  construction paper, cardboard, marker, glue, different types of noodles, scissors

Wagon Wheel Handprint Fall Tree!

The theme this week is the color brown.
Project: Wagon Wheel Handprint Fall Tree - I traced Ty's forearm and hand onto white cardstock. He colored his hand and forearm print brown. Then he glued multi-colored wagon wheel pasta onto the tree with craft glue. Materials Needed: cardstock, brown crayon, multi-colored wagon wheel pasta, craft glue

Pasta Scales!

Day 3 of the week - The theme this week is Reptiles.

Project - We again sang the reptile song from Day 2. (Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot" I'm a little snake, my oh my. My skin has scales; it's nice and dry. You may think I'm slimy. What? Not me! I'm a reptile, yes siree! (Substitute appropriate reptile name).

Directions: Use enlarged tagboard copies of reptiles. Cut the reptiles out. Brush glue on the reptile and press the melon shaped pasta on the glues. When the glue is dry, brush paint over the pasta to complete the reptile. (Source: The Mailbox Magazine June/July 2008)

Materials Needed - reptile copies, scissors, paintbrushes, glue, melon shaped pasta, paint

Learning Activities

Today's Activities:

Alphabet - writing H, beginning sounds
Numbers 1-10- 9, recognition, counting, following directions
Reading Readiness - Shapes - circles and triangles
Transition Math - writing numbers

Wagon Wheel Pasta Heart!

Project - Wagon Wheel Pasta Heart - Connor created this project. He saw the bag of colored wagon wheel pasta (Addie was raiding my cupboards again!) and said he wanted to make a heart for me out of the red ones! I thought that was a wonderful idea, so I traced a red heart shape onto white cardstock and Connor glued the wagon wheel pasta onto the heart. As a finishing touch, I cut around the heart and glued it onto red construction paper, that I also cut into a larger heart shape. He loves doing projects and he was proud to have created this one all on his own! Materials Needed - red wagon wheel pasta, white cardstock, red construction paper, scissors, craft glue, red marker(to draw the heart)

The Finished Project!

Connor's Heart!

Macaroni Snowflakes!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is Snowflakes. The letters of the week are L, l, T the numbers of the week are 6, 7, 8.
Project -Macaroni Snowflakes- Mix 1/4 cup white paint (I ran out of white so I had to use mostly blue), 2 TB of white school glue and 1/2 cup to 1 cup of wagon wheel macaroni. I dumped the paint, glue and noodles into an old coffee container and let Lauren shake it! Then Lauren made snowflake shapes with the painted macaroni on wax paper (Connor was feeling under the weather today). She also sprinkled the wet snowflakes with white and silver glitter! Make sure you let the macaroni dry for 24 hours. When it is dry carefully remove the snowflakes from the wax paper and string fishing line through to act as a hanger. ***Make sure the noodle are all touching each other. Otherwise, the snowflake will fall apart.***Materials Needed - 1/4 cup white paint, 2 TB white school glue, 1/2 cup to 1 cup of wagon wheel pasta, container to mix in, wax paper, fishing line, white and or silver glitter.

Shaking the Macaroni! Learning Activities:
Today's Activities:
Handwriting - Staying in the lines on curvy, zig-zag paths
Numbers- the number 6, writing, counting
Reading Readiness -Longer and shorter

Different Shapes - rectangles

Writing Letters - Uppercase L

Dinosaur Skeletons

Day 1 of our week - The theme this week is Dinosaurs! The letter of the week is H, h and the number of the week is 3.

Project - Dinosaur Skeletons - I found the idea for this craft on the website http://www.prekinders.com/dinosaurunit.htm under the dinosaur link. I printed off the dinosaur skeleton template and cut it out (Dinosaur Skeleton Printable). Then Connor and Lauren glued the paper skeleton onto a 12/18 piece of construction paper to form a dinosaur. They used dry elbow macaroni for the spine, neck, tail and toes, rigatoni for the legs, fettuccine for the ribs and a medium shell for the head. They glued the shells on top of the paper bones to form a dinosaur. They added leftover shells as decorations. Connor made a tree for his dinosaur to eat using fettuccine and green pipe cleaner.

Material Needed - 12x18 construction paper, dinosaur paper template (found on the above website under the dinosaur theme unit), various shells, elbow macaroni, medium shells, fettuccine, rigatoni, craft glue, glue sticks

The Dinosaurs
Lauren and Connor gluing pasta onto their dinosaurs

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

Today's Activities:

The letter H, h - recognition, writing

The number 3 - recognition, counting, one-to-one correspondence, writing, following directions

The concepts first, second and third - following directions, recognition, cutting, pasting

The concept on top - recognition, following directions, cutting, pasting