Stamping Bug book fun and the color green!

Day 2 of our week -- Our theme this week is bugs and the color of the week is green.

Activity 1- Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letter d and the word lid. We used the worksheet Printing Practice- worksheet 3 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/

Activity 2- I made the worksheet for the 2nd activity. It was a math worksheet that asked Connor and Lauren to connect the correct number witht the matching number of frogs. This activity addressed one-to-one correspondence while counting, number recognition, and fine motor skills of drawing a straight line from the frogs to the numbers.

Activity 3- I made a beginning sounds worksheet. Connor and Lauren had to circle the correct beginning sound for the frog, snake and leaf (green items!)

Project - The project today was a bug counting book. I found the basis of this idea off of the website www.prekinders.com/themes.htm under the bug theme link. The title of the book was Bug Counting Book. Connor and Lauren used a bug stamp to decorate the front of their books. Then they used the stamp to stamp bugs on the pages of the book according to the number. The first page said,"1 bug", 2nd page said, "2 bugs," and so on. They are able to recognize the numbers 1-10, so they did a great job. (This activity emphasized number recognition and counting skills.)

Green, Bugs and more!

Day 1 of our week -- Our theme this week is bugs and the color of the week is green.
We did some bug rhymes that I got off of the website www.prekinders.com/themes.htm under the bug theme. This website has wonderful theme ideas.
Activity 1 - Connor and Lauren worked on writing the letters l, i, and p and the word lip. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - worksheet 3 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/
Activity 2 - The 2nd activity also comes from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/ (The Color Green worksheet) Connor and Lauren colored the frog green and then traced the word green 3 times. They are really good at tracing letters and they like to trace.
Activity 3 - I made a worksheet for the third activity. It is a cut and paste math activity. The worksheet has two lily pads on it with different numbers under the lily pads. At the bottom of the page are frogs. The directions are to cut and paste the correct number of frogs on the lily pads according to the number below the lily pad. Finally the worksheet asks how many frogs are there in all on the lily pads. This activity addresses, cutting, pasting (fine motor skills) counting, math skills and following directions.

The color orange - no theme week!!

Day 1,2,3 of our week - No Theme this week and the color of the week is orange. We had a family wedding this past weekend, so I didn't have anything prepared for the week since we have been gone for 5 days!! I am looking forward to getting a theme ready for next week.
Day 1
Activity 1- Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letters n and o and the word no. These letters were easy for the kids since they both have n's in their names and o's are just easy to write. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - Worksheet 2 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/
Activity 2- 2nd activity used another worksheet from http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/ Connor and Lauren completed The Color Orange worksheet. They colored the pictures and traced the word orange.
Activity 3- I made a cut and paste pumpkin counting worksheet. The numbers 1-7 were son the bottom of the page. They counted the rows of pumpkins and cut and pasted the correct number at the end of the row. This activity emphasized fine motor skills, 1 to 1 correspondence and number recognition.

Day2
Activity 1 - Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letter g and the word go. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - Worksheet 2 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/
Activity 2- I made a More or Less Pumpkin sheet to go along with our color of the week. In 2 of the sections Connor and Lauren had to circle the group of pumpkins that had more and in the other 2 sections they had to circle the group of pumpkins that had less.
Activity 3- I made a beginning sounds sheet. On the left hand side of the paper there was a picture of a bus, tractor and pig. On the right hand side were the letters p, b and t. The directions were to draw a line to match the picture with the beginning sound.

Day 3

Activity 1-Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letter e and the word gone. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - Worksheet 2 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/

Activity 2- I made a Carrot Number and Picture Match sheet. Since our color of the week was orange I used a carrot clip-art graphic. The numbers 1-10 were on the right-hand column of the page and rows of different numbers of carrots were on the right hand side of the page. Connor and Lauren drew lines to connect the numbers with the correct carrots!

Activity 3- I made a beginning sound sheet. Connor and Lauren had to circle the correct beginning sound/letter for baseball, purse and table.

Mothers Day flowers and the color yellow!

Day 1 and 2 of our week - Our theme this week is Mother's Day - Flowers and the color of the week is yellow. We have a short week this week due to a family wedding this coming weekend. We will be gone on our regular day 3 of the week, so we are working hard to get our Mother's Day projects completed!

Day 1
Activity 1- Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letters c, a and t and the words at and cat. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - worksheet 1 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 Yellow worksheet. They colored the pictures and traced the word yellow.

Activity 3- I made a Flower Fun cut and paste sheet. At the bottom of the page were five blank/white flowers. At the top of the page were 5 stems. Connor and Lauren had to color two of the flowers red and three of the flowers yellow. Then they cut and pasted the flowers on the stems. This activity emphasized number and color recognition, fine-motor skills/cutting and pasting and counting.
Day 2
Activity 1- Connor and Lauren practiced writing the letter f and the word fat. We used the worksheet Printing Practice - worksheet 1 from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/

Activity 2- Connor and Lauren completed the counting worksheet Penguin Count from the website http://www.worksheetuniverse.com/ This activity emphasized number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.

Activity 3 - Connor and Lauren completed a dot-to-dot of a sun. This went with our color of the week. I found the sun dot-to-dot on the website http://www.kidzone.ws/

Activity 4- I made a Yellow, Yellow Everywhere cut and paste activity. At the top of the page was a yellow container. At the bottom of the page were clip-art images - a bee, sun, barn, sunflower, apple and bananas. Connor and Lauren had to cut out the yellow objects and paste the into the container. This emphasized color recognition and cutting and pasting skills.

Project - Handprint Cards - Lauren and Addie made hand print cards for Mother's Day. Lauren made her card for her mom and Addie made cards for her grandmothers. I wrote "Guess How Much I Love You?" on the front of the card. Addie and Lauren pressed their hands in pink paint and pressed their hand's in the middle of their cards. Then at the bottom I wrote, "I Love YouThis Much! Happy Mothers Day" This is a cute personalized Mother's Day Card. Materials - kid friendly paint, card stock
Connor's Project - Stamped Flower Cards - Connor didn't want to get his hands full of paint so he stamped a flower card using our flower shape sponge. I folded pieces of yellow construction paper in 1/2. Connor used green paint to draw a stem on each of his cards -(He made 3 - one for his Godmother - Aunt Carrie and 1 each for his Great-Grandmother's). Then he dipped the flower shape sponge in pink paint and pressed it above the stem. After the cards dried I wrote "Happy Mother's Day" in the cards and Connor signed his name. These made simple, cute Mother's Day cards!! Materials needed - Construction paper, flower shape sponge, paint brush, kid friendly paint.


Cupcake Liner Flower!

Project- Cupcake Liner Flower - The kids made a cupcake liner flower. I cut a green stem out of green construction paper. The kids glued the stem onto a colored piece of construction paper (we used blue). Then they flattened one of the cupcake liners and glued it flat above the stem. Next, they semi-flattened the next liner and glued it top of the first liner. Finally, they glued a non-flattened cupcake liner on top of the 2nd liner. As a finishing touch they each drew faces on the third cupcake liner. Materials- 3 cupcake liners per project, green construction paper for the stem, glue stick and markers for the face.

Popsicle Stick Flower

Project- Popsicle Stick Flower- Our theme this week is the Flowers and Mother's Day. Our first flower project was colored Popsicle stick flowers. I found this idea in the March 2009 issue of Parents Magazine. Connor and Lauren picked out the colors they wanted their Pop-Art flowers to be. They then arranged the sticks in a layered circular pattern. I then helped them glue the sticks together. The green popsicle stick (the stem) goes in the middle of the floral design so the flowers look 3-D! Materials - 8 colored Popsicle sticks, 1 or 2 green Popsicle sticks for the stem, and glue (either craft glue or hot-glue).

Beaded Flower

Project - Beaded Flower- Our 2nd project was more of a quick creative activity created by Connor and Lauren. They wanted to make beaded flowers, so we took out our colored tri-beads and a green pipe cleaner. Connor and Lauren strung beads onto their pipe. When they had a good amount of beads on their pipe cleaner I bent the pipe cleaner into a flower shape!! Materials -colored tri-beads and green pipe cleaner.

More Popsicle Stick Flowers!

Farm Unit!

Our Theme is the Farm!Project Handprint Rooster - I found the idea for this project on the website http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals.htm under the animal link and then the bird link. This site even provides templates for you to print, but it is an easy project to do without a template. Materials needed: white card stock or paper, red paper, yellow paper, large Popsicle sticks, glue and googly eyes.
I traced Connor and Lauren's hands on red card stock (for the wattle and crest) and cut them out. I cut out two small triangles for the beak on yellow card stock. (The template provides the triangle and circle) I cut out the circle head on white card stock. Connor and Lauren glued one of their hand prints on the top of the circular head and the other on the bottom of the head. Then they glued the yellow triangles on the side of the head and finished it off by gluing on a googly eye. Finally, I helped them glue their rooster head to the large Popsicle stick. They had fun doing puppet shows with their rooster.

Project - Farm Animal Counting - I created a grid style sheet with the numbers 1-5 on the edge of each row. I printed off pictures of farm animals and cut them to fit the squares of the sheet. Connor and Lauren then had count the farm animals and glue them in the matching row. This activity emphasizes counting, one-to-one correspondence. I adapted this activity from the website http://www.pre-kpages.com/farm.html

You can also print the counting grid sheet off of the website under the Farm theme page.

Project - Farm Animal Poem - I created a sheet with farm clip art a border and the poem I am a ______(type of farm animal) I can ______ (movement) I can________(sound) I feel________(texture) I smell______(scent) I am_______(emotion) I am a ______(animal again). Then Connor and Lauren drew a picture of their animal on the top half of the sheet. I got this idea from the website http://www.prekinders.com/farmunit.htm under the link for the themes/farm.







Project Old MacDonald Farm Animal Book! - I created a Cover for the book by finding a clip-art picture of a barn. I printed it as a full sheet and glued to a piece of construction paper. Then I made the pages to the book by adding farm clip-art a border and typing the song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" leaving out the animal name and the animal sounds. I let Connor and Lauren choose their animals each day (We did 1 page each day for a total of 3 pages in the book). Then at the bottom of each page underneath the song, they drew a picture of their animal. At the end of the week. I added a back piece of construction paper and I stapled all of the pages together to make a book! Connor and Lauren loved reading and looking at their books! I got this idea from the website http://www.prekinders.com/farmunit.htm under the farm theme


Project Farm Counting Book- I created pages for this farm animal counting book and then glued them onto construction paper and stapled the book together. The title of the book was On the Farm. The first page said, I see _____ cow on the farm. The second page said, I see _____ turkeys on the farm. The third page said, I see _____ pigs on the farm. The fourth page said, I see _____ sheep on the farm. The fifth page said, I see _____ ducks on the farm. I printed out clip-art farm animals and the kids had to count each animal and write the number of each animal on the appropriate line and paste the animals on the page. This activity emphasized counting, one-to-one correspondence and number writing. I adapted this activity from the website http://www.pre-kpages.com/farm.html

Project Paper Plate Pig Face- Connor and Lauren loved this project. Materials needed: 2 paper plates (1 large- for the body, 1 small-for the head (or cut one of the plates smaller), light pink construction paper or card stock -for the nose and ears, pink paint Black permanent marker, pink pipe cleaner.

Connor and Lauren painted both the regular and small paper plates pink. When the paint was dry they glued the small plate in the middle of the larger plate. I cut out a small pink circle out of paper along with triangle ears. They then glued the small pink paper circle for the nose to the middle of the small plate. They added eyes, nostrils and a mouth with a black marker. Finally, they glued on pink paper triangles for the ears. I curled the pink pipe cleaner for the tail and punched a hole in the top of the larger paper plate to thread the tail through. I let the kids choose where they wanted the tail to go!! I got the idea for this project from the website http://www.pre-kpages.com/farm.html under the farm theme link.

Farm Animal Patterns! - I printed out farm animal clip-art and started patterns on a piece of construction paper. Then I had Connor and Lauren finish the patterns gluing the correct farm animals on the piece of paper. We just started doing patterns, so it is an ongoing learning activity.

Project Bean Farm Scene- Connor and Lauren drew a farm scene on a piece of cardstock. Then I traced over their drawings with White Elmers glue and they placed beans on the glue. The beans outlined their drawings. They loved drawing their pictures and watching them "pop" with the beans. Materials needed- cardstock or heavy construction paper, markers, Elmers glue or craft glue, beans or seeds.




Project Paper Plate Duck- Connor and Lauren made a paper plate duck which incorporated their handprints! I got this idea from the website http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals.htm This site has templates you can use. I used a paper plate that Connor and Lauren painted yellow. I drew my own beak and feet and traced Connor and Lauren's hands. Materials needed - paper plate, yellow construction paper, orange construction paper, yellow paint, googly eyes, glue and a stapler (the above website has templates for the beak, feet and head).
Directions:
Connor and Lauren painted a paper plate yellow.
Then, I folded the paper plate in half so the color showed on both sides.
I drew feet and a beak on orange construction paper and a round head on yellow construction paper and I traced their hands yellow construction paper and cut every piece out. The website has templates you can use. I folded the middle part of the feet up into the folded plate and stapled. Connor and Lauren glued the folded beak piece onto the head piece. Then they glued large googly eyes onto the head above the beak. Then Connor and Lauren glued the head on the side top corner of the body(the plate). Finally, I took their traced handprints and stapled them to the other top corner (for the feathers)!