Monday, April 21, 2014

Earth Day Awareness Activites

Happy Earth Day
Fun Centers to promote Earth Day!
CRAFT
Recycle and Reuse old cheerios
 Had to get creative because one of my kids had a broken arm.
 The were all so cute. Some did hearts, circles, triangles and a few did lines.
 
 Science/Computer
Sammy's Science House
 Sorting and Recycling Trash in different settings.


Thursday, April 17, 2014

Easter Preschool Party

Fun Preschool Easter Party Ideas
 
 CRAFT
 Cotton bunnies
Preschool Easter bunny craft

Look how cute their bunnies and paper mache eggs came out!

 CRAFT 
 Making bunny ears
Language Arts
Beginning letter sounds



MATH
Jelly bean, sorting, counting, and graphing
 
Measuring with Robin Eggs
Preschool Easter measuring worksheet
 
 
PARTY GAMES
played Easter edition of  hot potato. We passed around a puppy and played Easter music.
The person last holding the stuffed animal won a princess or super hero GIANT pen.
The "WINNER" won a pen and the stuffed animal.
PAPER MACHE EGGS
They each took their eggs home filled with goodies in addition to their baskets filled with eggs from our Easter eggs hunt.


EASTER PARTY SNACKS



Thursday, April 10, 2014

Farm Animals

MORNING CIRCLE
Introduction to farm animals
 FARM BINGO
 What food products come from animals?
 PLAYING FARM OUTSIDE
Below are links to some other farm activities:
PIG


What Rhymes with HEN?


LANGUAGE ARTS
Word Family -en Activity
 
-en Word family, hen activity
here are some words my students came up with: ken, ben, pen, men, den, ten, "wen", zen, jen...

I found this picture on www.lucylearns.com then copied and pasted it on Word to make it a little bigger. I used the "text box" to add "__en" on the eggs. That's it; easy peasy!
  
Final product^^^

You could use this Hen instead. It is much nicer, maybe next time.
  
HELLO CHICKS!!!!
One of the parents had chicks, so she brought them to share with the class.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

How to Milk a Cow

Science
How to milk a cow by hand
Farm unit- how to milk cows lesson plan.
 
I found this precious idea on Little Kinder Warriors. I decided on this activity kind of last minute, so I didn't have time to make a cute cow like Katie.
VIDEO
We first watched this youtube video, that explains how to properly milk a cow.
 
Massaging the udder to make the milk come down
And MILK IT!
 
PUZZLES
here's the link: Melissa-Doug-Farm-Cube-Puzzle;You can buy it on Amazon.
it's a little challenging, but my kids enjoy it, with a little help.
 
 



Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Horses + Hands = Farm Math Activity

MATH
"Measuring like a Farmer"
I found this super creative idea on Mrs Harrells prek blog.
 Measuring like a farmer preschool math activity- farmer unit
I'm no drawer so I found an outline of a horse on horse-patterns and had my helper trace it. Later I had my students color it.
 Measuring a horse like a farmer preschool math activity- FARM UNIT

They each wrote their own name and height.
 How many hands  tallare you?
Measuring a horse like a farmer preschool math activity- FARM UNIT

 

Friday, April 4, 2014

Teacher of the Day: Tea Party theme

Teacher ID
She received her official "Teacher" ID badge and lanyard, first thing in the morning.
Morning circle
She and I made a playlist on Youtube of her favorite shapes, numbers, letters, and calendar songs. Below are a couple of her favorites.
 
 She led calendar and morning circle and dismissed everyone to wash their hands and line up for snack.  
Game-Played hide n' Seek
 
CRAFTS-Painting teacups and saucers
Click pictures to enlarge
 
We used this paint for paint the teacups and Saucers.
Decorating tea hats
Samples of their hats


Getting ready for the tea luncheon.
TEA LUNCHEON
Doesn't this look delicious?


 
It was too hard to eat with them, so most of them took them off.
 DESSERT-cake pops
 Hyped up on sugar!!
 SAY "TEAAA"
 
 SPECIAL READERS
 Her mom and nana  read her two favorite books.

 GOODIE BAGS
 She made goodie bags to thank her "students" for being great listeners and for allowing her to be the Teacher of the Day.