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November Week 2
Books this week were: We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger, It’s Fall by Linda Glaser and Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall Great weather and we started our week off with a leaf hunt around the yard....
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Christmas Trees Day 1
My group this year all have Christmas trees as part of their holiday traditions so that is what I have centered this week’s activities around. We started by reading the book An Early American Christmas...
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Snowflakes
The holiday season is behind us and it’s winter here. I like to develop lesson concepts around what is happening in our community and the interests of the children. Winter here usually means snow and...
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A Different Perspective
This week was about: a review of circles letter “O” discussion of textures with descriptive language Owl Moon extension activity – owl’s view perspective Winter usually means snow around here. Snow...
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Cars, Trucks, & Cars
It has been all about cars and trucks with this group lately. As part of being sure that I am preparing them for K Readiness, I have gathered a lot of materials from online and made them into games...
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What Shape is a Christmas Tree?
I started what is to be a math lesson on the shape: Triangle, with the question “What shape is a Christmas Tree?” I had a few blank faces looking back at me and no answers. I then asked the children to...
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December Activity Catch-up
We managed to get a lot of learning in around Christmas Trees this month while keeping the bouncing to a productive level Here is a quick snapshot of the last 2 projects we did. For our (math lesson)...
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The Farm – Lesson 1
“The Farm” unit began with a simple game. I wanted to see how this group would work and also to start with the directions we would be using very regularly. The game was an adaption from printable...
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Farm Games
I believe that children learn best by being involved in what naturally occurs throughout their day as part of daily life and through their imaginative play. It is also important for them to be...
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Pumpkins Wrapped Up
We have finally wrapped up our Fall lessons. The last part was learning through exploring pumpkins. We talked about shapes, textures, plant parts, size comparisons, a plants life cycle,...
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The Snowmen are Coming!
Time for a fun theme that opens itself to a great STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) unit: Snowmen. We will be working on shapes, building structure, science of snowflakes, snow, ice,...
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Halloween Week 2 –
This week my goal was to continue work on fine motor skills necessary for gluing, cutting, and writing. The Halloween part was not about scary, but the characters in our stories that the children were...
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The Farm ~ First Theme for 2013-14 School Year
I am going to start off this school year with the large theme of FARM. This theme offers lots of flexibility in direction which will be of benefit with the group I will have here during the day. We...
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Farm Unit ~ Second Week
This week’s focused lessons were on letter recognition and shapes. We continued to talk about farm animals and their sounds as part of our daily play and through the books reading at story time. The...
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A Snowmen Invasion
As planned we began our Snowman themed lessons. Our story time books for the first 2 weeks: These books were read multiple times over the 2 weeks. They all have a snowman that is affected by melting....
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Good-bye Snowmen!
As January comes to an end we are finishing up with using snowmen as the backdrop for our learning activities. Following are some of the individual lessons/activities we did. Throughout our days we...
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Olympic Lessons
I enjoyed how interested the children got in the Olympics available to them here. TV is not usually on during our day, but I wanted to expose the children to this special event that occurs once every 4...
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March is Time to Review
I always find March is when I seem to be hitting the review button. Now we are always practicing skills, but with K screenings the end of March beginning of April I want to be sure the preschoolers...
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“My Maine” Books Completed #bookingusa
We have finished our books about Maine that came about from our involvement with Booking Across the USA Trip 2 (2014). You can catch prior posts about specific pages here and here. Then for my compiled...
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Love Those Little Unifix Cubes
Unifix cubes are a material I find children of all ages love to play with. I do keep them up and away from daily play, because of infants in care, but with direct supervision even infants can have fun...
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