A for Ant

Week 11: Day 1

 Letters: A, N, Y, y

Information: Phone number

Activities: Fruit loop necklace, What's missing, Happy and sad.

Letter Posters
N- Find numbers in magazines and newspaper ads.  Cut out and glue on the Nn Poster.
A- Paint "ants" on the Aa Poster - using an ink pad, ink one finger and paint three fingerprints in a row.
Add antlers, six legs, and a face to make the fingerprints look like ants
Y- Glue yellow yarn on the Yy Poster.

 A is for Ant 
Paint "ants" on the Aa Poster - using an ink pad, ink one finger 
and paint three fingerprints in a row.  Add antlers, six legs, and a face to 
make the fingerprints look like ants

Letter Rhymes-

A-Pull down, pull down, across

N - line and valley

Y - a little bit down, a little bit down, all the way down

y - a little bit down, all the way down

Phone Number
Continue to sing the song learned last 
week to help your child learn their phone 
number.  This week place individual
numbers (flashcards, magnetic numbers, 
or index cards) in the correct order 
of your phone number.

If else fails when your board make a drum.

Art- N is for necklace
  We made a necklace using Fruit Loops.  You could try Cheerios.

 Today we listened to Safety kids Telephone number songs.  

You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PBSPhWo4j0

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We watched Starfall.com's N, Y, A videos. 

N-   http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-n/load.htm?f

Y-   http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-y/load.htm?f

A-  http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/load.htm?f

Visual Perception Activitiy

What's Missing?

Place a few items on the table in front of the child.  

Have the child turn away while you take one object away.  

Have the child tell you what object is missing. 

Week 11 Lessons

Turkey Hands

I am so grateful for my children.  They bring so much meaning to my life.  We have so much fun together.  Fluttershy can instantly bring a smile to my face. From her funny fake yawns letting me know she's awake from her naps to her cute ways she talks.  Instead of saying at bedtime "don't let the bedbugs bite" she says "let the bedbugs bit." It's a fun age to watch them learn the world around them.  She's always learning something new and is always surprising me with her knowledge. 

There are so many fun Thanksgiving worksheets and activities.  We printed this worksheet off of preschool palace.  This was a color by number turkey.

With all the turkeys we've been making, I'm going to have to dedicate a wall to our flock by the end of the month. 

Gratitude

"We need to be more grateful. It's one of the marks of strong character, to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings that are ours. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in church, everywhere. It's so easy to cultivate the spirit of appreciation."

Ezra Taft Benson, "All This and the Gospel Too," New Era, Nov. 1991, 4

My hope is that through the month of November I can help my preschooler a I and become more aware of the things that we are grateful for.  There is so much to be grateful for and we often forget these simple pleasures in live.  The freedom we live with,  the safe neighborhoods our homes are in, or simple moments of playtime with our children.  The best way to get through hard times is to focus on the wonderful things we do have.

November is a great month to reflect on what we are most thankful for.  We will be doing activities all through this month.  Some things we can hang on the the fridge and some things my kids can play with.

Today we made a thankful book.   This printable book have off of  www.kinderplans.com.  I think we'll make another one this weekend we'll make on our own design.  It's a good way to start thinking of the things we are most grateful for. 

We used these Crayola Washable Paints. I love these paints.  They do wash out easily and they do come out of cloths. 

 Fluttershy's finger print turkey.  She was very cooperative.  Here's turned out nice looking.

 Rarities finger print turkey.  Her little finger was hard to make go where I wanted.  So her's is a silly turkey. 

After we were done I let them both go crazy and paint with their hands.  Messy, Messy, Messy.  Good thing the paint comes out. 

Monkey time

We love Fridays. Fluttershy has pre-gymnastics where she gets to tumble, swing on the bars,  play on the balancing bars,  and jump on the trampoline. Today was especially great because she got to show off her talents in front of grandma who got to come with us. 

Walking on a beam and doing strong arms.

 

Learning to have balance on the stepping stones.

Swinging like a monkey, doing her stretches, and kicking the balloon.

Rarity and I went to Mommy & Me Music where we sang, played with drums, waddled like a turkey, played with leaves, and had fun. 

Learning Respect

 Week 10: Day 3

Character learning- Respect

Personal Knowledge- Phone number 

Letter K Maze-  This is a great for learning 

visual perception skills.

Gross Motor Skills:

 Place pillows, couch cushions or anything soft

that your child can crawl over.  Have fun making mountains and climbing to the peaks!

 

Gilbert the Goat learns respect.  Today we learned out respect.  This Character learning video covers respect.  Following a kid through his day, they show how the kids don't want to be around him because he isn't respectful of them or their things.  He learn how to be a better friend at the end.

Tell me a story

 Week 10: Day 2

Letter Z

Activity: Zoo Picnic

Visual Perception Activity:

 Same and Different

Visual Perception Activity:

 Same and Different.  The object of this worksheet is to circle the two 

animals that are the same on each line.

The object of this worksheet is to circle all the letter Z's.  This help teach letter recognition.

 

Z for Zoo

We went on a hunt all around the house and gathered up all our stuffed zoo animals.  Then we had a picnic with them.  We talked about the different names and sound the animals make. 

Tell a story

Its fun to have them tell you a story and write it down for her to see when she's older. 

I had Jacie tell me about trick or treating last night.  Here is her story in her words.

Halloween

Got dressed in ladybug.  Got hat on.  Go play.  We just leave house and walk with daddy and stroller sometimes.  We say trick or treat in the night.  We just knock on door.  Knock Knock.  You just can say trick or treat all the time. 

Zebra Art

 

Week 10: Day 1

Letter Z

Number 7

Special Project:  Zebra Art

Reviewing words

Rarity loving block building

Z for Zoo

Zebra art:

 

First you need a large plastic container with a lid. Next, cut out paper in the shape of a horse that will fit in the lid of the container. Place a few drops of black paint into the container with a few marbles. Then place a very small amount of black paint on the lid and pre-cut paper on the paint. Place the lid on the container, flip and have the children shake. When finished, remove paper and allow to dry.

Starfall letter Z

Personal Information-  Telephone number

Safety Kids
It's kind of funny playing this for my girls because I remember learning this as a child.  Now my own kids are learning it.  I was trying to find a copy to by for my kids when I found it on Youtube.  It really is a easy song for kids to learn their phone number.  Only playing it a few times for Fluttershy and she's already starting to learn the song.   

 

 

There are two other songs I found you can use as well.  "Muffin Man" - Do you know your phone number...555-1234 -or- "Camptown Ladies" - 555-1234 Fred's phone number...That is Fred's number.  Start by writing out the phone number so that the child can see the progression.  Point to each number as you sing the song.

Our value lesson of the week is sharing.  Sharing with friends

Week 10 printable lesson