Yet another week of preschool with my little guys. This week was F and we focused on Fruit, Fire/Firetruck, Family, Fall, and Fish & Frogs.
Fruit: 1) We started the week off with a big letter F and traced it with his finger then put fruit stickers on it (I made the fruit stickers using clipart from google images). 2) Using those same pictures, I made a chart with fruit down both sides of the paper and the letters that those fruit start with down the middle. He drew lines to the matching fruit & letters, and he also circled (or put squares around or “F”s on) the matching colored fruit. 3) We went grocery shopping that morning and picked out a bunch of different fruit (tried to make it very colorful). 4) I had him color sections of a paper plate the same colors as the fruit we had so that he could sort them. 5) After he sorted some of the fruit, we made fruit kabobs. 6) Lastly, we did F is for Friends. Little G wrote his friends names on bags and gave them some of the fruit kabobs, we went on a walk around the neighborhood and delivered them (to the friends that were home anyway!).
Fire: 1) We started with a twisynoodle.com page (fire). 2) I made put these coloring pages, using an outline fire truck (from google images) and put it together in Microsoft Publisher (really easy). 3) Then we worked on counting with THESE pages I printed and laminated. 4) Then we worked on tracing and sorting by size using printables from HERE. 5) THIS was a pretty neat and easy way to paint fire, the boys thought it was pretty cool using a fort to paint. 6) Later that evening we went and visited a local fire department with a group of cub scouts.
Family: I got THIS idea from my sister, a family tree using their hand/arm as the trunk. I printed off pictures of him, his mom (me!) & dad, and his grandparents on both sides. We talked about our family, and cousins, and aunts and uncles.
Fall: For ‘Fall’ we talked about fall (falling down) and the other fall (autumn). Then he looked outside at the trees and we drew a picture with sticker leaves (from Staples $1 bins) and he wrote FALL. We went on a walk looking for all different colors of leaves. Using paint chips from Home Depot, he searched for those 6 colors of leaves and then he’d tape the leaves on that color when he found it. We also made some ‘colorful crayon shaving leaves’, little G thought it was especially awesome when the iron melted the crayon shavings! I was going to also make leaf cookies, but it didn’t happen.
Fish & Frogs: 1) I tried to teach little G how to draw fish. It’s hard doing all those lines – straight, curve, zig, then zag, then up then down and all around…he could trace them really well at least. And he was good at drawing the face and the fins. 2) They dug for worms. We used this worm recipe to make some yummy worms ourselves, little G was the stirrer. When they were set and ready to be taken out of the straws, we put them in ‘dirt’ (crunched up chocolate animal crackers). They had a blast with this one. 3) Then we went fishing!! They have mini fishing poles, which are adorable, and they casted their lines over the couch (to me) and, using a clothes pin, I pinned a laminated fish (from google images) that had a little ziploc bag with a Swedish fish in it. Obviously they LOVED this one! Fishing AND candy! 4) We moved over to Frogs and using some foam craft paper that were cut like lily pads (from my sister!) and some little toy frogs, they played in the bathtub trying to keep the frogs on the lily pads. 5) Leap frog lily pad game – no picture, with foam craft paper, I cut bigger lily pads and put 1-6 on them. Little G rolled the die, counted the dots, then ran to that lily pad. Good counting game.
F WEEK!