Rookies Rule: Preschool

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Monday, May 5, 2014

The Rainbow Fish- Read out loud

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

GOING GREEN! (Earth Day song for kids about the 3 R's- Reduce, Reuse, an...

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

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

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

What Rhymes with HEN?

LANGUAGE ARTS

Word Family -en 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.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Insects- All About Butterflies

BUTTERFLIES GALORE

Circle Time

We reviewed the life cycle; click here to see how I incorporate creative movement, to help my students remember the butterfly life cycle. After they had all turned into beautiful butterflies I took my little ones on an adventure. We searched high and low for flowers. Finally when snack was ready, I gave a holler and said I FOUND FLOWERS FULL OF NECTAR. All my butterflies flew to the tables and sipped their "nectar" through their proboscis.

Snack

I used a die cut to make the flowers and poked a hole, in the middle, with a pencil. The straws were too long and had be shorten to fit their dixie cups.

ART-butterfly bracelets

They REALLY enjoyed playing with these.

In the classroom

and outside.

SCIENCE-Life Cycle

Coloring the life cycle stages

It best to print it double sided so that the children do little less cutting and use less paper. I found this cute butterfly life cycle on CutesyCrafts.com, as a free printable. Make sure to read her posting, or you'll miss it. It's a click HERE link.

THE STAGES

Caterpillar