Learning Activity Boxes ~Third week in Feb. 2012

Hello Everyone.  Last week I didn't change out my learning box activities so there is no post for last week.  Here is what I have going on this week.

Valentine's Day Alphabet Game

I got these from Jean in her 1-2-3 Curriculum members section.  She has a lot of

activities there and will make making my boxes much easier.

Heart Color Matching

I found this activity sheet and decided it would be great to use those

power magnets with it.  The children like using the magnets... so I knew it would

motivate them. I got this from here.

Monster Love

I found this here and my children love, love, love doing this!!!  They pick a

card and color the heart with that letter on it.

Magnet Counting

Another printable by 1-2-3 Curriculum.  We use the power magnets and place the magnets

in the row by color and number.

Heart Rhyming

Pair the hearts with their rhyming partner.  I got this from here.

Magnet Sheet

I got this from here.

Counting and Lacing

Using the number on the heart the children lace that many hearts on to the pipe

cleaner.  I found this here.

And here we are in action...

Best,

Rose



Second week in Feb. 2012

Our second week in February doesn't look like we did as much as normal... but it didn't feel like it while we were doing it.

Here is what we did...
We learned about the letter Pp and did our Letter Pp Book.  I have both the older children books and the tot ones too.

Letter Pp Book

 This is the cover.  We colored the letter Pp's and colored the pig.

 On the left we put together three-piece letter puzzles and colored the pigs with  letter Pp's.  On

the right we found the one that was different and did a pre-writing activity both from

"Get Set for the Code".

 On the left we circled letters like the one in the box at the beginning of each row and we

colored the Pp's in the pear from "Get Set for the Code".  On the right we did a letter hunt from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 On the left we listened to clues to find the picture and then colored them according to the

directions and we drew a line from the p in the middle of the pig to each object that

begins with the /p/ sound.  On the right we colored each picture that begins with the /p/

sound and traced letter Pp's.  Most of these came from "Get Set for the Code".

 On the left we drew a circle around the letter the picture next to began with and we traced

letter Pp's.  On the right we colored all the pictures that began with the /p/ sound and

wrote a p under each picture we colored and we traced/printed Pp's.  Most of these came from

"Get Set for the Code".

 On the left we said the name of the picture in each triangle and circled the letter it began with

at one of the corners of the triangle from "Get Set for the Code" and we traced/printed letter Pp's.  On the right we said each picture name and printed the lowercase letter it begins with.

Tot Letter Pp Book

 On the left we colored the letter Pp's and found and colored the pictures according to

directions from 1+1+1=1.  On the right we used dot markers to fill in the circles. You can find

this printable here.

 On the left we used dot markers to make the letter Pp from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

On the right we found the letter Pp's in the pencil from 1+1+1=1.

 On the left we did a pre-writing practice page from 1+1+1=1.  On the right we

traced letter Pp's from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 On the left we matched grayscale pictures to colored pictures and on the right

we matched shapes.  Both from 1+1+1=1.

For dental health this week we talked about brushing our teeth.  We made these big smiles by glueing the teeth into the smile.  I found this idea here.  You can download my printable here.

We sorted food that are good for our teeth and not so good for our teeth.  You can

find this printable here and here.



We also did some Valentine's Day activities.

We colored the big hearts purple and the small hearts red and then

created a pattern out of them.

We found hearts and colored them pink.

We colored the border of a heart and then glued squares of red paper to the center

creating a mosiac.  I forgot to take a picture of the the finished project but here we

are busy at work.

We slowly made an emergent reader focusing on color words.  Here are a few

pages.

We matched hearts.

We did a counting and number recognition activity.  And I did it again... no idea where

I got this one.

Graphing from Homeschool Creations pre-k pack.







Patterning from Homeschool Creations.

And my tot did a few other things too.

Well... that about sums up the week.  Hope you enjoyed.

Best,

Rose

First week in Feb. 2012

Our first week in February went pretty well considering I had basically three new children to the program and my FCCERS observation all packaged in the same week.  Ahhhhh... happy to have 3 new children and my observation behind me (at least until the R&R comes out in about a month to verify).

Here is what we did this past week...
This week we learned about letter Oo.  Due to having new children in my program who are much younger... I had to create a "tot" letter book.  You will find both books I used below.

Older Children's Book

 This is our cover.  We colored the letter Oo's and the ox.

 On the left we put together three-piece puzzles of the letter Oo and we colored

all of the octopus with a letter Oo inside.  On the right we colored the one that

was different and did a pre-writing activity.

 On the left we did a vowel spin and graph (one of my children's favorites) and we traced

Oo's.  On the right we did a letter hunt page for the letter Oo from Confessions of a

Homeschooler.

 On the left we listened to clues and then colored the pictures following directions and we

did a pre-writing activity.  On the right we colored the picture in each row that started with the

/o/ sound like in ox and we traced letter Oo's.

 On the left we said the picture name, circled the letter it begins with, and colored the picture.  We

also traced/printed letter Oo's.  On the right we said the picture name, circled the letter it began with, and printed the letter on the line.  We traced/printed more letter Oo's.

 On the left we colored the picture that began with Oo and traced/printed letter Oo's.  On the

right we said the picture in the triangle, circled the letter it begins with, and colored the pictures.

Tot Book

 We used dot-r-markers to fill in the Oo's from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 Since this was there first day doing learning time I wasn't sure what they could/couldn't

do so here we just colored.  Obviously not ready to trace letters or words yet.  This is also

from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We talked about the letter Oo here and tried to find and color the pictures according

to directions.  I think with more practice we will soon accomplish this.  I got this from 1+1+1=1.

 On this page we talked about the ostrich and found the letter Oo's on him.  Then we

colored him.  This is from 1+1+1=1.

 We matched the bottom half of the octupus to the head by color.  You

can find this at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We did a size sort from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We matched pictures on this page.  The original picture that was pasted down

for the children was a grayscale picture... they matched the color picture.  This came

from 1+1+1=1.

And we did a pre-writing activity from 1+1+1=1.

We spent some time on learning about the Chinese New Year... a little late... but better than never.

Chinese New Year Dragon Puppets

I found this pattern here.  We waterpainted the template, cut out the pieces once

they dried, attempted to accordian fold a strip of paper, glued the pieces onto the

accordian fold, and taped sticks.  The children really liked these, but I need to rethink

the accordian paper strip... they tear easy.



Dragon Mask

We made these fun dragon masks from here.  We colored them, cut them out, and taped

large popsicle sticks on the back. 

Chinese Lanterns

A great cutting activity because they must cut on the lines and stop at the end

of the line to make these lanterns.



We couldn't miss out on learning about Groundhog's Day.  Below are the activities we did.

Groundhog Paper Plates

We used the idea from "I Heart Crafty Things".

We painted paper plates brown.

 And then we put together the finished product... paper ears, wiggly eyes, paper nose and drawn mouth (we cut mouth out with a razor... I did, not the children), Q-tip whiskers, and paper teeth.

Pop-up Groundhogs

We used a whole paper plate with a half paper plate stapled to the front of the whole paper plate but leaving a space at the bottom for the straw.  We dot markered the grass and the sky. 

While those were drying we colored the groundhog and taped him on a straw.  We glued either clouds... so he wouldn't see his shadow or the sun... so he would see his shadow.  We then inserted

the straw with the Groundhog.

Matching Shadows

Drawing Groundhogs

I like to get some dictated free art in each week... so this week one of our

projects was to draw a Groundhog doing something.  Here is what my group came

up with.

We worked a little on numbers this week... here is a number 6 page.

We also were introduced to our community helper puppet... Dr. Danny the Dentist.  We did a few dental health activities as well.

Tooth Puppets 

We used a template of a tooth with a toothbrush which we colored.  Then we glued it onto

a paper plate with a half plate on the back to put our hand into.

I got a few pictures of us using the rice and water tubs play.

 Hope you enjoyed our week!  Sorry it was late and I am hoping to catch up this week... so stay tuned.
Best,
Rose