Christmas Week 3

Tuesday's Schedule -

Book - The Penguin Who Couldn't Fly 

Math - Christmas Tree Walk

I printed ten christmas trees out and wrote numbers 1-10 on them.  I laid them on a circle and they walked around while the music played and stopped when the music stopped.  The number they landed on is the number they had to tell me.  We then also danced around and placed the Christmas trees all over the room.  When the music stopped I shouted out a number and they all had to run to that number and put a foot on it.

Phonics - Gingerbread Man Letters

I traced a gingerbread man on brown paper.  I then wrote letters on the gingerbread man in places that frosting would be (eyes, mouth, buttons, feet, and arms).  For the older kids I wrote lowercase letters and for the younger kids I wrote uppercase letters.  I then wrote uppercase letters on round white circle stickers.  The kids had to find the match and place it on the gingerbread man.  So older had to match lower to upper and younger kids had to just match the letters.

Art - Wreaths

I gave the kids a piece of green paper and had them cut it into small pieces.  After that they glued the green pieces to a circle I cut out of cardboard.  Making sure to cover every bit of the brown circle.  Then at the end we added a red bow and red puffy paint to make hollies.  I love how they turned out.

Movement - Ice Cream Trip
The kids have been getting stickers each preschool depending on their behavior.  They filled up their chart so I promised to take them to Blueberries.  So we ventured out together and got some yummy treats.

Thursday's Schedule

Book - Tooth Trouble

Math - How Many Candy Canes?
I bought a couple boxes on candy canes.  The kids had to guess how many candy canes it would take to be as tall as each other.  This was a tough concept to understand, but once they got it.  They loved guessing and then measuring to find out.  Their favorite part was measuring how many candy canes tall I was.

Phonics - Snowball Letter Toss
I have a mat with letters on it and pictures around the outside that start with each letter.  The kids took turns throwing snowballs (cotton balls) and had to name the letter they landed on.  The older kids helped us find the picture that started with that letter.

Art - Gingerbread Men
I bought a gingerbread kit that had gingerbread men, icing, and candy to decorate.

Movement - Cars in Snow
We got shaving cream out and called it snow.  They each grabbed some toy cars and drove the cars through the snow.  A huge hit!

This is my last day of preschool for a while.  I will miss it but excited to have another baby and will eventually get back to it.

Christmas Week 2

Tuesday's Schedule -

Book -
Sadie and the Snowman

Math - Number Christmas Tree
I printed a picture of a Christmas tree that had ornaments on it.  On the ornaments I wrote numbers.  The kids rolled the dice and added the dots together.  Then had to find the number on the tree and color it in with daubers.

Phonics - Snowman Name
I wrote the letter of their names on different circle snowman body.  I laid them out on the floor and they had to find all the letters in their name.  Then take them to the table and put them in the correct order.  We finished by putting the snowman's head and hat on.  I also had them try and write their name next to the letters I wrote.

Art - Melted Snowman
The kids started with white paint and colored their paper.  We added, eyes, hat, carrot, and arms.  It looked like a melted snowman.  Super cute and easy.

Movement - Snowball Toss and Fight
We used cotton balls and tried to toss them into cups.  We then ended by throwing cotton balls in the air and at each other pretending it was snow.

Thursday's Schedule -

Book -
The Snowy Day

Math - Color by Number
Printed out color by numbers and let them choose which one they wanted to do.
http://www.itsybitsyfun.com/christmas-color-by-numbers.html

Phonics - Christmas Light Letters
I printed pictures of black and white christmas lights.  I wrote lower case letters in each bulb.  Then laid uppercase magnet letters on the floor in the living room.  One kid at a time would run and grab a uppercase letter then we all found the lower case and colored it in.  We did this until all our lights were colored in.

Art - Candy Cane Ornament
Red and white beads on pipe cleaners.  Getting the pattern of red and white was hard for the little ones, but still a fun craft.

Movement - What's in the Stocking
I showed the kids 6 different objects before putting one in the stocking.  I hid them under a blanket but choose one to put in the stocking.  They took turns reaching into the stocking (without looking) and use their touch to figure out what object it was.  They really enjoyed it and were quite good at it.

Christmas

Tuesday's Schedule

I have a friend every year that puts together gingerbread house making, she builds the houses, gathers candy, and makes frosting.  So I thought that would be a fun preschool day.

And it was fun!

Thursday's Schedule

Book - The Penguin the Wanted to Fly

Math - Roll a Gingerbread Man
I used this template of a gingerbread man - http://moneysavingmom.com/2010/12/educational-freebies-christmas-preschool-printables.html and gave each part a number 1-6.  They had to roll the numbers to make their gingerbread man.

Phonics - Catch a Gingerbread Man
I printed gingerbread men, wrote letter on each one and a few with cvc words (for the older boys).  I gave each kid a spatula or kitchen utensil to catch the cooking gingerbread men.  They had to use their spatula to pick one up and then name the letter or read the word.

Art - Christmas Ornament Sun Catcher
I cut out circles to look like ornaments and placed them on contact paper.  The kids placed pieces of tissue paper to the ornament.  Then I placed another layer of contact paper on top to keep it in and hung ours in the window.

Movement - Gingerbread Man Hunt
This was a huge hit and my kids have been begging to do it again and again.  Before hand I wrote out hints and placed them in envelope of where the gingerbread man was running to.  I placed the hints throughout the house and also a gingerbread man at the last location with treats.  Finally he got tired of running and they found him with treats.  It was cute to watch them get super excited about the clue and where to find the gingerbread man.