Letter D Dinosaur Activity and Craft

Fossils!





Poured plaster into a small bread pan and had the kids press 4 small plastic dinosaurs into them. Let them set for 1 minute and pulled out. After 24 hours the plaster was set completely. I turned out and covered them with a watered down gold and black paint mixture then wiped clean with a paper towel. Their fossils turned out great!

Paleontologists:




Our next day of class I wanted to do a fossil dig in the sand box but it was raining, grr! So I improvised and filled a container with sugar and we took turns uncovering our fossils. We talked about how a paleontologist has to be very careful and use a soft brush and air to remove dirt. After they dug up their fossils they had little stations to dust them off and clean them up. Once everyone was done cleaning their fossils we inspected them with magnifying glasses.

Volcano:



To end our lesson we talked about how a theory about dinosaur extinction is that volcano's erupted and incased the dinosaur bones in lava rock, and that's why we can learn about them through fossils. I filled a cake pan with sand and plants with a funnel volcano in the middle. The kids placed dinosaurs around it. This was a HUGE success!

"D" Snack

Dinosaur Melons (these don't look amazing, but the kids thought they were great stegasaurouses)

- A slice of honeydew melon
- a raisen for the eye
- 4 pretzels for the legs
- 2 gingersnaps broke in half for 4 dinosaur plates (we are learning the number 4 too)

"C" Snack

Colored Porridge
Made simple porridge after reading the Three Bears. We are also learning about colors, so after I dished up their porridge I added a few drops of food coloring of their favorite color and they got to stir it in.

"B" Snack

Banana Bugs

-half a banana
-2 mini chocolate chips for eyes
-Pretzel sticks for antenna and legs

Letter C Lesson on Colors and Number 3

- Had the kids put crayons into a muffin tin after our color wheel lesson. We melted in the oven for 5 minutes at 250 degrees. Let cool for 5 minutes and they popped out. They had their very on crayon disc! (warning: a pain to clean out)

Letter C Lesson on Colors and Number 3

- Told the story of the 3 bears (emphasize 3 throughout the story and have kids count)

- Had a picture of the 3 bears with boxes below them. On a seperate page I had pictures of the three items discussed in the story: porridge, chair, bed, for each bear. The kids cut out the items and glued them in the appropriate spot for each bear.

- Sang "When goldilocks went to the house of the bears"

- Make "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see books"

- Made a book with blank pages for the kids with just the names of the colors writen on each page. On Tuesday they clipped out pictures from magazines. On Thursday they glued their pictures onto the correct color page.

- painted a color wheel, we talked about 3 primary colors and 3 secondary colors (mixed primary colors) Next year I think it would be fun to do this edible with died vanilla pudding!

- A basic writing page with a picture of a crayon bent in the shape of a letter C, practiced writing Cc

- Sorted legos into colors and each kid built a tower with the legos they sorted.

Letter B Lesson on Bugs and Number 2

- Did a butterfly print. The kids painted half the butterfly then folded the paper in half. We talked about how Butterfly starts with B and that it has 2 matching wings.

- Egg carton caterpillars. Painted cardboard caterpillars. Once dry I hot glued on wiggly eyes, and pipe cleaners for antenna and legs.

Letter B Lesson on Bugs and Number 2

- Sorted bugs into sets of 2 then practiced writing the number 2

- Sang the song "Bringing home a baby bumblebee" then made our own bee's.
A long yellow rectangle makes the body. The kids glues black stripes along it. I hotglued wiggly eyes and curly pipecleaners for antena on top. Then the kids drew the "2 bumps" along with rectangle for wings which completes it into a B (bee)

- Simple worksheet with pictures of items that start with B and practice writing Bb below.

"A" Snack

- I thought about doing animal crackers but I had a child allergic to one of the ingredients.

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Letter A Lesson on Farm Animals

- Worksheet that said "sheep say B...." with spaces for them to write in the letter A. The body of the sheep was a big circle that they glued cotton balls inside of. We also worked on drawing lines by adding green grass along the bottom for the sheep.

- Letter A writing worksheet. Had pictures of different things all over the page and circled the things that start with the "a" sound then practiced writing Aa.

- To practice cutting I had a variety of farm animals that they cut out and glued inside a large letter A

- Played Farm Bingo, I would say, "what says Baaa." or "Where do we get Eggs?" for them to place their markers on the squares.

- Did a farm animal match up, pictures of farm animals on one side, and items we get from them on the other to match up. Example: Cow - Milk

- Sang Old McDonald

Circle Time Excercises

1. Welcome Song (sung to high ho the derry-o)
Hello to everyone
And how are you today
We come to our circle time
To learn and sing and play
2. Attendance song (sung to london bridges falling down)
(name) is hear today, here today here today
(name) is here today, we’re so glad to see you
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Gumball Count

5. ABC’s (end with Leapfrog song "A says aah"
6. Weather Chart and song (sung to the more we get together)
The weather is Sunny, is sunny, is sunny, the weather is sunny for
Preschool today!

7. Days of the Week Song
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wendesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7 days a week!
8. Months of the Year Song (do the actions to Macarana) End with "12 months in a year!" with a jump and a big clap!
9. Calendar, count days and say date

10. Show and Tell (focus on the letter or theme of the week)

Homework Clippies

Simple Clippies for the kids to take home and put on their fridge to proudly display their schoolwork!
-Thin craft board cut to 3"X5" and 2 strips of magnet on the back
-Kids painted their boards and added glitter
-Once dry I hot glued their "sign" and clothes pin on.
-Finished of with gluing on an apple pre-painted wooden cut-out from Michaels.

Fruit Faces

Fruit Faces:
Face:Orange Slice
Hair:String Cheese
Eyes:Raisens
Nose:Yogurt Raisen
Smile:Dried Apricot (maybe should have done strawberries)
Ears:Grapes
Kids had fun making their own faces and eating them all gone!