Friday, November 30, 2012

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

I just completed this unit.  It is available on the Teachers Pay Teachers site hereThe activities included are:

 Circle Time
-Microphones to use while singing Christmas carols

Literacy
-2 story sequencing activities
-comprehension questions
-writing prompt
-writing your own circular story
-stringing popcorn (alphabetical order)
-blank popcorn pieces (sight words or CVC words)

Math
-stringing popcorn (numerical order)
-blank popcorn pieces for you to customize own counting
activities (count by 2s, 5s, 10s; addition or subtraction
sentences)
-Making sets (1-10 ornaments on trees; 11-20 popcorn in
buckets)
-Addition mat with ten frame
-Patterns
-Size sequencing
-Memory game (matching pieces of popcorn to numeral)

Fine Motor
-Create own ornaments (could be given as gifts to parents)
-Popcorn stringing
-Fort building

Science
-Popping popcorn - using five senses

Cooking
-Different popcorn toppings (predicting, voting, analyzing graph)
-Edible snowman



Sunday, November 4, 2012

Lots of Dino Ideas!

The following activities were found here.


Here are some of the activities you may want to consider in your preschool dinosaur unit (links will follow as detailed activities are added):
Dinosaur Mural (Creative, Social)
Five Silly Dinosaurs  (Music, Math, Language)
Crayon Melting, Dino Style (Creative, Science)
Dinosaur Erosion Table (Sensory, Science)
Fossil Imprints (Science)
Frozen in Time (Sensory, Science)
Preschool Paleontologists  (Science)
Rhyme-A-Saurus(Language, Pre-Reading)
Dinosaur, Dinosaur, What Time is it? (Social, Large Motor)
A Visit to the Museum (Science, Social, Language & Literacy)
Dino Scales (Fine Motor, Creative, Science)
The Classic Volcano (Science)
Hot Lava Hop (Large Motor)
We are the Dinosaurs (Music and Movement, Language)
How Big is a Dino?  (Math)
Dinos Invade the Block Area (Math, Science, Language)
Best Dino Books  (Language)