The Mitten

  This week, I started lesson planning using The Mitten by Jan Brett.  I love lesson planning around books.  The kids enjoy listening to the same story several times and then "reading" the story on their own later.  There are lots and lots of resources online, but I also made a packet for Teacher's Notebook that you can get here.  A few freebies are below:

Skills

Speech and Language

·        Increase vocabulary

·        Retell a familiar story

·        Story map

·        Rhyming words

·        Positional/location terms

·        Answer “who,” “what,” and “where,” and “why” questions

Math

·        Shape naming/matching

·        Big/little sorting

·        Size sequencing

·        Patterning

·        Numeral/sets matching

·        Order numerals/sets in order

·        Matching sets to numerals

Motor

·        Throw balls of yarn into a basket

·        Shaving cream play

·        Crystal painting

·        Mitten lacing

Cooking

·        Mitten Toast

·        Hot Chocolate Mix

Science

·        Touch and tell mittens

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Positional Words

Button, Button, Where Is the Button?

Choose five buttons and put them into a resealable plastic sandwich bag.  Directions:  Use these buttons to help your child learn to follow directions and to learn positional words.  Tell your child where to put the button.  At first, give one direction at a time; then give two or three at a time.  Example: “Put this button under the chair.”  Positional words: under, behind, beside, top, in front of, over, below, around, high, above, up, between, down, low.

Playground Photo Shoot

As the children play outside, take pictures that capture children experiencing different positions such as sliding down the slide, crawling through a tunnel, and jumping over a rope.  Once the pictures have been developed, share them with small groups of youngsters.  As the children enjoy the photos, help them describe what they see by encouraging descriptive words such as between, under, beside, and many more.

From: Homeschool Creations

The weather is getting cooler, a few leaves are changing color and giving the hint of crisp days to come. Fall is one of my favorite seasons because of so many different things: apple picking, the pumpkin patch, colorful leaves and cool weather. Definitely something we’re looking forward to around here!

 

The Fall Fun Learning Printables includes two separate downloads, one geared toward younger Preschoolers and another for Kindergarten. You’ll find word and letter tracer sheets, early writing strips, find the different object, and beginning sound cards along with a few other fun pieces ~ the Clip & Learn Wheel, fill in the missing number, shadow matching and more.
You can download the Fall Fun Learning Printables here.  Be sure to download both parts of the pack!

Where is the Cow? booklet

From: Pre-K Pages

Cow Positional Words Book {FREE}