Thursday, November 18, 2010

Fall Preschool

I'm only posting my theme-related preschool activities. We do have literacy and math activities everyday that are not theme-related. I may start posting more about that in January.

The weather is cooling down and this is what our early mornings have looked like lately

Natalie is clipping clothespins on a cup. She has lost a bit of interest in any structured, sit-down activities so I've made sure to get out things for her to just play with and things I can talk to her about (colors, shapes, her babies, blocks, things to scoop and transfer, etc.) And she still participates in all the singing, games, poems, etc.

Cyrena is matching more short vowel pigs while her sister is trying to mess her up

We made pumpkin patches! First we read a book about how pumpkins grow then we used our dot paints and made pumpkins all over our paper...

Then drew vines to connect all the pumpkins-so cute and fun!

I scattered leaves all over the floor and we sang a leaf collecting song while we picked them up and put them in the basket. Both girls loved it and we did it several times.

Cyrena matched up leaf addition problems with the acorn answers. These were just +1 problems (3+1, 14+1, etc.) She loves adding so this was great for her. I found it here.

The girls matched up leaves as well. This was hard because they looked pretty similar. I found it here.

Cyrena practiced counting by 10's. Found here.

The girls painted fall trees with q-tips.

Here Cyrena is determining ''which is different'' on these fall-themed cards. 3 of the pictures are the same and one is a bit different. I laminated these and put them on a ring so she could just flip through and mark the different one with a marker. She liked this a lot, I found it here.

We played Roll a Fall Tree with a die. Sorry, I don't remember where I found this.

I didn't get pictures of everything we did, but maybe this will give you some ideas!

5 comments:

Shannon said...

You do so good with them! They are lucky to have a good mommy like you!!

The Bluths said...

You amaze me.

The Higginbothams said...

Thanks for all the great ideas!

ShayLynn said...

There are sooo many ideas online sometimes I get overwhelmed with where to start. It looks like your girls had fun!

Do you have a laminating machine? If so what brand I want one sooooo bad!

Brooke said...

Jenna I love your posts like these....such fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing them with us!

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