Preschool and Tot School More Winter Activities

Preschool and Tot School

43 months and 11 months

Snowman Puzzle

Little Sweets is putting a snowman puzzle together.  You can get this free here.

Lacing Cards

 Snowflake Tic Tac  Toe

Little Sweets and I took turns flipping over snowflake cards.  Little Sweets counted the number of snowflakes on the card and covered the up the correct number on her board.  I also covered up the correct number.  The first person to have three numbers covered diagonally, across, or down won the game.  You can get this game here. 

In and Out

Little Peanut put pegs inside her box and took them out.  She loves this game.

It the Tube

Little Peanut loves putting the pegs in the toilet paper tube. 

Making a Sensory Bottle for Little Peanut

Little Sweets helped me make a sensory bottle for her sister.  She put beads and glitter in a bottle filled with colored water.  

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Tot/Preschool Christmas Activities

December Tot/Preschool

Little Sweets and Little Peanut 

42 months and 10 months 

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Size Sequencing

Little Sweets put the pictures of baby Jesus in order from largest to smallest.  You can get the printable for this activity and the next activity here for free.

Picture Puzzle

Little Sweets put this nativity scene picture together.  The numbers helped.

Sight Word Lotto

Little Sweets read the sight word card and if it was on her lotto card she covered it up with a cheerio.  I made blank lotto cards and laminated them.  I write the sight words we are working on with dry erase marker.  

Christmas Light Patterns

Little Sweets extended pattern.

Calendar Time

I made a new calendar.  Little Sweets asks me everyday what we are doing so I made icons and she helped me put them up on her calendar.  Now she can look at her calendar to find out the day at what we are doing.  This was a great way to make calendar time meaningful to her.  

Sight Word Christmas Trees

Little Sweets read the sight word and matched the letters to make Christmas trees.  You can get the printable here.

Lacing Christmas Stockings

I found some stockings for lacing in my old teaching materials.  Little Sweets really enjoyed this activity.  

I made some Christmas tree printables for Little Sweets.  You can get them for free here.  Here are some of the activities we did with them.

Counting and Number Matching

Matching Colors Using Skittles

Most and Least

Little Sweets compared trees and told me which tree had the most ornaments and which had the least.

Numerical Order

Little Sweets put the trees in order from 1-10

I also made these for Little Sweets but used clipart from Microsoft so I decided not to publish them.

Little Sweets matches the picture on the tree with the correct word that is on the trunk.

 

Learning Throughout The Day Through Play

Little Sweet is always learning.  Her learning is not limited to our sit down learning time.  I try to use all of our time together as learning time.  Here is an example of  how I integrate learning into play to make it a more meaningful experience for Little Sweets.  She loves dramatic play and we were playing with her dolls.  I wrote this letter and pretended Belle could not read it.  Little Sweet read the note to Belle.  I helped her with the words Dear Belle, ball, and Beast.  She read all of the other words because they are her sight words and she has them memorized.  Then she helped Belle write Yes back to the Beast.  We stretched out the word and she wrote the sounds.  Belle was so excited to go the ball so I introduced the exclamation point and Gracie made one in her letter.  

We tried to make an icee in our machine but, it didn't work.  The water did get cold and some turned to ice, but I didn't have the patience to crank the handle for an hour.  

Little Peanut opening a box.  She usually plays with the bell inside.

Little Sweets teaching Little Peanut how to sign "more"

 Little Peanut pulling up to stand.

Preschool Week 11 (October)

Preschool Week 11

Little Sweets- 40 months old

Little Peanut- 9 months old

Sorting and Graphing Skittles

This was one of the activities she did at her preschool science class.

Playing with Stacking Cups

Painting on the Easel
This was also an activity she did at the preschool class and I am so glad it was in the classroom and not in my house.  The teacher put koolaid in the paint so it smelled nice for the kids.  It was part of their senses unit. 

Science Experiment
Little Sweets stirred epsom salt into water and poured it onto paper.  In two weeks when she goes back to her class the water will be evaporated and only the salt which will look like crystals will be on the paper. 

Color by Sight Word
I got this activity here.

Cutting and Pasting
Little Sweets cut strips of orange paper and glued it in a pumpkin stencil.

Numbers and Pattern Blocks

Little Sweets told me the number in each shape and covered it with the correct pattern block.

Fishing For Sight Words and Numbers
I wrote sight words on metal lids and Little Sweets fished for them and read the words to me.

Writing Letters in her Kumon Workbook

Reading and Pasting a Sentence
I got this activity here.

Pumpkin Carving

Shared Reading
This stared as a guided reading lesson, but I decided to change it to a shared reading lesson.  Instead of having Little Sweets read the book to me I had her echo me as I read.

Journal Activity
I would love it if Little Sweets would draw in her journal, but she really isn't into drawing so I am trying to come up with other activities.  The story was about animals so she picked an animal she liked glued the picture, wrote, I and labeled the zebra (ZBRU) for Zebra.  We stretched out the word zebra together. 

Counting Pumpkin Seeds

Pouring and Scooping
Little Sweets did this activity for a long time and over several days. 

Outside Play
It was beautiful outside so we played outside.  It looks like summer in this picture.  I think it's because this tree's leaves turn color so late, the other trees in our yard have lost their leaves. 

Little Peanut

Little Peanut would love to be held all day long so I just bought an Ergo Carrier and absolutely love it. 

Week 10 Preschool

Preschool Week 10

I've finally figured out a routine that works for our schedule and I am so excited.  I set out 4-5 preschool activities at our kitchen table.  During learning time Little Sweets gets to choose the actvities she wants to do.  Most days she does them all.  Little Peanut sits in her high chair and has a snack or plays with toys during this time. If she's fussy I also wear her in the moby or ergo baby.  I am so excited because I have been going crazy trying to get a routine down and something that works for our family.  We did learning time 4 mornings this week  and Little Sweets had a great time.  I wasn't stressed looking for materials and she didn't get bored waiting for me to get organized, everything was out and she had the freedom to choose her activity.  : )  Of course she is always learning and I am always teaching her, it is just nice to have a formal learning time again. 

Here are some of our activitis from this week and last week since I am not great at posting weekly anymore.

Exploring Leaves and Fall Colors
Little Sweets collected leaves from the trees in our yard.

Size Sequencing Using Leaves

Painting Leaf Pictures  Using Water Colors

We used the leaves in a book we made.

Graphing Leaves
Little Sweets put the leaves on the graph.  She told me which color had the most leaves and which had the least leaves.

Leaf Patterns

Little Sweets helped extend the leaf patterns.

Building High Frequency Words Using Letter Blocks

Little Sweets mixed the letters in the bowl and picked them out with a spoon.  Then she made her high frequency words and read them to me.  If you don't have letter blocks make some out of legos.  You can write the letters on the lego or put letter stickers on the lego. I got this idea here.

Ordinal Numbers

Little Sweets was pretending her little people were jumping into a pool.  I told her who needs to jump in 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

Bible Activity Fruits of the Spirit 

Little Sweets drew pictures of how she can show love, and have joy. 

Sorting Leaves

Little Sweets used chopsticks to pick up foam leaves and sort them by color into ice cube trays. 

Number Identification

I called out a number and Little Sweets covered the number up with a foam leaf.

Collecting and Playing in the Leaves

We collected leaves and talked about all the different colors we saw.

Painting with Watercolors

Guided Reading Lesson and Journal Entry with Invented Spelling

Little Sweets read the book The Forest during her guided reading lesson.  During the lesson I introduced the book by talking about animals we see in the forest.  Little Sweets told me some animals she thought lived in the forest.  I showed Little Sweets pictures of animals from the book and she named them.  I reminded Little Sweets about the front cover and back cover of the book.  She showed me where the title page was.  We took a picture walk through the book.  She showed me where the page numbers were.  I introduced a new high frequency word that was in the book.  She read the book to me.  She used picture cues and begining sounds to help with new words.  She did an excellent job reading the book.  Afterwards she picked an animal from the forest pictures and glued it into her journal.  We stretched the word out together and she wrote the letters of the sounds she heard-  SQRL for squirrel.

Ballet

Little Sweets just started taking ballet and loves it.

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