All About Me 4/28-5/2

Focus on one of the 5 senses each day

Sight
Sound
Taste
Touch

Feel box
Smell

Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Hokey, Pokey

Egg carton counting

Snacks:

Jam Thumbprint cookies

Create a Face:

You will need: 1.white paper plates (face) 2. apple or orange slices for mouth 3. peeled mini-carrots for nose 4. small pretzels for ears 5. banana slices with a dab of peanut butter and raisin for eyes 6. shredded cheddar cheese for hair. Have the children draw in crayon their face and then make their face with food. Big hit with our preschool class.

Gingerbread kids

Me Pizzas

Let the children create 'me pizzas' using English muffins, pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, green pepper slices. The children can use the pepperoni and green pepper slices to create faces on their pizzas. Bake in oven and serve.

Me!
Promote self awareness with this early childhood lesson plan by Patti H.

Materials: Butcher paper, crayons or markers, the child's clothes and scissors.

Description: The child lays down on the butcher paper and the teacher traces the child's outline. The child then colors in the face, eyes, nose, ears, hair, what ever they are able to do on their own.

Fingerprints

Submitted by Karen

Fingerprint all of your children. Write the name of the corresponding child on their fingerprint. Place all of the fingerprints in one area with magnifying glasses. Tell the children to look closely and they will see that no one has the same print

Measure Me

Submitted by Lisa

Give the children a string and scissors. Have one child lie down and let them measure how tall he is and then cut the string. Latter the children can compare their strings and show them to their families.

All about me Book

Paper Doll

Earth Day and Arbor Day 4/21-4/25

Letters: E and L
Color: Green
Shape: Talk about how trees can be different shapes-- Triangle, Oval, Circle
Song:
Activities:

Earth Day Activity!

To teach young ones about pollution, I have each child bring in a piece of recyclable garbage. We sit around a pretend pond (a large painted blue sheet of butcher paper) that is filled with paper fish. I tell a story about how the fish live in the pond surrounded by the beautiful woods. As people visit the area for picnics, they begin to throw their trash into the water. I have the children do this, one at a time. As more trash goes in, the fish of course have to come out. Soon thepond is full of garbage and no fish. Now I ask the children to help clean up the pond by removing their garbage and placing it into appropriate recycling containers. These I have made ahead of time by taping commonly recycled items (newspaper, glass bottle, plastic container) to the outside of a paper bag. We feel really good when the pond is clean and the fish can come back to swim there.

Make Mud Pies

Make recycled paper-- still deciding Link 1, Link 2

Art:

Earth Day Bracelet

Cut contact paper into a long strip to form a bracelet. Make the bracelet so that it will be sticky side up. Go on a nature walk and let your children put whatever they find (grass, flowers, feathers, sticks, pebbles, etc) on the bracelet.

Find leaves and do crayon rubbings

Snack:

Dirt Cups

Chocolate Pudding Mix
Milk
Oreo Cookies
Gummy Worms
Cool Whip
Cups
Spoons
Zip Lock Bags

In a zip lock bag place Oreo cookies, have your child break them up by banging the bag. Cover bottom of cups with crumbled Oreos. Combined pudding mix and milk to make your pudding, pour into cups; leaving 1/2 an inch of space at the top. Refrigerate pudding until set. Add crumbled Oreos to the top of each cup and garnish with a gummy worm.

Trail Mix The day before you make this have each child decorate a small paper bag. The next day make trail mix. You can use raisins, peanuts, sunflower seeds, M&M's and cheerios or you can make up your own combination. About 4 or 5 choices are best. Put each item in a separate bowl, put a small tablespoon or coffee scoop in each one. Number each bowl. The number 3 with a picture of 3 spoons by the raisin bowl, the number 1 with a picture of 1 spoon by the m&m's. The children go to each bowl and add whatever number to their bag. Three spoons of raisins, 1 spoon of m&ms, 2 spoons of sunflower seeds and 4 spoons of cheerios. After you make your Earth Day trail mix, go for a nature walk.

Field Trip:
Math:
Science:
Books:
Coloring Pages:
Earth
Online Activities:
All About Trees