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Farm Preschool Theme

Farm Preschool Theme

Posted on by Addie

(updated 10/2023)

My kids and I love doing the farm theme! Our farm animals come out more than just this week, but it is really fun to get everything out all at once. It’s perfect for fall time. This is what we are doing this week.

Farm Theme Book ideas: This Is the Farmer – Nancy Tafuri; Farming – Gail Gibbons; The Red Hen – Rebecca Emberley; Big Red Barn – Margaret Wise Brown; Giggle, Giggle, Quack – Doreen Cronin 

 M T W Th F 
Religion Read David & Goliath Comprehension questions* Sling shot paper rocks Paint D&G worksheet with marbles Paint small stones 
Language (2) Sandpaper letter E Farm matching E binder When doing egg shapes, talk about egg starting with letter e E miniatures 
Language (4) Counting syllables Color or clip the beginning sound As video Read & match How many syllables 
Math (2) Counting farm animals 1-8 Place farm stickers on 8 worksheet Farm count & clip Sorting egg shapes Follow the path 
Math (4) Use sensory bin kernels or beans to count 10 piles of 10 Making 100 w coins – sorting mat  Collecting coins game  Practice writing numbers in a black salt tray or dirt tray using small farm figurines  Build the number  
Art/Sensory Sensory bin* Clean the animals Milking a cow* Farm stamps*  Round the sheep* 
Science
Geography
History 		Life cycle of a chicken Explore different vegetable seeds and maybe even plant some – Farm to table sequencing Products obtained from cow milk*  Talking about matter with a balancing activity Learn about parts of animals 

Comprehension Questions: 

What did David use to fight Goliath? 

How would you feel if you were David? 

How did God help David? 

Products Obtained from Cow Milk– Talk about the different products that are made from cow milk and how they are made. Use the printable for a visual 

The below 5 ideas come from Mrs. P: 

Milking a cow – Mix water and white paint in a rubber glove and close it off with a rubberband. Then poke a tiny hole in the fingertips or udders with a safety pin (may want to do this over a cup), then milk the udders. 

Stamps – Make a scene on paper using farm stamps. You can start with a blank sheet of paper or draw a sky, grass and barn to start, then stamp away. 

Clean the Animals – Dirty up some animal figurines with mud and set up a bowl of soapy water and a scrubber. Have child wash the mud off the animals 

Round the Sheep – Pretend that some balloons are sheep (you could even draw faces on them) and scatter them all over a room. Then have the child try to gather them all into an enclosed space 

Sensory Bin Ideas – Oatmeal, corn kernels, or white beans with animal figurines or puzzle pieces and different scoops & cups 

2023 Farm Theme Plan

Religion focus – Memorize the Hail Mary

2Yr Options – Sorting egg shapes, Farm matching cards, animal figurine play, sensory bin – Oatmeal or corn kernels, animal figurines, tractor, scoops 

Language Introduce last name with chicken name activity Clothespin name activity (For added fun with the theme, you can turn clothespins into animals) Write last name in sharpie on paper, then glue beans or corn kernels to it Fill bin with straw & animals and put magnets of last name letters in it to find and order on white board 
Math Re-intro #6 & do counting farm animals 1-6 Place farm stickers and/or stamps on #6 printable Build the number  1-6 using counters or play-do Try the follow the path activity & do farm count & clip 
Art/Sensory Draw faces on balloons to make sheep, scatter them around the room and herd them into a ‘pen’ Muddy up some animal figurines and have a washing station Add mix of white paint & water to rubber glove & seal with rubber-band. Use safety pin to poke hole in fingertips and milk the cow udders (over sink or bin) Help child draw a farm scene on butcher paper (sky, grass, barn, pond) then use animal stamps to finish 
S/G/H Go over life cycle of a chicken and play one of the suggested games Farm to table sequencing Talk about how products are made from cows’ milk (printable) Learn about the parts of an animal 

Halloween Preschool Theme

Posted on by Addie

(updated 10/2023)

Halloween fun!! My kids are sooo excited for dressing up and trick or treating, but of course we’ve gotta throw some learning fun in there too. Here are some books we like for Halloween: Little Boo – Stephen Wunderli; We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt – Susan Pearson; Pumpkin Jack – Will Hubbell; The I’m Not Scared Book – Todd Parr; Dem Bones – Bob Barner; Where’s My Mummy – Carolyn Crimi; Spooky Pookie – Sandra Boynton 

In addition to this lesson plan, here are some things that you can do with your Halloween candy. I also have several craft and activity ideas, here, here, here, and here. 

Check below for our 2023 updated plan!!

 M T W Th F 
Religion Read A Voice in the Night + Comprehension Listening walk* Fingerpaint the Samuel worksheet Play Simon says Secret Message 
Language (2) H Candy Corn H sandpaper letter Color & add 8 stickers to worksheet H miniatures Act out H words* 
Language (4) O&F Candy Corn to make ‘of’ How many syllables Halloween sight word sort Halloween syllable count Clap & Build 
Math (2) Pumpkin faces Ghost knock down with fewer cups Peg on spider legs Halloween roll & cover** What Comes Next 
Math (4) Hundred Board Practice Ghost knock down* Halloween graphing* Make 10 piles of 10 with mini Halloween erasers Hundred Board Practice 
Art/Sensory Playdough spiders & monsters Save the Spiders Science is sensory Carve a pumpkin Skeleton Hand 
Science
Geography
History 		History of Halloween Water density activity Monster potions Day of the Dead  Build a haunted house out of graham crackers 

Comprehension Questions:  What were the names of the boy and the man in this story?  Who did Samuel think was calling him? What did Eli tell Samuel to do?  Who was calling Samuel? 

Listening Walk – A few weeks ago when we did the 5 Senses unit, we did a listening walk. You could do that again or what I’m going to do is put the kids in the stroller and blindfold them (or just put the shade up and put a blanket over so that they can’t see) and have them tell me what they hear. We’ll probably do that walking up the street and then let them see again on the way back. I definitely don’t want to block their sight for too long. If it’s not nice out you could always just have them put their heads down at the table and you can make sounds or play sounds and have them guess what sound it is. 

Secret Message – I wrote out a phrase (I can hear God too) and then wrote a random letter in between each letter of the phrase. Then I put blanks (like hangman) to represent the letters and words in my phrase. Then I will have my daughter cross out every other letter and put the remaining letters on the line to reveal a message. For example, IGCEAJNLHWESATRHGPOFDUTIOQO would be – I can hear God too. 

Act out H words – Have your child act out Halloween things that start with H sound like: howl like a wolf, act scared from a haunted house, pu on a witch hat, go on a hayride, make a hocus pocus spell etc.. 

Ghost Knock Down – draw ghost faces on clear plastic cups and have child stack in a 4,3,2,1 pyramid. Talk about how many pyramids you would need to make 100. Then you could use a ball or small decorative pumpkin to go bowling and knock it down. They can do it as many times as they would like. For the younger child I will just have her count the cups. 

Save the spiders – add play spiders to a muffin tin then put masking tape over top of the tin opening. Have your child practice their cutting skills to cut the tape then use tweezers to free the spiders. You can see my daughter demonstrating this activity with bears at the end of this video 

Halloween Graphing – Put Halloween erasers (or other Halloween items like spider rings) into a sensory bin and have the child pull them out and graph them on a sheet of paper 

Halloween roll & cover – Even though our number of the week is 8, I am going to do the 1-6 sheet with my 2 year old because she is still a very new 2.. if you have a more advanced child you could do the up to 12 roll and cover instead. 

Skeleton Hand or Drawing – Use cut up straws or Q-Tips to make a skeleton. We did a skeleton hand here

Playdough spiders and monsters – Get out your playdough and use a sectioned tray (like this one) to hold things to make spiders and monsters (like googly eyes, pipe cleaners, pretzel sticks, spider rings , Halloween erasers, etc..) 

Monster potions – in small clear plastic cups, add some eyes and pipe cleaner mouths to make monster cups. Add a few drops of different colored food coloring in each followed by some baking soda. Get a separate cup filled with vinegar and let the child use a dropper to add it to the cups. Can talk about the reaction of baking soda and vinegar then let them play! 

Water density – Experiment with water density using Halloween colored liquids (vegetable oil, syrup, dye water) and talk about what’s happening. Then you can add Halloween trinkets (spider, eye ball etc..) do see which liquid they go to. To finish off the experiment, drop in an Alka-Seltzer tablet and watch the show! 

2023 HALLOWEEN THEME PLAN

Language Introduce H, sandpaper tracing, H Candy Corn Introduce J, sandpaper tracing, J is for Jack-o-lantern Introduce G, sandpaper tracing, G is for Ghost Halloween Initial Sound Match (these are all review) 
Math Introduce 9, sandpaper number & count with 9 pumpkin counters Candy corn math (laminate and write number with dry erase at top) Ghost knock down*  Count the pumpkins 
Art/Sensory Halloween play-do – googly eyes, spider rings, pipe cleaners Save the spiders* Black bean & orange rice sensory bin with Halloween objects Halloween Lacing Cards 
S/G/H Learn some Halloween facts* Make potions with baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring Halloween lava lamp experiment Use candy corn or candy pumpkins and toothpicks to build structures 

Ghost Knock Down – draw ghost faces on 10 clear plastic cups and write #’s 0-9 on the top. Have child sequence and stack them in a pyramid. Use a small pumpkin or ball to go bowling and knock it down. Repeat as many times as they want. 

Save the Spiders – add play spiders to a muffin tin then put masking tape over the opening. Have your child cut the tape and use tweezers to free the spiders. You can see this activity in action with bears at the end of this video 

Halloween Facts – Halloween is on October 31st (find it on the calendar). The colors of Halloween are orange and black. It originated in the Celtic lands – Ireland & Scotland (find them on the map). The Halloween celebration goes back over 2,000 years. Originally, jack-o-lanterns were carved from turnips and potatoes. Illinois has the most pumpkins of all the states (find it on a map). 

OTHER ACTIVITY IDEAS 

Cotton Ball Ghost – Hang a large piece of butchers paper on the wall and draw the outline of a big ghost with eyes and a mouth. Have child use glue and cotton balls to fill in the ghost. You can also use a cut out ghost like we did in this video. 

Candy corn graphing – From this reading mama 

Marble paint mummy – cut out a mummy body on black paper, tape it inside a box and drop on a few globs of white paint. Have the child drop in some marbles and shake the box from side to side to create white lines all over the mummy. After the paint dries add 2 yellow dot stickers for eyes and draw a black dot in the center. If you haven’t seen marble painting before, we did it at Easter here 

Trick or Treat Graph – after trick or treating separate and graph the candy you got 

Colored Pasta Sensory Bin – color noodles and bake for 20 min so that the color doesn’t transfer then use it as the base of a Halloween sensory bin. You can see ours from last year here 

Jello Excavation – Make 2 packets of orang jello and dump on a tray or in a bin. Add the Halloween stuff then put in the fridge until ready. Use tweezers, scoops etc.. to get all the items out. 

SpiderWeb Obstacle Course – Using streamers or twine, make a ‘web’ all over a room and have the child try to climb through without getting stuck 

Natural Disasters Preschool Theme

Natural Disasters Preschool Theme

Posted on by Addie

After just having fire week last week, I thought that it would be a good time to talk about other disasters that can happen too. This time, focusing on natural disasters like tornados, hurricanes & volcanos. And with those air, land & water fits right in. My kids love talking about different disasters.. I don’t know why, they are just mesmerized by them and can ask a zillion questions about them. This unit is also a great way to talk about the idea of geography, maps & globes.

As with every lesson, we of course pair the materials listed with tons of books from the library, but I also have the Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth which I love. To note, you’ll see LHL next to a couple of items without a link. That’s because some of this lesson comes from a Little Hands Learn free unit study. I cannot share the printables here, but you can get them free if you enroll if you are interested.

 M T W Th F 
Religion Giddeons Battle & Comprehension Color God Chooses Giddeon Glue cotton balls on fleece  worksheet to create a blanket Compare wool to cotton Act out story with kids favorite blanket 
Language (2) Air, Land, Water 3 part cards LHL Sandpaper letters Tornado Game*   I spy Game w/ review letters* Letter Volcanos (use review letters)  
Language (4) Air, Land, Water 3 part cards LHL  Tornado in a bottle reader Tornado Game*  Easy reader (Bob book) to practice CVC & sight   Letter Volcanos (use letters to make CVC words)  
Math (2) Sort animal figurines by air, land & water Use dot marker to make 7 dots on the 7 worksheet Natural Disaster Café* Work on shapes (early learning bin) Find #7* 
Math (4) Sort animal figurines by air, land & water 10 frame math (we will not do all the examples, just a few) Natural Disaster Café* Tropical storm hundreds chart Graph national disasters* 
Art/Sensory Nature walk to collect air, water & land in jars LHL  Practice transfering skills with water & beans (for land) After Disaster sensory bin – ‘digging through the rubble’ – black & white beans, duplo home pieces, car pieces, any broken small toys, plastic plants, Make a tornado in 2 litre bottle Build a city out of blocks and then jump around to create an earthquake  
Science
Geography
History 		Start Sunrise/Sunset Activity and do throughout the week Compass Rose Activity Blow or Not Blow experiment LHL And Talk about how tornados happen (can also get out air cards from Monetssori by mom) What’s Inside Our Earth – Gemstones & Minerals* Talk about water disasters and how they happen (floods, hurricanes & tsunamis) Parts of a volcano and volcano mini book with how earthquakes happen  

Comprehension Questions: 

What was Gideon afraid of? 

What did the angel tell Gideon? 

Did Gideon think he was strong and brave? 

I spy Game – Looking around the room say I spy something that starts with the letter ‘mmmm’ and have the child guess items that start with m. Do this for review letters. 

Nature walk – Bring 3 small jars and go for a walk to collect air, water & land. You can just have them wave the jar around to collect air. Then you can match each jar to the 3 part cards that they go with 

Gemstones & Minerals – I got this to be able to look at the different gemstones and minerals and we will also look up where they come from on a map. This is another good resource to use with this activity. 

Tornado Game – I will use letter flashcards and sight word cards for this and some tape the tornados to the back of some so that they don’t know which are which. My 2 girls will be 1 man teams and the 2 year old will have the single letters and a mama helper, while the 4 year old will have the sight words. We will draw a basic house that I will help them with. 

Natural Disaster Café – I am going to make a little menu for myself and put numbers next to each one (1-7 for my 2 year old, any number up to 100 for my 4 year old). I will then read them the menu and they can pick something they want to make. But, before they do, they have to do the number activity. For my 2 year old it will be counting or picking the correct number flashcard from a pile, and for my 4 year old, she will have to write the number on the board, or build the number with math beads. Once they do the math activity they can make the item in the play kitchen and deliver it to the customer aka me or sister or dad. The menu will be something like… disaster soup – 2/14 (so my 2 year old would count 2 objects with me and my 4 year old will write or build the number 14). Other menu ideas: Lava lasagna, Tornado Pasta, Earthquake Chicken Tenders etc… 

Find #7 – I will put a 7 magnet in a bin with several letter magnets. I will have my daughter search through the bin to find the 7. Repeat until child looses interest. 

Graph natural disasters – I will have my daughter make a graph based on these numbers that I found in an online search – average numbers per year (I don’t really care if these are 100% accurate, you can do more research if you do)– tsunamis: 2, hurricanes: 12, volcanos: 60, tornados: 1000. The graph doesn’t have to be completely accurate, but I just want her to see the comparison in quantities. 

Other Natural Disaster Preschool Activity Ideas 

Monopoly Earthquake – Get to large cloths (or paper) and overlap them a little bit. Cover them lightly with soil, and top with monopoly houses to make a town. Then pull apart the cloths and watch the houses fall in the fault line. 

Graham Cracker Quake – Lay 2 halves of graham cracker on a pile of red frosting. Push them back and forth to show what happens – fault line & mountains. 

Fire Safety Preschool Theme

Fire Safety Preschool Theme

Posted on by Addie

National Fire Safety week is the first week of October here, so we are doing a fire safety preschool theme. I like to pair it up here because some of the fire stations near us hold open houses so it’s fun to do that when we are learning all about fire safety.

Along with getting lots of books from the library about fire, firemen & fire themed stories, here is what we will be doing in preschool.

 M T W Th F 
Religion Battle of Jericho & Comprehension* Color God Chooses Giddeon Glue cotton balls on fleece  worksheet to create a blanket Compare wool to cotton Act out story with kids favorite blanket 
Language (2) B letter of the week binder B dot marker page Fire hose prewriting trace B miniatures Choose another B activity 
Language (4) Dot beginning sound CVC & Sight word practice Find & Read Words* CVC & Sight word practice Introduce syllables by counting syllables in fire vocabulary (firetruck, axe, hose etc..) 
Math (2) Stop drop & roll sequence Firetruck number puzzle Calling 911 trace  Roll & color 1-6 Fire safety patterns 
Math (4) Fire safety Addition Firetruck number puzzle Calling 911 trace also practice your phone number & address Roll & color 2-12 Fire safety subtraction 
Art/Sensory Fingerpaint w/ red, yellow & orange Put out the fire chalk game Sensory bin w/ RYO shredded paper, fire trucks, RYO magna tiles & people Fire obstacle course * Make a thank you card for fire fighters 
Science
Geography
History 		Hot or not Make a fire safety plan* Good fire v bad fire* Science of fire Science of baking – bake treat to deliver to firehouse 

Comprehension Questions: 

What was Gideon afraid of? 

What did the angel tell Gideon? 

Did Gideon think he was strong and brave? 

Find & Read words: Write some CVC or sight words on index cards (or cut pieces of paper) and hide them around the room. Turn off the light and have child use a flashlight to find the cards. Then have them read what it says. This is like a firefighter in a dark building. (Adapted from an idea at stayathomeeducator.com) 

Fire obstacle course – This activitiy is dramatic play and pretending. Make an obstacle course and pretend something at the end is on fire. Call the firefighter (your child) who can dress up as a firefighter and practice crawling through the obstacle course to get to the fire and pretend to put the big fire out at the end. 

Fire safety plan – where do you go? What do you do? Do you wait for other people? Designate a meeting place. “Don’t hide, go outside!”. You can make a map with this and talk about cardinal directions as well. 

Good fire v bad fire – Discuss the differences between good fires (campfires, bbq, stove, candles, etc..) and bad fires – depends on the type of fire and what its effects are. 

Solar System Preschool Theme

Solar System Preschool Theme

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Space is so vast, that I decided to split it up into 2 preschool themes focusing on different aspects of space. The first being a space unit with emphasis on stars, asteroids, comets, astronauts etc.. basically anything that is not the planets & sun. The second, this unit, focusing specifically on the planets in our solar system.

As always, these are the activities that we are doing, and I hope that it saves you some time searching the internet for ideas.

 M T W Th F 
Religion 10 commandments w/ Comprehension Questions Trains 1-2Commandment trains 3-4 Commandment trains 5-6 Commandment trains 7-8 Commandment trains 9-10
Language (2) M Letter of the week folder  Planet line tracing Planet mini book  M Miniatures Sun circle tracing & Astronaunt to rocket tracing 
Language (4) CVC practice Review sight words Planet mini book  CVC practice Review sight words 
Math (2) Decorate 6 with stickers Order planets by size Count to 6” on protractor Planet Size activities Use number flashcards to match to planets 1-6 
Math (4) Space crack the code Match 10 frame number to finger pictures Magic School Bus protractor work Planet Counting On Teen 10 frame worksheet 
Art/Sensory Smithsonian solar system puzzle Solar system coloring page Use puffy paint on black paper to draw planets Balloon stamping planets Make a telescope 
Science
Geography
History 		Solar System Orbit Earth’s Orbit in Action* Time of Day sorting & planet shadow matching Learn about planets How do telescopes work 

Comprehension Questions: What does the word “commandments” mean? 

Why did God give us rules?  (To help the people learn how to obey God, be happy, and to know how to treat other people) 

What are some of the rules that you have to follow? 

Why do you have rules? 

Earths Orbit in Action – Outline a path representing Earth’s orbit on the ground. Then acting as the sun, the child can shine a flashlight on you (who is the Earth) as you rotate and orbit the sun. You can reverse the role play as well. 

More Solar System Activities: 

Solar System With Button Planets  

DIY Solar System Mobile  

Puffy Planets  

Push Light Planets  

Paint Stick Solar System Project  

Recycled Solar System  

Planet Sun Catchers  

Planets Snowglobe 

Paper Mache Planets– 

Space Preschool Theme

Space Preschool Theme

Posted on by Addie

(Updated 10/2023)

Here is what we are doing for space this week. I also went to the library and checked out a bunch of fun and educational books on space to go on the bookshelf as well.

Some of out favorite books for space theme are: The Sun Shines Everywhere – Mary Ann Hoberman; Mousetronaut – Mark Kelly; The Spacesuit: How a Seamstress Helped Put Man on the Moon – Alison Donald; Mae Among the Stars – Roda Ahmed; Our Stars – Anne Rockwell; Astronaut Training – Aneta Cruz; Zoom, Rocket, Zoom – Margot Mayo; Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes – Stuart Murphy 

You can find all my themes and what we are focusing on for each week in the freebies section. Just sign up for my newsletter to get the password emailed to you.

 M T W Th F 
Religion  Crossing of Red Sea & Comprehension Questions* Color & Decorate Red Sea Sheet* Play follow the leader and talk about how the Isrealites followed Moses Parting of the red sea activity Red Sea Walk 
Language (2) I letter of the week folder Star & Rocket PreWriting Practice I for insect shadow matching Countries starting with I I miniatures 
Language (4) CVC practice Review sight words Word stretching CVC practice  Review sight words 
Math (2) Match astronaunt to moon number Paint by number 1-5 rocket (I got mine from ABCMouse) Connect the dot constellation mats Build a rocket Star & Rocket size activity 
Math (4) Order stars 1-12 & star number clips Match 10 frame number to finger pictures & do 10-0 rocket number tracing sheet Connect the dot constellation mats Space nonstandard measurement Space what comes next 
Art/Sensory Use magnatiles & cans to make a rocket Space stamps Nightime star picture* Moon puzzle Stay up late and star gaze! 
Science
Geography
History 		Moon observation Phases of the moon with oreos  Us in relation to space* Magic School Bus Outerspace science fact memory game  Get a space book rom library and read it 

Comprehension Questions: 

What is the name of the sea that God’s people crossed? 

The water was very deep and there wasn’t a bridge.  How did the people cross? 

When Moses raised his staff, what happened to the water? 

Crossing the Red Sea worksheet Some children may be confused that even though it is called the Red Sea, the water is still blue.  Decorate the sheet  by painting the water blue and adding a pipe cleaner to Moses’ hand. 

Red Sea Walk – Set up a long line of chairs backwards in 2 rows. Give children a walking stick and let them walk through the red sea leading you and any other children (the backward chairs). Let everyone have a chance to be the leader. 

Word Stretching – You can print out a page of CVC word pictures or just show them pictures on the computer.. Like this one.. Then have them try to stretch out the sounds of the word to try to spell it on the dry erase board. You can tell them that each word has 3 letters to help them. 

Nighttime star picture –  Cover the entire surface of a white sheet of paper with blue, red, purple and yellow crayon. Then color over it with a black crayon. With a blunt object scratch away the black to reveal many ‘stars’. You can add a moon & other objects to the picture too if you wish. I would recommend using a half sheet a paper for smaller children so they don’t tire of coloring. You can also help. 

Us in relation to space – Cut 8 strips of paper each one a little shorter than the one before. Label Home, city, state, country, planet, solar system, galaxy, universe. Then get images of each of those from online and paste them to the corresponding strip. Use a brad clip to bind them together. 

2023 Space Theme Plan

Religion Focus: Learning the Our Father

2YR Options: Planet Shadow Matching, Ordering planets by size, Outer space patterns, A for Astronaut matching & puppets 

Language Introduce S, A, M (black sand tray w astronaut figure taped on popsicle stick) A is for astronaut + Tracing Orbits & Tracing Lines  M is for moon; Make letters out of marshmallows and pretzels (can also make constellations) S is for space & stars. Go on a star search*  
Math Introduce #8 and put 8 star stickers on coloring page Count and color the 8 planets in the solar system worksheet & match the numbers to the correct orbit Space nonstandard measurement Connect the dot constellations 
Art/Sensory Space play-do tray – star cookie cutter, marbles, star counters, little balls of foil Rocket name craft Space puzzle & Rocket puzzle Make a telescope 
S/G/H Read Planet Mini Book Earth’s Orbit in Action* Phases of the moon with Oreos Day & Night Sorting 

Star Search – Write letters of first & last name as well as S, A & M on post-its and outline with a star. Hide them around the room and have your child go on a star search. When they find them, have them say the letter sound. 

Earth’s Orbit in Action – Outline a path representing Earth’s orbit on the ground. Then acting as the sun, the child can shine a flashlight on you (who is the Earth) as you rotate and orbit the sun. You can reverse the role play as well. 

More Space Activities: 

Lots of fun gross motor activities here 

Outer Space Hats 

Constellation Activities – Make a telescope & learn the constellations 

5 Senses Preschool Theme

5 Senses Preschool Theme

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Last week we talked about the human body, this week we are building onto that and diving into the 5 senses. The language, science, and art kind of all blend together, but that’s ok!!

 M T W Th F 
Religion Baby in the basket craft Play with a baby & basket Jesus is Always with Me Teaching Emotions Bathtub play 
Language (2) T shadow matching  Letter T Dot Marker – make sound when dotting  5 senses clip cards 5 senses sorting  T miniatures 
Language (4) 5 senses sorting chart  Dab it find it CVC practice***  5 senses clip cards 5 senses sorting  Word stretching – could also do a different dab it page 
Math (2) Count bells in bowl Count pom poms in bowl Count fruit loops in bowl How many eyes do you have Count to 4 with numbers 
Math (4) Ring the Bell Math Pom Pom Addition Fruit Loop Subtraction Eye Patterns Teen 10 frame worksheet 
Art/Sensory Painting with spices Texture collage Listening Walk Build a tower with duplo (blindfolded for older child) Food tracing 
Science Geography History Match the sound Guess the smell Observation memory game Test your taste buds Guess the object 

Most religion resources are from ABCJesusLovesMe

“Baby in the Basket” Craft:  Print the Baby Moses Craft page.  Color and cut out each piece.  Cut a piece of blue construction paper in half.  Glue on the reeds.  Glue the baby in the basket and glue in front of the reeds. 

 Jesus is Always with Me: Have the child choose five things in the room to bring to you.  Place the items in a small area on the floor and place a small blanket over the items. 

Ask the child: – Can the objects be seen? – Are the objects still there even though they can’t be seen? – How do you know that the objects are still there? Remove the blanket. Even though we can’t see Jesus, we know He is always with us. 

With the objects gathered, turn this activity into a memory game.  Without the child watching, remove one object.  Have the child figure out which object is missing.  For greater difficulty, remove more than one object or add similar items. 

Teaching Emotions – talk about different emotions that people have then relate it to the Bible story – How did Moses’ mom feel when she placed Moses in the basket? How did Moses’ sister feel while watching Moses in the basket? How did Moses’ family feel when he was found by Pharaoh’s daughter? 

Bathtub Play – Put a small baby figurine and put it on a boat that acts as a basket. Fill up a bathtub and have child try to move the boat to the other side. 

Dab it Find It – If you subscribe to her website, you can get the printables free 

Word Stretching – You can print out a page of CVC word pictures or just show them pictures on the computer.. Like this one.. Then have them try to stretch out the sounds of the word to try to spell it on the dry erase board. You can tell them that each word has 3 letters to help them. 

Texture collage – Glue items like ribbons, beads, gems, paper scraps, feathers, yarn, pom poms, sand paper to a piece of cardboard for a sensory experience 

Food Tracing – Draw short straight, zig zag, and wave lines and have child trace/cover them with fruit loops or other cereal 

Eye Patterns – Make a chart with number of people on one axis and eyes on the other. Then help them figure out how many eyes 1 person would have, 2 people etc… If you want to challenge them, once you do the first 3-5 with them, see if they can do a couple more by themselves. 

Guess the smell – soak cotton balls in oils or extracts that they can guess the smell of, or do spices, herbs, etc… 

Observation memory game – Get a group of 5-10 items and have the child try to memorize them, then cover them up and see how many they can remember.