June 15, 2020 - Day 56 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min read
These activities promote a variety of developmental skills such as hand and eye coordination, concentration, writing skills, language skills, pre readiness cognitive skills, creativity and imagination and self esteem - a sense of pride and achievement.
The daily suggested activities for your preschooler are listed below. These are all suggestions for you to have in one location; if you find, that you need additional resources for your child. Our key word is Flexible and that is very important when working with young children. If you are in need of other resources, please just contact me.
I will continue to send a morning email each school day with links to this page, Ms. Cosgrove's morning message, and the attendance form.
Please continue to email me your pictures. I love seeing your faces and all the fun you are having while we are apart!
Theme: Dinosaurs/Father's Day
Suggested Activities
Read Aloud - We Are The Dinosaurs
Calendar Activities
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Dinosaur Crafts
Dinosaur Feet
Use 2 empty tissue boxes and wrap them in green construction paper or paint them. If using construction paper, have your preschooler use glue sticks to attack the paper to the box. Draw and cut out triangle shapes with the orange construction paper resemble dinosaur claws. Glue these to the front.
No tissue boxes - no worries! Dinosaur feet may be made from paper it feet on top of your child's feet. Draw and cut out. Have your preschooler decorate the feet using any materials that you have on hand - paper, paint, crayons, or markers. Punch holes and thread yarn to attach to your child's feet.
Dinosaur Hat
You'll need 3 sheets of green construction paper, a glue stick, scissors, and tape. First, cut 4 strips about 1" wide along the long side of a sheet of paper. Two of these strips will be the headband, and the other 2 will be cross pieces that you will attach your spikes to. Next, draw and cut a bunch of diamond shapes for the spikes. Glue your diamond shapes onto the long strips. When dry, Fold each of diamonds to form your spikes. Glue tip of diamonds together. Let dry. While the glue dries, take your two headband pieces and measure it to fit around your child's head. Used tape to secure headband in a circle. Finally, tape the spike pieces to the headband. One strip should fit nicely from the front to the back, and one should trail down below.
Dinosaur Mud
Make "Mud Oobleck" - 1 cup water in a bowl, add 2 cups cornstarch a bit at a time, and sprinkle a few spoonfuls of unsweetened cocoa powder in for "mud" color. Stir with a spoon (or I find it’s actually easier to use your hands for this one) until you reach a gooey consistency. Your preschooler is capable of making the Oobleck with you. Add dinosaurs and rocks and explore! The activity provides your child with skills of following directions, math concepts, cause and effect, as well as loads of opportunities for language - receptive as well as expressive!
Dinosaur Footprint Count
Roll and flatten some play dough. Take a plastic dinosaur and press into play dough to create footprints. Have your preschooler roll a die to match the number with the number of footprints the dinosaur makes in the play dough. No die, write numbers on cards and have your child match the number with dinosaur footprints.
Dinosaur/Letter/Number Printables
The below link is a site that provides free printables for you to access for your child, if you have a printer. Please utilize these along with the other suggested activities, if needed. You may need to scroll to bottom of page to download. Some sites may require you to enter an email in order to download the printables. I have provided the entire site so you may select the pages that you feel are useful.
Scroll to bottom for a variety of Dinosaur themed printables
Letter Review Weekly Activities
We have completed our weekly letters. The remaining weeks of the year will focus on reviewing and reinforcing letter recognition as well as initial sounds. The suggested activities are designed to be practiced throughout the week.
Letter Activities and Alphabet Songs
Letter Cups
Grab a set of plastic/paper cups and letter stickers. You may write the letters on the cups with a marker, too. The pictures are examples of various letter activities you may explore with your preschooler. Too many letters at once, work on a few at a time until you feel as if your child has mastered those letters and beginning sound. Select letters of your child's name. If your child has mastered their first name, start working on last name. Extend this activity with numbers. The possibilities are many....
Rainbow Name
Have your child write their name in pencil. You may need to assist your child. Have your child trace each letter using 1 color of the rainbow for each letter. Repeat with a 2nd, 3rd, etc colors.
Sensory Writing/Play dough/Object Letters
Write your name as well as other letters and numbers in shaving cream, rice, sand, or flour. Any substance will work to give your child that sensory input when writing letters.
Use play dough to form letters. You may write a letter on a piece of paper and have your child roll out play dough to cover the letter. Cover the letter with small objects such as buttons, beads, cereal, or macaroni.
Music/Movement
Play “We Are the Dinosaurs” by Laurie Berkner - link below- and have your child march around while listening to it. Wear your dinosaur feet and headband crafts to stomp around to make this extra special.
Dinosaur Songs
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