June 17, 2020 - Day 58 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- Jun 16, 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 - Ten Little Dinosaurs
Virtual Field Trip - Dinosaur Exhibit
Calendar Activities
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Paper Plate 3D Dinosaur Craft
Paint your paper plate. Cut your paper plate in half. Use a small piece of bubble wrap or sponge to paint a different color on the body of the dinosaur for scales. Your preschoolers may want to decorate with torn tissue or construction paper - allow for their creativity! For the feet of the dinosaur use paper towel or toilet paper rolls, cut and paint. When the paint has dried cut two slits directly across from each other on the top of the rolls. The paper plate will slide right into the slits so that the finished dinosaur can stand. Draw and cut out the head and tail from the other piece of the paper plate. You may use construction paper, too. Glue onto the paper plate body. Add on the googly eyes and slip the dinosaur into the legs you painted earlier so you can display the finished piece! Remember while doing this activity to encourage your child to express themselves as to what they are doing, what colors, are they using, why, etc...
Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils
Ingredients:
1 1/4 Cups Salt
5 Cups All-Purpose Flour
2 Cups of Water
Add the salt and flour to your bowl. Then, mix and knead your dough thoroughly. Start by using a spoon, then switch to your hands to work out any lumps. Always remember that your preschooler may do this with you. It is great work for their hands so to work those fine motor muscles. When the dough is ready it will resemble bread dough in your bowl. If your salt dough recipe is too sticky, try adding a bit more flour. If your dough is too crumbly, try adding a bit more water. Next, roll out some balls of dough and have your child to press the dinosaur toys into the dough. Finally, remove the plastic dinosaur toys and place your fossils on a cookie sheet. Bake the fossils in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
After your fossils have cooled, allow your child to bury them in your dinosaur sensory bin and invite your little paleontologists to a dinosaur dig and find the fossils!
Dinosaur Fossil Dig Sensory Bin
Ingredients:
4 cups whole-wheat flour (this is what makes it really look and feel like sand from the beach)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Mix flour and oil to create sand. This sand will not only feel like beach sand but it will mold like it, too! Be careful to not add water as it will ruin your sand. Bury the salt fossils and other dinosaur toys in the sand. Allow your preschooler to dig and explore for their fossils and dinosaurs!
Volcano Cover Up
Gather small paper cups (like the ones you use to brush your teeth). Add numbers to the circles. Write numbers on the bottom of the paper cups. The paper cups are the pretend volcanos. The object is to cover up the numbers on the paper with the matching volcano cups. Change up the game by writing a number of dots for your preschooler to count on the cup OR having your preschooler cover the number that comes after the number on the cup. Below link is a printable or you may easily make your own page.
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
Fill the Dinosaur Nest
Use plastic Easter eggs as dinosaur eggs. No Easter eggs - use paper cut out of eggs. Scatter the eggs around the room. Place a cardboard box or plastic bin dinosaur nest in the middle of the room. Using small shovels or large ladles or spoons, scoop up the eggs and run them over the the nest to save them! Keep scooping and dumping until all of the dinosaurs eggs are safely back in the nest. Extend the activity by adding music to make this a freeze game, too. Your preschooler moves along with the music and must "freeze" when the music stops.
Dinosaur Songs
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