June 2, 2020 - Day 48 of Flexible Learning

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: Summer/Sun

Suggested Activities

Read Aloud - The Watermelon Seed

Mrs. McAuliffe's Jefferson Media Site Read Alouds

https://sites.google.com/roxbury.org/jeffersonlibrarymediacenter/classes/pre-k-kindergarten

Calendar Activities

Month of June Song

Days of the Week Song

Counting Song

StarFall Calendar

https://www.starfall.com/h/holiday/calendar/?t=293121158

Watermelon Craft

Have your child rip up the pieces of green and pink/red paper. Then have them rip up the black paper in even tinier pieces (these pieces will make little seeds). On the white paper, have them draw the shape of a watermelon slice or draw one for them. Cut out the shape. Have them arrange the ripped pieces of green and pink paper inside the slice to form a watermelon and glue. Then glue the black pieces on top as seeds. 

Watermelon Moon Sand

Watermelon Moon Sand Recipe

4 cups of flour

1/2 cup of baby oil

1 watermelon Kool-aid packet

Combine the flour and kool-aid powder in a bin or container and mix well.  Add oil and mix well. It is best to use a dough blender to mix.  The moon sand should be mold-able, crumbly, and slightly moist but not too wet.  Use cups, buckets, scoopers, and other gadgets, and your child will have a blast building and constructing. After play you can store your moon sand in a covered bin for future use.  The next time you want to use it just add a touch of oil and remix the sand.

Watermelon Seed Hunt Activity

To prep the Watermelon Fine Motor Seed Hunt, gather dried black beans.  The dried beans make great pretend watermelon seeds! Now find the play dough for your watermelons.  Use pink or red and green play dough. First, create a few play dough watermelons and add the dried black bean seeds to the top play dough and cover them slightly with the play dough. Have your child use their fingers to pull out those seeds. With each pinch, pull, squeeze, and wiggle of her little fingers, fine motor muscles were being strengthened. Not all fine motor skills activities require pencils, markers, crayons, or scissors.

Watermelon Counting Seeds

The below link is a printable for these watermelon counting cards - link is at very bottom of site. No printer - no worries. Draw a watermelon. Using play dough, buttons, or beans for "seeds" have your child count out the number of seeds to match the numeral. Practice verbally counting with your child, point to each "seed" as you count.

https://modernpreschool.com/printable-watermelon-counting-cards/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Fine+Motor+Watermelon+Preschool+Activities%21+%F0%9F%8D%89&utm_campaign=Fine+Motor+Watermelon+Preschool+Activities%21+%3F

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

Outdoor Play

Get outside and play with your favorite summer toys... bikes, balls, slides, chalk, or maybe even with our watermelon sand! Enjoy the beautiful weather as well as working on your motor skills.

Summer Songs