June 22, 2020 - Day 61 of Flexible Learning

Suzanne Flammer
Jun 21, 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: End of the Year/Red/White/Blue Spirit

Suggested Activities

Read Aloud - Red, White, and Boom!

Calendar Activities

Month of June Song

Days of the Week Song

Counting Song

StarFall Calendar

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

Firework Craft

You will need cupcake liners, scissors, paper, and a glue stick. Lay out the cupcake liners and scissors, and instruct your preschoolers to cut slits into the cupcake liners. The cupcake liners are fluted providing the kids with a guide for cutting. The center (or bottom or the liner) also has a line circling it. Instruct your preschooler to cut just to this line in the middle. Once the liners have all been cut, have your child glue them to a piece of paper, layering them to look like a firework display. Instruct your child to put glue on the center or bottom of the cupcake liner only to make the fireworks “pop.” Shown are red, blue, and white liners but remember fireworks are all different colors.

Shaving Cream Sensory Fireworks

You will need a pan, shaving cream, red and blue food coloring, toothpick or straw, cardboard, and paper. Start by filling up the pan with shaving cream. Use the stiff paper or cardboard to smooth out the shaving cream. Try to get it fairly level so the food coloring won’t run, but will stay in a circle when you drop it on the food coloring.

Drop red and blue paint in dots all over the shaving cream. Take a toothpick and start in the center drawing straight out, like making the rays on a sun. After doing so, you can use one drop of the opposite color in the middle for a cool, two-tone firework

When all the fireworks are done, lay the paper on the shaving cream and pat very gently to make a print. Let it set a minute and you might see the paint soaking into the paper from the other side. Gently peel the paper off of the shaving cream. Use a clean side of your stiff paper or cardboard to scrape off the excess shaving cream from the paper. You now have a beautiful fireworks painting!

Fireworks Snack

Cut up various fruits and thread onto to a skewer to create a firework. Allow your child to cut up fruit with a kid friendly knife and help to thread onto the skewer. Always remember these are just a suggestion of fruits - use what you have on hand.

Fourth of July/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.

Fouth of July Pack for a variety of themed printables

https://www.funwithmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Fourth-July-Printable-Pack.pdf

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.