June 8, 2020 - Day 51 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- Jun 7, 2020
- 5 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 as well as self esteem - a sense of pride and achievement for your preschooler.
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 Very Lonely Firefly
Calendar Activities
Month of June Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Firefly Crafts
Paint a cardboard tube to resemble the body of a firefly. Painted the top 2/3 brown and the bottom 1/3 with white and yellow stripes or just yellow. Set it aside to dry. Draw and cut out two sets of wings. Glue them to the back of the cardboard tube. Draw the pieces for the head of your firefly from the construction paper - 1 green circle for the face, a red circle for the nose, two yellow circles and two smaller blue circles for the eyes, and two brown antennae. Have your child cut out the shapes on their own. Glue the pieces to the green face. You may draw the face on the green circle, too. Then glue the completed face to the front of your cardboard tube. Let dry.
Cut some strips out of tissue paper. Have your child brush on a layer of glue to the center of the bottle. This is going to create the body of your firefly! Apply the tissue paper onto the area that has the glue and smooth it out. Add another layer of glue on top. Once the glue is dry, wrap 3 pipe cleaners around the bottle and twist to form the legs. Cut two wings out of the foam or colored paper and glue them to the top with glue. Put your glow stick inside! Stick the eyes on the lid and wrap another pipe cleaner around it for the antenna. And now you have the cutest little firefly!
Glitter Sensory Bottles
Glitter Sensory Bottle Materials:
16 oz water bottle with water
Glitter glue (I bought mine in a 3 pack at the dollar store – each bottle is 3oz)
Glitter
Glue gun
This first part should be done by an adult. You will want to be sure anytime you are using small objects that you supervise your child carefully and keep these away from kids who are likely to put things in their mouths. Open up your water bottle and pour out a small amount, equal to a sip of water. If the bottle is full it will overflow when you start to add the glitter glue. Give your child an open bottle of water and some glitter glue. Help your child to start squeezing the glitter glue into the bottle. You will want to use at least 3/4 of a 3oz bottle of glitter glue. This is a great fine motor activity for kids as they use their small hand muscles to squeeze all the glitter glue out. When your child is done squeezing the glue into the bottle, they can choose a color of loose glitter to add to the bottle. Now my favorite part – shaking up the bottle. Shake up, down, sideways and every which way. When you first start shaking, the glitter glue with break into small clumps. But steady, vigorous shaking will break up the clumps and mix the colors of glitter. The final step in the process is to hot glue the cap to the bottle so your child will not be able to open it up. This is an adults only step. You should still supervise your child when they are using the sensory bottle. These calming bottles make great a mindfulness - calming jar.
Firefly Number Catch
This a cute game to practice number, social, and language skills. The below link will provide the printable for this game. No printer - use a jar and up to 10 items - plastic toy animals, blocks, cars, buttons, etc. Say, "Put 2 fireflies in the jar. Take 1 out of the jar. Top came off - They all flew away" And so on. Object of the game is to get 10 fireflies in the jar. Game is even better if played with more than 1 player. Remember to scroll to the botom of the link for the download.
Summer/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 Summer Pack for a variety of summer 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 Outside
Enjoy your favorite outside summer activity!
Miss Melinda's Music Class
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