May 27, 2020 - Day 44 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min read
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: Zoo
Suggested Activities
Read Aloud - If You Were a Panda Bear
Mrs. McAuliffe's Jefferson Media Site Read Alouds
Calendar Activities
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Panda Bear Fork Painting Craft
Dip the back of a fork in white paint and press it down on your paper to make fork prints.
Start printing round in a circle to make your panda’s face. Keep printing with your fork until you have covered a whole circle for your panda’s face. Then make a second, slightly larger circle below it for his body. Once the white paint is dry dip your fork into black paint to add the black stripes. Start printing all around the panda’s body. Print two little circles at the bottom of the body (in black paint again) to make the panda’s paws. Cut out shapes for the ears, eyes, nose and paws using black paper. No paper paper - use markers/crayons to add the panda’s ears, eyes and nose. Then cut two small circles from white paper for the pads of his paws or use paint... so cute!
Zoo STEM Activity
Gather toilet paper rolls, corks, toothpicks, marshmallows, index cards and thick popsicle sticks as well as plastic animals that you would find at the zoo. Once the supplies all set up, select a challenge card. This activity is full of possibilities because it is open ended. It challenges children to build and create but gives them some limitations and challenges to focus their creating. The below link provides the printable for the various building challenges. No printer, make up your own... again, the purpose is to challenge your child to problem solve with the supplies to build structures for the zoo animals. Please follow the link to the bottom of the page to download cards.
Zoo Animal Bath Sensory Play
Just fill a plastic tub with a squirt of bubble bath and some warm water. Add zoo animals and sponges and your preschooler will have a ball! This super fun sensory bin is easy to set up and literally takes just 5 minutes! Scrub, Scrub! Bring this activity outside if the weather permits.
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
Animal Track Jump!
Different colored sidewalk chalk is the only item needed to play! Find a section on the sidewalk or on your driveway to draw a line of animal tracks. Draw tracks down the sidewalk in colored groups. In each color, draw a different number of animal tracks.
Have your child start at the beginning of the line of animal tracks. Now it’s time to play!
Counting Tracks – Jump from track to track while counting. Your child can count the tracks in the first color and then start at one again when jumping to the next color. Or your child can jump and count from the first to the last animal track to find the total!
Track Colors – Jump from track to track while naming the color that is being jumped on! “Blue, blue, blue, blue, red, red, red, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!”
Just Jumping – For the younger learners who are not counting or recognizing colors quite yet, this game can be played by jumping from track to track! Jump forwards and backwards. And while your child jumps, you can say the colors or count along!
Zoo Songs
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