F is for FALL!!

Letter: F
Book: Fall Leaves Fall

We are going to the pumpkin patch this week so we are only focusing on Fall for one day. We were able to include a lot of fun activities.

Counting Leaves:
Roll the dice and have the students count the dots. Have them pick the corresponding number of leaves and count them as they place them in a pile, bag etc.
Leaves on the first letter of their name. We cut out small leaves (die cut or cricut) and they glued them onto the first letter of their name. I decided to add the rest of their name and put the names on the classroom door.



Leaf Press:
Materials needed:
real leaves in red, orange and yellow
Packing tape
Have the students place the leaves on the sticky side of the packing tape. Place another piece on top and send home to put in the window or use to decorate classroom bulletin boards as borders.
Fingerprint trees: We used colored ink pads and brown crayons to make these beautiful works of art!

Week 3: Red, Yellow and Blue

Letter: B
Books: Alpha Tales Bubble Bear
Mouse Paint by: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty (We are working on this rhyme all month)


Dressing up during music time. Humpty, The Horse and The Kings Man


For the literacy center we pre made crayons with each students name on it and cut it into a puzzle. The students had to put the puzzle together and then got to practice taping it together. This was their favorite part.

For science we placed white daisies in water. We added red, yellow and blue food coloring and predicted what would happen.

Here is the flowers the next day when they had started to change colors.

We made an "All about our Class" book. Each child completed this page with the help from a teacher in small groups. We took a picture of them wearing their crayon crown and added it in the corner. I am going to laminate this and make it a book to put in our class library.

At the math center we sorted and counted color bears.

Here is the before of the crayon crown.

Here is the after of the crayon crown.

I gave each student a paper with their name written on it in either red, yellow or blue. At the writing center they could choose from red, yellow or blue markers to write and decorate their name.

Week 2: All About ME

Letter: A
Books: Alpah Tales The Adventures of Abby Alligator
I Love You Stinky Face by: Lisa McCourt

We traced our bodies, decorated the clothes and made paper plate faces!


The students asked their friends what color their eyes were and picked the hair color they wanted.
We also traced their hands and added them to the bodies

Here are the paper plate faces. In the past I have used giant google eyes which look GREAT!!! I was just out this year.

We measured how tall each student was using real apples and then the students helped the teachers make this comic strip bubble to put over their head. They loved measuring themselves with apples. I think we will do pumpkins next month.

Week One: Cars and Trucks

Start Your Engines: It's Time For Preschool!

Paint a car or truck. Use oversized art paper. Draw a rectangle on the paper and make students paint just the rectangle. Then I asked if they wanted a car or truck and I painted the window part. I let the students paint the wheels and add as much glitter as the wanted to make their cars 'shiny'.






Car collage

I got the car picture out of The Mailbox. We enlarged it and copied it on colored paper. We allowed the students to decorate with colored pasta, buttons, foam shapes, sequins and of course my favorite medium...glitter!!

Cars made from shapes

We talked about what shapes made up a car and then I let the students paste pre-cut shapes to their hearts content. I asked them to tell me about their car and I wrote down exactly what they said. Here are some of my favorites:
"Mine is a recycling truck"
"Big Car Crash"
"My Clown car"
"Barbie Car"
"Mine is big. The biggest."
"Monster TRUCK!!"


We also matched trucks and trailers that had letters on them for the literacy center.
We counted and patterned mini cars for the math center.