The Letter A -Weekly Themed Activities

Our first letter of the week will be : A

I have put a large letter A on (our horribly ugly, I know) dining room floor, which also happens to be the kids play room(we eat in the kitchen!) with masking tape. The kids noticed it right away, and it is big enough that they can walk inside of it, as well as trace it with their fingers. We talk about it often, and although Sophia doesn't recognize the letter yet, I think that it is a fun way to expose her to one particular letter. And Roscoe makes sounds as he walks around it too! : )

I'm not really sure how I will end up formatting these ideas right now. Please bear with me as I figure this out! : )

Songs:

The Ants Go Marching -lyrics
ABC's

Science:

Apple Printing(Art)
Apple Tree-
take picture of tree right now.
what month is it?
what will the tree look like next month?


Math:

How many seeds are inside the apple?(while prepping for printing)
Shape bocks- copy cat

Large Motor:

Sailor Song(demo coming!)
Follow the Leader
Bicycle Journey across the City

Small Motor:

Puzzles
Coloring with crayons and markers
Practicing with scissors(Sophia only!)
Tracing Spirals, with fingers

Art:

Apple printing

Book of the week:

The Icky Sticky Anteater

Snacktime:

Applesauce- make applesauce with wee ones

Environment:

Construction Paper Flowers, decorated by the bambinos, honging in entry/doorways.

Background theme: SPRING!!!!

ok, I will have to come back and go into more detail at a later post.
I think that I need to get some sleep! ; )

WELCOME! An introduction to my new blog

Hello!

This is a new venture for me in blogland, headed in a different direction, from my other blog.

The point of this blog is to have an arena to share and get feedback on preschool ideas for my kids.

I have a three year old and a one year old at home with me, during the day. There is also a 14 year old who was the original "test subject" to my goofy ways. She's turning out pretty good so far, so I figured that even though we are at home, as opposed to the daycare situation my eldest daughter and I were in, now would be a good time to pull out the old memory files.

My plan at the onset of this is to publish my weekly lesson plans here. Now when I say lesson plan, I mean that in a fairly loose idea of the word. I have created a template for myself, but I am not quite sure how to put it up on my blog just yet... I'm working on learning some new things. The basic idea of having a lesson plan for me is to have a pool of ideas relating to a certain theme for a week, at a time. I will have no set time to do any of them, but would like to achieve most if not all of the activities with in a week's time period. I'd like to cover all the bases. I think having a checklist of sorts will help me to focus on areas that I might not automatically explore with the kids.

the categories involved will be :

1. a letter of the week


2. a book(or two) of the week


3. songs


4. gross motor activities


5. small motor activities


6. science


7. math


8. art

I know from working as a preschool teacher that I will usually be able to cover several categories with just one activity, but by having several ideas for each to choose from I will hopefully end up with a balanced set of learning activities.

Since this blog is only in it's very beginning stages, please bear with me. I am going to have to learn things along the way!

I welcome any comments, ideas, or thoughts, on not only my ideas, but any that you might want to share as well!

I hope that this works out, the way I see it in my head!

Welcome! and please come back again! : )