Letter L/Ladybug Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter L and ladybugs.  Here is the link to the printable pack for this theme.  

We did letter L things on Starfall's site.  

There are some great songs, fingerplays, and books about ladybugs out there. I came across these cute stick puppets that have words to songs that I put together to do with my son since he has loved the other stick puppets we have made.

A couple of our favorite books about ladybugs are "Five Little Ladybugs" by Melanie Gerth and "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle.

For a little craft I had my son paint a paper plate red and another one black.

When the paint dried he drew dots on it with a black marker and I cut it in half.  I think it'd also be cute to paint the top of their fingertip and have them dot the ladybug that way too.  Then I attached a brad to all three paper plates so it looked like a ladybug. I cut out a half circle for him to glue on top for the head and we added some pipe cleaner for the antennae.  I didn't have any black, but my son thought the orange was a good color to use instead.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

My son has also been enjoying Sesame Street letter activities so we found some letter L things on that website as well.

Letter K/Kites

It's Friday!  My son wanted to do the Letter K today so we did, but we kept it "easy peasy" as he likes to say.  We did some Letter K/K printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We also did some activities from 2 Teaching Mommies Kite Printable Pack.

We did this kite matching game that I made years ago.

 We also watched the clip at the end of Mary Poppins where they sing "Let's Go Fly a Kite".

We visited Starfall and did the Letter K activities and we also visited Sesame Street's Site and watched several letter K videos there.

Child Care Lounge has a great collection of Kite activities too.

Letter J/Jellybeans Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter J and in particular jellybeans!  My son thought that was a great theme.  Here are some of Confessions of a Homeschooler's Letter J activities in her jellybean pack.

He had fun making a graph of how many jellybeans we had of each color, but he had more fun eating them!

Here is a simple math activity.  I got out 5 plastic cups and wrote the numbers 1-5 on them.

Then I had him put the number of jellybeans in each cup to match the number.  The cup with 1 he put 1 jellybean in and so forth.

Teach Your Tot has a great collection of letter j/jellybean activities to check out as well including this J craft done of out jellybeans.

Showing off his letter J.

And as always with alphabet/letter days we visited Starfall and did the activities for the letter of the day.

Letter I/Inchworm Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter I for inchworm.  Here is the link to the printables we have been using for the letters of the alphabet.

We visited Starfall and did the letter I activities.

We also watched a video clip of Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni since we do not own the book.  It is a cute story about an inchworm.  

I came across a cute inch worm craft that I knew we had to try ourselves.  You need paper, paint, a plastic fork, and some little strips of paper for the inchworms.  Here is my son enjoying the painting process using a fork instead of a paint brush.

 The paint is the grass and then he glued the strips of paper so we could have inchworms.

Letter H/Hippo Preschool Theme

 Today was a pretty basic day.  We visited Starfall to do the letter H activities there.

We did some activities from Confessions of a Homeschooler's Letter H printables.

My son also enjoyed painting these coloring pages. The one on the left is found here with other hippo activities.  The one on the right can be found here with other coloring pages.

Letter G/Gumball Preschool Theme

My son has been really into doing the letters of the alphabet which is why that is what we have been doing a lot of lately.

Today we talked about the Letter G and gumballs!  It was kind of a light day as far as activities go, but still fun.  We did of course, visit Starfall's site to do the Letter G.

We also did Confession's of a Homeschoolers printables for the letter G.

My son loves to paint the letters so he chose green as his main color today since it starts with G.

Then I found a gumball template and had him glue pom poms to it so they looked liked gumballs in a machine.

He had a lot of fun doing that.  Then we counted how many there were and how many of each color.  I found the template at Making Learning Fun which also has a lot of other gumball related activities.

Farmers Preschool Theme

Anyone out there ever plan and organize and get things ready for a preschool day only to have your preschooler not want anything to do with the theme you have ready to go?  Yep, that was today.

Instead of giving up I was determined to show him how fun it could be.  There are so many great ideas for 

Farm Themes out there and talking about different farm animals can be great fun.

I started by singing, "Old McDonald Had a Farm"  I thought maybe using the different animal noises would get him interested.  He listened quietly, but didn't join in.

We love books at our house so I offered to read him some books.  Little did he know that the books went along with our theme.  We read "Click,Clack, Moo. Cows That Type", "Cock-a-doodle-doo!  Barnyard Hullabaloo" and "The Cow That Laid an Egg".  Thankfully, he did enjoy that.

I pulled out all the farm themed activities I had and my son asked about this silhouette matching game I made a few years ago. He asked if he could do it.  Hooray!

Then he saw this Color the Pig book and thought it looked fun. (She has an entire farm printable pack)

So he colored away (while he ate a snack...)

 He also found this cutting activity from this Preschool Farm Pack.  He is learning how to cute and has been enjoying using scissors.

He has really been enjoying stick puppets as well so when he saw these from this Farm Life Unit Study he got pretty excited.

There are some great printable packs out there that I have used in the passed I want to make sure I share.  This one from Musings of Me.

2 Teaching Mommies always has great printables including their Farm pack.

This Reading Mama also has a huge printable pack worth checking out.

Here is another fun Farm Pack.

1+1+1=1 has some fun Farm printables.

Here are some cute printables that can be used for a flannel board.

Baby Einstein's Baby McDonald is a fun video to watch for introducing kids to farm themed things.

You can check out what we did a few years ago here.

Letter F/Fish Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter F for Fish.  

Check out Starfall's letter F activities.

Confessions of a Homeschooler's letter F/Fish printables can be found here.

Here is a fun little activity from these printables using goldfish crackers.

We are big fans of  "The Pout-Pout Fish" and "The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark" by Deborah Diesen and Daneil X. Hanna.  We had fun reading both books.

We sang a little fish song.  

"Ten little fish swam in the sea.  Red, blue, and some were green.  They swam all over until one said, 'I am tired.  I'm going to bed.'" Then repeat down to one fish.  These are some visuals I have had on hand.

This is a little math activity I made years ago.  Give the fish the corresponding amount of worms.  I did it freehand and it has been a fun little activity for my little ones.

Of course, we had to have more fun with goldfish so we sorted these goldfish by color and counted how many of each color we had.

Then my son painted on a paper plate and we made a little fish.  He has had a great time playing with it.

The fish was swimming.  Kind of looks like he is about to take a bite of my son to me.

 Pretty easy, yet really fun day for us.

Letter E/Elephant Preschool Theme

 Today we talked about the letter E and what goes along perfectly with the letter E?  Elephants, of course!

Visit Starfalll for the letter E activities there.

Here are a few of the activities from Confessions of a Homeschooler that we did today.

My son always enjoys doing the lacing card and he looks like he is concentrating so hard on it.

I don't have a source for this cute elephant because it was a copy I got while I was a college student.  We sang a cute elephant song with it though.

"One elephant went out to play on a spider's web one day.  

He had such enormous fun he called for another elephant to come."

The song can continue on going up a number to fit your needs.  You could also put some tape on the ground to pretend it is a spider's web.

Here is a cute elephant craft with paint and a handprint.  There are some other cute elephant themed activities on this site as well.

Here is a great resource for elephant printables, crafts, and a few videos we had fun watching.

This site has  a fun collection of elephant themed books to read with your little one.