Mail Carrier Preschool Theme

Today we talked about Mail Carriers!

Confessions of a Homeschooler has a Mail Carrier Unit that includes the hat above, the activities pictured below and some others as well.

 We watched this video that describes what a typical day for a mail carrier could be like and issues that they may have to deal with.  This topic is also a nice time to talk about writing letters, your address, and what it takes to mail a letter.

My son helped write a letter for someone and put it in the envelope.  Then when it was stamped and ready to go he dropped it in our mail drop box.  

My son hasn't felt so great the last few days so even though there is a lot more you could do with this fun theme I kept it basic and he had a good time.  Another idea I think is fun is to is to have children sort mail and set up a little post office.  They could sort letters by color or shape or number. 

Dentists/Teeth

Gathering Time:

Talk about going to the dentist (experiences they had)

Dentist Teeth Cleaning Video

Sing, “The Dentist Says”

Dental Health Game

Clyde Crocodile Story

Focus Activities:

Online games

Make Your Own Toothbrush

Practice brushing our teeth (go over all the areas we need to be sure to brush)

Activities from Musings of Me

Other Possibilities:

My son drew this picture of a tooth on our whiteboard.  He then put some yucky stuff on the tooth.

 After he brushed his teeth he came back, drew a toothbrush and toothpaste and erased the yucky stuff from his tooth.

 After we made our toothbrushes (see Focus Activities).  He pretended to brush more teeth he had drawn with the toothbrush.

RESOURCES:

http://www.kidssoup.com

http://www.preschoolexpress.com

http://www.colgate.com

http://www.storyplace.org

http://www.everythingpreschool.com

http://www.graspr.com

http://thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com

Farmers

I had a lot of stuff planned for today.  Months and months could be spent doing a farm theme and I packed our Farmers theme into one day, but I plan to do farm animals individually with time.  We did have a great time talking about Farmers.  I hope this day is enjoyable to look through.

Gathering Time:


Use Farming Puppets to explain what farmers do, the machines they can use, and animals on the farm.

Read “Click Clack Moo Cows that Type” by Doreen Cronin

Read “Cock-a-doodle-doo Barnyard Hullabaloo” by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz

Sing “If I Were a Farmer”

Sing “Old McDonald had a farm”- I used the visuals I already had, but check out this super cute idea from Oopsey Daisy for her Old McDonald visuals.

Johnny’s Barn- online story

Sing “Old McDonald”

Watch “Baby Einstein: Baby MacDonald- A Day on the Farm”

Focus Activities:

Animal Silhouette Matching Game

Potato Prints

Make Woolly Sheep

Pig Necklace

Other Possibilities:

Farmer Puppet (with toilet paper roll)

Farmer Coloring Page

Farmer and other animals (rainbow shapes)

Bill Grogan’s Goat

Play with Little People Animal Sounds Farm

RESOURCES:

www.preschooleducation.com

http://www.123child.com/

www.first-school.ws

www.deere.com

http://www.dltk-teach.com

www.preschoolexpress.com

www.makinglearningfun.com

Farm Animal Silhouette Matching Game

We are going to be doing a Farmer's theme tomorrow.  I've got lots of fun things planned.  One thing that we are going to do is a matching game with animals and silhouettes.  I thought I would explain briefly how I made mine.

I used my Cricut Machine and the Animal Kingdom Cartridge.  The same thing can be accomplished with clip art or any other animal cut outs you can find or make.

First I made silhouettes of each of the animals I decided to use.  Since the theme is about Farmers I used farm animals including a cow, rooster, duck, lamb, horse, goat, chicken, and pig.  Then I pasted them onto white card stock and laminated the pages.  You could also use a file folder and make it into a file folder game if you wanted.

 Then I made the regular versions of each animal and laminated then.  Laminating is optional, but it will help your materials last longer.

 Now your child can match each animal up with the corresponding silhouette.  Easy, easy!  My boys love matching games so I really hope they enjoy this one.

Check out our Farmers Theme for more farm ideas.

Bakers

Gathering Time Activities:

Baker Poster

Put puzzle pieces together to find out theme of the day

Sing Patty Cake

Making Bread Video
Put items in a bag sort through decide which ones a baker would use and which they wouldn't
Include: Measuring spoons
    Measuring cups
    Spatula
    Wooden spoon
    Mixing bowls
    Apron

Read "Grandpa and Me" by Karen Kratz


Sing, "This is the way we measure the ingredients, measure ingredients, measuring ingredients. This is the way we measure ingredients to bake yummy food."
And


Focus Activities:

Knead dough to use to bake rolls

Memory game of what bakers use and what they bake

I took pictures of these items and printed them off to make this game.

Muffin Tin Game

Bake a cake

RESOURCES:

http://www.makinglearningfun.com

http://www.everythingpreschool.com

http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/food.html

http://www.first-school.ws

 

Preschool Activities June 1-5

June 1- Letter "B"

Language Arts	Put things in a "bag" that start with the letter B
Math	Play with Blocks- separate by color
Science/Cooking	Make Banana pudding and eat it with bananas
Music/Gross Motor	Stomp on bubble wrap
Art/Fine Motor	B Puppets

June 2- Bees

Language Arts	Buzzy Bee
Math	Here is a Beehive practice counting the bees
Science/Cooking	Talk about beehives and bee pollination
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee"
Art/Fine Motor	Make a Bee

June 3- Bubbles

Language Arts	Counting bubbles song
Math	Count how many bubbles we can before they pop
Science/Cooking	Make homemade bubbles
Music/Gross Motor	Sing Ten Little Bubbles
Art/Fine Motor	Bubble Wrap Art

June 5- Bakers

Language Arts	Missing Alphabet letter cards
Math	Muffin Tins
Science/Cooking	Make muffins
Music/Gross Motor	Go to the grocery store and watch the bakers
Art/Fine Motor	Baker cut and paste

Preschool Activities May 27-29

May 27- Kites

Language Arts	Five Little Kites (flannel board)
Math	Kite Matching (colors) Game
Science/Cooking	How Far did the kite go?
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "Let's Go Fly A Kite" from Mary Poppins
Art/Fine Motor	Paper Plate Kite

May 28- Mail Carriers

Language Arts	Writing and mailing letters
Math	Using mail carrier bag deliver different colored envelopes to correct pouch (I will make colored envelopes and colored pouches to match and put them around the house)
Science/Cooking	Explain what goes on at a post office
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "I'm a Mail Carrier"
Art/Fine Motor	Mail Carrier bag (Post Office)

May 29- Picnics

Language Arts	The Picnic Day
Math	Sorting Game
Science/Cooking	Put everything for our picnic together and go on our picnic
Music/Gross Motor	Sing Picnic Packing
Art/Fine Motor	Cut pictures out of a magazine that could be taken on a picnic and glue onto a piece of paper