All About Me Preschool Theme

 Today we had an "All About Me" preschool theme.  We looked at pictures of my son as he has grown up the last 3 years and talked about how he used to be a baby, but has since grown and learn to do lots of new things.

One of his favorite activities was visiting Starfall and doing the "All About Me: Who Am I?" section.  Children can make themselves and then make a pet and a bedroom among some other activities.

Another favorite activity that we have done with this theme and did again this year was watch a Sesame Street video clip with Will.i.am singing "What I Am" with Sesame Street characters.  It is a fun song with a great beat and a great message.

I love Mercer Mayer's Little Critter books and there are several that I think go great with this theme.  Here are the ones we read today

"I Was So Mad"

"When I Get Bigger"

"I Just Forgot"

"All By Myself"

We talked about different body parts and sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"  We also used these cards to point to different body parts.

 The same site also has an All About Me booklet I printed off and let my son color on and fill out.

 Here is my son coloring his eye blue since he has blue eyes.

 I also printed off a few pages from this "I Am Special" book for him to do as well.

I also found a great resource for making your own tracing pages to print off here.  I printed one off with my son's name written on it and we talked about the different letters in his name.

Last year was geared to my son who was nearly 5 so if you are looking for older activities you can check it out here.

Letter Rubbings

We have been doing activities that have to do with name recognition.  Here is an idea I found at http://www.preschoolexpress.com/ I used a piece of paper and put letters of the boys names on it.  Then we took a second piece of paper, put it on top of the taped paper and they used a crayon to make the letter appear! 

Name Unscrambling Game

Here is a little game we played today to work on name recognition.  I wrote all the letters of the boy's names down, cut them up, folded the paper, and put them in a hat.  Then the boys took turns picking out a piece of paper.  First they had to decide if that letter was in their name or their brothers and then once we got all of the letters out of the hat we unscrambled the letters to spell out their names.  Then we reviewed each letter in their name.  Both of them are great about recognizing the first letter in the name and the first letter in the others name, but not so much the other letters so this was a fun way  practice.

Preschool Activities February 15-19, 2010

Number 8

Language Arts- Read "Eight Silly Monkeys"

Math- Make a necklace with eight pieces of froot loops (or another dry cereal)

Science/Cooking- Use flannel board octopus to talk about their 8 "legs"

Gross Motor/Music- Sing "Eight Silly Monkeys" (jumping on the bed)

Art/ Fine Motor- Decorating the Number 8

All About ME

Language Arts- Read "All By Myself" by Mercer Meyer

Math- Make a height/weight chart

Science/Cooking- Talk about healthy foods and why we should eat things that are good for our body. Have a healthy snack

Gross Motor/Music- Sing "If You're Happy and You Know It" (change happy to other emotions as well and use appropriate visuals of each emotion)

Art/ Fine Motor- Make an "All About Me" book (include favorite things) draw and/or cut and paste things from magazines



Language Arts- Practice writing name

Math- Count how old we are on our fingers, write down the number

Science/Cooking- Look in the mirror and talk about different body parts- note that we all look different

Gross Motor/Music- Dance to music using different parts of the body

Art/ Fine Motor- draw a self-portrait



Language Arts- Read "I Was So Mad" by Mercer Meyer

Math- trace handprints and foot prints and measure how long they are

Science/Cooking- Put up flannel board cut out of a child, but put body parts in the wrong spot, have child correct it

Gross Motor/Music- Sing "Head, Shoulders, knees and toes"

Art/ Fine Motor- Make a "Me" puppet

Preschool Activities March 11-13

Language Arts	Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with felt (spell name when done)
Math	Count how many letters there are in name
Science/Cooking	Make pancakes spelling name (dinner)
Music/Gross Motor	Sing alphabet again.
Art/Fine Motor	Memory Book Cover

March 12

Language Arts	Floor letters with name
Math	Count how many letters of name we find in cereal
Science/Cooking	Using Alphabet cereal and letters from name put in water and see what happens ahs they get wet.
Music/Gross Motor	Walk around taped name- see L.A. activity
Art/Fine Motor	Make alphabet book- file box

March 13- Number 1

Language Arts	Write number 1 using beans
Math	Look for the number 1 around our house
Science/Cooking	Show pictures and talk about first birthday and brother's
Music/Gross Motor	Hickory Dickory Dock Game
Art/Fine Motor	Circling Ones

Preschool Activities for March 3, 4

March 3

Language Arts	Bees and hive matching (this is from my personal file. The bees have a capital letter written on them, the hive has the lower case letters)
Math	count while making snack- see snack
Science/Cooking	Make Cereal Trail Mix (you can make up your own trail mix)
Music/Gross Motor	Sing Bingo spelling out name- works for a five letter name
Art/Fine Motor	Car Tracks

March 4

Language Arts	Write name using playdoh
Math	Count how many letters there are in your name using the playdoh letters
Science/Cooking	Squish bags using playdoh
Music/Gross Motor	Sing "Popcorn Popping"
Art/Fine Motor	Practicing opening and closing hands with science activity and song

As you can see you don't have to do anything big and grand. Most of these activities take only a small amount of preparation on your part if any at all, yet they are still wonderful things to do with your child.
Here is a video of a couple of kids doing the song if you need to learn the actions. I don't know these kids, it's just something I found on www.youtube.
I hope this format is easier to follow and understand than how I posted yesterday!