WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS - these items are added to the markers, crayons, and paper that is always available.
LEARNING "TRAYS" - I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy's can choose.
letter and winter-theme foam stickers, name stamping (pdf via 1+1+1=1), prewriting skill practice (pdf via confessions of a homeschooler) skills practiced: fine motor, printing name/letters, letter recognition, creativity, phonics |
LEARNING "TRAYS" - I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy's can choose.
story sequencing cards - big buddy puts the cards in the correct order and then explains the pictures/story to me. skills practiced: sequencing, communicating thought, vocabulary |
fishing for letters and numbers (tutorial and further description found here) skills practiced: letter and numeral recognition, counting, fine motor, knowledge of social activities |
match rhyming snowflakes (pictures via prekinders) skills practiced: comparing, phonics, rhyming |
sorting polar and non polar animals (cards via national geographic kids) skills practiced: sorting, comparing, knowledge of animals |
snowflake matching (pdf via confessions of a homeschooler) skills practiced: comparing, sorting |
snowman colors (activity via prek + k sharing) skills practiced: colors, fine motor, sorting |
winter size sort (pdf available here) skills practiced: sizes, vocabulary, ordering |
tonging pom pom's - the boys will also use this to practice patterns skills practiced: fine motor, patterns, working from left to right |
polar region and winter puzzles skills practiced: fine motor, spatial reasoning, problem solving, |
winter-themed pattern puzzles (pdf via prekinders) skills practiced: fine motor, geometry, spatial reasoning |
snowball numbers (pdf via 1+1+1=1) skills practiced: counting, fine motor, numeral recognition |
clothes-pinning numbers skills practiced: counting, fine motor, numeral recognition |
lacing mitten (mitten is card-stock glued onto a cereal box) skills practiced: fine motor |
snow play-dough skills practiced: fine motor, creativity |
winter sensory bin (fake snow, tin lined with foil colored blue, shovel, and polar figures) skills practiced: imagination, creativity, fine motor, knowledge of polar regions |
don't break the ice skills practiced: social, fine motor, cause and effect, logical reasoning |
painting with polar animal stencils (stencils are from michaels) skills practiced: creativity, fine motor, knowledge of polar animals |
So far we have been enjoying this unit. The boys especially love ice fishing and playing Don't Break the Ice. Now if only the weather would cooperate, we could enjoy a few "real" winter activities.
P.S. To see our other winter unit please click here. You can visit our homeschool page for more theme units and educational ideas.
Lots more great kid friendly ideas can also be found at these link parties: Link and Learn, Weekly Kid Co-op, Montessori Monday, Hip Homeschool Hop, Preschool Corner, For the Kids Fridays, and Show and Share Saturday.
wow! so many wonderful ideas! i love the winter tangrams! thanks for stopping by to check out my sensory bin! i'm also a new follower!
ReplyDeleteandie @ crayonfreckles
What a great set of activities! Thanks for sharing!
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You have done lots of great activities. Thanks for the inspiration. From montessori Monday hop.
ReplyDeleteVeronica @ http://watchmeplaynlearn.blogspot.com/2012/01/week-19-day-3-fluffy-white-stuff.html
The lacing mitten is so cute! Great ideas!
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Some wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing and inspiring a bit for the preschool mom as well!
ReplyDeleteRachel, you are so sweet! Your comments made me smile. I am so glad I am not the only one with dirty snow play dough!
ReplyDeleteI hope you will come share all these wonderful ideas at WOTT this week!
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Great ideas! I just recently discovered your blog and it is very inspiring. I plan on trying many of your activities with my preschooler. I am wondering where did you find your plastic trays? I've been looking everywhere for some colorful trays, but all I find are either too big or too small.
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Thank you for the inspiration. I love the winter theme and I can use many of these activity with my tot. I am pinning these and many other from your site to my boards for setting up tot trays. Thanks to Pinterest.
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