This is a blog for the parents and families of the students in my pre-K classroom at Honeybunch Kids Preschool. This blog provides family members with information about what is happening in our classroom and in their children's education.
Insect left and right coloring page – Students will practice left and right by colorinv the left insect or the right insect on the paper.
Insect leg count – All insects have 6 legs. We will count many animals’ legs including insect to see how many legs they have.
Insect adding – Students will use insect manipulatives to count and add.
Science
Insect classification game –What makes an insect and insect? Where do insects live? What do insects eat? All of this and more will be covered in our game.
Heart Counting Sheet – Students count the number of hearts and write the number next to the hearts.
Heart patterns – We will be making patterns using hearts and
Science
Find Your Heart Quick Activity - Cut small pieces of paper into heart shapes and write “My Heart” on each shape. Make one for each child. Ask children if they know where their hearts are located in their bodies. Have them point to the spot. Help children secure the shapes on their chests with safety pins or tape to mark the spot where their hearts are located.
Listen to your heart - We will use a stethoscope to listen to each others hearts at rest. Then we will do some quick cardiovascular activities and listen to how our heart beat has changed.
Take a Look Inside – Each student will receive a print out of the body showing hearts, veins, arteries, and lungs. We will discuss what each of these are and what the do in our body to help us everyday.
Art
Body Model – each student will get a piece of paper with an outline of a body. Students will draw in the eyes, mouth, and nose. Then each student will glue a heart to the area they think the heart is located. We will decorate the body with hair and clothes.
Music
My heart is inside me.
Here, here, here. (medium voice, touch chest)
It beats very quietly.
Hear, hear, hear. (soft voice, touch ears)
My heart keeps me happy.
Cheer, cheer, cheer! (loud voice, arms up and out)
Language Arts
The Magic School Bus : Inside the Human Body / by Joanna Cole
The Magic School Bus : Has a Heart / by Joanna Cole
The beans we started growing yesterday. I hung them in the window to get plenty of sunlight. I sure hope they all grow.This is the graph we made using student's predictions on whether or not their seeds will grow. These are the flowers we are dyeing green with colored water. This helps students understand how plants get their nutrients and water. This photo was taken only an hour after adding the green food coloring to the water and already you can see changes.
Baggie Garden Graph - When doing the “Baggie Garden” activity, graph how many children think their seed will grow and how many think it will not. Graph their prediction and their results.
Garden Addition - We will use fruits and vegetables as manipulative for counting and adding.
Garden counting worksheets
Science
Flowers Food - Put a white carnation in a cup of colored water (darker color the better) and let your kids see how flowers drink water (the flower will take get its color changed as it takes in the water)
Baggie Garden - Wet a paper towel, and drop it along with six white beans into a Ziploc bag. Seal the baggie (leaving air in the bag) and put it in your window. Your children will love watching the beans grow.
Art
Flower Footprint – using finger paints we will take each child’s foot print and let them add the stem and leaves as well as any other decorations to make their footprint into a flower.
Paper Plate Sunflower - Give each student a paper plate. Have students attach yellow construction paper petals around the paper plate. They can then add sunflower seeds or oatmeal to the seed of the flower.
Glitter “G” – use Glue and Glitter to decorate a letter “G”
Language Arts
The letter “G” - We will be working all week with the letter “G”. “G” sounds, words that begin with “G”, and practice writing the letter “G”.
Grape coloring sheet with upper-case and lower-case “G”
Books
Busy in the garden / poems by George Shannon ; pictures by Sam Williams.
Whose garden is it? / Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Jane Dyer.
In my garden : a counting book ; by Ward Schumaker.
Toot & Puddle : how does your garden grow? / based on the teleplay by Kim Segal ; adapted by Laura F. Marsh.
This is a picture of one student's Barn Yard Animals book that the kids finally completed today.This is one of the frog puppets we made out of paper bags on Tuesday.
Barnyard addition worksheet - We will be counting and adding different farm animals.
Shapes on the farm - How many shapes can we find on the farm? There are circles, squares, rectangles and triangles everywhere.
Science
Farm animals and their babies – we will discuss farm animals and the proper names given to their babies.
Language Arts
Barn Yard Animals class book (French and English) – Each student will create his or her own book of animals found on the farm. They will color and write the name of the animal on each page.
Music
“There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”
“Old Mac Donald Had a Farm”
“The Farmer in the Dell”
“Ba-ba Black Sheep”
Art
Frog Puppet – students will make a frog puppet using paper bags.
Static electricity with balloons - Rub a balloon on your head, what happens? It is static electricity!
Balloon fun - Take two balloons and tie a string to each. Charge each balloon and hold them by the string. What happens? The balloons will not come together because they are both negatively charged. What happens when we only charge one balloon? Why do the balloons come together so easily?
Paper and plastic - Rub a sheet of plastic on a piece of paper and try to separate them.
Language Arts
“Thomas Edison: Inventor With a Lot of Bright Ideas” by Mike Venezia
“The Lightbulb” by Joseph Wallace
“Who Was Thomas Elva Edison?” by Margaret Frith
Art
Construction paper lampshade
Electricity mobile using appliances found in magazines
