E is for emergency-Fire prevention week preschool and baby lessons

Scripture:Don't play with fire(sin)D&C 1:31
 31 For I the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance;

Emergency plan:Know how to have eternal life.1.Light fire in our hearts-know who you are,why you are here and where you are going.2.Fight fear and doubt with waters of baptism and faith3.climb the ladder-read scriptures and learn line upon line4.listen to the alarm(the spirit)5.put on your fire proof clothing like the armor of God.

Photograph by Steve Bunderson
Just Once Will Hurt! Toying with sin is like playing with fire. Don’t get burned.

Letter:E
Number:9

Color:red

Nursery Rhyme:Lady bug lady bug fly away home

Ladybug!  Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children all gone.

All except one,
And that's little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan.

For baby:ages6months -4 years old.Use my lady bug plastic eggs.Hide under a frying pan.Have baby guess where it is.This teaches them an object is there even if we can't see it.They can feel the egg and of course it will go in the mouth!

When there is something wrong in your neighborhood. Who you going to call?....not ghost busters.......911

When your home is burning and the fire alarm is beeping.Who you going to call?.....911

We used a play phone to practice dialing 911

We read some books.

A fireman
Author Unknown

This brave fireman is going to bed
(Hold up right thumb.)
Down on the pillow he lays his head
(Put right thumb onto left palm.)
And plans to sleep this way all night
(Close eyes.)
But the fire alarm rings! He opens his eyes!
(Open eyes.)
Quickly he’s dressed and down the pole he slides
(Right hand slides down left arm in a grip from elbow to wrist.)
Then he climbs on the truck to go, go, go!
(Hands steer imaginary steering wheel.)


This week is fire prevention week.This years theme is kitchen fires.I made some flames in a play house and we pretended to come to the rescue.

We also talked about 2 ways out and stop drop and roll.

Don't play with fire-We don't play with matches but we can play with match cars..vroooom!

The rest of the letter E

      

Letter E continues with having the kids match up the plastic egg pieces.Then they wanted to hide them.We rolled them on the tile floor.I pretended that they were turkeys and stuffed their shirt.They would stand up and then they would all fall out again.

 The rest of the time we made animals that would go inside eggs and we talked about mammals,reptiles, and birds.Here are some of our creations!

Snake

Snake and its eggs

Dragon

Rowen creation.He liked the big eyes

 

 

I mentioned on the last post that I had made an elf and this is where the kids found him!

Letter E,purple and the number 5

 

Circle time:Intro to letter E and sound. and Days of the week.We read The Elves and the Shoemakers.We talked about how it is nice to help others without being asked or to do secret acts of service.

Next we practiced writing our E and tracing it with our finger for the Tot.I had him find the purple crayon and make a picture.

I laid  out a whole bunch of shoes and had the kids count.My Lexi counted by twos and we decided that was a faster way of counting. We counted to 5 but agreed that you couldn't have one shoe without its mate.

Next I had the kids try on the shoes and we talked about when we would wear them.What does a ballerina wear? What about a soccer player or a fireman? I put on some music and had them dance in the shoes.My daughter pretended to be the Mommy and walked Rowen all over for pretend errands.








E is for Elf.I made this elf with paper and toilet paper roll.Lex used him to pretend to make the shoes. I will be using him for my elf on a shelf.Tomorrow will be his first antic.

Review Letter E and squash bugs!

I can't believe that April is almost over. It has been fun starting this blog. I am still playing with ideas so feedback would be much appreciated!

I am not going to mention circle time unless there is something new to report. It is pretty repetitive but we mostly talk about our day,songs, finger plays and the weather. We will often do a story too.

Writing/language: Sow we reviewed letter E as in egg and elephant.

We are crazy about bugs at least the ones that don't bite or sting! I saw this on pre-kpages.com.The activity is called In the tall tall grass.

Need: 1.construction paper or I used scrap book paper.2.scissors.

First fold the bottom of the paper up to not quite halfway. This will be your flap and the place to hide your bugs. Cut the top of the flap to look like blades of grass.

 Next I made my bugs from clip art.I decided to use it as a review for sounds that we have been working on.1.A for ant.B for butterfly.C for caterpillar.D for dragonfly.F for fly and G for grasshopper. I then did  different numbers for each bug for ex.2 butterflies.Cut them out and hide them in the grass.

 

The last step is to write out a sheet that says I  can see___butterflies. Continue for each one.  I see 2 butterflies.Sorry I need to get a better camera.

Our next activity was a ton of fun!I call it Bug Stomping. I took those same bugs and put them on the floor. Then I cut small pieces of paper to draw randomly.The sounds were A-D and F,and G. When I called out a sound. The kids picked out the bug that started with that sound and squashed it with their own shoes.

Here we go ready?!.................b buh.......

SMASH!

Toddler time: Letter recognition with ABC song and hearing sounds.Counting and gross motor skills and coordination for squishing bugs! Gross motor skills uses the big muscles like running,jumping,climbing and balance. Fine motor skills and hand eye coordination for picking bugs up. Fine Motor skills are using the smaller muscles like hands cutting paper, and picking things up.Color green.

Preschool Party:Writing and Language.Letter E sound recognition and application.Listening and following directions.Using both motor skills.Counting and grouping.I am also trying to increase my daughters attention span for Kindergarten.

Thanks for playing with us! Next week we will be doing the letter K,l and X.Themes will be about me and my family kindness,filling our buckets and bees.



Review letters E,I and G, and the color red

At the end of the month I like to do a review. This month we were working on letters E,I and G. We practiced our sounds A-I. My daughter is having problems with some of the sounds so we will keep practicing. There really is no rush.

Circle time and toddler time.We sang the welcome song we do every time. If I find it online I will let you know.Head shoulders knees and toes and other fun songs. Talk about the weather and log it in her book. Went to her desk and practiced writing the letter E from top to bottom or what most teachers call the school way. My daughter wanted to draw a butterfly so she did. We also talked about the days of the week.

Math-I gave the kids a plate. We talked about its color,red. It is a circle.Then I had them pick the fruit and food from the hungry caterpillar week. They picked 5.Then I asked them how many were red. I had to help my toddler count.Picture is above.We also took a muffin tin and put a number 1-5 in each tin. We made our first brown bag popcorn.It worked and is so much cheaper! They put the number of popcorn in the corresponding tin of the same number

I might start to add behavior goals or manners to the mix. Today we did sharing. My toddlers favorite words are "mine" and "no". We practiced holding the doll and giving it kisses or hugs. I laid on the praise! We will be practicing that for sure more often!

10:00am-Snack and outside time

10:30-11:30-I did something different. I noticed that teachers do centers but as I do not have that much space I just broke up my room into 4 sections. The kids could stay in their center for 15 minutes and then switch. My daughter didn't want to switch but stay in the art center so tomorrow she promised she would try switching so we will see. The 4 centers we had were art center, reading, dress up and puzzles.

11:30am-lunch and outside time.Often times we will go outside for a picnic. Today we did sand play the kids kept making me things to eat. Soon to come is a water table I hope!

 

12-2 Naps and books and my TV time. It is usually cut short by the kids wanting to watch their shows.

 2-snacks and outside play.Then we pick up my first grader.

4-study time.I have already witnessed too many moms with kids who swear they have no homework so I call it study time and depending on the age is how long of a time it is. If your teenagers pull that and you don't know what to teach have them just sit at the table.Maybe their homework will magically appear! For my Pre-K I did a flip book that I got from the school that they want us to do everyday. It has a parent side and a kids side. In this one she had to point to colors as they were mentioned in a story.

This is the schedule that I am sticking with for now. Hope you enjoy my page!

Last day of Letter E

   Story time!Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.........its time for finger puppets so why you read the story to your kids them can act it out.Just go todltk-kids.com to print out these cute finger puppets.My oldest son is too cool to participate.My daughter didn't want to color. It is just one of those days.
                                         

Eyes:They are a very important sense that we have.I chose 5 items and had them memorize them.Then I had them close their eyes and I took something away.They then had to guess what was missing.We did this a few times.Then I had them close their eyes and keep them closed.It was a lot harder to for them to even find it so I had to guide their hands to find them items.The children picked each one up to determine what they are.Next I had the kids walk to each room with eyes closed.My oldest said he could find his way by touching the walls and feeling with his feet.We then walked outside and I asked them what they noticed.They said they felt a breeze.They heard wind chimes and cars driving by.They were bare foot so I asked them if they felt anything on their feet and they could tell when they moved from the side walk to the grass.

Today is a good day to mention that things don't always go as planned so I didn't make it through the lesson.We had to talk about why we don't hit and scratch each other instead..We talked about all the good things hands can do like pick up toys, grab things,eat and drink,pour milk,hold hands,hugs.Then I asked them to say what bad things hands can do and of course they knew it already.It was no problem to say hit,punch,slap each other in face or bottom.I have tried the positive response to good behavior but it is easy to get lost in the stress and having to be mindful.

                                       

What we have above is our new behavior color system. I got the idea from teachingheart.net. To make this all you need is an envelope with each kids name on it and construction paper.The colors you will need are as follows.Green means its been a great day.Yellow means warning be careful.Orange means a loss of privilege which you let them know in the warning stage.Red means time out in room and a call to dad.Or it could mean missing out on the family activity.

Next week we will finish the Letter E.We will start the Letter G and Introduce the butterfly theme.We have already done lady bugs I hadn't started the blog yet.I will try to include that if I can. 

Day 2 of weather and letter E lessons

April 4^th-We did a lot yesterday so you might want to break that kesson up.We talk ed about wind and how it effects the weather.We added to our weather book. Show how wind can move different objects. Wind maze science on kidsactivities.net.
 
What you will need:blocks or boxes or anything to make a sturdy wall  to make the maze.then it is up to ou how you want to build it. Next get a light ball or something the kids can blow through the maze.We used a marble.
                                                                 

Kick it down and they biuld again!My toddler has fun with that one.This is for any age.I also asked the baby to tell me the colors of the blocks.

 Blow paint on paper with a straw. I found out that water paint doesn't work too well. Throw a scarf up in the air and have the kids try to catch it.
 Make a weather sock and of course it has to have streamers! 

 What you need: construction paper,scissors,tape,streamers,string.1.Cut construction paper into strip as wide as you want.Then tape it together,so both ends are joined together.

                                              

                 

                     

2.Take your streamers and tape as many as you would like to the very bottom so they will hang down.3.Cut string and attach to both sides of the construction paper at the top.