Colors-Tuesday

J has his colors down, but L has no desire to learn which color is which. So, it's a challenge to find something fun to motivate her. If anyone has any thoughts on that let me know.

Circle Time:

Colors (Sung to: Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue

(I had a crayon for each color and held it up as we sang each one.)

Our Primary Colors (from Children’s Songbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Our Primary colors are one, two, three—
Red, yellow, and blue.
Each one has a message for you and me.
Each is a symbol true!
Red is for courage to do what is right,
Yellow for service from morning till night.
Blue is for truth in our thought and our deed.
We will be happy when this is our creed.

Think and Do:

For J I printed out some color worksheets.

For L:

We have colored blocks. Some are solid colors, others are colored with patterns on them. I chose some solid colors and put them in a bin. Then I held up colors one at a time and said the color and her repeat it. Then I put them back in and asked her to pick out specific colors. J wanted to participate as well, so to make a bit of a challenge for him, I used the blocks with patterns on them and had him pick out certain blocks. For example, the yellow block with blue squares on it. It helped him learn shapes while we were at it. :)

Arts and Crafts:
I made it pretty simple today and just got out my colored stamp pads (I have red, green, and purple) and let them stamp different colored animals.

Snack Time:
I don't normally try to tie snack time into the weekly theme, but today I decided it would be fun. So here was our snack pallet.




Story Time:
Green Eggs and Ham
Bow-Wow's Colorful Life


Music and Movement:We re-sang our circle time songs. Then I put on a song that they could really move to, just to let them get some energy out.

Field Trip

We didn't do anything real formal last week because we were on vacation. But while we were visiting family we made a point of visiting the zoo. They had an aquarium there and Jake was able to see all sorts of fish. They had a few sharks there, but they were pretty small so he wasn't very impressed with them. lol. But he LOVED seeing the turtles and other big fish. Both kids had a great time. So, if you do an under the sea theme, I highly recommend a field trip to an aquarium.

Our Under The Sea Wall

So far this has been the kids favorite theme. Jacob has become obsessed with sharks and whales. We are planning to take a trip to an aquarium some time next week so he can see a real shark.

This project really requires a whole week I think. It was a challenge to get several fish on the wall in just two days. We had an extra long arts and crafts segment both days. They didn't mind because it's their favorite part, but it would have been easier for me to have a couple more days. We started out by painting the water. I have a big roll of white, easel paper I just rolled out and cut a piece the length of the table. Then I gave them some blue finger paint, a bunch of different sized paint brushes, sponges, etc and let them go to town. I helped here and there, but they mostly did it themselves. When they were done with the blue I put a few splotches of green at the bottom for them to spread around as sea weed.

Here are some individual pictures of our Under the Sea wall additions.

Rainbow fish



Hand print fish.
(I hesitated to post these ones because they turned out so goofy looking.)

Hand print and pipe cleaner sea weed.

(I couldn't get a clear picture, but there is also sea weed painted on by the kids. It looks really neat all together.)

Thumb print fish.

Sharks.

I'm actually sad this theme is over. I am for sure doing this one again. I would like to have added star fish, sea horses and sea shells. I also didn't get time to do my sea shell craft with all the shells we collected. I may have to extend it another week. I can't decide.

Under The Sea Part 2

The kids had a lot of fun starting our under the sea wall. They thought it was pretty cool when they added thier rainbow fish to the water. I discovered that Jacob likes sharks. (of course, he's such a boy. lol.) So I plan to focus a little more on sharks for part 2.

Here is our next lesson plan

Circle Time:

Five Little Fishies in the Sea
Five little fishes in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! a fish up
right out of the sea.

Four little fishes in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! a fish up
right out of the sea.

Three little fishes in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! a fish up
right out of the sea.

Two little fishes in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! a fish up
right out of the sea

One little fishy in the sea
teasing Mr. sharky
you can't catch me
you can't catch me
Well along came Mr. sharky (softly) as quiet as can be
He snapped! that fish up
right out of the sea
Now Mr. sharky is lonely can't you see. .

Think and Do:

Sea shell counting activity from Tuesday. The kids did really well with this. And this is an area that needs working on for Jacob.

Read some facts about sharks and look at pictures of different kinds of sharks.

Other shark facts and activities.
More shark facts
Arts and Crafts:

Shark Teeth Art added 4-29-01 Original Author Unknown

Need: Paper, markers

Directions: Give each of your children an oval cut out of gray construction paper. Set out felt-tip markers, glue and white construction paper tooth shapes. (Like triangles) Glue the tooth shapes on their ovals where the mouth would be. Add eyes with the markers.

or

Shark added 6-19-00 Original Author Unknown

Need: envelope, scissors, markers

Directions: Take a long white envelope seal it. Cut one end off. Cut a triangle on the other end for a mouth. Use the triangle for a fin, glue it on top. At the mouth cut or draw teeth. Draw on an eye. Slide your hand into the envelope. A Puppet shark!!!

Story Time:

Shark in the park

Farhad and the Shark

Music and Movement:

Slippery Fish
Waves in the Sea



Other under the sea crafts.
Other preschool songs

Under The Sea

I intentionally planned this theme for the week after our retreat to the beach. This one is going to be so much fun. We are still at the beach and this evening I will take the kids back out and we will spend some time collecting shells and talking about what used to be in them. I will also talk to them about things that can be found in the water. Tuesday we will start an under the sea wall. We will add pictures of different fish and sea shells each day. I also have a craft planned for the things they collect here. So, here is the plan for Tuesday.

Circle Time:

Talk about and show pictures of different kinds of ocean life. Then sing.

Slippery Fish
By Charlotte Diamond

Slippery fish, slippery fish, sliding through the water,
Slippery fish, slippery fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by an …

Octopus, octopus, squiggling in the water
Octopus, octopus, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …

Tuna fish, tuna fish, flashing in the water,
Tuna fish, tuna fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …

Great white shark, great white shark, lurking in the water,
Great white shark, great white shark, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …

Humongous whale, humongous whale, spouting in the
water,
Humongous whale, humongous whale,
Gulp! … Gulp! … Gulp! … BURP!
Pardon me!

Think and Do:

I plan to do a little math with the sea shells we collected. (we will do an actual craft with them later in the week.)

Make some cards numbered 1-10. Have kids take turns choosing a card and count out the same number of shells as the number listed on the card. When they have counted out the correct number of shells have them place the shells on the number card.


Arts and Crafts:

*Edited* We ended up doing this rainbow fish project instead because I forgot to buy paper plates. Which, now that I think about it, fits better with the the lesson plan anyways. We may or may not do the paper plate fish tomorrow. :)

Paper plate fish. Add fish to the Under the Sea Wall. (will post pictures later.)

Story Time:

The Rainbow Fish

Music and Movement:

Sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

Move like fish around the room.

*Edited to add* We ended up pretending to be different fish as we danced to a song about the sea. Puffer fish, shark, whale, star fish, octopus etc. They loved it.

Letter D

Circle Time:

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs(Sung to "Row, row, row your boat)
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs Eating fruits and leaves
Take a bite, chew it up and spit out the seeds (Make spitting sound)

Days of the Week(Sung to Alouette or Oh My Darling Clemantine)
Sunday, Monday,Tuesday-Wednesday-ThursdayFriday, Saturday,And let's begin again.Sunday, Monday,Tuesday- Wednesday-Thursday,Friday, Saturday,And that will be the end

Two Little Ducks
Two little ducks. . .sitting on a hill
One named Jack . .. one named Jill
Fly away Jack. . .fly away Jill
Come back Jack. . .come back Jill

Think and Do:

D is for Dinosaur
Letter D worksheet and mini book

Arts and Crafts:

We will be making drums out of formula cans or hot cocoa cans.
-Cover outside of can with colored construction paper.
-Glue lid on.
-Let kids color or add stickers or glue things on.
-Use unsharpened pencils as drum sticks.

Story Time:

Go, Dog. Go. by P.D. Eastman
The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins
Frog Went A-Dancing by Lissa Rovetch (this is a book I got from Kindermusik.)

Music and Movement:

Use our drums to drum to the beat of the music. We will most likely be using the Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom CD.

C is for Caterpillar

I've actually done these before only I used finger paint instead. (Follow the link for instructions for this project.) I like the paint better. This time I just gave them washable markers to color with. I am pretty sure they would have ended up a lot more colorful had I used paint. It would have been messier( which is why I decided against it), but cuter. :) They still turned out cute though and the kids had fun, and that's really what matters.

You can also use this project for the soft C and do a centipede instead. Just add legs.