growing & learning with him
Moving Like An Animal Game
Great posts that linked up last week:
JDaniel had a grand time looking over each element in the New Year’s Eve sensory bin. He sorted through everything to see exactly what was in the bin and how much of each item there was. Then he put in everything, but the glasses back in to play with. JDaniel had too wear the glasses. I knew he would love them.
With this bin I sat with JDaniel and talked over each of the objects and why I had put them in the bin. With some bins I just let JDaniel dig in and play. He has a grand time playing and learning while he works with the various items in the bin.
Letter formation- The beans can be formed into letters as can the other objects in the bin.
Oral Communication- Children can talk about what they are doing as they explore.
Storytelling- Children can make up a story using objects in the bin as props.
Vocabulary Development- Parents can introduce holiday related words like celebration, countdown, etc..
Number Sequence- Children can line up the cookie cutters in the correct order.
Measuring Volume- Children can measures how many spoonfuls of beans can fill a cup.
Measuring Length- Children can measure the length of the streamers.
Counting Objects- Children can count how many of each object there is.
Compare Numbers of Objects- Children can find object that there are more of than the horns.
Number Sentences- Children can add the number of cups to the number of cookie cutters.
Homemade shaker- The beans can be put in the cup and a child can put the clock on the top of the cup and shake it.
Spoon Playing- Children can explore what objects make the loud or soft sounds when tapped with the spoon.
Horn Playing- Toot out songs and march around.
If you are interested in learning more about sensory bins, you can check out the bins I have pinned on my Sensory Bin Pinterest board.
When the snow arrives, the scarecrow is covered from head to toe in it and the animals think he is a snowman. The animals come out to play on and around him. Yet he was afraid that they would fear him again when the snow melted.
Thank goodness they remember who their friend is on the inside when spring comes and his scary features reappear.
My sister in law Marcia make the most wonderful haystacks and brings them to our family Thanksgiving celebration. Her version contains peanut butter and chow mein noodles. JDaniel avoids everything with peanut butter in it even though he has decided he likes peanuts. We made our haystacks with chocolate and butterscotch chips, marshmallows, and chow mein noodles to take to our family’s Thanksgiving celebration.
JDaniel thinks they are wonderful!
Measurement Activity with Scarecrow
JDaniel made this wonderful scarecrow in preschool a few weeks ago. We have had him hanging on our refrigerator. Recently we took him down and used inch cubes to measure him.
We measure the length of his smile
It was fun to use some of JDaniel’s school art to work on a math activity.
I love the wild bird study that was done on Like Mama~Like Daughter. Her handprint bird project is amazing.
This retelling tool for Jack in the Beanstalk from Fantastic Fun and Learning is truly amazing too.
How have you been exploring books this week? Share your children’s book exploration posts below. I will be featuring them on the Read.Explore.Learn. Facebook page during the next week.
What did we do with Gimme Cracked Corn?
Apple Pie Popcorn
We read the book ten apples this week. What fun counting book! The farmer tries to count the apples and his animals want to eat them. This book is filled with humor, problem solving and cute pictures.
What did we do with the book Ten Apple?
JDaniel’s job was to put the pieces in order and then glue them onto a piece of blue paper. It took a lot of figuring to get the pieces just right.
Then I took away all the odd numbered sets of buttons and we counted by twos. We could have added the button onto the apple cores by twos instead. Maybe we will do that next time.
3 Dinosaurs made a wonderful apple yarn craft to go with the book Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time!
Preschool Activities- Five Little Apples Rhymes and Crafts
Building Word Families – Worms and Apples
Cool Math Games for Kids -Appleseed Counting
Sight Word Games- Apple Tree Words
This cat game is a little like the starfish game we played a few weeks ago. JDaniel and I both had a cat who really needed whiskers and toe claws. We rolled a die to see how many we got to add each time it was our turn.
Hungry Cat Kitchen Search
JDaniel and I both had a cat game board. When it was our turn, we pulled a letter out of a bowl. Then we had to find something in the kitchen that started with that letter for the cat to eat. If we found one, we got to move our cat up a square on the game strip.
Remember Bad Kitty liked to eat odd foods and household items. He did in our game too.
Zombie Goldfish Optical Illusion Activity
The Very Caterpillar Activities
Recycled Bottle Fish Mobile
We have a lot of sticks that fall from the trees in our backyard. JDaniel stores them in a beaver dam area behind some bushes. Whenever we need a stick, we just head into the dam and look for the right one.
Once we had found the right one, I spray painted it white and red to look like coral.
When we had applied enough tissue, we added giant wiggly eyes to the fish. Later when they had dried I added a piece of fishing line to each fish and hung the fishing line from the branch.
One night a few day later we put glow sticks in the fish to make them bioluminescent. JDaniel love having his Pout-Pout Fish glowing fish mobile in his room.
Starfish Math Game
We are trying to work on some basic math and reading skills this summer. One of the skills we have been working on is counting to ten.
To practice JDaniel and I sat down with some starfish game boards, pom poms, and a die. We each got to take turns rolling the die and adding pom poms to our starfish. The first person to get to ten was done and had to help the other person fill up the circles on their starfish.
Here are some of my favorite Posts from last week’s Read.Explore. Learn. link up:
I love this Nemo fish created by Colorful Imaginations.
Zombie Goldfish Optical Illusion Activity
