Homeschool Preschool - No Theme

Keeping busy in-between themes!

Word Smash

Practicing reading CVC words with this hands-on idea from abcdeelearning on Instagram!

Color-Mixing

Practicing mixing colors with this free printable from Little Sprouts on Teacher's Pay Teachers!

...which extended into some free painting with Little M&M!

Easel - Matching Activities

Sweet E requested some easel activities one day. So she matched up some upper/lowercase letters a couple times.

Then for something new, we matched up words that rhyme!

Feed the Shark Game

Sweet E pulled this math game out of my closet, from way back during our Beach/Ocean theme in October! She loves these types of activities.

Geoboard Free Play

I pulled out our old geoboard, which I don't think Sweet E had played with before. And I offered some templates (free printable from Crafty Mummy) for inspiration. She loved building shapes, and even made a snowflake on her own, without a template!

Dotting Syllables

Re-enforcing a new concept she just learned at preschool (she goes two days each week) with this free printable from This Reading Mama. We did three pages of these, and it definitely clicked!

Learning Notebook - Number Review

I wanted to revisit the teen numbers one day, so I created a quick activity in her notebook. She needed to trace the number, and plunk 14 stickers in there. Something quick and fun!

Painting Suncatchers

This activity was Sweet E's idea. Little M&M recently cleaned his room and found these suncatchers, which he didn't want anymore. So Sweet E decided to spend some time painting them. What a sweet, relaxing way to spend the afternoon, and so pretty!

Homeschool Preschool - St. Patrick's Day

Sticky Paper Rainbow

I did a similar activity for Honey Pot and Little M&M back in 2014, and they actually brought it up years later because they really loved doing it. St. Patrick's Day seemed like a fine time to offer it to Sweet E too! So I drew a rainbow outline on craft paper, covered it with a piece of contact paper (sticky side up), and supplied Sweet E with some snippets of colored paper. She loved it too!

Learning Notebook - Rainbow Writing

This is something her big brother and sister used to do in Kindergarten and 1st Grade with their sight words. We just did a couple shapes!

Learning Notebook - Fill in the Missing Color

Inspired by stayathomeactivitymom on Instagram, who created a larger version with paint. I wanted to keep it simple, and used markers instead!

Pot of Gold Addition

This free printable came from Kindergarten Smarts. Sweet E rolled the dice, put that many pieces of gold in each pot, added them up, and wrote the sum herself! She loved this game, and did it many, many times!

Alphabet Matching + Sensory Bin

I pulled out a cauldron from our Halloween supplies, and filled it with our rainbow rice. Then I put stickers on gold doubloons and hid them inside the rice. Sweet E had to dig for gold, then match up the upper and lowercase letters.

Leprechaun Vowel Sounds

I made this activity in Photoshop Elements, to help Sweet E differentiate between vowel sounds. She sometimes gets them confused when sounding out CVC words. She needed to pick up a shamrock, say the word pictured, and attach it to the appropriate leprechaun using our linking chains. This was initially challenging for her, but she got better and better as we went!

Sometimes we'd use the gold pieces to help us sound out the words.