Preschool Theme: All About Me

Welcome to our first week of homeschool preschool! We're keeping it pretty casual. We started each day by talking about the calendar and the weather. Then we had a few learning activities sprinkled throughout our day.

Theme: All About Me

Songs

Days of the Week

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Hokey Pokey

Day 1 - Me and My Name

Books

Notebook Pages

1st Day of School Handprints

Color and Paste - Name Craft

Colored Rice Sensory Bin + Sorting Letters of My Name

After we sat down at this beautiful bin with the letters of her name on top, we threw in extra letters of the alphabet, and mixed it all up!

Then she had to sort out which letters were in her name, and put them in order.

Afterward she just played with the rice and funnels and jars!

Day 2 - Feelings

Books

Notebook Page

Make-an-Emoji Playdoh Invitation

Match the Emotion

Cutting practice!

Day 3 - My Family

Book

Notebook Page

Color Your Family Craft

Building Houses in the Block Center + Pretend Play

Day 4 - Parts of the Body

Notebook Pages

Identifying Parts of the Body - Doll + Stickers

Kinetic Sand Sensory + Learning About the Brain

First Sweet E had to find little pieces of paper in the sand that represented some of the things the brain does. We talked about each of these, and how the brain sends messages to the rest of the body to do things like run, read, sing, express emotion, etc.

Then she had to glue them onto the paper.

Roll a Mrs. Potato Head - Math Sense

Emotions

Theme of the Day: Emotions

Age: 20 months

Cartoon Faces

I found these images on the Internet to help teach children about the different basic emotions. I did edit a couple of the mouths in Photoshop Elements to my liking. I used these cartoons to introduce each of the emotions to Honey Pot. After a little while of course, we played with them, and they started having conversations. I used it to my advantage, and had my characters say things like, "I'm feeling sleepy." It was a good start to today's theme.

Real Faces

I thought it would be helpful for Honey Pot to see real children with these emotions, instead of just cartoons. So I found these images from the Internet. I asked her, "Which face is ___" and she answered quite successfully. I don't know why she kept pointing to the angry face and saying "Mommy" though...hmm. LOL.

Velcro-a-Face Game

I enlarged two faces and erased their mouths, then cut out each of the mouths individually. Then I attached Velcro to the backs of each mouth, as well as to the empty faces. I asked Honey Pot, "Can you make this a ___ face?" And she was able to correctly assemble the face half of the time, I'd say. It was a pretty fun game!

Faces in the Mirror Game

Using the pictures from the Internet, we made faces in the mirror! I'd place one on top of the mirror and say, "Make a ___ face!" She had so much fun doing this! It was a little difficult to get a photo of her doing this, because she kept putting her face right up against the mirror! But here are a few I caught: