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.

Homeschool Preschool - Valentine's Day

Painting Hearts

Sweet E initiated this activity on her own. She wanted to do a painting activity, and I suggested hearts since Valentine's Day was coming up. She decided to make a pattern with some of the colors I offered.

Learning Notebook - Heart Matrix

This idea comes from our.littlebubble on Instagram. Instead of kites, I of course made them hearts, to suit our theme. Sweet E loved doing this! Great way to work on early coding skills!

UV Pen Scavenger Hunt - Math

We love using our UV light pens, so I offered a variation on our usual scavenger hunts today. Sweet E searched for hearts around the house, which looked blank. Then she shined her UV light on each, and revealed a number. Finally, she had to match it up to the heart with that many dots. A great counting activity!

Learning Notebook - Number Review

Just a quick, sticker cover-up activity in her learning notebook, to review upper and lowercase letters.

Baking Heart Cookies

Kitchen science activities are a favorite, especially for the holidays. Here is Sweet E helping to bake some sugar cookie cutouts!

Pom Pom Patterns

Making patterns with pom poms, using Valentine's Day colors.

100's Chart - Counting

Sweet E flipped over a paper, and needed to count to that number, as she covered each with a heart. She actually enjoyed this challenge more than I thought she would, and asked to do it a second time!

Learning Notebook - Drawing Prompt

I've seen this activity before, and kids sometimes have such cute answers. Sweet E is a little young, but came up with a sweet response to what love is. 💗

Learning Notebook - Uncover the Heart

This idea came from anniesclassroom on Instagram. I was in a bit of a hurry, so it was a little sloppy, but Sweet E didn't seem to mind. She needed to color all the circles that contained a letter from her name. Doing so would reveal a picture!

Gluing Craft - I Love You to Pieces

Free printable from Laughing Kids Learn. Little M&M had made a confetti cannon to help Sweet E celebrate "Noon Year" so we had a lot of snippets of paper to use up! This activity was perfect.