Kid's Korner -Letter Gg Lesson plans

 

Letter Gg Lesson plans

 

We are going to have so much fun with the letter Gg this week! I’m so excited for the farm animals to come back. The kids love them. I also can’t wait to do some fun G learning.

Ø  Monday

o    Learning time – Letter G coloring book and gum ball machine.

o   Art time – Gum ball with finger prints

Ø  Tuesday

o   Learning time – Goats coloring sheet (only coloring page because I don’t have anyone over 2 and this age, I just want to work on coloring without eating the markers)

o   Art time – Make a Goat 

Ø  Wednesday

o   Learning time – Geode color page,

o   Art time – Tie die coffee paper to make geodes

Ø  Thursday

o   Learning time – Giraffe coloring page, tracing words, tracing paper

o   Art time – Paper Giraffe

Ø  Friday           

o   Learning time – Goat worksheets

o   Farm Animal Visit – Goats are coming to play. (weather pending)

o   Art time – Make goats craft

We will also do 1 science projects this week, Salt Geodes (this might take up to a week). We also will do a Billy Goat Gruff Steam challenge. Come check out though out the week on our projects.

Kids kronor- letter Jj - Jellybean experiment

  Conclusion of the experiment 

     I love science as a kid.  I personally think that we should teach kids to look at things in a cause and effect type away.  I believe that everything happens for a reason and if you teach that kid to learn  that everything they do have some affect it'll be easier for them in the future. (I use this type of discipline with the kids often like if you through that book I will take it.  And then when they throw the book I take it I always ask him what caused you to lose the book.  It makes them look deeper into what is going on.)  at the preschool age I do not get into huge detail on why the experiment is going the way it went, when I have older kids present we go into more detail.  But even with the preschool age we make a hypothesis and then we find our conclusion. Thank you Teach Preschool for the idea, we did change it up a little but it worked great for our Jj letter. 

 ice water, room temperature water, hot water 

What you need to conduct the experiment.....

•  Three clear jars so you can see what's going on 
•  Microwave or a way to make the water hot 
•  Water 
•  Ice cubes 
•  Two jellybean per kid

Adding the jellybeans

How to conduct the experiment....

•  Warm up one of the waters, I put in the microwave for 45 seconds.
•  Add water to the other two jars 
•  Add ice cube in one of the jars 
• Each kid two jelly beans 
•  Make a hypothesis 
•  Let sit for two hours but check on it every 30 to 45 minutes 

 Our hypothesis 

 The jellybeans will change the watercolor , they will get bigger,  and softer.  All the water will turn the same color.

here is what happen to our jellybeans

11:00 - right away the jellybean in the hot water jar made the water change to a bright red and the Candy shell started to come off. 

11:45- The Candy shell came off all the jellybeans. The room temperature jar and ice water jar both turned very light pink. 

12:15 - all the jellybeans where white

What was the conclusion of the experiment?

 The hard candy shell seem sick color of the water hot water became a darker color. All the jellybeans turned white. They did not get bigger but they became very slimy. They were very soft compared to a hard jellybean (One that was not in the water). They still tasted the same the same, very yummy. 

Have you tried this experiment with your preschooler? What would you do to change it to fit your needs? Use more and different temperature water, different color jellybeans; there so many ways to change his experiment into something fun. Let me know how you changed it for you.

More letter Jj 

Kids kronor- letter Jj - lesson plans

Kids kronor- letter Jj - making J Jellyfish

Kids kronor- letter Jj - toast with Jam

Kids kronor- letter Jj - toast with Jam

Final Project 

     I found this on Pinterest and thought it was the cutest project. Thank you for posting your idea Creativity takes flight, I loved it.  But like always we changed it up a little bit. 

Things you need

Here is what you need to make 3 of the project.... 

• 3 piece of white paper
• 3 piece of colored paper
• Scissors 
• Glue 
• Brown marker or crayon
• Paint and paint brushes 

Getting ready for project

What teacher needs to do to prep the project .....

• Cut the paper into quarters 
• Draw bread on the paper and cut it out 
• Cut big oval out of the color paper

Kids  doing their project 

What the kids will do to make the project......

• Color the bigger bread brown
• Glue it on the oval
• Glue the smaller bread on the brown bread
• Paint on the white part of the bread 

While you are doing the project sneak in some education.  

• What colors are we using? Math Readiness skill
•  What letter does bread, paper, jam start with? Reading Readiness skill
• How many piece of bread is there? Math Readiness skill
• Which piece of bread are bigger? Smaller? Math Readiness skill

    Isn't learning so much fun? The best part is the little ones are just having fun with the project and picking the important things too. 

More letter Jj 

Kids kronor- letter Jj - lesson plans

Kids kronor- letter Jj - making J Jellyfish

Kids kronor- letter Jj - making J Jellyfish

Finished Project

 

   This is an easy and fun project. I say this post on Pinterest from Crystal & Co. I decide to put our own spin on it. This project wasn't only art project, it also worked on their reading readiness skills and their math readiness skill.

Things needed for the project

Here is what you need to do the project for 3 kids....

• 1.5 black paper
• 1 orange paper
• Scissors 
• Glue

Getting the project ready

Here what teacher does....

The big jellyfish 

• Cut out an J out of the black paper. I fold the paper half and cut 2 at a time. 
• Cut 3 half ovals out of the orange paper. You want to cut them the size of the top of the J
• Cut out 12 curve legs. I made them 1/2 the size of the J. 

The little jellyfish

• Cut 6 little oval out of orange paper, 2 ovals per kid
• Cut out 24 little legs, 8 per kid

Little men doing their projects

Here is what the kids will do to make the project.....

Big Jellyfish 

• Glue the 4 big legs on the top part of the J
• Glue the big oval on top of the J

Little Jellyfish

• Make 2 big glue circle
• Put 4 little legs in each glue spot 
• Put a half circle over the legs. 

How to make this project educational, while having fun. Ask questions, that's it ask questions about what they are doing. 

• What color is the J? Math Readiness Skill
• What color is the jellyfish? Math Readiness Skill
• What letter did you make? Reading Readiness Skill
• What sound does J make? Reading Readiness Skill
• How many jellyfish did you make? Math Readiness Skill

     I love this way of teaching. The kids learn from their art project so much. They don't know I'm teaching they think we are having fun doing an art project. Plus they get their parents a cute project.

Kids kronor- letter Jj - lesson plans

     This week is letter Jj. It will be the last letter until the new year. I have some fun things that we are going to do with the letter Jj.

I love that my library carries these books 

     

      We are going to 1st introduce the letter Jj with My "j" sound Box, by Jane Belk Mancure. We also sing the letter j song from LeapFrog: Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set. I think these are fun ways to introduce the letter Jj. 

     We will also learn new songs this week that start with the letter Jj. 

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      I also will be using a Utube video to help the kids learn about Jj form Sesame Street.

     I love Pinterest! I find so many fun ideas on there. You can check out my Letter Jj board at Missy Life Of Working Mom. I found a fun science project thanks to Teach Preschool. I found ideas for letter J art projects jellyfish, toast with jam, and jellyfish in a bottle. The kids are going to have so much fun.

     We will also count the date we are on in English and Spanish. We will sing our ABCs. We will have learning book time in the morning. During snack time we will have reading time. We also play a board game everyday too. 

     What are your little ones working on this week? Let me know I love new ideas!! 

Kids Korner - making octopus

We had a blast making handprint octopuses.

Materials 

Materials you need;
Blue paper - make a wave top
Green paper- cut in to sea weed (make wave 1 in strips)
Orange paper - cut into fish
Purple paint
Glue
Black marker

Glue the fish and sea weed on

Count the fish and sea weed. Have the little ones glue them on to their blue paper.

Paint the palm and 4 fingers

Then paint the palm for the little ones hands! My little ones love this part the most. They laugh and giggle the whole time.

Turn paper upside down and stamp 

Then stamp it in the paper, but make sure the paper is upside down! The little ones love this.
What are you doing to with your little ones? Hope you are having fun with them!

Weekly Lesson Plans ~ Letter Oo

Every week I focus on a letter. We learn the letter, how to sign the letter, and the noise the letter makes in a fun and playful way. Our experiences thought the week also have the letter in it. Come join us with the letter O. 

I will also put pages that help with worksheet on the letter and the fun videos of the week. I am not a believer that children should watch TV, but the get 10 minutes of educational movies while I get lunch together.  It is safer for everyone this way. I have 3 children all under the age of 3.  

 

Sesame Street Letter O

 

Signing the ABC

 

Shape Song 2

 

Monday

• Count to 4 in English and Spanish (while doing the calendar) - this is a daily thing with the date.
• Introduce the letter Oo.  Learn how to sign it
• Make an O cut out and draw O works on it

Tuesday

• Make Octopus out of our handprints
• Make Orange Juice
• Sign the “O song” ~ Daily thing this week with the calendar

Wednesday

• Make Orange out of paper
• Talk about weather ( we are expecting snow)
• Make Snowflake if snowing – if raining make rain drops

Thursday

• Make a Shape paper – using octagons and ovals
• Work on directions – open/closed, on/off, and over/under with a box and a teddy bear
• Sign and sign “The Days of the Week

I have little kids and sitting for away doesn’t always happen. I break up my learning time into 10 minute times.  

Throughout the week I will be using our Ocean Animals Tot-Book - we will use at different times of the day.

What are you planning on teaching your little ones today? Check back throughout the week for directions on how to make the projects.

 

7 Days Until Christmas Activities For Little Ones- Christmas Ornaments

Snowman Christmas Ornaments

We made our gifts for the parent today! It is so cute, and one that won't be replaced. I hoping the parents will love it. This gift would be awesome for grandparent too! Again this is a cheap present! It didn't cost me anything because I had everything I need.

What you need to make your own Snowman Christmas ornaments
Christmas Ornament balls (I have so many extra balls in my Christmas stuff)
Paint (I got this for $1 at the dollar store of one of my other projects)
Permanent Marker (you can get it at the Dollar Tree too, but I had them at my house)

This is an easy gift to make, and the kids had wonderful time doing it!

Step 1 ~ Paint the little ones hand white.
Step 2 ~ Stamp their hand on to the ball. This step made me nervous, because I only had one ball per little one. (9 monthes-3 years old) All my little ones did an amazing job!

Ball stamped

Step 3 ~ let it dry. I gave it 2 hours to dry. I put it in a little bathroom cup to dry so it didn't roll around and mess up the hand print!

Drying

Step 4 ~ Draw the snowman parts on the ball with the permanent markers, write Merry Christmas on it too.

Put the eyes, mouths, arms, and buttons on the snowmen

Not only do the parents get a hand print of kids at this age, but it so cute too! They are only little once.

Other ideas for Christmas Project
 7 Days Until Christmas Activities For Little Ones- Gift Wrap
7 Days Until Christmas Activities For Little Ones- Shape Tree
7 Days Until Christmas Activities For Little Ones - Christmas Tree Lights Christmas Cards   
7 Days Until Christmas Activities For Little Ones - Christmas Bags