Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Dreams, Imagination, and Make-Believe (Updated)

Dreams, Imagination, and Make-Believe Theme

READ: BOOKS
 Imagine That: Let Your Mind Run Wild By Yasmeen Ismail
Happy Dreamer By Pete H. Reynolds
Meeow Series By Sebastian Braun 
 Dot By Pete H. Reynolds
Ish By Pete H. Reynolds
Harold and the Purple Crayon By Crockett Johnson

Not a Stick By Antoinette Portis
Not a Box By Antoinette PortisMy Book Box By Will Hillenbrand
Mimi Make- Believe By Claire Freedman
Pretend By Jennifer Plecas
Beautiful Oops! By Barney Saltzberg
Shorty and Clem By Michael Slack 
 Rosie Revere, Engineer By Andrea Beaty
The Most Magnificent Thing By Ashley Spires
Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon By Patty Lovell
What Do You Do with an Idea? By Kobi Yamada
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building By Christy Hale

Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
I’m Me by Sara Sheridan
Peg Leg Peke by Brie Spangler

Something to Do by David Lucas

That’s How by Christoph Niemann

It Looked Like Split Milk By Charles G. Shaw
Art By Patrick McDonnell
Sam And Eva By Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Princess Truly In My Magical Sparkly Curls By Kelly Greenwalt 




SONGS/ RHYMES IDEAS:

Musical Activities
Children love animals - the bigger and louder, the better! Why not use an animal theme along with music as a springboard for creative exploration. Invite the children to pretend that they are animals or insects and start this premise by showing pictures of animals in books or posters. Talk about these animals - how they move and the sounds they make.

Think about using music to enhance creative movement. As you help the children begin to dramatize the world of animals, play portions of the Carnival of Animals by Camille Saint-Saens. Each part of this musical score describes an animal. Discuss the characteristics of the music, how fast, slow, soft and loud it sounds. Can you guess the animal the music is describing? Ask the children to move with the music as if they were that animal.

Visual Imagery
This may sound technical, but it's truly simple. Start with real situations and then proceed gradually to imaginative ideas. Try some of these situations below and make sure you are pretending along with your group.

"It is raining very hard. You are a windshield wiper on the car. Go back and forth, faster and faster, so the driver can see the road."
"Who is brave enough to follow me? I'm going to walk this tightrope at the circus."
"We are floating up to the clouds. Try to walk on them. What does it feel like to walk on a cloud?"
"You are a tiny bug lost in the tall, tall grass. How can you find your home?"

Situations
Children think in concrete terms and their world is shaped through their five senses. In this exercise, begin pretend play by connecting make-believe with real sensory experiences. Try some of these situations and then create new ones with your class.

Pretend you are a baby just learning how to walk.
Your feet are stuck to the ground by a big wad of bubble gum.
You are walking outdoors and smell something wonderful! Something terrible!
You have just lost your mother in a big crowded store.

Credit Brighthubeducation.com

SING: or MUSIC:
If your happy and you know it – (clap hands, stomp feet, shout hooray)

# 2 Can’t wait to Celebrate –Blue Jim Gill (irrational anthem disc)- 
clap our hands, 
stamp feet, 
wave hello, 
bounce up and down, 
clap hands along with the song 


Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (use Egg Shakers)

Itsy Bitsy Spider (use egg shakers)

#2 Hands are clapping Yellow Jim Gill CD ( Hands are clapping, toes are tapping, fingers are snaping/wiggling, knees are for slapping, teeth are brushing, hands are for clapping

#8 Silly Dance Contest Jim Gill Yellow CD use with colorful scarves 

PLAY/ CRAFT:  

Harold and the Purple Crayon 3D Art 

Garden Pretend Play 

Sea Sand and Forest Imaginative Playmat


Garden Path Imaginative Playmat 

Colorful Pom Pom Drop 

Imaginative Play Ideas A-Z

Sensory Bin Ideas 

More Sensory Bins 

Pretend Play Ice Cream Shop

Pie Stand Printable Set Dramatic Play $5.oo

Post Office Dramatic Play 

Dramatic Play Doctors Office 

Pretend Play Free Printables 

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Dental Health and Teeth (Updated)







Dental Health and Teeth

TALK:February is Dental Health Month! 
We are talking about teeth and brushing teeth today! 
Where are your teeth can you show me? 
Let look at these big teeth for a minute and look at this big toothbrush – show quickly on a couple of the teeth -how you would brush teeth in circular motion—or use clipart props if you do not have a tooth model or you could also use a mirror with your own teeth. 

READ: Books-
Brush, Brush, Brush By Alice Padron
Pony Brushes his Teeth By Michael Dahl
Bear’s Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson
Brush, Floss, Rinse by Amanda Doering Tourville
Clarabella’s Teeth by An Vrombaut
Maisy, Charley, and the Wobbly Tooth by Lucy Cousins
Brush Your Teeth Please: A Pop-up Book By Leslie McGuire
Snip Snap What's That? By Mara
Bergman
I'm A Shark By Bob Shea
The Tooth Book By Dr. Seuss
Loose Tooth By Lola Schaefer
My Toothbrush is Missing By Jan Thomas 

Just Going to the Dentist By Mercer Mayer
The Night Before the Tooth Fairy By Natasha Wing
What If You Had Animal Teeth By Sandra Markle
Anna and the Tooth Fairy By Maureen Wright 
SING: or MUSIC:

Activity: Brush Your Teeth – from the CD Singable Songs for the Very Young by Raffi

Flannelboard: “Tooth Fairy”
Look and see, look and see
Can you find the tooth for me?
Is it under the (color) pillow?
Credit: SLC Book Boy/ Storytime Katie 



Picture Credit -- https://slcbookboy.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/teeth-storytime/



Fingerplay: “Five Little Teeth”
There were five little teeth in my teeny tiny mouth
I pulled and I twisted and one popped out
Now there are…one, two, three, four.
(count down)
Credit: What Happens In Storytime/ Storytime Katie

Song: “This Is The Way”
This is the way we brush our teeth,
Brush our teeth, brush our teeth
This is the way we brush our teeth
So early in the morning
(floss our teeth, rinse our teeth)
Credit: Modified from Childhood/ Storytime Katie



Song: Brushing Teeth
(Tune:"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star")
Original Author Unknown

Here's my toothpaste
Here's my brush
I won't hurry, I won't rush.
Working hard to keep teeth clean
Front and back and in between
When I brush for quite a while
I will have a happy smile.

If your happy and you know it – (clap hands, stomp feet, shout hooray)

# 2 Can’t wait to Celebrate –Blue Jim Gill (irrational anthem disc)- 
clap our hands, 
stamp feet, 
wave hello, 
bounce up and down, 
clap hands along with the song 

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (use Egg Shakers in wooden cabinet in program room closet) 

Itsy Bitsy Spider (use egg shakers in wooden cabinet program room closet)

#2 Hands are clapping Yellow Jim Gill CD ( Hands are clapping, toes are tapping, fingers are snaping/wiggling, knees are for slapping, teeth are brushing, hands are for clapping

#8 Silly Dance Contest Jim Gill Yellow CD use with colorful scarves (blue bag in wooden cabinet) 

Another Movement activity: I have laminated teeth if you want to put them around the room you can taped to the walls for them to find and then count (only use 10) and they can count on their fingers with you once they attached them with the tape to the  a- frame board. 

If you want to sing a song –( tune of ten little Indians) 
1 little 2 little 3 little teeth
4 little, 5 little, 6 little teeth
7 little 8 little 9 little teeth 
10 little teeth are sparkling clean 



PLAY/ CRAFT:
Use coloring page square tooth picture – glue it down  to half sheet of paper and then use white paint  with the toothbrushes like a paintbrush. Brush white paint all over the tooth! circular motion

Parachute & Balls Play 
* lift up, 
*go under it
*walk in a circle holding handles
 *kids can lay down under it to see if it touches belly 
*have kids help throw balls on the parachute and shake them up like popcorn. 

ADA 2018 Planning Guide for Dental Health Month 

Happy Tooth / Sad Tooth Feltboard Printables 

Tooth Lacing Card 

counting teeth number game 

Alphabet teeth cleaning game 

Tooth Puppet paper bag  PDF Printable 



Brush Your Teeth Preschool Craft 

Dental health Sensory Play Idea 

Preschool teeth counting game pdf printables free

Dental Health Sorting Mats Downloadable from TPT $1.00

blank Tooth Template Coloring or craft pattern 

Cotton ball Tooth Craft 

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Shopping Theme





Shopping Theme


Shopping time is a time to teach your children to help you  get things you need! Teach them skills like making a list, looking for specific products like cereal, milk, paper towels etc. 
See below for a fun scavenger hunt to print for the grocery store!


BOOKS: READ
Aunt Lucy Went To Buy A Hat By Alice Lowe
Don't Forget The Bacon By Pat Hutchins
Follow Me By Harriet Ziefert
Sheep in a Shop By Nancy Shaw

On Market Street By Anita Lobel
Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping By Eileen Christelow
Llama Llama Mad at Mama By Anna Dewdney
Market Day By Eve Bunting
Betty Bunny Wants Everything By Michael Kaplan
Bunny Money By Rosemary Wells
Farmer's Market Day By Shanda Trent
Just Shopping With Mom By Mercer Mayer
Shopping with Dad By Matt Harvey
Carl Goes Shopping By Alexandra Day
At The Supermarket By Anne Rockwell 
Paddington Bear Goes To Market By Michael Bond





SING/ RHYME:
Shopping Song

A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go.
We will buy some vegetables, a shopping we will go. 
A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go, 
We will buy some cinnamon buns, a shopping we will go. 
A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go.

We will buy some wonderful snacks, a shopping we will go. 

Credit:Everything Preschool

What Will You Buy?
(tune: Farmer in the Dell)

What will you buy? What will you buy? 
What will you buy At the grocery store? 
Jars and Cans. Jars and Cans.
Jars and Cans at the Grocery Store.
Apples and bananas. Apples and bananas. 
Apples and bananas At the grocery store.
Meat and Veggies. Meat and Veggies.

Meat and Veggies at the grocery store.

Credit: Everything Preschool

CRAFT/ PLAY:

Grocery Printables FREE 

Grocery Cart Bingo

Grocery Store Pretend Play Printables 

Supermarket Puzzle Match 6 pieces credit Kidssparkz

Supermarket Cart Order By Size Activity  Credit Kidssparkz

Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt FREE Printable

At The Grocery Store Mini Book Printable FREE