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A simple board game. Players roll a die and move around the board. Preschoolers can use the game board dealing with letter recognition and color recognition. Older children use the sight word game board.
Skills: Rolling a die, method counting, rote counting, directional movement, turn taking, social play, letter recognition, reading, concept of rules
color match and counting file folder game print
A file folder game where the children will match the appropriate missing piece.
Skills: color recognition, color words, fine motor, observation
Sizing PRINT sizing labels print
Print out and cut apart prior to laminating. This is a flannel board activity that I leave up for the duration of the theme. The children size them from smallest to largest or largest to smallest. When done, they jumble them up on the side of the flannel board so it's ready to go for the next person. This is a free play activity after we do it the first time as a class. I also incorporate size words and ordinal count into this activity. I keep these with the flannel board with and the children will utilize those after sizing, or I'll put those up first to give the kids an idea of placement. You can also print these out on different colored paper for size matching, color matching, etc.
Skills: visual discrimination, letter recognition, reading, logic/reasoning, fine and gross motor, spelling, vocabulary, ordinal count and numerical order.
Graph print
Children will work independently or in pairs to complete the graph until one column is completed, using the number cards or dry erase markers (if laminated) to fill in the graph. Learning opportunities exist for more/less, most/least, addition of two columns vs. two other columns, how many more or less one column has than another, other comparisons and quantifications. Can also be used as a game where the children pick a butterfly and take turns rolling the die until one child's column is complete.
Skills: observation skills, fine motor, rote counting, 1 to 1 correspondence, graphing, comparison, logic, reasoning, quantification
Patterning print
Teaches the major sequencing/patterning conventions AB, ABC, AABB, ABBA, etc... I've included a label to make this into a file folder activity, or it can be cut into strip cards.
Skills: patterning, 1-1 correspondence, visual recognition, logic/reasoning, rote counting, fine motor
Build A print
Children roll a die, youngest goes first. If the die number is for an item that has already been completed then the turn is forfeit. Cut pieces apart and laminate individually. One building reference card per every 3 students is best. Up to 6 students can comfortably play at one time.
Skills: rote counting, method counting, group dynamics, sharing, taking turns, game play, rules, 1-1 correspondence, reading a die, rolling a die, fine motor, shapes, logic and reasoning, colors
Word Wall print Sentence Wall printWorking on theme vocabulary and concepts. Words provide conventions of silent "e," and double vowels. The sentences provide a good opportunity to review/introduce punctuation. These are posted and we go over them in the morning together. I point to the card and we all say the word then spell it together. Then we all say the sentences together as I point to each word. Throughout the day I'll throw out questions, such as "Who knows how to spell (word wall word)?" and they'll race to the wall and spell it. Or, I'll ask, "___ does WHAT?" and they'll race to tell me a sentence, usually from memory, and I'll direct them to the sentence wall and have them "read" it, pointing to the words to reinforce. Later in the week I'll up the game to ask, "How do you spell ..." a sentence wall words that they usually have to find/recognize, then spell.
Skills: letter recognition, reading, spelling, phonics, punctuation, grammar, vocabulary
POETRY
crafts
Food activities
Twinkie Train - The ONE time in my 3-year curriculum when the children get Twinkies!
games
Clickety Clack
Children will line up in chairs, or individual box cars made in craft, pretending to be riding on a train. The teacher will go first as engineer to demonstrate the movements, then each child will get a turn. The engineer sits up front and gets to wear the engineer cap and blow the train whistle. "ALL ABOARD!!" Engineer yells and blows whistle. Children line up with their "tickets" to hand over. As they hand over their ticket, they chose a seat in the line and sit down. When everyone is sitting, Engineer takes the front seat and blows the whistle again. The children pat their legs to make it sound like a train moving. Engineer: "Clickety clack, don't look back, we're going for a train ride to: [Engineer's choice]!" Engineer says, "Clickety clack, don't look back!" between each movement... "Uh oh, the train is going up hill." [everyone lean back]
I like to throw out some off the wall stuff and let them make up their own movements as we go through the week. They love this activity, so we do it each day during the theme week.
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