Dr Suess Thing 1 and 2

 I saw this activity at Lakeshore today.  They just got blue construction paper to be the hair and a sentence strip to adjust it to the child's head.  The children then decorated it how they wanted to with marker, foam stickers, and other things.

Journals in Prek

This is a great idea for all you teachers that purchase your own items for the classroom.  This teacher cut the notebooks that she uses for journal in half, this is such a money saving space saving idea.  Awesome!

Texas Flag

What a cool way to incorporate Texas history.  The children cut little blue and red paper and pasted it on a flag form.  They are learning Texas information and they are also using their fine motor skills.

qtip skeleton

This is an idea I saw in a teacher's classroom.  The students got qtips and made their own skeleton when studying bones.  This was their creation and it worked out really well.  Great Idea!!!

Portfolios

This is an awesome way to keep the students work and also display it at the same time.  I saw this idea in lots of head start classroom and also in a district prek class.  They staple a tag board sheet on the bulletin board with a flexible 2 hole  fastener prongs.  Then you can just keep adding work securely.  It is such great idea!!

Counting words in a sentence

 I saw this great activity at a PreK classroom.  The teacher was telling the students sentences and they had to move the counters up for each word.  The children were engaged and used manipulatives to learn the phonological awareness activity of sentence segmenting

Shape of things

I saw this great activity in  a Prek classroom.  Students listened to the book called The Shape of Things and then they made their own pictures with shapes.  Awesome!!

fighting germs

A great bulletin board that shows the students a great way for fighting germs

Reindeer Ornaments

With a light bulb and some acrylic paint, you can do this cute reindeer too. So easy and super cute.

awesome ornaments

I saw this activity in a classroom and thought I would share.  You get an ornament and put the child's hand print with white acrylic paint.  Then with acrylic pens make the fingers into snowmen.  It is super cute

wreath tree

I say this in one of the teacher's class and I had to share.  It is a take home project where the parent and child work together to make a wreath with any materials they want.  Then the teacher formed them into a tree shape on the wall I really loved that idea.

the 5 senses

I really loved this idea so I had to share.  The 5 senses are depicted on this craft the children made.  The hands are cut out of sand paper so they can feel.  The ears are made of little bells, the mouth is licorice and the nose and eyes are depicted also.

you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man

Have fun this winter with the gingerbread man story.  Have some cut outs for the little ones, you can have the older ones cut their own out and decorate it with lots of fun things.  I found this in one classroom and since I love the classic story, I had to take a picture.

You could use this or any other story and find a song to make it fun.

lions, lions, lions,

This lion is made out of paper plate, yarn and construction paper.  The children in this teacher's class had so much fun adding the yarn, googly eyes and the mouth part.  They also loved the story that the teacher read. Of course you could use it with any lion story cause it is so much fun to make.

Stickers and Math

 This is a need idea since students loooove stickers.  You can use their love of stickers with  math activities.  I took these pictures in one of the schools and had to take pictures cause I thought it was really neat

turkey feet

 

You can make turkey prints out of the children's foot, don't just think of handprint turkeys but keep their foot print as a turkey also.  The children will have fun with it and you will always have their footprint as a memory as well

Tukey Project

Another take home project but this time to decorate the turkey with whatever they would like to make them look cute and special.  As you can see in one of the pictures, they used pasta and others they used feathers.

Winter and math

Children will get three trees and then order them by smallest to largest.  This is after reading a story on winter and how there are evergreen trees that do not lose their leaves in winter. Of course this can be done with presents, ginger bread men, and ornaments.  This picture was from a teacher's bulletin that I work with and I thank her for sharing.

Mixing colors

Mixing colors can be so easy.  All I did was had a lesson on mixing colors with the book called Mouse Paint. Then I let them choose 2 primary colors that were used in the book. And I placed a dab of the two colors and then let them mix it on a plate.

Hat Day

Hat day was a day everyone brought their hats from home.  We them sorted the hats by color, size, shape.  We counted the hats of each type and then all together.  I also read them a book named "Jobs"  The book was about different kinds of jobs where they wear different hats.  Examples being chefs, police, construction worker, firefighter, baseball player, and postal worker.