Hide and Go Seek and Parachute Emotions

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Hide and Go Seek- The Game

We practice saying the 'Hide and Seek' chant as a class:

Lets All Play Hide and Seek

Cover Your Eyes, Please Don’t Peek!

Then We’ll Count From 1 to 10

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Ready or Not, Here I Come! 

Then we choose a seeker and all the other student's hide while they say the chant including counting to 10 and saying, "Ready or not, here I come!".

The student then looks for the other students and are encouraged to use student's names as they find them. As they are found the other students come back to the rug and we talk about where they hid emphasizing prepositions including "under", "around", "in" and "behind". We also used distant words like, "closer," "nearer" and "over there". Once everyone is back, we review it once again and then start with a different seeker. 

Parachute Emotions

We start out with "If Your Happy and You Know It". We have balloons and a permanent marker. The students tell the name of the emotion they want and shows what the face looks like. We draw on the face. When the balloons are finished, we pull out the parachute and play with it to music. As the balloons fly off, we label them. "Oh no, there goes the surprised balloon. ______ grab the surprised balloon!".

Chalk Art Small Group:

Musical Color Dots and Hide and Seek

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Musical Colors Large Group

Students each get a turn to roll the dice and see what color it lands on, music is played and when it stops, everyone has to go find that color and stand on it. The more friends on a dot, the merrier!

Color's are a bit off in the picture but no worries, they're a lot more bold and 'standard' in real life!

Hide and Go Seek- The Game:

We practice saying the 'Hide and Seek' chant as a class:

Lets All Play Hide and Seek

Cover Your Eyes, Please Don’t Peek!

Then We’ll Count From 1 to 10

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Ready or Not, Here I Come! 

Then we choose a seeker and all the other student's hide while they say the chant including counting to 10 and saying, "Ready or not, here I come!".

The student then looks for the other students and are encouraged to use student's names as they find them. As they are found the other students come back to the rug and we talk about where they hid emphasizing prepositions including "under", "around", "in" and "behind". We also used distant words like, "closer," "nearer" and "over there". Once everyone is back, we review it once again and then start with a different seeker. 

A Tub and Musical Colors

Ms. Shirley is bringing donuts on Tuesday and Wednesday. Her children are bakers (since we've been talking about the roles of a butcher, baker and candlestick maker) and made them at their local bakery.

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Rub-A-Dub-Dub Large Group

Rub-a-dub-dub

Three Men in a Tub

And who do you think they be?

The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker,

All Traveling Out to Sea.

We talk about the roles of a butcher, baker & candlestick maker.  Three to Four children at a time get to 'row' in the boat as we chant the rhyme, exchanging out the words for the correct number, gender or 'kids' and their names. For example:

Rub-a-dub-dub

Four girls in a Tub

And who do you think they be?

There's Andrea and Michelle and Mia and Dulce

All Traveling Out to Sea.

Boat and Paddles

Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker

Musical Colors Large Group

Students each get a turn to roll the dice and see what color it lands on, music is played and when it stops, everyone has to go find that color and stand on it. The more friends on a dot, the merrier!

Color's are a bit off in the picture but no worries, they're a lot more bold and 'standard' in real life!

Number Poems

Here are some number Poems to help your child with number recognition. We want our four-year-olds to recognize numbers 1-5 and our 5-year-olds 1-10 but three-year-olds can have fun with it too. Help them trace it with their finger while you say the rhyme and then help them trace it in shaving cream, sand, pudding etc. Give them examples and help but don't make it into a drill. We want them to love learning at this age through self-direction and discovery!

Click Here to Download the Number Poems

'P' The Popcorn Sound

Each day at greeting time we do a letter and sound to correspond with Ms. Carrie, our speech therapist's letter and sound of the week. This week it is the letter 'P'.

If you would like a link to the letter card sounds we use to download and use or view at home, here is the google doc link:

Phonemic Sound Cards

Letter Tracing Rhymes

These are the tracing rhymes we've used with the students during Carrie's large group each month. The students each have a letter card to trace with their finger as we chant the rhyme. You can use these to review them at home (but be careful not to make this a 'drill and kill' activity, just once here and there, led by your child's choice). 

B: Start at the top, draw to the bottom.  Now bounce the line once, then twice from top to bottom.

C: Start at the top, and draw down, half a circle, not a frown.

D: Start at the top, and draw down.  Go back to the top and draw around. 

G: Draw half a circle, not a frown. Draw across the middle and then down.

M: Draw up the mountain.  Go back down.  Back up the mountain and down to the town. 

P: Start at the top and draw down, go back to the top and draw a little bump down.

T: Top to bottom, now back to the top.  Left to right, and now STOP!

Red Ripe Strawberries and a Tub

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The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear Large Group

A story by Don and Audrey Wood, this little mouse has a big red ripe strawberry that he must hide from the big hungry bear. He picks it, smells it, tries to disguise it, marches around it to patrol it and ends up finding the perfect way to keep it from the bear. He ends up cutting it in half to share with the author and then they eat it up. We're going to read the story and then each student gets a 'strawberry' to re-enact the story (with addition terms like behind and under) including sharing it at the end.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub Large Group

Rub-a-dub-dub

Three Men in a Tub

And who do you think they be?

The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker,

All Traveling Out to Sea.

Boat and Paddles

Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker