Fall theme learning

 C cut out shapes (he loves to cut, and even funnier, he loves to have a paper brown bag next to him to throw all his little scraps in, that's part of his fun).  Then he used his glue stick and glued the shapes onto it's respective matching shape on another paper.  The shapes had scarecrows in them to make it fun for fall!

Then we had a print out of a pumpkin.  I had printed off "letter tiles", laminated them and cut them (oh the work to save money!).  First I had him use all upper case letters to spell pumpkin, then all lower case letters.  We talked about the "P" sound and what spelling means.

Fun fall pattern cards!  Again, I printed them off a website, laminated and cut them.  I began a pattern and had him finish it.... pumpkin, leaf, scarecrow, pumpkin, leaf, scarecrow, pumpkin... This actually took a bit more teaching on my part to encourage him to think about what was going on here... but as soon as he got the hang of it, he did awesome!!

This is a fall numbers wheel.  Again, a printable I found, laminated and cut!  Then I wrote numbers on clothespins and had him count the pictures (pumpkins, squirels, apples, leaves, scarecrows...) and he had to find the correct number on the clothespin and clip it to the picture!  He did this fast, and liked it!  The other day he found this own his own and did it without me even asking.

These four papers are fall songs that I found and printed off.  We sang them and threw fake silk leaves around the house!  Example: Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down, autumn leaves are falling down, red, yellow, green and brown!  To the tune of London Bridge is falling down.  My little tot N really liked this one too!

Numbers fun!

Here are some fun ways to practice numbers with your tots and preschoolers:

Counting Bears!  A toy I bought on Amazon.  I put a number in front of each bucket and had him put the correct number of bears in each bucket.

And putting the correct number of cheerios on foam numbers

Have fun!

Counting games

A great way to practice counting!

I grabbed kitchen bowls and put numbers 1-10 written on a piece of paper in the bowl then I had C drop the correct number of pom pom balls in each bowl.

Then I printed off a numbers game from:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2011/04/preschool-letter-t-for-turtle.html

C had to count the number of turtles and place the correct number in the box next to the turtles (I had cut out and laminated the numbers).

A great way to practice learning to pay attention to not counting the same one twice, and to not skip over and miss counting one.  A great lesson on concentration and attention to detail.  And he had fun!