My Montessori Journey: Free Downloads One of the questions I get most frequently from parents of my students is, "Is s/he playing with the other children?" I realize that a major reason that many parents send their children to preschool is to prepare them for kindergarten. A large part of that preparedness is what we often refer to as "socialization." As I have mulled over this question and how I tend to respond to it, I was inspired to write this post about the many aspects of socialization. First of all, in the preschool classroom children learn how to follow directions given by adults who are not their parents. In our classroom we focus on the following four group time behaviors: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) I have always had these same expectations for group time behavior. "Legs criss-cross, Legs criss-cross, Hands in your lap, Hands in your lap. This year for the first time I have added picture cards which correspond to our group behavior expectations. Download Picture prompts for line time behavior Whew!
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ALPHABET, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, TRANSPORT, PHONICS Fine Motor Skills Gross motor skills develop in rough-and-tumble play and physical activities, but fine motor skills are different. These carefully choreographed skills by smaller muscles must be practiced and fine-tuned. The only way to do this is through repeated practice. In our modern world a different set of fine skills is required. Using a mouse and clicking with a single finger may be the first digital skill students learn. Touch pads become even trickier when there are no visual cues. Students will learn to type eventually, but gaining strength and dexterity in individual fingers will help to speed that process along. Hand-Eye Coordination Piggybacking on the mouse idea, hand-eye skills will also be developed by using computer accessories. Computer and video games often get a bad rap, but educational games are different. Digital Literacy Nothing can top early digital literacy and preschoolers are eager to soak up any real-world knowledge they can gain.
First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts ESL Kids Worksheets, for Teaching English to Children About Me: Worksheets These worksheets relate to vocabulary, grammar and sentences related to self-introduction and giving information about oneself. You will find worksheets on telling someone about your name and age.Printable worksheets for teaching About Me: WorksheetsDownload and Print Actions Verbs: Simple Present Worksheets These worksheets relate to vocabulary of action verbs in the present simple tense. You will find tracing worksheets, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, matching exercises and more.Printable worksheets for teaching Actions Verbs: Simple Present WorksheetsDownload and Print Actions Verbs: Present Progressive Worksheets These worksheets relate to vocabulary of action verbs used in the present progressive or continuous tense. Animals on the Farm Worksheets These worksheets relate to vocabulary, grammar and sentences related to animals on the farm. Body Parts Worksheets These parts of the body worksheets will help to practice vocabulary, grammar and sentences.
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Universal Preschool.com Play to Learn Preschool: Spelling our Names Recently we posted some of the ways that we help our preschool students practice writing their names. Writing is not the only thing we do with names, though! Another important activity is learning to spell our names. We sing lots of songs and rhymes with our names, and these are 10 of our favorite ways to practice them during centers: Name Puzzles Write the child's name on a piece of cardstock. Sentence Strip Matching Program sentence strips with each child's name. In September we used apples and in October we used leaves. Star and basic shapes work well any time of year. In My Name vs. Print a sorting mat and provide a bowl of letter manipulatives. Letter Beads We have a set of Learning Resources beads that the students use to make name necklaces. Pattern Block Letters We love these amazing free printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Magnet Center We use our magnetic white board to practice lots of skills, including spelling our names. Clothespin Dinosaurs Clothespin Folders
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20 Science Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers I’ve been sharing a lot of simple science experiments for kids on my facebook page lately, and the response from you guys has been terrific! Wow! You really love your science, don’t you? Well guess what! I’ve rounded up a whole bunch of my favourite science activities for fodders and preschoolers for you. 20 science activities for toddlers and preschoolers Set up a colour laboratory with water, bubbles and an assortment of containers and fine motor instruments. Watch a bar of Ivory soap expand to 6 times its size in a minute and a half! A few rocks, a jar and a small toy animal are fun for teaching kids about water displacement. Kids can practice spelling their name or simply create stunning pictures with this salt, glue and watercolour experiment. Watch and learn how salt helps to melt ice in the following FANTASTIC activities! Kids AND adults will absolutely love blowing these GIANT homemade bubbles! Watch a the slow process of a grape turning into a raisin. Happy Experimenting!
Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and activities for kids. Rainbow Dyed Daisies I love daisies. Their sweet summer faces always delight me as they freckle the fields. I thought it might be fun to use that daisy white as a palette for a rainbow of colors. My littlest and I really enjoyed watching them change color over time. Best part... it's super simple. Gather up some daisies. Cut the daisy stems below water at an angle and cut them fairly short, so the dye has less to travel up. Place 10-20 drops of food coloring into a small vase or jar (or we used tall shot glasses). Add warm water to the dye and place your daisies in their new colored drink! Leave them overnight and wake up to a rainbow!! Can you tell I was in love with this project?! So pretty. In daisy love,
Early Years A basic numeral recognition activitiy. Develop your mouse control and number skills by matching number digits to words in the 1 to 10 range. © v2vtraining.co.uk An initial sounds phonic activity that develops the link between letters and the initial sounds of some common objects. A counting and numeral recognition set of activities. Develop your mouse control and counting skills as you help Lecky collect objects to match numbers in the 1 to 5 or 6 to 10 range. Colouring and matching activity. Use the Simple Scales to weigh the bears. Dressing for the Weather is a drag and drop dressing activity. A drag and drop alien making activity to develop mouse control skills and to develop language. Drag and drop fun with the Scary Spuds. © 3913.co.uk Drag and drop the names of the single digit numbers on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the colours on to the picture. Comparison activities - developing the language of comaprison using such terms as biggest, smallest, longest, etc.
Ocean in a Bottle with 3 Simple Ingredients Make an ocean in a bottle with 3 easy ingredients. One of the fastest and easiest-ever science activities for preschoolers. I love to make homemade toys for the hooligans. Discovery bottles are always a favourite here. This particular ocean in a bottle has to be the most amazing looking bottle we’ve made yet though! This oil and water science experiment isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination. To make our Ocean in a Bottle, we used: watercooking oil (we used canola, but vegetable would work well)blue food colouringlarge bottle (2 litre pop bottles work well, but we used a mouthwash bottle with a child-safe lid)funnel If you want to explain the scientific details to your child, pop over and check out this article explaining why oil and water don’t mix. How to make an ocean in a bottle: I didn’t have a 2L pop bottle on hand, so we used an empty mouthwash bottle. Now, simply top up the bottle with oil. Let the fun begin! Tip the bottle upside down and watch your ocean come to life.