Playing Together

Saturday, July 25, 2020 No comments

This last week we did so many fun Learning Activities with Experience Early Learning Curriculum . Our Theme this month is Friends and Feelings and today I am sharing some of the Activities we did.

I am so thankful for the opportunity to use Experience Early Learning Curriculum with my students and to share our experiences on my blog.

In exchange for my unbiased and honest reviews Experience Early Learning has provided me with the curriculum free of charge.

I have used Experience Early Learning Curriculum in my Classroom since 2017. This Curriculum has been a True Blessing for me and my students! ❤️

Working Together

During back to school time there are so many new things the children are getting used to. One of their favorite things is making new friends.

When children work and play together they connect and build friendships.

Child love to work and play together in the Block Area. In September the Block Area Theme Might Be Making a Playground. The children would have materials to build and create a Playground. Examples of materials are cardboard strips, yarn, tubes, tape, and sticks. The children would be encouraged to construct the playground and set it out with toy dolls or animals.

Other Learning Centers they work and play together in are Writing Center, Dramatic Play, Sensory, Science, Library and more.

Friendship Headband

During Circle Time in Pre-K we would sit together on the rug and talk together about how we can be a good friend. .

How should a good friend play?

The puzzle friend pieces are labeled with:

Help Others ❤️

Share ❤️

Listen ❤️

Be Kind ❤️

The children decorated their headbands and glued the puzzle pieces on. They turned out adorable! Such a Wonderful Back to School Activity.

Special Numbers

Each month Experience Early Learning Curriculum focuses on important concepts such as a color, shape, alphabet, numbers etc. In September It focuses on the numbers: One and Two .

The curriculum included these Awesome Number Mats

to be used for learning in various ways.

Here the children match the cardboard number to the correct mat then place the correct number of pom poms on the mat for that number when counting.

Cute Erasers could be used for counters as well. Another way to use the mats is to use playdough to form the number

and make playdough counters. For each new month through the school year the focus will be on the next two numbers up to 20.

Forest Friends: A Kind Friend

This month our Forest Friend Book was About Kindness!

My granddaughter read it to us and used the story pieces.

This book is great for Back to School.

I ask them a way they can be kind

and when someone was kind to them?

It’s perfect when we are discussing good manners as well.

Silly Shape Friend

Another fun and cute activity for Back to School is this Shape Activity.

The children trace the shapes and make shape friends.

My grandchildren decided to make shape puzzles for the shape pieces to fit in.

They had a great time doing this!

We had such a Wonderful Time of Learning with Experience Early Learning. We can’t wait until next Time’s Learning Adventures.

Watch for next week’s new Theme:

Let’s Be Superheroes. We Can’t Wait!

Disclaimer: I am so thankful for the opportunity to use Experience Early Learning formerly Mother Goose Time Curriculum with my students. I can’t wait to share our learning experiences on my blog. In exchange for my unbiased and honest reviews, Experience Early Learning has provided us with the curriculum free of charge.

You Are Special

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 No comments

I am so thankful for the opportunity to use Experience Early Learning Curriculum with my students and to share our experiences on my blog.

In exchange for my unbiased and honest reviews Experience Early Learning has provided me with the curriculum free of charge.

I have used Experience Early Learning Curriculum in my Classroom since 2017. This Curriculum has been a True Blessing for me and my students! ❤️

Friends and Feelings is such a Fun Theme! It is a Theme I have used before for Back to School so this is one of my Favorite Themes because I Love Back to School! It is such an exciting time!

Places to Meet Friends

During the first weeks of school we make many new friends.

We do fun activities during Circle Time, Journaling Time, Learning Centers and throughout the day with our new friends.

During Circle Time a fun song to sing with our new friends is

DO YOU LIKE...?

Sung to tune of The Muffin Man

Insert a food word , activity, color , etc.

DO YOU LIKE

Do you like the color blue, 💙

The color blue, The color blue? 💙

Do you like the color blue, 💙

Then stand up now.

And repeat with other words.

Another Back to School Circle Time Activity we enjoyed in the past was passing a small mirror around. As the mirror went around the children would say something about themselves. Like I have brown eyes or I have curly hair.

With the current situation we could change this up a little. Each child could bring their Me puppet to the circle time rug instead and tell us about it and about themself.

My Friendship Journal

For the friendship journal I would invite the children to draw themself and a friend on the cover.

They could also complete the fun activities inside the journal about their favorite things.

I also set out a large piece of paper and my grandchildren created a map for a back to school game.

Where would you like to meet your friends?

They drew streets and buildings & paths.

They glued on the pieces for the Ice cream shop, Library, Park and the School was the last spot. Then they were ready to play the game.

Our Meeting Game

They made up their own game called “Places Friends Meet”.

They had a blast! They rolled their die, moved that many spaces and met their friends at fun places! ❤️ This is a fun Back to School Game!

You are Special

For Art the children made a special tree. It was called an -

I Am Special Tree . They traced their hands for the branches and their arms for the trunks. They put red stickers for apples.

The children could also use red paint to make finger print apples instead of using red stickers. This art project is great for Back to School! There are so many fun Apple StoryBooks to go with this great craft.

Special Faces

My granddaughter tried making the different Feeling Faces

but it was a little hard! 😂 That is because she couldn’t quit laughing!😆

She finally did one face without laughing! 😝 It was her pretty smile!

We had such a Wonderful Time of Learning with Experience Early Learning. We can’t wait until next Time’s Learning Adventures.

More Back to School Fun Coming

Next Week!

Making Friends

Sunday, July 12, 2020 No comments

I am so thankful for the opportunity to use Experience Early Learning Curriculum with my students and to share our experiences on my blog.

In exchange for my unbiased and honest reviews Experience Early Learning has provided me with the curriculum free of charge.

I have used Experience Early Learning Curriculum in my Classroom since 2017. This Curriculum has been a True Blessing for me and my students! ❤️

Friends and Feelings is such a Fun Theme! It is a Theme I have used before for Back to School so this is one of my Favorite Themes because I Love Back to School! It is such an exciting time!

🖍🍎🚌📚

Saying Hello

One of the first things we do when we start back to school is

we greet each other.

We use our hands to say hello with a wave or we use our voices to say hello.

There are different ways to say hello, such as, “Hi”, “Hey” or “Good Morning.”

When the children come to Circle Time I show them the Topic Poster and ask them “How can you use your hands and voice to say hello?

This gives them the opportunity to talk and feel comfortable among their new friends as they start their Pre-K Day.

During Creative Art the Children Make Friend Puppets

During this activity the children create one puppet that looks like a friend and one that looks like themself.

My grandchildren said they are besties right now because they have been homeschooling together so they did brother and sister puppets.

They cut out the clothing from the paper and attached it to the puppets. They then glued on wiggle eyes and feathers for hair . They used markers to decorate them.

What’s Your Name?

This was such an Awesome Name Activity! The children write or trace their name on the name card .

The alphabet cards are taped onto the clothespins.

The children then clip the correct clothespin letters on

names.

This is an activity that can be used throughout the school year.

Matching Global Friends

The children played a fun matching game with the cards

and as they drew matches they tried to pronounce Hello in different languages.

We cheated and used the iPhone for some of them! 😆

We had such a Wonderful Time of Learning with Experience Early Learning. We can’t wait until next Time’s Learning Adventures.

More Back to School Fun Coming

Next Week!

Island Early Literacy & Math Learning Fun

Sunday, July 5, 2020 No comments

This last month we did so many fun Learning Activities with Experience Early Learning Curriculum . Our Theme last month was Treasure Island and today I am sharing some of the Literary and Math Activities we did.

I am so thankful for the opportunity to use Experience Early Learning Curriculum with my students and to share our experiences on my blog.

In exchange for my unbiased and honest reviews Experience Early Learning has provided me with the curriculum free of charge.

I have used Experience Early Learning Curriculum in my Classroom since 2017. This Curriculum has been a True Blessing for me and my students! ❤️

Experience Early Learning Curriculum is so Rich with Activities in all Areas of Learning. I love including the activities from the curriculum in my Classroom Learning Centers, Circle Time and Story Time. This summer I have had the blessing of doing these awesome activities with my grandchildren! We have had so much fun together!

Today I am focusing on the Literacy and Math Activities they did Together this last month.

Number Islands Was a fun Hands on Math Game that the children did together. Children always enjoy water fun! 😊 💦

Number Concepts for this game:

Identifies Numerals

Counts to Determine Quantity

When playing this game the children placed the numbers in the water. One child rolled the die and counted the dots. The child then found the matching foam number and pulled that Island out of the water.

The children continued taking turns rolling and pulling out numbers until all the islands were removed.

We added sea shells and jewels to count and it added extra fun!

This was so much fun for them and would be loved in the pre-k classroom as well. 💦

During the school year we look forward to the wonderful hands on math games which teach the children important concepts. The children love the games!

Ahoy! ABC

Literacy Concepts for this activity:

Demonstrates Print Knowledge

My Granddaughter read us the Ahoy! ABC Book and drew the Letters in the Sand.

Here She is Writing Letter S.

This is so Fun! In my Pre-K classroom the children love Sensory Activities.They love having their hands in the sand while learning about the Alphabet.

It is such a fun way to learn letter recognition. I love the Ahoy! ABC Book that was included with the curriculum.

Build A Castle

Number Concepts - Counts to Determine Quantity

This fun board game involved rolling a die, identifying the number and moving the crab that many spaces. If they rolled 3 they collected 3 sand castle building cups. At the end of the game they counted to see who had the most sand castle building cups.

Then they built a Castle Together! 🏰

In the Pre-K classroom the children love rolling the die. Then counting how many dots is so exciting to them! Especially when they get to move their spaces! 😃 It’s so fun watching them!

They had so much fun building Sandcastles together!

Hidden Letters -Table Top Literacy

Island Hidden Words and the Alphabet Book

Literacy and Language Concepts: Letter and Word Recognition & Emergent Writing

With this activity they chose a card from the pile and looked at the picture and identified what letter it started with. They went through their Treasure Island Alphabet book and found the Letter and completed that page.

With the Pre-K children we would go over this together with the Alphabet Cards during Circle Time.

Then I would set it out again for them at a table with the alphabet cards , pencils and crayons during learning center time. They could do as many pages as they wanted and finish the rest at home.

This would also give them an opportunity to share this activity with their parent.

My Little Journal

Concepts with this activity: Expresses Through Writing & Emergent Writing

The children drew a self portrait on the covers of their journals. They drew ocean animals as well.

They wrote about their Island, Map and Ship on the inside of their Journal.

I laid out the Sunset Words for them to use in sentences.

In the Pre-K classroom we would do our Journals together and then I would put them in the writing center for them to finish throughout the month as they visit the Writing Center.

This encourages writing all month long. I would also leave the Sunset Words in the Writing Center to encourage them to read and write the words.

Counting Treasure

Math Concept: Counts and Determines Quantity

The children chose a number on the mat and counted that many coins. They placed them in a pile on that number. They repeated until all the coins were on the mat.