Kinderpond Jr.: 9

Friday, October 27, 2017

Halloween Fun in Kinderpond

Learning Board

Letter H

Color Orange

Shape- Diamond/Rhombus

Numeral- 9

Name Practice- Binder

Monday-

Story: Pete the Cat Halloween

Poem: Scaredy Cat

Alphabet Study: Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Letters Punch Sheet

Science: Spider Grow

Math: Snap Cube Sheets

Art: Halloween Stamps (Wal-Mart)

Writing: Print off these letters

Each day this week we are going to do one of these activities using those letters. Photos from Play to Learn Preschool
Do you see how they stood the letters up? They clipped two clothes pins or pegs as Gemma says, and the letters just stand up :) Amazing!

Theme/Life Skills: Erasers in Pumpkins/Cauldrons/Skulls

Label them 1-10 and have child add that many erasers inside back when I did this a million years ago, we used the same pumpkins and... craft sticks lol

Tuesday

Story: Halloween Costumes

Poem: On Halloween

Alphabet Study: Bingo sheet

Fine Motor: Pokey Pages (bundle)

October Pokey Pin

Science: Label Skeleton (print one)

I bought a plastic skeleton at Dollar Tree
I made labels and we taped the skeleton.

Math: Race to Fill the Pumpkin

Art: Candy Corn Paint (this is more about the process and less about the craft part.)

Writing: Salt Spiders P2L (no spiders? use mini erasers)

Theme/Life Skills: Candy Corn Roll and Cover

Thursday

Story: I See Halloween

Poem: Grid Game

Alphabet Study: Halloween Eraser Letters

Fine Motor: Wind Up Toys

I grabbed some from Target. We are going to race them or see how far they walk.

Science: Ghost Slime
Here is a non-Borax recipe

Math: Halloween Counting Cards

Art: Witches Brew

Writing: Orange Rice

Theme/Life Skills: Halloween Scissor Skills

Friday

Story: I see Spiders

Spiders

Counting Spiders

Poem: 5 Little Pumpkins

Alphabet Study: Alphabet Soup

Fine Motor: Halloween Erasers and ice cube trays
You could add a number cube if you wanted too :)

Science: Sensory Bin

Orange Rice
Ice cube tray
Cauldron/skull/pumpkin
Witch Nose
Table Scatter

Math: Fall Race

Art: Mummy

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Skeleton Arm Relay

I have two bowls across the room. Kids pick up eyeballs and walk across the room to drop the eyeball into the other bowl.

I got the arms, bowl, and eyeballs at Dollar Tree.

Shopping List:

Candy corn

Paper Towels

Q-tips
Erasers- Target
Paint- white, orange, yellow

Giant push pin (for Pokey pages)

Salt

Candy Corn

Wind-up toys (Dollar Tree or Target)

Saline Solution

Clear glue

Specifically from Dollar Tree

Pumpkin/Skulls/cauldrons containers

Pumpkin/Skulls ice cube trays

Skeleton Arms

Eyeballs

Dish

Spiders (rings)

Fangs

Bats

Black sand/rocks

Jumbo Tweezers

Wiggly Eyes

Friday, May 26, 2017

Kinderpond Reads the Classics

This was such a hard unit to plan! There are so many great books out there it was so very difficult to just pick these!

Learning Board

Letter C

Color Black

Shape- sphere

Numeral- 9

Name Practice- Gel Bag
So my plan is to add the letters in Froglet's name and a few other random letters. It is totally great to just have your child's name inside.

Have an older child? Add more letters.

Monday-

Story- 3 Little Pigs

Poem- Character Poster use THESE pieces in the Tot version.

Show your child and say "these are the characters" show animals
"Here is the setting" show the houses
You can use the last pieces to show order.

Art~Houses

(I couldn't find their post of these)

Math/Life Skills/Science Blowing Activity

Theme- Toy Pigs

Regular Toy pigs, or this super cute pig game:

Snack- 3 Little Pigs Snack Mix
(user upload)

Shredded Cheese

Pretzels

Slim Jim's or Licorice

Three Little Pigs Snack Mix
Pretzel Sticks

Potato Sticks

Chocolate Chunks

Tuesday-

Story-Caps for Sale

Finger play Monkey's Jumping on the Bed

Art- Design a cap Print off your child's favorite kind of cap.
Dress hat, baseball, Fedora, whatever!
I grabbed these at Dollar Tree

Math/Life Skills/Science- Monkey's Game

This is a game we have. Don't have the game? No worries! Grab that barrel of monkey's or find some toy monkeys! Don't have those? Put magnets on the back of your monkeys from above and bring out the magnet board!