Colors and Shapes Oh My!

Learning Board

Letter C

Color  ALL

Shape- ALL

Numeral- 4


Name Practice-Binder

Monday-

Story: Brown Bear

Poem: FSP Songs

Alphabet Study: Letter Punch

Fine Motor: Color tracing sheet

Science: Color Sort Tubes

Math: Frogs/Color Bears  

Free explore

Art: Brown Bear Pages  Maybe this year is the year we finally finish lol

Writing: Rainbow Salt Tray**

Paint bottom of tray, add salt

Theme/Life Skills: Circle Maps Red and Orange

Tuesday

Story: Elmer

Poem: Color Poem

Alphabet Study: Magnetic Letters 
Free explore

Fine Motor: Shape Clip Cards
Here are some!
I grabbed mine from Target!

Science: Magnets From Target or Dollar Tree

Math: Brown Bear Magnets

Art: Elmer Tissue Paper

Writing: Trace Shapes 
Use different colors.

Theme/Life Skills: Circle Maps yellow/green


Thursday

Story:Pete the Cat Shoes

Poem: Number Poem

Alphabet Study: Sort letters by colors

Fine Motor: Color Clips

Science: Color Milk experiment

Math: Roll and Take

Roll a number cube and a color cube.  Take that many of that color.
We are using frogs.  I roll a blue and a 4. I take 4 blue frogs.

Art: Color Hunt

Hide colors around the house.
Maybe use those color tubes.  Pick on piece of every color.

Writing: Shape Hop 

Using those felt shapes from Target, we are going to hop to them.
Call out a shape and have your child hop to that shape.

Theme/Life Skills: Circle Maps Blue/Purple


Friday

Story: Mouse Paint

Poem: Momma Circle

Alphabet Study: Letter Pix Magnets 

Fine Motor: Gumballs and Tweezers

Science: Color Mixing

Math: Pattern Blocks

Art: Paint- color mixing

Writing: Twister

We're working our fine motor and larger motor muscles here!
Fine- fingers- spinning
Large- body- stretching to reach

Or  

using those color boarders from Dollar Tree again, do a bean bag toss.

Theme/Life Skills: Circle Maps- Pink-Gray-Black

Shopping List:

Hole Punch

Markers

Colorful Bears

Paint

Clothes Pins

Magnets

Tissue Paper (Dollar Tee)

Dice
Tweezers
Pom-poms
Baster
Plastic Bins
Colored Paper

Food Coloring

Milk

Salt

Kinderpond goes to the Circus/Carnival

Learning Board-

Letter C

Color  Pink

Shape- Circle

Numeral- 0


Name Practice-Binder

Monday 



Story- I Went to the Carnival

Poem Clown FB

  

Art~ Create a Scene

Math/Life Skills/Science  Bowling Pins

I got these at Target.

Theme- Stack Game 

Don't have this game? Use one of those Target stack games. Don't have those?  Grab a number cube and blocks or I was thinking the ice cubes from Dollar Tree.  Roll a number cube and stack that many blocks/cubes.  Roll again and continue to stack!

Snack- Cotton Candy Poke Cake

Tuesday-

Story-The Circus

Poem 3 Big Elephants

Music- Circus Lions  
Get out a real hula-hoop and go through!

Math/Life Skills/Science- Felt Counting Cards

Don't have the cards? use flash cards, write them on index cards.

You could match the numeral to the dots.
You could clip clothes pins on them.
You could match the numbers to the number shapes.
You could pick up a number and ask your child to identify it.

Theme- Ring Toss
See above photo from Target with the bowling pins

Snack- Circus Pancakes

Thursday-

Story  We Went to the Circus

Poem- Pink Song 

Art-Cotton Ball Popcorn  

Math/Life Skills/Science Under the Big Top

Theme- Game

Snack-

Shopping List:

Pancake Mix

Spray Whipped Cream

Strawberries

animal crackers

M&M's

peanuts

Froot Loops

Marshmallows

Popcorn

Pretzels

white cake mix

cotton candy flavoring

2 boxes white chocolate or vanilla instant pudding mix

milk

whipped topping
cotton candy
food coloring

Hula Hoop
Cotton Balls
Glue
Yellow paint/food coloring 

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

OR

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!

Theme-Caps on Paint Stick 

Print the hats from HERE

Snack- Nilla Wafer and Banana Sandwiches  

Thursday-

Story  Goldilocks

Finger plays- Little Red Hen 
I want it short and sweet! 

Music/Art- Story pieces   

Math/Life Skills/Science Make Bread

Theme- Dot the H with Bingo Daubers

Snack- Eat the bread

Friday-

Story Goodnight Moon

Fingerplays- Wheels on the Bus

Art- Color the Bus

Math/Life Skills/Science Itsy Bitsy Spider

Thinking about a pool noodle cut in half the long ways, but not sure my spiders will fit???


Theme- Cube Roll

Snack- Bus Graham Cracker
(user upload)

Shopping List:

Pretzel Sticks

*Shredded Cheese

*Licorice or Slim Jim

~OR~
*Potato Sticks
*Chocolate Chunks

Banana

Nilla Wafers

Flour
Sugar 
Yeast- Rapid
Oil
Salt

Graham Crackers

White Frosting

Yellow Food Coloring
Mini Oreos if you're adding wheels we aren't!

Toothpicks
Colored Paper- red, yellow (if you can't find straw/hay)
****Straw?? y'all where does one get hay/straw?!?!?!? 

Paint Stick
Mini Clothespins

Bingo Dauber

Magnets

Construction Paper

Hair Gel

Alphabet Beads
Rain Gutter (under $5 at a hardware store.)
Spiders