Winter Olympic Games: Kinderpond Style

Learning Board-

Letter O

Color bronze

Shape- Circle

Numeral- 25-30


Name Practice- Binder

Monday

Story: Intro the Olympics
Show cards about what different kinds of sports are played.

Poem: Discovery Toys Alphabet 

Alphabet Study: Alphabet Book

Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Hockey in metal pan (user upload)

Science: Watch Olympic video

Math: Pass the Torch

Art: Dry Erase on foil from Pocket of Preschool

Writing: Tracing Cards

Theme/Life Skills: Olympic Sugar Cookie Rings
I plan to use my Pampered Chef biscuit cutters.

Tuesday

Story: My Winter Olympic Sport

I know this talks about making your own sport, but we will just choose a sport that Froglet is interested in and describe that.

Poem: Lettercise

Alphabet Study: Fresh Powder

Fine Motor: tongs/pom-pom/color sort

Science: Ice Cube Melt

Math: Winter Sports Memory

Art: Letter book

Writing: Winter Sport Label 

Write out the words or cut them apart and have your child match.
You could print this twice and use it in your book too :)

Theme/Life Skills: Snowball Ring Toss

Thursday

Story:

Poem: DToys

Alphabet Study: Ski Matching

Fine Motor: Scissors Skills

Science: Ice Luge Lego Guy

Math: Matching Sports Game

Art: Design Snowboard or skate

I am looking up "snowboard coloring page"  I wanted enough room to actually decorate :)

Writing: Ice skating rink (white glue)

Theme/Life Skills: Ice Skate on waxed paper

Friday

Story: Tacky and the Winter Games

Poem: Lettercise

Alphabet Study: Mate your Skate

Fine Motor: Olympic pony bead bracelet

Science: Weather Game
I got this one at Dollar Tree- you spin and try to collect all 4 types of weather

Here is a printable it's just for a bingo game.  

Math: Roll and Record 
If your child is still learning to write- write in yellow markers and tell your child to "follow the yellow brick road"

Art: Olympic Rings 
We are really loving these paint sticks we got for Christmas.  Give your child a guide for the Olympic Rings and have them create them. 
These KwikStix dry in 90 seconds!

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Wii Fit
We will be doing the winter sports ones :)

Shopping List:
Sugar Cookie Mix
Frosting mini tubes: red, green, blue, black, yellow

Pony beads:red, green, blue, black, yellow
String
Gutter/pool noodle ( luge track)

Dollar Tree
Metal Pan
Foil
Waxed Paper
Pom-poms (red, green, blue, black, yellow)
Pipe Cleaners
Mini Marshmallows
Lego Guy
Colored Popsicle Sticks
Vel-Cro
Dots/labels

Kinderpond Goes to the Ocean

Learning Board

Letter O

Color Blue

Shape- Circle

Numeral- 11


Name Practice-  Froglet has been asking lately how to spell other people's names.  So I get a Venn diagram and write both names down and he arranges the letters to spell both.  


Here are some of the books we own:

Monday-

Story-Deep in the Ocean

Poem Old MacDonald Had an Ocean

Art~ Watercolors  This is more about the process and not so much about the "art medium"  I might just print out an "ocean coloring page" I take out the black paint, well because I don't want everything black.

Math/Life Skills/Science   Sensory Bin  
Froglet didn't really like the grass lol   This year, I bought some ocean friends pasta at Wal~Mart.  We recently got some Imaginext ocean toys too.

Theme-

Snack- Goldfish 
If you get the colorful ones, have your child sort by color.
If you use the regular ones, bring out a die.  Have them roll, count and then eat! 

Tuesday-

Story- Ocean Movement  
I bind my books at the bottom so the pages fall on my lap.

Fingerplay Grid Game

Art- Spin/Roll and Stamp
Either us a spinner or roll a die.  The number they roll or spin, is the number of times they stamp.  You could turn it into a game as well.  Write out the numbers 1-6 or 2-12 section off your paper into parts.  Child wins when they have stamped all of the numbers.  We will just roll and stamp.

Math/Life Skills/Science- Water drops in bubbles

Theme- Games

Snack- Ocean Popcorn

Thursday-

Story  I See Animals

Fingerplays- I Like the Ocean

Art- 

Jellyfish Bowl                 or Suncatcher

     

Math/Life Skills/Science Stamp the number

Theme- Light Table Letters

Snack- Octopus Popcorn
Some one years ago "made" this snack and it's been a favorite ever since.
Take softened cream cheese or whipped cream cheese, finely shredded cheddar cheese and popcorn.

Children hold popcorn and dip it into cream cheese and then smoosh it into the pile of cheese. The cheese sticks and it looks like tentacles  

Friday-

Story 

Fingerplays- I'm a Little Fishy

Art- Paper Plate Aquarium  
We are going to use rubber stamps to do ours and use Easter grass for the seaweed.  When I made these back in the day, we used blue colored plastic wrap... wonder if they make that anymore... hummmm

Math/Life Skills/Science Octopus 
I am not really a big "craft" teacher.  This is more about counting.
I will cut the body, eyes and tentacles out. I will probably glue the tentacles too lol I will let him glue on the eyes.  I think  we will use a bingo dauber for the dots.

Theme- Tissue Paper ocean levels on light table

Snack- Ocean Layer Krispies

Shopping List:

Goldfish

Popcorn

Blue Candy melts
Finding Dory snacks*

Whipped Cream Cheese

Shredded Cheese fine

Rice Krispes

Marshmallows

Butter

Food Coloring
Ocean Pasta

Watercolors
Stamps/stickers
Eye dropper
Tissue Paper- blues
Garage Sale Dots or bingo dauber
Bowl
Paper plates
Easter grass
Paper