This collection includes Fine Arts, Health Education, Lifelong Learning, Physical Education, and Social Studies activities for preschool-aged children.
Watch the linked video and ask your child(ren) to hold up a card to show how they are feeling when they hear a specific piece of music.
Children will learn to use writing materials. Multiple opportunities to develop drawing and writing skills is important at this age. As children are ready, encourage them to create simple strokes after a model. Their abilities will increase as they are ready.
Children need to develop coordination of the muscles in their shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. Provide materials in order to help children build and strengthen those muscles.
Children will listen to music and stop their bodies from moving when the music pauses. This allows students to explore movement through dance and also helps build self-control as they start and stop activities.
Plant grass seed in cups with your child(ren). Once the seeds are planted, place them near the window and watch them grow. Provide the items needed for growth and talk about what is needed. Each day, allow children to observe and communicate any changes they see and write about it in a picture journal.
Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy. As children are ready, ask them to categorize foods into different food groups.
Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.
Many foods tie into traditions within the months of November and December. Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body. Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed. Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.
Children will communicate what they intend to do during imaginary play. They can use props and toys as they act out certain situations. Brainstorm with the child(ren) about different things they may add to the play area for that specific theme. Once they are done playing, they can draw a picture and write to tell what they enjoyed the most.
Children will communicate what they intend to do during imaginary play. They can use props and toys as they act out certain situations. Brainstorm with the child(ren) about different things they may add to the play area for that specific theme. Once they are done playing, they can draw a picture and write to tell what they enjoyed the most.
Children will communicate what they intend to do during imaginary play. They can use props and toys as they act out certain situations from the story, or made-up scenarios similar to what they read/heard about.
Child(ren) will brainstorm with an adult about different things they may add to the play area for a specific theme. Children will communicate what they intend to do during imaginary play.
Children will listen to music and dance to the beat of that music using large coordinated movements of isolated body parts. An adult or peer will be holding up cards to demonstrate what body part to move.
Talk about several occupations and how that occupation contributes to our needs and the needs of the community. Discuss the occupations in your setting and in the homes of your child(ren).
Children will do an activity that fosters conversations around the cause and effect of push and pull activities.
Create a deck of cards with a variety of shapes on them in different colors. Play memory while looking for matches in shape, matches in color, or matches in both shape and color.
Count as you are carrying out daily routines.While counting, stop often to ask what number comes next. Ask what number comes after or before a given number.
Children will listen and sing along to the alphabet song as the letters are being pointed to on a paper, chart, or on the wall. Allow children to help point to the letters as they are ready.
Children will listen to a song with movements as the adult points out the words in the rhyme. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions they will point out the words and control their movements.
Children will listen to Five Little Ducks as the adult points out the words in the rhyme. Allow children to help point out the words as they are ready.. Once your child(ren) knows the song and the motions, they will sing the song and control their movements by keeping their arms and hands in a space close to their bodies and not in anyone else’s space.