Size Sequencing Bears

Another one from Childcareland.com (I LOVE this SITE!!!!) *Looks like the bear size sequencing game is no longer there, but she has several other themed items that are size sequencing that you can download and print for free.

This teaches Big and Small. When I created this a year ago, my son was NOT interested in the concept of putting the into order, but now that he is a bit older he was much more open to the idea of looking at each bear and seeing how they get a little smaller each time. He is really into putting things (items) into rows right now, so it worked out well to pull out this activity today.

Instruments

When I first wanted to start doing lessons with my son at home I found a site called Preschool Resource Room. It has tons of fun weekly themed ideas. This felt board game was created for the week that we learned about instruments. I just went on line and found free clip art and printed different instruments off and laminated them.

I sat at the kitchen table with my son and showed him the pictures and read off their names while he was eating his breakfast. Later that day I placed the pictures on the felt board and had him point to the different instruments I called off. He was not talking yet at this time so he couldn't say the words, but he knew the names and picked the correct pictures when I called each out. It was the first time I think I realized he had a photographic/auditory memory.

I am Feeling....

Felt board idea I got from Childcareland.com
I colored the faces and the word that represents the feeling in the same color to help my son associate the words with the feeling. Now I can show him just the face and he will verbally tell me what feeling it is.

Math Mat II

Got this mat from Childcareland.com

My son loves to match the dots with the numbers. Here is a picture of him working on matching the numbers up with the dots.

Math Mats I

These Math Counting Mats are from Sugardoodle.net

I found them over a year ago, and the site has had a huge re-design so I have no idea where to find a link to post.

I have yet to let my son use the mats because he didn't seem interested in math. But now he is getting the hang of it and I will be pulling it out this week to let him play with some Gold Fish crackers as counters! FUN! I will try and get a video of him playing

5 Little Monkeys

I am sure we all have heard this story/song before...."Five Little Monkey's Jumping on the BED!...One fell off and Bonked his head. Momma Called the doctor and the doctor said. "NO MORE Monkey's Jumping on the bed!"

Click Here for a link for something simular you can print up in color or in black and white.

My son loved this felt board idea and learned to count up to 5 very quickly. He is a very visual learner. He loves to sing the song, and do different voices for the characters.

Brown Bear Video

Here is a video of my son doing the Brown Bear Story.

Some Questions Answered

I am glad that many of you have enjoyed looking at the blog. I have enjoyed going through my files and taking pictures of them. My son has been enjoying playing with the activities. It has been a while since I have pulled any out. He goes through spurts where he wants to do several of the activities and then he will just stop.

Anyway...I am glad you have enjoyed the blog so far. I love to read the comments.
And speaking of comments I have had a couple people ask me how much my laminator cost.
Well it was a few years back but I think I got mine for $20 on sale. My husband bought it for my birthday.
Today the same laminator at Habor Fraight Tools is selling for $24.99, and the Laminating sheets (box of 25) for $5.99. Still VERY good prices. You can go to the store and buy them or even order on line.

I feel it was a huge investment, one I LOVE and brings me joy. Bug loves playing with the items I laminate. It has made lessons fun. It is so much easier than using the laminating paper/contact paper. I used that at first and every one of my items had creases in them where the paper folded up on itself.

Having a Laminator will make your life a little bit easier. You can use it on so many things. Not only on Kid Learning Activities. You can laminate important documents to preserve them. You can laminate your recipe cards so that they are easy to wipe down after using. I have stained many a book or piece of paper with food prep. I plan on laminating my favorite recipes and sticking them in a binder. You could create chore charts and use the dry erase markers to check off each chore. The list could go on and on.

I hope that I have answered the question for those who were wondering about purchasing a Laminator. If not you can email me personally at brelnug@yahoo.com and I will try to answer your question in more detail.

I will try and take some pictures and have some more projects to share tomorrow.

Brown Bear

Learning colors and animals is FUN with the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear".

The virtual vine- near the bottom of the page is the link for the pictures I used. They come in black and white or color.

DLTK- this site acutally has the pictures (not the same as mine- cuter than mine). They come in color or black and white so that you can color them your self.

Hubbardscupboard- as tons of fun stuff to teach all week long!

Bear Shape Matching

Another one from Childcareland.com

Black and White

Color

Car Shapes

Found this activity on Childcarland.com

I used it on my black felt board. I read the story that I posted on the inside of the folder and helped my little guy learn his shapes.

Teaching Weather!

Well, my intentions were good, but sometimes that doesn't cut it.

I had said that I was going to provide the links to where I found my free pictures and I plan on still doing this, but this first project is one of the ones I did over a year ago and I don't have the pictures saved on my computer any longer and I can't find the link for the pictures. I wish that I could give credit to who designed the pictures but I don't have that information either.

Sorry, I hope that you all will give me a little slack, and return often to see what other laminate projects I post.

Here is a picture of the Weather pictures I laminated.

Calendar for January

I found this calender on Childcareland.com. It is under the free downloads. She puts several free downloads up during the month and I check back often.

The lady who runs the site changes the calender items each year. These penguins are from last year, and this year it looks like she has snowflakes. Not sure if I am going to down load them and recreate them. I plan on hanging up the poster board that I made last year and allowing my son to put the dates up each morning.

It will be good to teach him the days of the week, and the months, and also reinforce counting numbers.