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I will be posting more very very soon. Have been taking pictures for funstuff to do during March, for St. Patty's Day!

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.