Some of our current favorite books

These are our latest favorite books

1. Purplicious by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann

2. Mr Pusskins:A Love story by Sam Lloyd

3. Otis and Sydney and the best birthday ever by Laura Numeroff and Dan Andreasen

4. Sheila Rae, The Brave by Kevin Henkes

Community Helpers- Mail carrier

We read some of the books on the mail carriers. But our favorite was "Delivering Your Mail" by Ann Owen and Eric Thomas.

    

Then we played some pretend play with being a mail  carrier. I wrote some addresses of the unused envelopes and R put some stamps on them . We used the stickers as stamps and then we also made a mailbox craft inspired from notimeforflashcards.com

Just like mail carriers we stamped on the stamps and sorted them. R would sort the enevelopes by letters and put them in appropriate boxes and then it was time to deliver letters. W ehad fun with this.

Dr.Seuss - The Foot Book

We read the Foot Book by Dr. Seuss. I wasn't sure whether R will like it but he enjoyed it.

We worked on the opposite sheet from seussville.com.

And also on the measuring activity which I downloaded from 2 Teaching Mommies. Since most of our things like clothes, basket , shirts and oants were on the second floor so w ehad lots of feet to measure, so instead of coloring them we wrote the numbers.

We also measured R's foot with the unifix cubes.

Community Helpers - Police Officer

We read some books, the favorite was "Policeman Lou and Policewoman Sue" by Lisa Desimini.

There is also a Police Office preschool pack from Homeschool Creations. But we did lot of pretend play of police officer and a robber. R obviously had to be a robber who would steal my purse and then I had to catch him and put him in jail. I also had to handcuff him :)

Community Helper - Doctors

We read many books on doctors and these are some of our favorites:-


Doctor Meow's Big Emergency by Sam Lloyd

How do dinosaurs get well soon? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

Just little sick by Mercer Mayer

When Vera was sick by Vera Rosenberry

Activities-


1. I showed R various things that are in a doctor's bag and made a small craft  of all the things like cotton swab, band aid,thermometer, syringe, gauze and medicine bottle.


2. I also made a powerpoint presentation of all the vocabulary words by downloading the pictures from the Internet. R really enjoyed this.


3. There are lots of activities at 2 Teaching Mommies.  We tried measuring the patients' height using a ruler. It was nice learning experience of R . We had never measured uisng a ruler so it was fun.

4. I also downloaded the Doctors and Nurses preschool pack from Homeschool Creations in addition to the above.  We played the game of counting and placing that many number of band aids.

5. Tracing and letter M writing practice- I got this page from the Doctor and Nurse preschool pack from Homeschool Creations.

6. Tracing and writing color words - This is again from Homeschool Creations

7. Sorting the medicine bottles by size-

Since Febrauary was Dental Health month, we read some books on Dental health  and did some activities.
The books we read were

Dentist by Jacqueline Laks Gorman
The mystery of the lost tooth

Activities-

1. I got this idea from 2 Teaching Mommies. I had cut several food items form the old magazines and then made pictures of a happy tooth and sad tooth. R had to sort the food items that are good for our teeth and which are not.

2. I had cut lips from red construction paper and some yeloow teeth from yeloow construction paper. R pasted them on a sheet and made the teeth by brushing the teeth with some white paint and a toothbrush.

3. We also did a activity from prekinders.com about the teeth and cavities. I drew some teeth on paper and wrote a number on the tooth, and asked R to make that many number of cavities by a black marker. He really enjoyed doing this and was good to teach him how cavities can effect our teeth.

More Valentine activities...

We did few of the valentine activitie and most of it you would find on the internet and I guess a lot comes from the www.prekinders.com, a wonderful sites for printables and resources for a theme.

1. Sorting the candy hearts by color

2. Candy heart counting and sorting

3. Candy heart patterns
I made some heart patterns on a paper strip and then R acompleted the patterns with the candy hearts.

Letter V for Valentine

Since it was perfect time to do Valentine activities so we did our Letter of the week for V for Valentine. We read lots of books for Valentine's Day and these books were our favorite:-

Valentine's Day by Anny Rockwell and Lizzy Rockwell

If you'll be my Valentine by Cynthia Rylant

Activities

1. We made stained glass type hearts from crayon shavings. I forgot where I originally saw the idea. First you make crayon shavings by sharpening them in an sharpener. We used pink, red and orange color crayons on a wax paper. Then either fold the same wax paper or cove rit with another wax paper. Iron it and cut heart shapes out of it...Lovely colors and we made a garland and hung it up on our fireplace...R enjoyed it a lot !!

2. We also made Valentine cards for R's classmates inspired from FamilyFun website. We had cut butterflies and flowers from hearts and poped them with a lollipop. It was fun..

3.Heart Picks- I got these heart picks from dollar store and R put these on a floral strofoam. This is great for fine motor skills.

4. V letter poking with a push pin- Again great for fine motor skills

The prints for all the activitie sbelow I got from Confession of a homeschooler.

5. Valentine pattern - .

6. Pre-Writing parctice- Great way to reuse the page is to use thme in a page protector and use washable markers and then wipe it off.

7.Valentine Puzzle-  I got from Confessions of a Homeschooler

8. Size Order -

9. Valentine Matching cards -

10. Valentine Number match -