Farm Preschool Corner

M is 3.5 years old

Preschool Skills Printables
We used printables from:
2 Teaching Mommies "On the Farm" Unit - Where things Come From Puzzles, Beginning Writing Practice, Which is Different, Shadow Match, Writing Maze, Plant or Animal Sort, and Cow Spot Counting.

ABC Teach "Farm Theme" - Pig Dot to Dot

Musing's of Me "EIEIO Farm Fun Pack" - Hurry to the Hen House Game

Preschool Trays

Harvesting Apples (Using tweezers to move them from bucket to jar w/ small opening)

Pouring Milk (Water w/ flour in it)

Art
The pig printable and collage clip art all came from Lawteedah's "Farm Life" Unit Study.

Covering Pigs in Mud (with brownish fingerpaint)

Branding a Cow (with a letter M stamp)

Farm Collage
(I love that she insisted on the sheep and pig riding the tractor!)

Activities

Making Butter (Shaking Heavy Whipping Cream)

Homemade Butter!

Enjoying it on a Tortilla!  Yum!

Field Trip
We went to the NM State Fair this week for our field trip.  We saw lots of farm animals and were even able to watch a cow milking and sheep shearing demonstration.  We talked alot about how different animals give us different products - like how the wool from the sheep could be turned into clothes.  There was a great pretend kids farm where they could harvest vegetables, milk a pretend cow, etc.  She also really liked the agriculture building where all the prize fruits and vegetables were and liked talking about how BIG they all were!  She also couldn't get over the fact that the goats had a little toddler slide in their pen.  She kept saying "Goat's don't have slides!  Aren't they silly?"

Books


That's all for this week! To see what other preschoolers are learning this week, check out the official Preschool Corner website!

Farm Tot School

R is 21 months old

Tot Trays

Matching Farm Animal toys to the correct picture in a Farm Book

Collecting Eggs - putting them into a jar with a VERY narrow opening

Art

Covering the Piggy in Mud (brownish fingerpaint)

Branding the Cow (stamping the cow with an "R" stamp)

Activities

Making Butter!  (Shaking Heavy Whipping Cream in a Baby Jar)

Our Homemade Butter!

Enjoying it on a Tortilla!  Yum!

Field Trip
We went to the NM State Fair for our field trip this week.  R had so much fun looking at all the different farm animals.  We also got to see a live cow milking and sheep shearing, and there was an adorable kids area where the kids were able to pretend to be farmers.  R gathered eggs, harvested crops, milked a pretend cow and more!  We also found an awesome "sandbox" of corn kernels which he could have easily stayed at all day!  It was the perfect field trip for our Farm Unit!

Books


That's all for this week! To see what other toddlers are learning this week, check out the official Tot School Website!

Dinosaur Tot School

R is 21 months old

The kids both have an obsession with dinosaurs (as do most kids I think!) so we indulged that this week.
Tot Trays

Washing Plastic Dinosaurs

Matching items to fossils made in playdough

Art

Paint w/ Q tip (a book I found for $1 at Michael's)

I'll call this art instead of a real big mess!  I was reading to M in the other room and had forgotten to put her printables and marker away!  Oops!

He managed to cover both of his arms!  Look at that innocent face!

Just for Fun

Dino Nuggets for dinner one day!

We visited the Natural History Museum for a field trip.

Thats all for this week!   To see what other toddlers are learning this week, check out the official Tot School Website!

Dinosaur Preschool Corner

M is 3.5 years old

This might easily have been M's favorite theme ever!

Preschool Skills Printables
We used the Dinosaur printables from 2 Teaching Mommies as well as the Field Guide printables from the Dinosaur Train PBS website.  I didn't get a picture of her doing all the printables, but here are a couple.  It's a great pack!

We used the Field Guide to sort by diet (herbivore/carnivore/omnivore) and by how many feet they had (biped/quadriped/marine).  More than anything though, she just loved looking at them!

Preschool Trays

Washing Dinosaurs

Categorizing dinosaurs into small, medium, large

Matching items to Playdough Fossils

Art

Painting Dinos with a Qtip (I found these books for $1 at Target)

Just for Fun
We visited the Natural History Museum as a field trip.  We could have gone home without paying the admission feel for all the fun the kids had with the dinosaur statues outside!

Life School
M started ballet this week at the community center.  It's not a fancy dance studio or anything, but she LOVES it!  She has been obsessed with Angelina Ballerina for ages so she is beyond thrilled to finally be in her very own ballet class.  She's the one in the bright pink leggings.

Practicing Plies

Running like a chicken

That's all for this week!  To see what other preschoolers are learning this week, check out the official Preschool Corner website!

Transportation Preschool Corner

M is 3.5 years old

We had a crazy couple of weeks but still managed to squeeze in a tiny bit of transportation themed activities.  Not as much as I would have liked, but that's life!

Preschool Skills Printables
We used the Transportation Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations this week.  What a cute pack! 

Preschool Trays

Transportation themed puzzles

Cutting in between transportation themed stickers - she is definitely improving!

Adding water with a dropper to make the plastic egg "boat" float

Misc.

Making car tracks in rice

Playing with cars on painters tape "roads"

That's all for this week! To see what other preschoolers are learning this week, check out the official Preschool Corner website!