F is for Flag

I decided to do "F is for Flag" since Veteran's Day is the week we are doing this lesson plan and I'm not doing preschool in July. Images are linked!

handprint flag

Her Cup Overfloweth

Pilgrim finger puppets

Kaboose

no mess fingerpainted leaves
Moments of Mommyhood

"Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" printable
Marcia's Lesson Links


fingerprint fireflies
The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

firework flowers
Preschool Playbook

fish mobile

Roots and Wings Co.

fantastic fruit pizza

Two Peas and Their Pod

felt shape flowers

Toddler Toddler

feelings puppets

Dr. Jean's Tell Me a Story

fire truck craft

One Mom, Five Boys

fairy dust necklace

A Little Fun With Me and Lu

foil art

The Gaines Gang

felt flag pennants

Chica and Jo

"Frère Jacques" by the Wiggles

YouTube

feather painting

A Mommy's Adventures

"Five Little Speckled Frogs" stick puppets

The Rablings of a Crazy Woman

funny fruit faces

Making Friends

light-up fireflies

Frugal Family Fun Blog

fruit file folder game

Mama Jenn

foam flag

All Kids Network

fabulous fireworks

Preschool Playbook

Rainbow Fish craft

Monkey See Monkey Do

fan turkey

DLTK

felt play house (with back yard garden)

Homemade by Jill

feelings faces

Miss Townsend's Blog

frog number recognition game

One Mom, Five Boys

clay food

Sprite's Craft Corner

Chinese fan

Activity Village

farm file folder game

File Folder Fun

fingerpainted flag

A Little Tipsy

firefly lantern

The Long Thread

felt farm playset

Pink and Green Mama

how to build fairy houses

FairyHouses.com

By the way, could someone make me the felt playhouse and felt farm playset? I LOVE them, but will probably never get around to crafting them ;)

P is for Pumpkin

On the 27th we learned about the letter P. We also got a surprise outside, a snowstorm during preschool! We started off playing with pumkin pie playdough. It was hard getting them to put it away and move on to our next activity!
Next, we printed some pumpkins with potatoes and paint to make placemats.

While those dried, we pressed out some pizza dough,

put on the sauce,

and placed the cheese and pepperoni to make them look like pumpkins!

As they baked and cooled, the kids beaded pipe cleaner pumpkins.

For a poem, we did the five little pumpkins fingerplay. Then it was time for snack and the kids loved how these turned out!

We read LOTS of pumpkin and Halloween books and then made paper bag puppy puppets,

and adorable paper plate pandas.

The kids then drew faces on their pumpkins and I laminated them in my handy pouch laminator. Next time I think I'll add some green vines to them, but they still turned out cute.

So many pumpkin themed activities, and we had a blast! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

G is for Ghost

On October 20th we learned about the letter G. We practiced with scissors cutting crepe paper streamers for the ghosts.
A big hit was the gumdrop geometric shape making activity.

But warning--be careful with toothpicks! Sierra ate the gumdrops off her creation when she got home and misplaced a toothpick in the carpet. As she was jumping around, the thing impaled her foot and broke off. It was so deep that she had to get it removed by the doctor!

They fingerprinted the spots on their jointed giraffes.

We had granola bars for snack and made glitter bottles which I didn't get a good picture of. We read "Inside a House that is Haunted" because one of the creatures in the story is a ghost. It is so cute! It is a rebus read-along book and the kids loved shouting out what the little pictures were. At the end of class we made kleenex ghost suckers and counted out some gummy bears.

We didn't get around to doing some math excercises with these lima bean ghosts, but the kids had fun playing with them for a bit.