| Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward |
| Create a“Cookie’s Sunday” Classroom Book: After reading the book ask the children “What did Cookie do on Sunday? Did she rest or get into more trouble?” Make a book using their responses Sing “Days of the Week” and “Today is Sunday”; both songs are available on Dr. Jean’s cd “Dr. Jean and Friends” Who can read the book Cookie’s Week without thinking about cookies! Make a graph of the children’s favorite cookies. Buy a variety of mini cookies and let each child have a handful to sort, count, make patterns, and eat! What’s Missing? Collect several objects from the story, a stuffed cat, an article of clothing, a roll of toilet paper, a flowerpot, trash, etc. Lay all the objects out in front of the children. Have them name the objects. Next, have the children close their eyes while you take one object away and keep it out of their sight. When the children open their eyes, they can guess which object is missing. Cookie’s memory game and Cookie’s lotto game and Cookie's lotto cards printable in pdf. format Graph your favorite pet; you can find a printable of pets at http://www.prekinders.com/petsunit.htm. Use the printable to make your graph (not a coloring sheet!!!!) Dramatic Play A Pet shop or a Veterinarians’ office would make a super addition to your dramatic play area; collect several stuffed animals, a doctor’s kit, pet toys from the dollar store, a scale for weighing, etc. Have the children tell you what they would find at a pet store or vet’s office to get them involved in creating the scenario for dramatic play. At Making Learning Fun, you will find some really neat activities and printables for Cookie’s Week. There is a magnet activity, cards to use with letter tiles & other printouts. |
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| Five Green and Speckled Frogs by Constanza Basaluzzo |
| Frog Bean Bag Jump! : Frog beanbags “jump” onto the lily pads. Make several lily pads from green craft foam or cardboard painted green. Number the lily pads. The child tosses the beanbag. If it lands on a lily pad, everyone jumps as many times as the numeral written on the lily pad.
Feed The Frog: Paint a large box green and add large wiggly eyes. Toss bugs into the frog box. Flipping Frogs: Use plastic frogs, the kind that you press on their back and they flip. Use numbered lily pads and flip the frog. Say the number on which the frog lands. Try to land on each number. Make a chart and the child can cross off the numbers as they land on them. Visit the National Geographic website for children http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ . They can explore different animals. Frog videos are located at the National Geographic site Frogs and Insects: Create a frog from a Pringles can. Cover the can with green paper, fabric, or paint. Cut a half-circle from the lid for the frog’s mouth. Make a frog face with craft foam, felt, or laminated paper. Cut a half-circle the same size as the one on the plastic lid and align the two half-circles. You will need several plastic insects and a die. Roll the die. Put the number of insects in the frog’s mouth that corresponds to the number on the die. Continue until the frog has eaten all of the insects For snack have “Frogs on a Log” You’ll need pretzel rods, cream cheese, and gummy frogs (bulk food stores are a good place to find them.) Fly Catchers: place a piece of rubber magnet on the tip of a party blower (the end that is all curled up inside before you blow into it). Have several small flies cut from paper and attach a paper clip. Children use the blower to see how many flies they can catch. Love frogs? Check out Frogland at http://allaboutfrogs.org/ Grow your own! At Insect Lore http://www.insectlore.com/ you can purchase a frog hatching kit, frog rubber stamps, frog life cycles model, etc. There is also Ladybug Land to grow ladybugs and grow your own giant flowering lily pad. |
| Corduroy by Don Freeman |
| Toy store props: turn the housekeeping area into a toy store. Add price tags to the toys, lots of cash, sale signs, cash register, shopping basket, etc.
Teddy bear picnic: wear teddy bear headbands and have your snack picnic style. “Dine on two bear favorites---fish and honey. (Okay, you really eat Goldfish crackers and honeycomb cereal.) !” from www.LittleGiraffes.com Add clothing made from corduroy fabric and pieces of corduroy fabric, bear head bands, overalls,etc. Corduroy Lotto printable in pdf Sort, count, and graph buttons; sort by size, number of holes, color, shape Teddy grahams and number cards counting activity Everyone brings a teddy bear to school. Make a giant graph; graph bears by color, size, dressed, not dressed, etc. ; purchase some extra bears at a dollar store for children who do not bring a bear. Sort bears by real and not real (use laminated pictures and graphic organizer). On one side draw toy store, other side draw a picture of the woods. Teddy graham estimating jar and / or button estimating jar 1 inch wood cubes and teddy bear counters for 1 – 1 correspondence Make a graph of the number of buttons each child is wearing Estimating jar: put a few buttons in a jar. Ask children to estimate how many buttons they think are in the jar. Seriation: You will need five jars and fifteen small buttons. Place one button in a jar, two buttons in the next, and so on. Children will put the jars in order by quantity. Collage a classroom quilt for Corduroy’s bed; each child gets a piece of paper to collage then all are put together as a quilt. Use fur fabric to make crazy brushes Sensory Touch and describe how different materials feel: corduroy fabric, fake fur, different kinds of stuffing material such as foam rubber, polyester fiberfill Bear counters in sand table and/or water table—add scoops or fishnets Teddy bear shaped pancakes (one large circle and two small circles make the ears; decorate with food items such as raisins, banana slices to make a face Bear biscuits: each child receives one large refrigerator biscuit and breaks it into one large piece for the head and two small pieces to make the teddy bear’s ears. |
| The following activities submitted by Elaine White and Nancy Butzu |
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| Teacher Made Materials Handout submitted by Debi Hall and Carrie McIntosh PDF Teacher Made Materials PowerPoint |
| Activities submitted by Debi Hall PDF |
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