Sahara Desert

Discover what lives in the desert explore the great pyramids!! Welcome back Friends we are on our second week with Experience Early Learning and this week we are taking a look into the Sahara Desert.

Camel

A camel is a Desert animal. Today we sang sally the camel and read the book How the Camel Got His Hump retold by. Anna Milbourne

How Many Humps?

Table top math.

supplies

• camel shape ( EEL box)

• Race to the oasis cards

• Playdough

• Pocket cube or box

Set up

• place camel shapes, play-Doh, and pocket cube with inserted Number Cards on table.

Independent Play

• encourage children to roll the cube and identify the number.

• Make that many “ humps” (Play-Doh balls) and place them on top of a camel.

Silly Desert Animals

What body parts do you have? Are they the same as desert animals?

Make

• give each child a silly Desert Animal Puppets from or preschool curriculum box.

• Have children draw the missing half of their animals and create new silly animals.

• Help each child cut out the animals and attach to craft sticks to create puppets.

Pyramid Stamping

We used the pyramid template from Experience Early Learning and had the children use the sponge to paint brick patterns on the paper pyramid.

Next, they sprinkled sand on the wet paint.

Olive Tree

What do you think grows in the sahara desert?

What do you notice about the olive tree?

What color and shapes Are the olives?

How will you use Materials to create you very own olive tree?

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Welcome To The Wild Wild West

Lasso up for some learning fun!! Welcome back Friends!!! We have a great new unit to share with you from our Experience Early Learning Curriculum Desert Discovery. Get ready to discover activities like using ropes to make letters count horses, boots and hats, boot toss, stop your name, iSpy cacti , roping fun, lasso shapes, rodeo dance, and knot challenge.

Children learn from pretending and doing. Pretend play is essential for a child social and emotional development.

Cowboy Boots and Hat

Can’t be a cowboy without boots and a

Cowboy Hat.

Come get your dancing boots on and dance with us at circle time.

Boot Designs

• paper boot

• Pokey ball

• Paint

Prompts

• what do you notice about The boot in the photo?

• What color is your favorite pair of boots?

• During creative corner I observed to see if the children understood The sequence of dipping the ball in paint and stamping it on paper? What other art materials does he/she Use to design their boot?

Cowboy Hat

what kind of hands do you wear? Explain that cowboy hats protect from the rain and sun.

Supplies

• paper hat

• Paper strips

• Rope

• Glitter

Make

• invite children to dip the rope in paint and drag it across the paper hat or press it down to make a print.

• Help each child size the paper strips to fit his or her head.

• Staple that hat to the strips and wear it like a headband.

Play

• invite children to wear their hats and demonstrate how a cowboy walks, things, works, or eats.

Cowboy Hat Colors

Experience early learning always gives us fun games that I love doing during circle time!! Today the children matched cowboy hats on the cowboy picture that was wearing the same color of boots.

Lets get ready to Lasso

Lasso shapes

• set out twine in pocket cube.

• Encourage children to explore creating shapes and designs with the twine.

• Roll the pocket cube and name the shape then use the twine to make the shape.

I Spy Cacti

What might you see in the desert?

Invite each child to select a I Spy glass from our preschool curriculum box and find the matching picture by moving around the sand.

Lasso Prop

• what could you catch with a lasso? Explain that Cowboys use lassos to help catch large animals like cows and horses.

Supples

• paper plate

• Yarn

• Brown paint

• Scissors

• Stuffed animals for empty water bottles

• Help each child cut out the center of the paper plate and tie the yarn around it.

• Paint the plate

Play

• place the stuff animals or bottles on the floor with plenty of space around each one.

• Invite a child to toss trying to catch an animal.

Counting Horses

What would you do if your horse was lost?

• Place the sticks on the floor or table. Invite each child to build a fence for the “horses” ( connecting cubes)

Play together

• name a number 1-10 and invite the children to put that many “horses” in their fence.

• Line up the “horses” and count them out loud

• Challenge: Hide 20 cubes and invite the child to find and count them

Who’s at the Rodeo?

• Cut the rodeo puzzles on the dotted line and set on table.

• Encourage children to select similar puzzle pieces and put them together.

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Strong and Healthy

Welcome back friends!!! Come check out what Experience Early Learning has to say about keeping our children strong and healthy!!!!

Children take part in wellness by understanding that their bodies need nutritious food, active play, and rest. Adults play an important role in modeling healthy routines and habits for children. Together, We can celebrate and discover why eating daily fruits and vegetables, brushing teeth, washing hands, exercising our muscles, and sleeping are important to grow up strong and healthy.

Doctor’s Bag

What kinds of bandages do you have at your house?

Do you have a first aid kit at home? What kind of things would you put in a First Aid Kit??

• Bandage

• Cotton Balls

• cream

• gloves

Noodle Wand

How tall are you? What can you use to measure yourself?

With our preschool curriculum we used starch noodles to measure how tall we were.

Jumping to the shape game

Call out a shape have have the child jump and slap the shape!!

Lifting weights

Have each child make a weight prop.

•paint the paper plates black.

• Once dry cut an X in the center of the plate.

• Roll paper and wrap it in tape and insert into the holes on the paper plates.

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Fitness week!!

Welcome back friends!! This week with our Experience Early Learning curriculum we are learning all about Fitness: running, Jumping, kicking, throwing and catching, and stretching. When children are engaged in active play they are moving and controlling their muscles; this is key for a healthy growing body.

Running

Running is a great exercise whatever you age. Running helps strengthen bones, improve coordination,and can be fun as well.

Jumping

Jumping is a cardiovascular exercise which strengthens the heart. When we do jumping exercises we are working out all the major muscle groups in our body.

Jump, Never Stop

( “skip to my Lou”)

Jump, jump, never stop.

Jump, jump, never stop

Until you hear your name.

( say a child’s name. )

• What types of things can jump?

Invite children to take turned demonstrating different ways to jump.

Frog Jump Hats

Supplies ( from EEL Box )

• Frog Headband

• Red paper strip

• Eyes

Your Supplies

• Paint

• Old plastic bags

• Tape/glue

Kick

By kicking a ball we practice gross motor coordination. Sports such as soccer football involve players kicking a ball.

Roll painting

How can you make designs with a ball and paint?

Supplies:

• Paper

• ball

• paint

• tray

Throw and catch

When we throw and catch a ball we are practicing hand-eye coordination. Baseball is a good example of throwing and catching.

Tossing to friends

• layout name tags of the children And have the one child at a time toss a bean bag onto a nametag to pick their tossing partner.

• Next call out a number ( 1-10 ) or ( 1-20 ) and have the children count out loud tossing the beanbag back and forth.

Stretching

Stretching the body is important to do before and after exercising. Stretching helps keep our bodies flexible and can help prevent injuries.

Spin and Stretch game

• how far can you stretch your fingers? Your legs?

• Name a body part and encourage children to show how they stretch just that body part.

Play Together

• using your spin and stretch game piece board from experience early learning invite the children to do spin the spinner and demonstrate that stretch to the group. Then encourage the group to copy the stretch.

Pattern Stretch

• arrange the paper strips in a path on the table or floor by connecting the ends together.

• Set out a bowl of scrap paper pieces next to the strips.

• Encourage children to create a pattern on the paper strips with the scrap paper.

Our letter of the week was letter Qq

Thank you for stopping by we are so happy to have you here at Mrs. Kat’s Kids!! We will see you again soon.

Huge shout out to Experience Early Learning for this month’s curriculum which I have received in return for honest and authentic stories resulting from my daily experiences. I am excited and honored to share how we use this curriculum to meet the different learning needs in my home.

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Food Groups

Welcome to our new unit with experience early learning health and fitness!! As children grow they need nutritious food to keep their bodies fit and healthy. Teaching children how to make healthy food choices is the foundation to lifelong habits of health and wellness. Caregivers can help by exposing children to a wide variety of foods, cooking together, and telling stories about where food is grown and how it comes to our table. This week we are going to be introducing food groups such as grains, vegetables, hurts, dairy, protein.

Grains

Sandwich Art

This is such a fun project to do with the children that our preschool curriculum created. We end up putting our sandwich art in in our home living kitchen to play throughout the whole unit.

Supplies

• Paper red

• yellow paper

• red paper

• green tissue

• menu

Discuss

• what do you like to put on a sandwich?

Make

• encourage children to create the sandwich toppings (cheese, tomatoes, lettuce).

• Explore building different sandwiches.

• Invite children to experiment, if desired, with a hole punch to poke holes in their yellow cheese square.

• If desired encourage children to create additional sandwich types with other materials.

Play

• encourage children to pretend to order and make sandwiches from the menu. Describe what is “on top of” and “below.”

Vegetables

Today during circle time we discussed how to make a salad we then used different color paper to make an pretend community salad. Next spread the sheet or parachute on the floor. Invite each child to toss their paper onto the parachute and say what favorite vegetables they are putting into the community salad. Next the children moved the parachute up and down to “mix” the salad together.

Vegetable stamp art

During the invention to create time experience early learning will supply us with a inspirational photo for the children to look at. On this inspiration photo it was filled with cut vegetables.

I ask questions like this:

• what vegetables do you see?

• What shapes do you think the vegetables will stamp?

• How many different ways can you move the vegetable to make different shapes?

• What colors do you want to stamp on your plate?

I set out some different paint colors and cut real vegetables in half for the children to stamp onto their paper.

Vegetable Garden

I love all the different games that are preschool curriculum has. It was such a pretty day today that we decided to take this activity outside. Invite the children to turn over a card and identify the photo, then decide if it was a vegetable. If it is, “plant“ the matching craft stick in the dirt. If not, set the card aside. Continue playing until all the vegetables are “planted.”

Dairy

Today in our creative corner we made a make and play cow puppet.

Experience early learning box suppled us with:

• paper plate

• cow puppet pieces

• Glove

• Yarn

Discuss

• what are the parts of a cow how many stomachs?

Make

• Invite each child to cut out their cow puppet pieces.

• Fold a paper plate and half and encourage children to tape the pieces on their plate. Tape on a yarn “tail,” then staple the vinyl glove onto the inside of the plate like an udder.

Thanks for visiting with us today!! We will see you back real soon!!!

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Backyard Safari

Welcome back friends!!! Are you ready to explore the backyard with grass birds water beetles and trees?… lets go!!!

Grass crown

What are some types of weather? Explain that there are two types of grasslands: tropical savannas (dry and wet season) and temperature grasslands ( four seasons ).

Make

Give each child two paper strips. Invite her to figure cut the edge of the paper. Next, attach the ends to make a grass crown. Invite children to decorate their crowns with stickers and other items.

Birds

Flamingo Puppet

What is your longest body part? What do you think is a flamingos longest body part? What color is a flamingo?

Today in our creative Art time with Experience Early Learning we made a Flamingo Puppet.

Make

Give each child a pink paper flamingo.
Encourage the child to try to color the flamingo with his/her foot holding the crayon.
Decorate the flamingo puppet with paint or crayons.
Attach the straw legs and feather.

Play

Name the flamingo and take turns asking them simple questions.
Encourage children to both ask and answer questions.

Bettle Design

Today during our creative art time we designed different looking bugs using our supplies from our preschool curriculum box.

•Black paper

•background paper

• sequins

•twist ties

STEAM station ( with Experience Early Learning)

Bridge Construction

Today we set out a variety of building materials ( cardboard tubes, string, tape, straws, cups, popsicle sticks, thick paper) I encourage the children to construct a structure or bridge to go over water. The Children had so my fun during this free time activity exploring and creating.

Beetle Structures

Today we set out materials such as Play-Doh, toothpicks, beads, and pipe cleaners for the children to explore and design their own Beatles. This is a great sensory and fine motor activity.

Thank you for visiting with us we will see you again soon as we explore our next unit with Experience Early Learning Health and Fitness.

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Wild Safari Animals

Welcome back friends!! Are you ready to Pretend to have an elephants trunk, a lions roar, zebra strips and a rhinos horns… Ready let’s Go!!!

Lion Mask

Would you rather meet a happy lion or an angry lion? A happy lion of course.. today we made happy Lion Mask. Our materials included a paper plate craft sticks, yellow paper and yellow crayons. First cut the center portion of the paper plate out. Next, have the children color or paint the paper plate. Next, the children glued on ears and paper strips for the lions mane. Latest, they attached the craft stick and we pretended to be pride of lions and played follow the Leader.

Oh you silly party Elephant

Today we talked about traveling elephants and a lot of times different cultures will dress up elephants for parades and parties. We also talked about that elephants travel in a herd and the baby elephants hold the tales of the bigger elephants. Just like we hold mommy and daddy‘s hands a lot.

I set out fun collage materials during creative art time the children use their creativity to design a party elephant.

Rhino Horn

Would you like to have a horn?

Today we use the tone and elastic band and made rhino horns. With our experience early learning curriculum we also talked about why it is important to have a habitat (water, grass, safe place to sleep)

Zebra Stripes

Did you know that Zebras appear to look the same but each one has their own unique stripe pattern. zebras can recognize their friends by looking at their strips. Next we sat out the inspiration photo by experience early Learning and the children used chalk to make their stripes on their own zebra.

How tall can you build a giraffe?

These open ended steam stations invite children to investigate, problem solved and create.

Today we used carrots and toothpicks to build a tall giraffe. Test out different ways to connect the materials so they can stick together. Will you create a neck and head or the whole body?

Our letter this week was the letter “ S “

I loved how these wild animal pattern “S” turned out!!!

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Are you ready for a Safari?

Hello Friends pack a Suitcase and get ready to explore with us!! This month with experience early learning our unit is going on Safari. It’s going to be a fun and exciting month so fasten your seatbelts because here we go!!!

Passport

Let’s get ready to Travel the 7 continents and visit some of the landmarks along the way!!! But first you will need to stamp your passport. We had so much fun pretending to board a plane and visit the seven continents landmarks. Bonjour

Packing Orange

During circle time we played a packing game with our color of the month from experience early learning called packing Orange. I paced a suitcase on the circle time rug and encouraged the children to find something in the room that is orange that will fit into the suitcase. This activity was a great reminder for children to help others if someone was having trouble finding something orange.

S is for sock

This week we are learning about the letter /S/ with our preschool curriculum. S is for sock!!! We had a bunch of socks in a bag and inside each sock was a picture card. The children then had to identify the letter sound of the picture and try finding all the /S/ sound picture cards. We had a blast with this game.

S Path

Create a large letter S with tape on the floor. Put out cars and have Children trace the letter S.

Safari Hat

Did you know the weather in Africa savanna is very hot. There are only two seasons a dry season and a wet season. Today we make safari Hats to take with us as we explore because we may need they hat to protect us from the rain or we may need a hat to protect us from hot hot sun.

Safari Binoculars

There are lots of animals in the safari but their are some animals you don’t want to get too close so you may need to use binoculars so you can stay safe.

Baboon Contemporary Art

Today was Contemporary Art where the children use different shapes to create a baboon face eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

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The sights and sounds of Christmas

Happy Holidays Friends we are having so much fun using our Favorite Preschool curriculum this month. We have been having so much fun this week diving into indoor sights and sounds. From learning all about the true meaning of Christmas to singing all the Christmas carols.

Sewing stockings

What is more cozy then a fireplace with a cozy fire and stockings hanging. In creative art we made stockings we discussed on how stockings are made, where we put them, and what are some things you can find in your stocking on Christmas morning.

Each child was given a paper stocking to decorate with cotton balls, markers, and stickers. After they were finished I encouraged and help the children thread yarn in and out of the stocking holes.

This month I also added the experience early learning experience God unit to help my children understand the true meaning of Christmas. We had so much fun learning the Bible verses , coloring pages, and crafts. Adding the Experience God unit to our normal preschool curriculum was such an added bonus. We did four crafts and experience God included all the materials needed.

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Cozy Christmas stars

Welcome back Friends to our Cozy December with our Preschool Curriculum Experience Early Learning theme Cozy Winter Senses.

We all love the clear winter skys with the shiny starts and the twinkling light on our friends homes. Christmas time is the best and we Are enjoying all the festive things.

Starlight Wand

Why do you think the stars are different colors? Explain that stars’ colors depends on how hot they are. From coolest to hottest the colors are: red, orange, yellow and blue. Durning creative art time I sat out the materials for the Children to create their own twinkling star. We sang the song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and waved our star wands around.

Christmas cookies plate

Now we all love baking Christmas cookies right?? The children had a blast creating their own sugar cookies. Our preschool curriculum made these cute cookie cut outs and the children decorated their cookies with sprinkles and glued them to a plate.