Fun with Coins!

February 17-21, 2014

Money, Money, Money!

Monday was President's Day, so this week we're having tons of fun with Pennies and Quarters. These are 10 ways we've played with coins!

1. Coin Rubbings-preschool-plan-it

2. Coin Toss Game-I printed off pictures of a penny and a quarter, colored and cut them out, then placed them on the floor.  The kids tried to toss their coins on to them.

3.  Cleaning Coins-things to share and remember

4. Play Dough with Coins

5. Wall Ball with our Large Penny and Quarter 
Pictures-toddler approved

6. Sorting Coins-fun-a-day

7. Coins in a Piggy Bank

8. Stacking Coins

9. Patterns with Coins

10. Coin Sensory Bin-Scooping and Pouring!

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Valentine's Week

February 10-14, 2014

With Valentine's Day Friday, our week was filled with lots of love, hearts, pink and red!

We talked about what love is and how we can show our love.  I brought out the play kitchen and we played "House".  We talked about our families and how we can show our family that we love them by helping them.  We made a pretend dinner, set the table, ate, then cleaned up and did the dishes.

I printed off some pictures of their family and had them decorate it with stickers.

I stuck hearts around the room, had the kids find them, then we counted them, matched the pairs, and did some patterns.  I found the idea for this at nurture store

 

We Painted with celery-it was supposed to make a heart shape stamp, but didn't turn out too good.

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Some independent activities we did were a valentine's day water beads sensory bin.

 

I put some marbles and heart containers with a spoon and ice cube tray in a bowl.

Beads, valentine erasers, numbered heart containers and tongs.

I photo copied the erasers for a matching game.

 

We sorted and graphed conversation hearts with this free printable I found at teaching-tiny-tots.

 

I also found a free valentine themed worksheet packet at 2 teaching mommies

I saw this adorable Valentine idea at Life is Sweet and had to make them!

The kids loved that Valentine's was the whole week instead of just one day!  I hope everyone had a fun Valentine's Day!

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Teacher Valentine

I wanted to do a special valentine for my son's Kindergarten teacher, so I went searching Pinterest for ideas. I found this Candy Ice Cream Sundae Valentine idea at kara's party ideas. It was Perfect!

I found the sundae glass at Walmart for $2.  Filled it with M&M's, glued the snickers onto a ball of tissue paper, topped it with heart chocolates for the cherry, and stuck in a straw!

Easy as ... Candy! :)

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Construction Week

February 3-7, 2014

Since it's all boys in my home I wanted to do a theme that is ALL Boy.  What boy doesn't love tools, building, big trucks and tractors?! 

1. Introduced the weeks theme by playing with blocks, linking logs and our constructions trucks!

2.  Dump Truck -we colored with markers, which is a rare occasion in my house :)

We used our trucks as we sang this song that I found at the same site as the Dump Truck

Five Little Trucks

(Adapted by Anne Neidinger. Sing to the tune of "Five Little Ducks")

Five Little Trucks went out to play, (Hold up five fingers)

Into the mud pit far away. (Make circle in front of you like hole in the ground with both hands and move far away from body)

When a big HONK HONK (Pat palm of one hand twice over fist of other like honking horn)

Came from Big Truck Mac, (Hold up fist only)

Four Little Trucks came rumbling back. (Hold up four fingers and move them from far away toward body)

Four Little Trucks went out to play, (Hold up four fingers)

Into the mud pit far away. (Make circle in front of you like hole in the ground with both hands and move far away from body)

When a big HONK HONK (Pat palm of one hand twice over fist of other like honking horn)

Came from Big Truck Mac, (Hold up fist only)

Three Little Trucks came rumbling back. (Hold up three fingers and move them from far away toward body)

Three Little Trucks went out to play, (Hold up three fingers)

Into the mud pit far away. (Make circle in front of you like hole in the ground with both hands and move far away from body)

When a big HONK HONK (Pat palm of one hand twice over fist of other like honking horn)

Came from Big Truck Mac, (Hold up fist only)

Two Little Trucks came rumbling back. (Hold up two fingers and move them from far away toward body)

Two Little Trucks went out to play, (Hold up two fingers)

Into the mud pit far away. (Make circle in front of you like hole in the ground with both hands and move far away from body)

When a big HONK HONK (Pat palm of one hand twice over fist of other like honking horn)

Came from Big Truck Mac, (Hold up fist only)

One Little Truck came rumbling back. (Hold up two fingers and move them from far away toward body)

One Little Truck went out to play, (Hold up one fingers)

Into the mud pit far away. (Make circle in front of you like hole in the ground with both hands and move far away from body)

When HONK HONK, HONK HONK (Pat palm of one hand four times over fist of other like honking horn very hard)

Came from Big Truck Mac, (Hold up fist only and shake it)

All Little Trucks came racing back. (Hold five fingers and move them quickly from far away toward body)

3. Truck Bowling-crayon freckles

4. Playing with our Tools-my boys have a toy tool bench with lots of tools.
(I didn't get any pictures of this)

5. Made a Tool Box with this free printable of Handy Manny's tools

6. Number Cards with nuts-Free Printable cards at confessions of a homeschooler

7. Hammering Tees into a Foam Block

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8.Tractor Craft-Free Printable Template

My boys call back hoes tractors.  I had the boys glue yellow tissue paper onto the Backhoe

I then cut out and assembled it with the brackets

9. Construction Vehicles Sensory Play with Cloud Dough-Recipe

It was some messy fun!  It occupied the kids for a good 30 minutes each!

10. We focused on the letter T

T for Truck, Tools, and Tractor!

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