Letter Ff and Number 5 Activities

This week was hopping good fun with letter Ff and number 5.

To start the week, we hopped around as froggies searching for letter F and f, as well as pictures that started with /f/.  We wore these little froggy hats to kick off the fun!

We also traced letter F and f with our fingers.  

These tracing cards in my Fantastic Fun with Letter Ff unit on TPT.

In my unit, there are foldable frogs you can make to trace the letters, hats to wear for a letter hunt, recording pages for your hunt, picture cards to hide and so much more that will get your little "hoppy" about letter Ff.

We also made these adorable froggies to sing our Letter Ff Heidi Song.  We LOVE Heidi Songs!

This week was also about number 5.  We enjoyed singing 5 Little Speckled Frogs with Kim Adsit's interactive song book.

Then we pulled out the froggy hats and became the speckled frogs who needed to hop into the water.  This helped us count to 5 and identify 5 with the froggy dice.

Then we played a roll and cover game with number dice programed with 0-5, "froggies", and a pond.

Students rolled the dice and hopped that number of frogs to the pond.  Then their partner emptied the pond, rolled the dice and hopped their number of frogs to the pond.  It wasn't anything fancy, but they loved it and begged to play it again.  They are 100% precious!

We also played a fall themed Roll and Cover game for numbers 0-5.  

  

It's actually a Bump game from my Seasonal Number Activities for Fall unit, but I thought a roll and cover version would be perfect for this time of year with PreK kiddos.

We also played a Count the Room game from this unit for practicing printing 1-5.

 

Both of these units will be on sale for only $1 all weekend!  

While you visit my store, check out my newest freebie we will play next week for learning number 6:

Have a "hoppy" weekend!

Happy Fall Y'all!

My little PreK kiddos have been enjoying fall and transforming our classroom into a fall-filled space.  Here are pics of some of our new spaces and places:

Here is our listening tent.  It was a bee hive at the start of the year.  We added fun pumpkins, bats, and a spider.  There are also Jack-o-lantern lights above it on the wall.

Here is our Pumpkin Patch Dramatic Play Center!  My cuties have been lovin' this new space and loved helping me create it.  There is a scale to weigh pumpkins, magnifying glasses, and pumpkins to buy.  There are also pies to bake in the kitchen side of the center.

Our Snesory Table is filled with Target Dollar Spot fall shaped colanders and ladles.  I also added apple scented bod wash to add a scent of fall. 

If you look close, you can see the apples from this game:

In Art Center, we added a pumpkin and some play do to make faces on the pumpkin and turn him into a Jack-o-lantern.

What are your fall centers for this time of year, PreK friends?  I would love to see what's in your room!

Letter Ee Activities

This week we studied letter Ee.  To start off the week, we created this bubble map:

We then learned that we would be EXPLORERS and used binoculars to hunt for letter Ee and pictures that started with /e/ in our classroom.

Whenever we found an Ee or a picture, we recorded it on this recording sheet by coloring in the picture.

Later in the week, we traced the letter Ee with elephants while singing our Heidi Song for the letter Ee.

We also created elephants with paper plates and old socks to sing our Heidi Song with us.

These activities and more can be found in my Exploring Letter Ee product in my little shop.

Have an exciting weekend!

Letter Cc Activities

Letter Cc week was celebrated a few weeks ago, but I wanted to rewind and share some of our fun.

I like introducing our letters with letter hunts.  It is my goal to make each letter hunt done in a way that reinforces the letter, like last week's detective hunt with letter Dd.  For the letter Cc we used cameras to hunt around for Cc.  My cuties snapped a picture each time they found a Cc.

To practice the shape of Cc, we painted the letter with cars.

We also explored crabs and created crab art.

We hung this sun above the crabs in the hallway.

I heart Dollar Tree for Halloween!

Happy weekend friends!  I just have to say that I love Dollar Tree!  Here are some of my fabulous finds for Halloween:

This little game was used to reinforce numbers 1, 2, and 3.  It came with tiny dice that I will save for a St. Patrick's Day game in March.  I created my own dice with cubes and write numbers 1, 2, and 3 on them.  They really enjoyed the game and did great at taking turns and accepting loss, which is just as important to learn as numbers 1, 2, and 3.

I found these batty bat glasses and they are being used for a Literacy Station activity.  Students wear them and then go on a letter hunt.  Hunting for letters is so much more fun with bat glasses, right?

For the letter hunt, students chose a letter wand that I created from door hangers and stick-on foam letters.  thanks Dollar Tree!

I also found this crazy Candy corn puppet that will come out when we do Abby's Candy Corn Bandit at the end of October.

One last fabulous find were these ice trays that are shaped like pumpkins.  I plan on using them as ten frames.