Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Halloween Sensory Bin


Lots of choking hazards, so children under 3 AND children of any age still putting items in their mouth, are only allowed to play under direct, strict supervision.


Learning activities:
  • Sorting by orange/black/white
  • Sorting by pumpkins/skulls/bats
  • Sorting by item
  • Counting to 5/10/20+
  • Matching bugs
  • Stick puppets
  • Retelling "5 Little Pumpkins"
  • Role playing "Witches Brew"
  • Retelling "5 Little Skeletons"
  • Make a skeleton
  • Patterning
  • Scoop/pour/transferring
What's in it?
  • Main fill is black and white beans
  • Qtips for bones
  • Orange/black/white pom poms
  • 2 bags of bugs (Dollar Tree)
  • Skull/pumpkin/bat erasers (Dollar Tree)
  • Gold pipe cleaners
  • Mini caldrons (Dollar Tree)
  • Stick puppets, Frankenstein and pumpkin


  • White cloth pieces
  • Bats (Dollar Tree)
  • Orange/black/white feathers
  • Stick ghost puppets
  • Bag of plastic eyeballs (Dollar Tree)
  • Bag of plastic skulls (Dollar Tree)


  • Packing peanuts for ghosts or bones
  • Large styrofoam pumpkins



 Mr. R: "The beans are his bones and muscles."


 A favorite activity of the 2 year olds.


They figured out that they could take apart the eyeballs, fill them with beans, and put them back together to make mini maracas.

 I found that they really liked just tearing apart the packing peanuts. Still a great fine motor activity and since they are free..."Go for it!"
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Our Body - Week 1 Body Parts - Day 1 Skeleton

January always begins our introduction to body parts with the little ones and body parts in Spanish to the older children. In my 3-year rotating curriculum, this year it also means delving into the actual body...
  • Anatomy
  • Five Senses
  • Health and Hygiene
  • Dental Health
This first week we look inside. We begin to formulate the concept that there are processes working within us that are important and identifiable. Our daily schedule is:
  • Monday - Skeleton
  • Tuesday - Muscles
  • Wednesday - Digestive System
  • Thursday - Respiratory System
  • Friday - Circulatory System
 
Monday - Skeleton
The teaching elements for today are:
  • We each have a skeleton
  • Our skeleton is necessary to give us form
  • Our skeleton lets us move, but some moves are limited, and joints
  • Our skeleton is made of bones and cartilage, properties of each
  • These can become damaged and will repair
Beginning Discussion - Focused on the elements above and exploring our bodies to feel our bones and moving to test out our theories.

 Language - Are skeletons scary? That question produced a variety of responses and I asked them each to justify their position.

 Math - We counted some the number of joints in our hands and the number of bones in some pictures.

 Science - We studied x-rays of our skeletons and other animals and poked and prodded our own bodies to feel what was underneath our skin. We felt up spines, collar bones, hip bones, ribs, skulls and joints.

Fine Motor: Dog bones make wonderful dominoes. One side is sight words, the other is colors, differentiating for the two age groups I have going on.


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Gross Motor: We watched The Skeleton Dance, one of our favorites, [a few times] and followed the actions.

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Music/Finger Play: 
Parts That Bend (tune: BINGO)
My arms have parts that bend and move
Every time I use them.
Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.
And this is how I move them!

My legs have parts that bend and move
Every time I use them.
Knee, ankle, heel and foot
Knee, ankle, heel and foot
Knee, ankle, heel and foot
And this is how I move them!

 My trunk has parts that bend and move
Every time I use them.
Neck, back, waist and hips
Neck, back, waist and hips
Neck, back, waist and hips
And this is how I move them!

 I'm made of parts that bend and move
Every time I use them.
Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand..
Knee, ankle, heel and foot.
Neck, back, waist and hips
And this is how I move them!
Book(s): These two are a little old for them, but I own them for my son and they made great reference books. We mainly studied the visuals and read a bit of the text.

 Your Skeleton and Skin

This was our story book for the day.

Sensory: I save all of my large beef bones, boil them and clean them completely. We use these for our dinosaur digs, Halloween, and this unit. The children get out their magnifying glasses and study them and feel them.


If older, they could play with some 3 foot plastic skeletons I purchased at the dollar store during last Halloween. However, at just around 3 years old, I feel those are too flimsy to last more than 30 seconds with this group.

But I do have a large plastic skeleton that has some wear and tear and even though s/he is in parts, and missing a foot due to a long-ago pet, the pieces are sturdy and life-size and they can really get a good idea of what is going on with their skeletons.


 Most items are left available throughout the unit for exploration during free time. Many of these blog pics were taken during those occasions. 
Tags: science, body, body parts, skeleton, anatomy, physiology, bones, theme, unit, preschool, childcare, child, care, daycare, prek, kindergarten
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

3D Handprint Spiders and Webs

It seems as if we just can't do anything simple around here anymore! So in our fine new tradition, we created these AMAZING spider webs and handprint spiders.

 First, we took the paper plates I had recently bought for another craft, and cut in around the edge. The paper plate had neatly spaced fold lines that we used as a guide and cut in the depth of the first lip of the plate.

The children then chose the yarn they wished to use. I tied a knot into one end and placed it under a cut. The children were instructed to pick a slot on the opposite side of the plate, anywhere on the other half.

 I helped them string it across into the slot they picked [2 1/2-3 year-olds], pulled it taught, and asked them which slot, to the left or right of the one the string was currently through, they wished to come back up through.

 We brought it up and again they picked a slot on the other side, with encouragement to pick an open one.

 We made tried to hit every slot at least once, but the randomness is what gives it it's great texture and movement.

 We then traced their handprints with a white pencil, a white crayon would also work, overlapping the palms of both hands to form the body.

These we cut out, added google eyes, and I folded the fingers down from the body and up about a 1/2 inch from the bottom to make the spiders stand up on the web.

 The children chose how to face their webs, marking the TOP of it. Then they chose where to place their spider on their webs and which direction they would face.

 Where the feet met yarn, we added a good dollop of glue and placed that foot on top. If it wouldn't stick and I needed it to for stability, I added a clothespin while it dried.

I added string, and we hung them in the play area. The children LOVE them and are very proud of these.

A very fun, tactile, and multi-skill craft.

SKILLS:
Fine Motor tracing, cutting, gluing, lacing, sorting and placing google eyes
Sensory yarn, cut edges of plate, smoothness of plate
Math directional placement, lines, diagonal, intersection, perpendicular, 2/4/8, same, different, symmetry, opposite, half, logic/reasoning 
Art creative expression, lines, symmetry, tracing, cutting, lacing, gluing, placement
Tags: theme, unit, fall, autumn, Halloween, spider, craft, art, preschool, daycare, child, care, childcare, yarn, paper, plate, cut, paste, glue, scissors, handprint, hand, print, lacing, fine motor, 3D
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Halloween Freebie

For my followers, here's a little Halloween freebie...
Number and Phonics Cards

I have my students use green clothes pins for the beginning sound, red for the ending sound, and blue for the number. They can be made self-correcting by adding the appropriate color dots onto the back side. Any other type of counter/marker, even dry erase markers if laminated, can be used. 

Be sure to go over the words with them first. For instance, I used SKULL rather than skeleton, since it was just the head.

The graphics go along with my new Halloween Haunt Count counting file folder game where the children put the appropriate skull number or number word onto the window. It is packaged with a jack-o-lantern face matching game with 32 face cards and game board. The cards can also be used for games of Concentration or Go Fish, working shape recognition and vocabulary. There is also a spider color/counting mini-book. Notice that the webs all match the number as well with that many sides. All for $1.00 on TPT.
$1.00
I also just put up a cute Batty Numbers file folder game where the children will put the number and number word wings on the goofy little bat with same number of dots on his belly. I purposefully put the first page 0-6 so that younger children could work the lower numbers separate from the higher numbers. Even younger preschoolers can accomplish this with a word wall to reference for the number words.

 I also included a pre-writing Bb bat worksheet and an upper and lowercase alphabet worksheet. All for $1.00 on TPT.
$1.00
Graphics custom created and under full copyright. Customization available.
Spanish versions available upon request.
Tags: printable, card, Halloween, bat, haunted, house, vampire, ghost, werewolf,  letters, alphabet, writing, worksheet, reading, phonics, counting, number, numbers, word, words, center, theme, unit, math, language, arts, file, folder, game, file folder game, matching, concentration, go fish, pumpkin, witch, bat, mummy, pre-writing, digraphs, letter, sound, frankenstein, skull, skeleton, free, preschool, daycare, child, care, kid, kids, children
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Little Old Lady Flannel Board

One of our favorite books of all time for Halloween, a very fun interactive story. The children love doing all the movements.



Here's the FREE flannel board set we use along with the book, and as a self-selected activity for story sequencing with our ordinal count number cards. 

Tags: Halloween, fall, autumn, unit, theme, holiday, printable, kids, kid, children's, book, little old lady who was not afraid of anything, little, old, lady, afraid, anything, flannel, board, sequencing, story, daycare, childcare, care, preschool, free, scarecrow, pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, felt, theme, unit
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