If you’re exploring a transportation theme, here’s a fun little ditty about transportation I found years ago. (I didn’t write down where I found it, so if you know the original author let me know!) It’s a fun piggy-back song, to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle:
Five Little Monkey Puppets
Here’s a little project you can work on this weekend, though I hope you have some other plans because this one is so easy, it shouldn’t take you long. Build monkey finger puppets out of inexpensive felt from your local craft or fabric store, or from that overflowing box of felt scraps that parents and teachers of preschoolers often have tucked away.
Introducing the Five Senses!
As I mentioned before, the purpose of teaching about the five senses in preschool is not for the children to be able to recite the five senses, but to build sensory awareness. Whenever I introduce the five senses, I like to start out with the book, My Five Senses by Aliki. It does a great job of simply introducing each of the senses, and then pointing out how we may use several of them at the same time, and that we use them to be aware of what’s around us. It’s very brief, very simple, and right to the point.
Don't Wake the Bear!
Here’s a combination of hibernation activities for your preschoolers that fit nicely together for a story time or large group activity.
Don’t Wake the Bear!
Here’s a combination of hibernation activities for your preschoolers that fit nicely together for a story time or large group activity.
Five Little Pumpkins
This is a well-known fingerplay that in 1998 was illustrated and put in book format by Dan Yaccarino. It’s a book little ones enjoy reading, especially once they are already familiar with the fingerplay and can essentially “read” the book independently. Whether you use the book or not, here’s the fingerplay!
Five little pumpkins, sitting on a gate (Five fingers on top of opposite hand. I usually explain the word “gate” the first time through. For the next five lines, show the number of fingers corresponding with the ordinal number and really play up the rest of the intention of the line with your facial expression.)
Ten Little Apples Song
Here’s a quick and easy little ditty about apples. It goes to the tune of Ten Little Indians.
I'm a Little Seed
You can never really have too many songs and fingerplays, can you? So here’s another one that is kid-tested and approved! Sing to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”.
I’m a Little Seed
You can never really have too many songs and fingerplays, can you? So here’s another one that is kid-tested and approved! Sing to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”.