Hi all! I’ve had so much fun with rainbows that it’s been hard to add actual St. Patrick’s Day activities. We did sort shamrocks by size! Feel free to download the Shamrock Size sort PDF.
Enjoy and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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In honor of both the Noah story and St. Patrick’s Day we’re having LOTS of rainbow themed fun! We’re integrating music, Bible stories, math and art. What great fun!
To begin the week we HAVE to learn the rainbow song and read the NOAH STORY {there’s a Noah song we learn too but I’ll post about Noah another day}.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple,
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple,
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
makes the rainbow BRIGHT, BRIGHT, BRIGHT!
We made rainbow colored splatter paintings using droppers and all of the colors of the rainbow. Who doesn’t love getting messy at preschool?
Our paint is ready to go! Check out those fun droppers from Discount School Supplies.
Each and every piece of art turned out so different. Aren’t they pretty? I can’t wait to hang them around the classroom!
We made simple rainbows using 1 inch squares of paper in each color.
This is a great fine motor activity for little fingers! 
As the teacher I first draw each colored arch with a crayon and then it gets covered as the squares are placed down.
We use the left over rainbow squares to practice patterning. We’ve got to mix in a little math here or there.
For additional math skills we sort objects by rainbow colors using TWEEZERS! I just love my kid tweezers! Simply make a HUGE rainbow out of construction paper.
Grab a bucket of colored items for the kids to sort.
We used tweezers which adds entertainment value for me. 🙂 I cracked up watching them attempt to pick up a plastic strawberry using tweezers.
Here are a few of my rainbow sorting helpers!
We practiced writing our names (or the first letter of our names depending on the age) using all of the colors of the rainbow. Have the students sing the rainbow song to figure out what color comes next. First I write their name or first letter gently in pencil for them to trace.
We painted our hands to create this super cute rainbow art project. Paint the pinkie finger red, ring finger orange, middle finger yellow, pointer finger green, thumb violet and the entire palm white. Help the kids drag their finger tips in an arch (not placing the palm down) before stopping to make a hand print.
To study color mixing (Science) put a TON of caro syrup in 3 ziplock bags. To the first bag add red food coloring and seal WELL. To the second bag add yellow food coloring and to the third add blue food coloring. Seal all of the bags well! Then use a light box, a window or simply a white piece of paper to show how colors mix by overlapping portions of the bags. Don’t actually mix the colors, just overlap the bags.
We also make these super cute rainbow/clouds.
I used crepe paper for the rainbows, but of course the store was out of orange and had to use tissue paper for that one. We actually cut out 2 clouds and then stuffed the “trimmings” in the middle to give it a puffed up look. 
Download the cloud PDF
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Well in the world of preschool, fractions are a foreign concept usually unless it comes to food and real items. My kids always seem to know when they don’t get their fair share of the pizza, mac and cheese, oreo etc. Introducing the kids to the concept of half and whole is an appropriate skill. Use these free printables to help your little ones recognize the difference between half and whole. They could also be used as super simple puzzles for the students to place the correct halves together to form a whole. Happy math time!
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Download the animal and tree PDF
Download the random shapes PDF
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By Revi Devi
What school year would be complete without celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2nd. We spend the day wearing pajamas and reading LOTS and LOTS of Dr Seuss books, like Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and One Fish, Two Fish. These books allow for lots of great integrated learning!
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Make “Cat” hats like the one worn in The Cat in the Hat. Print this out onto red construction paper. PDF download
ON THE BACK SIDE have kids add white stripes. Continue reading
Today we get to bring our favorite teddies to school! Don’t you just love cuddling with something soft and squishy? To honor our teddy bears on teddy bear picnic day we’ll be reading several stories: Teddy Bear Picnic, 
Brown Bear, 
and 
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.
Every preschool kiddo loves a great hat so today we’re making hats! 
Get the PDF hat here.
Have fun and happy cuddling!
I also found wooden bear shapes Continue reading
Whew! We’re cruising right along with the alphabet and amazingly made it to letter T already! With our focus on teddy bears we’ll be doing some gummy bear sorting and graphing. To practice our fine motor skills we’ll be using tweezers to do the sorting.
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PDF Version of the gummy bear sorting page
To get the gummy bear graph just click here.
Happy sorting, counting and graphing.
Do you love integrating language arts with Math as much as I do? Here’s a PDF printable for the chant Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around. Use this to teach the kids the poem/song or print off a copy for each child and allow them to color it and search for letter Tt in the chant.
Hope you enjoy some teddy bear fun!
Bear graphics by Black Leaf at mygrafico.com
Snow, snow everywhere! I just love this time of year. I know some of you loathe snow, but being a California girl {for 25+ years}, I still find it fun to have Colorado snow in my new wonderful state! To continue our graphing skills {money graphing, heart graphing}, this week we will be sorting snowflakes by size and then graphing our results.
I love allowing the kids to pick-up, move and manipulate the items they are graphing rather than counting items from a picture on a worksheet. I always attempt to use REAL things they can touch to make it mean more. You can get the snowflake graph here.
We have continued practicing coin recognition by sorting the 4 main coins {penny, nickel, dime & quarter}. 
I made simple sorting mats and a simple graph. Students get hands-on practice by sorting the coins, counting how many of each they have and then showing their results on the graph. You can download the graph here.
I LOVE Valentine’s Day and anything fun to do with hearts. There are a million ways to do math for Valentine’s Day, but here are a few of my favorites…
Candy Heart Sorting – pdf version
If you’d like to download a simple candy heart graph just click: color version… black/white version
Candy Heart Patterning – pdf version
Cut/Glue Hearts in order – pdf version
I made these into a fun garland for the kids. They water painted them first.
Enjoy the free printables! Happy counting, patterning graphing and sorting!
Playing with money is super fun! Give each kiddo a handful of pennies and nickels and ask them to sort using the sorting sheet provided. 
They’ll think it’s a game, you know it’s coin recognition and sorting rolled into one, plus counting to get their final results and you could even compare {which has more? which has less?}! Continue reading
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