Nursery Rhymes

Dramatic Play

Bakery

Nursery Rhymes: Pat-a-cake and Muffin Man













Blocks

ABC/123 foam floor puzzle


Old MacDonald Had a Farm farm toys


Old King Cole castle


1-2-3-4-5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive

These fishing poles are back by popular demand!


Art
Cotton ball sheep

Dot paints

Glue pasta stars and sequins




Paint with sponges


Small Manipulatives

Nursery Rhyme felt boards (switched out different stories each day)






3 Little Kittens Lost their Mittens


Nursery Rhyme puzzles




Nursery Rhyme sequencing


Magnet board: counting 1-10

Writing

Nursery Rhyme coloring pages

Snack
Day 1, we had muffins and read The Muffin Man

Day 2, we made and ate pudding, and read Georgie Porgie

Day 3, we ate boiled eggs and crackers for Humpty Dumpty

Day 4, we ate cottage cheese (curds and whey) and read Little Miss Muffet

Large Group

We learned a nursery rhyme ABC song. Our word of the week was rhyme.

Day 1, we read Mary had a little lamb, Little Bo Peep, and Little Miss Muffet and found the rhyming words. Then we worked together to complete rhyming puzzle wheels.

Day 2, We found more rhymes in London Bridge and Ring Around the Rosies, then sang and danced to those songs.

Day 3, we read Humpty Dumpty and did an egg-dropping experiment. The kids built a wall with blocks on the table and they cooperated so well together! We sang the nursery rhyme and I let the egg fall off the wall. We dropped the egg on wood blocks, the rug, and a pillow. They had guessed it would break on both the blocks and the rug, but it only broke on the blocks!




Day 4, we practiced numerals 1-10 and did counting nursery rhymes, 5 Little Piggies, 1 2 buckle my shoe, and 1 2 3 4 5 once I caught a fish alive.

Small Group

Week 1, My group worked on sequencing nursery rhymes.




The other group did a montessori activity, sweeping stars into a square shape.
  

Week 2, my group did twinkle twinkle little star and a small motor activity. They had papers with a star traced on them, and they used thumb tacks to prick holes along the star, so that when they held it up to light, they could see the tiny holes. It's just good fine motor practice.

The other group practiced tracing their names with dry erase markers.

Shapes

Dramatic Play

Pizza Restaurant







I have play doh to make the pizza crust, or also felt pizzas. I have shredded paper cheese, plus topping shapes cut out of foamies. They can make the pizza, work the register, or be a customer. They were awesome! Such great play went on here all 2 weeks! They loved the order forms and making and delivering pizzas, plus scanning the credit cards. They were even great at cleaning up, and sorting the toppings to where they go. I was so impressed.

Blocks

Bowling, see above pic

Magnatiles for 2 days


Shape puzzles




Art

Shape stickers

Shapes and glue


Shape stamping with paint


Play doh with shape cookie cutters and blocks to stamp shapes. We also mixed the colors of the play doh, which was a great review of last week.

Small Manipulatives

Gears


Shape lacing cards


Shape puzzles




Shape dry erase boards


Shape magnets


Writing

Big shape stencils


Shape stamps

Texture markers

Small shape stencils


Snack

Each day we ate a different shape, depending on which shape we'd be learning at large group.

Circle muffins with circle chocolate chips (thanks to one of our friends!)
Square cheese crackers
Rectangle graham crackers
Triangle pita crackers

Outside

The sensory table had red beans and scoops and bowls


Large Group

We learned new songs; Jake the Snake, Shape-a-Loo, and I Spy a Shape

Our word changed each day, depending on which shape we learned; circle, square, rectangle, triangle

Day 1, we read Shapes, added circles to our wall, found circles around the room, and matched shapes to our shape train on the wall.


Day 2, we read What is Square? and found squares around the room, and added squares to our wall. We sorted buttons by shape.


Day 3, we read Bear in a Square, added rectangles to the wall, and found rectangles around the room. We used pointers and played I Spy a Shape by searching for and tracing shapes around the room.

Day 4, We read Wing on a Flea, found triangles around the room and added triangles to the wall. Then we played shape and color bingo.

Small Group

Week 1, My group made shapes out of wikki stix.
The other group used tweezers to place pom poms on these shape mats.


Week 2, My group played shape dominoes.

The other group practiced sorting buttons by color and then shapes.