Preschool Lesson: The Changing Seasons

I chose The Changing Seasons for our theme this week after Pooh Bear noticed the leaves changing colors and falling to the ground.  We will focus on Fall this week and Winter next week. We are reading fall books and painting with fall colors.  We will taste some apple cider and make a baked apple treat. Our letter of the week is B. Our number is 2. Our advanced concept for the older preschooler is before, between and after.

For our crafts this week we are decorating a pumpkin. We may also make some crafts with fall colored leaves that we collect on our nature walks this week.

We glued felt shapes on our pumpkins. This was a fun and easy way for a toddler to decorate a pumpkin. There was no mess to clean up and later we can use the pumpkins for pie and dry the seeds for a treat.

Preschool Lesson: Music for Toddlers

This week we are having a short week in the classroom. So I decided to make this week fun while learning at the same time. We will be working on music for toddlers. finger plays and some other fun songs.  We will enjoy lots of story time, crafts and our daily nature walk.

Just a sample of the finger plays, and toddler music we will enjoy this week.

1. The Wheels On The Bus

2. Where Is Thumbkin

3. The Farmer In The Dell

4. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

5. The Alphabet Song

6. Five Little Ducks

7. Loop De Loop

8. Baa Baa Black Sheep

9. The Ants Go Marching

10. Do Your Ears Hang Low

Plants and Seeds Wrap Up

We had fun this week learning about plants and seeds. I think I had just as much fun as Pooh Bear had watching our bean seeds sprout and begin to grow. 

One of the books we read this week.

One of our plant crafts

(completed with help from Pooh Bears mommy)

Our Trip To The Pumpkin Farm

It rained most of the day and was very windy. The rain let up for about 30 minutes so we were able to

make a quick trip to the farm. We were not able to pick our own because of the weather. I am hoping to be able to visit another pumpkin farm this weekend.

Preschool Lesson: Learning About Plants

This week we are learning about plants. We will discuss trees, flowers, grass and seeds.

1. For our first lesson we will look at book about plants. We will talk about the plants we can eat and the plants that we don't eat. We are going to discuss where different fruits and vegetables come from. ( Such as apples grow on trees,  potatoes and carrots grow under the soil, and berries grow on bushes.

2. Next we are going to look at different seeds. We will cut open fruits and vegetables to collect seeds.
We will glue the seeds on a coloring page under the plant they came from.

3. After Our seed lesson we will grow some bean seeds in a jar and watch the seed grow. We will identify the roots, stem and leaves.

4. For our art this week we will make some interesting plant crafts.

5. Last we hope to harvest some grapes and visit a pumpkin farm.

Animal Fun

For our first animal lesson we sorted our toy animal figures into groups of small and large. While sorting we named our animal figures and practiced the sounds the animals make.   Later on in the day we played with our animal magnet set and talked about what color the animals were. This evening we are reading a new book about penguins.

This is a simple lesson that can be expanded for older preschoolers. We can also separate the animals into groups of zoo/jungle animals and farm animals. Since Pooh Bear is not two years old yet I felt we should slowly introduce the idea of other ways to classify animals. We will work on more classification later this week.