Book Suggestions for the Library
Below is a summary of books about children and about families! You might find them at your library that is local or can click on the title links to see what exactly is offered at Amazon.
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All About Me Books
Listed below are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Now i will be Threeby Jane Belk Moncure–these are older books, most libraries have the collections. This particular series by Moncure has one for every age now i am One! now i am Two! etc.
Now I am Big by Margaret Miller
Books about Families
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Math & Manipulatives > to greatly help your Preschoolers develop their math skills and people small muscles in their hands!
Materials: Precut small people shapes (make many!) and many larger houses. This is often utilized in various ways:
The children count out and name the true number of people that reside in their residence and put them on a precut house.
You can program each homely house with numbers and also the children then place that number of individuals from the house.
In different colors, the children can sort all the people by sizes, colors or match them to the matching colored house if you precut them.
The start of the season is a good time to introduce these concepts.
Provide a product in small and large sizes (balls, stuffed animals, cut right out people shapes) after which provide 2 boxes the one that says Big plus one that says LITTLE or SMALL. The youngsters learn to sort by size.
Make puzzles available that have families in them: both table puzzles and floor puzzles. If you don’t have any, make one! Find pictures or print pictures from your own computer of families. Make a collage from it and then laminate and cut it out into large puzzle shapes!
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Music and Movement
Activities and suggestions to ensure you get your Preschoolers Movin’ and Groovin’!
How Do You Feel?
Have different tempos of music available. Play one song and get the young children what sort of mood the music is in-happy, sad, excited, scared, etc. The children then act out that mood through movement. Change the songs often and repeat!
Although health insurance and nutrition could be a theme by itself, it really is great to remind the young children about remaining quite healthy through your exactly about Me Preschool Activities theme as well!
Play music and enable the children to join you in some exercise that is healthy! “Let’s jog five times. Let’s jump four times.” Etc.
The following is one of my personal favorite exercise CDs (The song “Fun to obtain Fit” is fantastic!) that one can purchase at a good price at Amazon by clicking the picture below.
Exactly about Me Preschool Activities Theme Ideas for your Sensory Table!
Tidy Up, Tidy Up!
Add water that is soapy your table and your dramatic play dishes, pans and pots, etc.
Include sponges and towels!
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Science > for your Preschool Scientists in Training!
Another reminder! an All About Me preschool activities theme goal is always to read about the kids and their loved ones and also for the children to learn about their abilities that are own. Science gives them the opportunity to make inquiries about their environment and about themselves.
Exactly about Me Preschool Activities Height and Weight!
Materials Needed: a tape measure, a scale (for the young children to stand on), paper and a pen
Weigh each child and measure their height. Record the results and use using the Me Book activity when you look at the activities that are writing below.
EXTENSION: Tape a paper that is large a wall and record on the paper each kid’s name, height and weight. Leave it there all year. Re-measure nearby the end of the season! Our children LOVE this!
Thank you Maribel from Fort Meyers, FL with this idea!
Materials needed: yarn, scissors, marker and tape or pen
Cut out a piece of yarn to measure each kid’s height.
Attach an item of tape making use of their name upon it therefore the measurment. Hang these from the wall.
Have the young children compare their height and discuss short and tall.
Repeat this again at the conclusion of the and compare how much they have grown year. I make use of 3 year olds and additionally they think it’s great!
Provide plastic that is small (clear) with water inside them. Provide eye droppers and small cups of paint when it comes to young children to experiment with color identification and color mixing!
Writing Activity >
Fold a bit of construction paper by 50 percent. Have the little one trace his/her hand and then assist them to cut their hand out (do not slice the folded side). When done, the hand print should open like a novel.
Let the children write their own name in the front and decorate the front.
On the inside, write the date, the kid’s name, their height and weight (obtained can you write my paper for me through the science activity when you look at the Science Activity Section above) as well as his or her birthdate!
In advance, pre-print each kid’s name on an item of paper.
Provide sorters (shapes, macaroni, etc.) in order for them to cover the letters of these name with.
Miscellaneous Ideas for Your All About Me Preschool Activities Theme!
At the start of the send a Family Collage request home year. Let each family know that you are taking care of an exactly about Me preschool activities theme and that here is the family part of that theme!
Ask each family to do business with the little one to produce a family group Collage. The Collage can have photo’s on it with nearest and dearest’ names written on it. It could be drawn because of the child and family! This might be a family event and the purpose is always to help the children learn more about each other and each other’s families!
Give the grouped families a deadline for when they’re due!
As each kid brings their collage or poster in, invite that child to point each picture out and name the household members to their friends at circle time!
Family Project Send home a piece of paper that says:
“(childs name) is special to Mommy and Daddy because. ” Have the parents fill it out and come back to school to go within the All About Me book.
Many thanks Jodif St.Thomas from Frontier, Saskatchewan, Canada for submitting this notion!
All you Pat N. because of this idea! about me Book (Thank)
One of the ways my students and I get to know one another is by making an “All About Me” book. The kids and their parents select the packet up on
“meet the teacher” night, per week before school starts. You can find 11 pages similar to this is me, this really is my loved ones, i love along with. An animal I like is.
In school I would like to read about. I want to be a_ that is____ when I grow up, i love to eat. I am ____ years old, I am special because.
The household and kids decorate these pages any real way they need and then send them back once again to school 14 days later. Meanwhile, the young kids and I use watercolor
paints and bling to decorate their covers. I also paint one of their hands and work out a handprint from the back cover. Our school name and are written on
the inside cover year. The covers are done on cardboard so they really hold up as they are laminated as well. The front cover has a first day picture associated with the child together with title
Exactly About ___. I punch holes when you look at the side that is binding use zip ties to carry them together. These books are kept when you look at the classroom all year and then go home
for the summer. These books are looked at significantly more than the other books within our classroom. Just thought I’d share that idea.