Preschool Corner: Polar Bear ABC game

I thought I'd post about a new game we got at Christmas. My 4 yr.old Kindergartener and her 6 yr. old brother both like this game. We have a few fun alphabet (board-type) games to make learning fun. This is one they really enjoyed. It is a Cranium game and retails around $9.99 however just before Christmas I bought this at Wal-Mart for only $5.00.

It is really cute.

The fishing pole is magnetic and the child takes turns and "fishes" in the lake. The not-used letters go in to the letter pond and those needed go onto the word card.
My students who are currently learning letter sounds and also to read both enjoy this fun game. We then spelled the word for my daughter to review letters, then sounded it out for my son then said the word together! It's a FUN, cool way to learn! :)

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Catching up on Preschool Corner...

We've been very busy in out household so I haven't posted any Preschool Corner posts in awhile. We've done a lot but either I haven't had a camers to take pictures or I haven't had time to post. Here is a long post to try to catch up....

My last Preschool Corner post a told you how we are doing a farm unit (and lapbook)

Our unit started with pigs...

Here are most of the pig stories we read:

They made paper bag puppets and during the re-read of the stories, they used their puppets to "pretend"

Then we moved onto "cows". Here are the stories we had and read for the cow unit:

We had a field trip to a local dairy farm and she got to help feed the calves their bottles.

She's enjoying this video called Curious Buddies- Let's go to the Farm. It's meant for younger children but has sun songs and cute video/learning sections

Then other learning activities:

She loves doing activities on trays. This was a new one (to her) and she really liked it and did it over and over. I had pieces of ribbon cut and she weaved them in a scissor rack.

...below she is working on a numbers worksheet:

We also have a game called Alphabet circus. My preschoolers love throwing the bean bags and identifying the letters. She just says the letter. Her 6 yr. old brother, says the letter and its sound.

We also had a nice day for flying kites!

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Preschool Corner: Farm Unit: Pig

We started some preschool- early elementary activities this week. I am working on organizing our school area so we thought we'd keep the little ones busy with some school work.

I planned to do a farm lapbook/unit with my youngest two children. Here is the start of it. We did lessons around pig these days...

One of their older sisters read them this story called Polly Pig and the Bee. (and asked them questions)...

These are some of the worksheets they did and phonics reader we worked on.

Here they are finger painting their pig puppet pieces...

We worked on spelling and writing the word "pig"

Here she is sorting a bucket of tiny farm animals...

Then she had some outside fun with her older sisters :-)

These streamer wands are a hit with my children. I love my daughter's face in the below photo (action shot). She was singing! :)

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