Book Recommendations For the Library
Below is a listing of books about children and about families! You may find them at your library that is local or can click the title links to see what is available 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 series that is particular Moncure has one for every age Now I’m One! i am just Two! etc.
Now I am Big by Margaret Miller
Books about Families
Materials: Precut small people shapes (make many!) and many larger houses. This is often utilized in many ways:
The children count out and name the true number of people that reside in their residence and place them on a precut house.
You are able to program each house or apartment with numbers in addition to children then place that number of individuals in 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 beginning 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 one which says Big plus one that says LITTLE or SMALL. The children learn to sort by size.
Make puzzles available which 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 of it and then laminate and cut it out into large puzzle shapes!
Activities and suggestions to get the Preschoolers Movin’ and Groovin’!
How Can You Feel?
Have different tempos of music available. Play one song and have the young children which kind of mood the songs 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 style by itself, it is great to remind the young children about remaining healthy during your exactly about Me Preschool Activities theme as well!
Play music and enable the children to participate you in a few exercise that is healthy! «Let’s jog five times. Let us jump four times.» Etc.
The following is one of my personal favorite exercise CDs (The song «Fun To Get Fit» is fantastic!) you could purchase at a price that is good Amazon by clicking the picture below.
Clean Up, Tidy Up!
Add water that is soapy your table together with your dramatic play dishes, pans and pots, etc.
Include sponges and towels!
Another reminder! an All About Me preschool activities theme goal would be to find out about the kids and their own families AND for the children to know about their own abilities. Science gives them the opportunity to ask questions about their environment and about themselves.
Exactly about Me Preschool Activities Height and Weight!
Materials Needed: a tape measure, a scale (when it comes to children to face on), paper and a pen
Weigh each young child and measure their height. Record the results and make use of with the Me Book activity in the activities that are writing below.
EXTENSION: Tape a paper that is large a wall and record on the paper each young one’s name, height and weight. Leave it there all year. Re-measure nearby the end of the year! Our children LOVE this!
Thank you Maribel from Fort Meyers, FL because of this idea!
Materials needed: yarn, scissors, tape and marker or pen
Cut out a bit of yarn to measure each young one’s height.
Attach a piece of tape using their name about it in addition to measurment. Hang these regarding the wall.
Have the children compare their height and discuss short and tall.
Try this again at the conclusion of the year and compare how much they have grown. I make use of 3 year olds and they think it’s great!
Provide small plastic cups (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!
Fold a bit of construction paper in half. Have the little one trace his/her hand and then help them cut their hand out (try not to 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.
The child’s name, their height and weight (obtained from the science activity in the Science Activity Section above) as well as their birthdate on the inside, write the date!
Ahead of time, pre-print each kid’s name on a piece of paper.
Provide sorters (shapes, macaroni, etc.) for them to cover the letters of their name with.
At the beginning of the send a Family Collage request home year. Let each family know you are working on an All About Me preschool activities theme and that this is actually the family essay-writer.com promo code part of that theme!
Ask each family to do business with the child to help make a Family Collage. The Collage might have photo’s on it with family relations’ names written on it. It could be drawn by the child and family! It is a grouped family event and also the purpose is always to assist the children learn more about each other and each other’s families!
Supply the grouped families a deadline for if they are due!
As each young one brings their collage or poster in, invite that child to point each picture out and name the household members for 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 return to school to go when you look at the All About Me book.
Thank you Jodif St.Thomas from Frontier, Saskatchewan, Canada for submitting this concept!
All About Me Book (Thank you Pat N. because of this idea!)
Among the ways my students and I also get to know each other is by making an «All About Me» book. The kids and their parents find the packet up on
«meet the teacher» night, per week before school starts. You will find 11 pages like this is me, this will be my family, I like the colour. An animal i prefer is.
In school I want to learn about. I would like 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 way they desire and then send them returning to school 2 weeks later. Meanwhile, the young kids and I use watercolor
paints and bling to decorate their covers. I also paint one of their hands while making a handprint regarding the back cover. Our school name and are written on
the inside cover year. The covers are done on cardboard so they hold up and generally are laminated as well. The leading cover has a first day picture associated with child and the title
All About ___. I punch holes within the side that is binding use zip ties to put up them together. These books are kept when you look at the classroom all and then go home
for the summer year. These books are looked over more than the other books in our classroom. Just thought I’d share that idea.