4th of July: EVE

July 3rd...almost Independence Day!

America Learning Activities:

• Number Maze
• Tracing Alphabet and 4th of July Words 
• Patriotic Stamps
• What Comes Next!?
• Follow Directions with Red, White & Blue Stars
• Maze
• Reading Cards (a little different then the 3 part reading cards)
• Alphabet Maze
• United States Flash Cards (discuss states and where we live)
• Counting Cards with red and blue blocks as markers
• Pre-Writing Tracing
• How many ways can you sort...with red, white and blue buttons
• Art-Firework Painting with Pom-Poms

Pre-writing Practice and Amelia's first Maze:

Following Directions with Stars and our Bald Eagle Puppet we made: 

1st direction: Put the Large Red Star ABOVE the Eagle

2nd direction: Put the Small White Star ON TOP of the Eagle

3rd direction: Put the Medium Size Blue Star UNDER the Eagle

Little Mr. Evan wanting to help Mia stamp the alphabet:

What Come Next...Patterns: We clap and pat AB Patterns

Counting to 20 Dot-to-Dot:

 3 Part Reading Cards: These cards did not having matching words so once Mia picked a picture we would sound out the word and locate the word that began with the same letter. 

How many different ways can you sort these buttons!?

We came up with...1-Colors, 2-Shapes, 3-Round & Straight Edges 

Tracing Patriotic Words: 

 Counting Cards:

 Firework Painting with Pom-Poms and Patriotic Stamps:

   

   

4th of July: American Flag

 American Flag.....Old Glory!

American Flag Learning Activities:

• Do-A-Dot American Flag
• American Flag Dice Game
• 3-Part Reading Cards
• Flag Scavenger Hunt
• 4th of July Action Cards
• Read and Act out Yankee Doodle
• 'U is for Uncle Sam' Practice Writing worksheet
• Alphabet Stars
• Flag Sizing
• Paint an American Flag (discuss the 50 stars and 13 red strips found on a flag)
• 'If I were a flag I would be (what color) and have (what shape).' 

 American Flag Dice Game:
Amelia blew me away with this....I got out one of these awesome dice for the first time with her (there is a dice within a dice). My plan was just to take turn rolling and she would be the big dice and I would be the small dice and we would place stars on the flag together. After a couple rolls I decided to ask Mia to count our stars...she said, 'Why Mommy, there are 7 stars there. I don't need to count.' Holy Molly....WHAT? We have been working on 1-to-1 corresponding counting but I had no clue she could just look and tell me the number without even counting!

After that we started to set up the game as an addition problem. Her stars on top and my stars on the bottom. I always seem to underestimate what she can do....I think it's awesome that we are able to use and do a lot of my Kindergarten activities!  

3-Part Reading Cards. We are really starting to focus on reading!

 Do-a-Dot American Flag:

 Flag Sizing:

 ABC Maze:

Yankee Doodle Acting...she is putting a feather in her cap (while riding her pony). Oh and she ate some Macaroni for dinner =)

 Action Cards: Pretending to be a firework =) These cards are our favorite!!!

ABC Stars: I call out a letter and she finds it!

Painting our American Flag.....50 Stars and all!

'If I were a flag I would be pink and purple with stars.' Mia drew circles instead of stars because she said she wasn't good at drawing stars =)

Neighborhood Flag Scavenger Hunt: We spotted 10 flags!

4th of July: American Symbols

 Oh My....It's Time for the 4th of July!

That's right....it's July 1st so I can officially start dressing these coordinating cuties in Red, White & Blue!!!

Now for the Tot School:

Today's Learning Activities focused on American Symbols:

• What Come Next worksheet
• American Symbols Puzzles
• Color a Flag (work on Color Words)
• Do-A-Dot 'F is for Firework'
• Identify the letter F
• Counting Cards using Pom-Poms are markers
• Cutting Practice
• Tracing/Writing Practice
• Sort Red, White & Blue beads using a spoon (great sorting activity that also works on fine motor skills!)
• Bald Eagle Handprints
• United States of America Giant Floor Puzzle
• 3-Part Reading Cards 
• What Doesn't Belong? Which One is Different 
• American Symbols Shadow Match
• Bald Eagle Finger Puppet

 Just a few of our Patriotic Books

Amelia's Activities:

Sorted colored beads using a spoon

                   

Counting Cards. This activity is 2-fold as well! Counting and Fine Motor Skills. Amelia used a clothes pin to pinch the pom-poms and then place on the correct numbed. She thought this was soo much fun...which is what Tot School is all about!

Tracing & Prewriting Practice:

Cutting Practice:

American Symbols Shadow Matching:

American Symbols Mini Puzzles:

 

3-Part Reading Cards:

Identifying the letter 'F':

One of my favorite handprint crafts...I just love handprint art & how it documents Amelia's darling little hands! Today we are focusing on America's Symbols. So here is a Bald Eagle brought to you by Mia's hands 

Bald Eagle Finger Puppet going for one last flight before bed =) And yes the bird is blue not brown....some little girl used all our brown pipe cleaners for an 'art project' and didn't tell me they were all gone =)

USA Giant Floor Puzzle:

Yes little girl....it's time for bed!