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 look at what exactly is available at Amazon.
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All About Me Books
Listed here 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 single age now i am One! i am just Two! etc.
Now I’m Big by Margaret Miller
Books about Families
Exactly about Me Preschool Activities Theme Math & Manipulatives > to greatly help your Preschoolers develop their math skills and the ones small muscles in their hands!
Materials: Precut small people shapes (make many!) and several larger houses. This is utilized in numerous ways:
The kids count out and name the true number of people that reside in their residence and put them on a precut house.
It is possible to program each homely house or apartment with numbers while the children then place that amount of people 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 cheap buyessay beginning of the entire year is a time that is good introduce these concepts.
Provide an item in small and sizes that are largeballs, stuffed animals, cut fully out people shapes) after which provide 2 boxes one that says Big plus one that says LITTLE or SMALL. The youngsters learn how to sort by size.
Make puzzles available which have families in them: both table puzzles and floor puzzles. If you do not have any, make one! Find pictures or print pictures from your computer of families. Make a collage of it and then laminate and cut it out into large puzzle shapes!
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Music and Movement
Activities and Ideas to ensure you get your Preschoolers Movin’ and Groovin’!
How Can You Feel?
Have different tempos of music available. Play one song and inquire 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 really is great to remind the young children about remaining healthy during your All About Me Preschool Activities theme as well!
Play music and enable the children to participate you in a few healthy exercise! “Let’s jog five times. Let us jump four times.” Etc.
Here is certainly one of my favorite exercise CDs (The song “Fun To Get Fit” is fantastic!) that you could purchase at a good price at Amazon by clicking the picture below.
All About Me Preschool Activities Theme Ideas for your Sensory Table!
Tidy Up, Tidy Up!
Add soapy water to your table along with your dramatic play dishes, pots and pans, 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 would be to read about the youngsters and their own families and also for the children to learn about their abilities that are own. Science gives them the chance 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 stand on), paper and a pen
Weigh each young child and measure their height. Record the results and make use of using the Me Book activity into the Writing Activities section below.
EXTENSION: Tape a large paper to a wall and record regarding the paper each kid’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, marker and tape or pen
Cut out a bit of yarn to measure each child’s height.
Attach an item of tape making use of their name upon it additionally the measurment. Hang these in the wall.
Have the children compare their height and discuss short and tall.
Do this again at the end of the and compare how much they have grown year. I make use of 3 year olds plus they like it!
Provide plastic that is small (clear) with water inside them. Provide eye droppers and small cups of paint for the children to try out color identification and color mixing!
Writing Activity >
Fold an item of construction paper by 50 percent. Have the kid trace his/her hand and then help them cut their hand out (do not cut the folded side). When done, the tactile hand print should open like a novel.
Allow the children write their own name regarding 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!
In advance, pre-print each young one’s name on a bit of paper.
Provide sorters (shapes, macaroni, etc.) to allow them to cover the letters of their 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 you are working on an All About Me preschool activities theme and that this is basically the family percentage of that theme!
Ask each family to work with the kid in order to make a family group Collage. The Collage can have photo’s on it with household members’ names written onto it. It could be drawn because of the child and family! This is certainly a grouped family event additionally the purpose is always to assist the children find out about each other and every other’s families!
Provide the families a deadline for when they’re due!
As each kid brings their collage or poster in, invite that child to point out each picture and name the family 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 return to school to go in the exactly about Me book.
Thank you Jodif St.Thomas from Frontier, Saskatchewan, Canada for submitting this idea!
All About Me Book (many thanks Pat N. with this idea!)
One of several real ways my students and I also get acquainted with one another is by making an “All About Me” book. The children and their parents select the packet up on
“meet the teacher” night, a week before school starts. There are 11 pages similar to this is me, this will be my children, I like the colour. An animal I like is.
In school I want to find out about. I want to be a_ that is____ once I grow up, i love to eat. I am ____ years old, I am special because.
The family and kids decorate these pages any way they desire and then send them back again to school two weeks later. Meanwhile, the young kids and I also use watercolor
paints and bling to decorate their covers. I also paint certainly one of their hands and work out a handprint on the relative back cover. Our school name and are written on
the inside cover year. The covers are done on cardboard so they hold up and they are laminated as well. The leading cover has a day that is first associated with child while the title
Exactly About ___. I punch holes when you look at the binding side and use zip ties to hold them together. These books are kept within 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 would share that idea.