I love it when I hear my boys ask to learn about a particular topic. Last week we were in the car and my preschooler asked me if we could learn about sea turtles. Of course I said yes and got to work brainstorming ideas for activities. The first one I came up with was a sea turtle sensory bin. Here's what we used for the sensory bin: (the links below are affiliate links) water beads (I used blue, green, and clear ones from The Dollar Tree) white sand ping pong balls (for turtle … [Read more...]
T is for Transportation — Letter T Printables
Today's free printable packet is on T is for Transportation! Transportation is a big word for preschoolers, so this would also be a good time to introduce this word to them if they don't already know it. :) In this printable packet, there’s practice on the following skills: identifying letter t tracing patterns finding differences dot-to-dot practice matching shadows Here are a couple sample pages: To download your printable packet click here —> T is for … [Read more...]
Transportation Sensory Bin and Activities
I've been thinking a lot about how important play is for preschoolers. Just plain playing with no really fancy activities. I don't think kids get enough opportunities with our busy schedules to just play. To be creative, and imaginative and learn through playing. That is one of the reasons why I set up a transportation invitation to play this week....to let my kids be creative and set up a time for them to play with toys and explore. I find that if I set up an area of the room for my kids to … [Read more...]
Tommy the Triangle
We're ending our lessons on the letter 'T' this week. But before we end, I wanted to do a lesson shapes, mainly triangles since it starts with 'T'! We read one of my favorite shapes book. The Greedy Triangle is about a triangle who is tired and bored of being a triangle, so he goes to the shapeshifter and changes into all sorts of shapes. In the end, he decides being a triangle is the best. The language in this book is too hard for a 3 year old to understand, so I retold the story to him in my … [Read more...]
