Making Sentences

  I am  glad I  introduced Dr. Seuss books to children in the school. I overheard them  keeping  track of the books they read. Now they are learning to make sentences from these books. I made few word cards-large ones for the titles and small ones for the sentences. They look in the basket for a sheet with sentences written on it.

searching cards to make title

few sentences

word cards

title cards

busy  making sentences

Later they will learn to put correct sentence cards under the correct title cards. For this they need to read the books thoroughly.

I am adding U KG activities  related to the book-"My Foot Book". They traced their feet, outlined with board marker, cut the shape and wrote opposite words with colored sketch pens. They giggled while I traced their feet. 

opposite words 

Happy U KG

Dr. Seuss books

This is the first time ever  I am using Dr. Seuss books  in the school. Playgroup enjoyed listening to Green Eggs and Ham. Ham is a new word for all the children here in the school. For the Nursery I made felt green eggs number matching and felt green egg whites matching. I stuffed felt pieces while making green eggs and blanket stitched.

felt green eggs white  for matching

green eggs number matching

L KG made a egg shaped booklet. Teacher traced the template and children cut the shape and searched for rhyming words from the book Green Eggs And Ham.  They  have  c-v-c booklet  made earlier but this has  few  longer words. The only problem during making of this booklet was that they had just one book. 

 U KG drew hat using the template I made for them. They searched   for  rhyming words

from different books by Dr. Seuss.  They have reading session in the afternoon and its fun to see them wear hats and read. 

card board template for hat

felt pieces to make rhyming word hat

U KG  wearing hats and busy reading 

U KG ready with hand prints for Thing One and Thing Two

Thing One and Thing Two by U KG

I would love to read more of  Dr. Seuss books to children  in the school. I do  not want to put too much burden on children so we will do more fun activities related to the stories.

Number work for Nursery-1

Besides the Montessori  materials like the sand paper numbers, number rods and  spindle boxes  we  have few more exercises for practice. Nursery children  are learning to  relate  quantity to the symbol. Counting till five seems easy  for them but larger numbers are confusing like the dots on  frogs and bones. 

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matching felt egg halves

The bumblebee number matching mat is from the site http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/bbnm.pdf.

Bumblebee number matching 

matching  felt apples to the numeral

matching number of fruits to the numeral

I made this frog dot matching to the number from the site  http://www.kinderprintables.com/frog08/frogflipbookbw.pdf. I pasted them on the cardboard and covered with wide cello tape.

 Dog-bone matching and apple-worm matching  is from the book - "The Complete Book of Activities, Games, Stories, Props, Recipes and dance for Young Children"

dog and bone matching

apple and worm matching

The pinwheels  and marbles matching are from the book 

Helping Children Learn by Zakiya Kurrien. The book is available in  http://www.amazon.com/Helping-Children-Learn-Zakiya-Kurrien/dp/0861319036

The pinwheels and marbles with jars are laminated.

pinwheels matching

matching marbles to the jar

waiting patiently for their turn

The numerals at the end of the tentacles indicate the number of marbles. The marbles are flat ones. The octopus drawing is pasted on a thick card board, colored with crayons and covered with cello tape.

Octopus number matching with marble

Children played hopscotch inside. I pasted brown tape on the carpet and marked the numbers with white crayon. It was fun watching them play.

 

playing hopscotch