The Little Silver Curriculum Digital Dozen Sometimes A Baker's Dozen and Sometimes Even More!!!
The Digital Dozen for Pre-School and Early Childhood Digital
Alphabet Pictures http://www.alphabet-soup.net/ttools/abcpictures.html These printable alphabet pages teach children to reinforce knowledge of upper and lower case letters by coloring each with a different color until a hidden picture emerges. The Ants Go Marching One by One http://www.cleverisland.com/calendar/ant_parade.asp These colorful, printable pages support counting—with ants... Students will fold and assemble their own mini- book to take home.
Butterfly Puppets http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/crafts/puppets/paperplatebfly/ Paper plates and a little ingenuity—and you will have some butterfly puppets to create a little play in your classroom. Ask your students what they would like their butterflies to be doing or saying, and write the script with them. Worms and Spiders http://entowww.tamu.edu/academic/ucourses/ento489/lessons/worms.html Explore critters that crawl through eleven inspiring activities—with some styrofoam, oatmeal, garden worms, chocolate, and chow mein noodles... Printable Notes http://www.abcteach.com/Extras/notes.htm Most of your preschoolers will not be able to read independently yet, but they will nevertheless enjoy taking these colorful notes home and sharing their successes with their families.
Printable One to Nine http://www.kidzone.ws/math/ocean/dotsby1.htm See if your students can follow through their numbers one to nine, in order, to complete the surprise picture on this printable student math worksheet. Number Sheets in Spanish http://www.dltk-teach.com/numbers/spanish/index.htm These printable worksheets for number tracing offer Spanish number names and instructions; print them out in color or black and white. Bubble Magic http://www.sdahq.org/new1198/kids/bubbles/page04.htm http://www.sdahq.org/new1198/kids/bubbles/page02.htm Have end of the school year or summer fun with bubbles. These suggestions create bubble magic--your students will be enchanted. The second URL above provides a recipe for making your own bubble solution. Outdoor Play http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-outdoor.htm Chances are if you're teaching a summer school session this year, at least some of your classes will be held in the great outdoors. Develop suitable outside activities with all the exercises and activities listed here, including balloon bats, nature collages, neighborhood maps, rock collecting, and more. Switch-a-roo Zoo http://www.switchzoo.com/ You and your class have never had a visit to this kind of zoo before... Create truly wild animals with the interactive match up at this site for early elementary students. Teachers can find accompanying lesson plans for the online exercise--or simply challenge your students to name each animal you make as a class, starting with A and ending with Z.
Summer Theme Activities http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-summer.htm Flower bottles, happy campers, sink or float, and mud science... Your preschoolers will enjoy an engaging summer school session when you include these creative learning activities. Summer Ideas http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/miscsummer.htm Try cornstarch fingerpainting, salt or sand jar creations, sidewalk art, and other teachersubmitted lesson and project ideas for summer schools.
Preschool Summer http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teachingideas/summer.html Engage your students in these wonderful summer learning opportunities, with sensory, gross motor, fine motor, and general classroom activities; an extensive list of suggestions. The Unique World of the Preschooler http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/fdc25_world.uniq.html In the world of four and five year olds, look for commonly expressed traits such as animism and a self-centered view of the universe. This brief article discusses why. Special Days http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/specialfundays.htm Create at least one alternative--and memorable--day of learning and fun each week for your preschoolers. Suggestions here range from inside out day to crazy goggles or glasses. You can also submit your own ideas for special days to this educator site. All About Me Printable Book http://www.alphabet-soup.net/me/specialbook.html Start off the school year with this "I Am Special" printable book. Students will insert their own picture of themselves on the front page, and then learn to fill in their address, phone number, and other information on subsequent pages. Ocean Animals http://www.everythingpreschool.com/lessonplans/seaanimals/index.htm There is a whole week's worth of ocean explorations involved in this thematic unit for preschoolers. They will create paper plate aquariums, learn the Fish Hokey Pokey, make waves in a bottle, understand the length of a whale, and explore ocean animals during circle time. Teach Me 1,2,3’s http://www.funschool.com/current/games/12_teachc,p Join the campsite and let your students click on the bears, raccoons, and owls to count their numbers. You can extend this game by creating a checklist together for camping supplies: 3 pairs of shorts, 1 lantern, 4 pairs of socks, etc. Kindness Containers http://www.kidslikeours.com/projects/pro/kind.htm Your class will brainstorm ideas for how they can be kind--to each other, to school mates, or even to the community at large. You will write down the viable activities and each morning let a different student draw a kindness act for the day from your jar. Let students report back to you on how they were able to complete their missions.
Five Little Speckled Frogs http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Fivespeckledfrogs.shtml Learn this fun little rhyme as a fingerplay, or even act it out for an early summer performance. Numbers Coloring Book http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Fivespeckledfrogs.shtml Preschoolers will learn to count from zero to twelve as they practice with this little printable numbers book. Download and print a copy for each of your students to take home, color, and practice counting during the summer months. Community Helpers http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/151.html Using basic materials such as paper shopping bags and envelopes, you will recreate scenarios to learn about postal carriers, and doctors and hospitals. Students will also play crosswalk to learn the instructions behind traffic lights. Community Helpers Thematic Learning http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/helpers/index.htm Preschoolers will make their own policemen badges with shiny foil and cardboard. They will also be creating a collage of men and women at work in the roles of community helpers, with images clipped from magazines. Letter Carrier Song http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teachingideas/lettercarrier.html How does our mail get from place to place? If you cannot plan a field trip to your local post office, then discuss how mail moves from one location to the other. Also make your own envelopes, and sing along to the tune of the mail carrier's song. Transportation Games http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/transportation/games.htm Construct some easy "highway" ramps in your classroom with different degrees of slopes, and let your preschoolers experiment with which ones makes toy cars go faster. Roll jars to discuss how wheels make objects move, make paper airplanes, or take an imaginary train ride with tickets and a chain of class chairs. Teddy Bear Picnic Math http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/306.html Most of these teddy bear activities integrate math at a preschool level. Students will be deciding on ways to sort through and count teddy bears they bring to school. Follow up with a special, indoor, teddy bear picnic.
Bubble Activities http://thepreschoolconnection.com/eos.html This site suggests having a bubble themed end-of-school year celebration. Try bubble paintings, books, twisters, bubble science, matching math bubbles, or sensory tables. A great bubble recipe is also included. Create an Aquarium http://www.prongo.com/fish/index.html Preschool students can populate their online aquarium with various fish, seahorses, coral, snails, crabs, and sea weed. You can incorporate math by asking them to include three seahorses, four crabs, etc. Interactive Preschool Phonics http://www.headsprout.com/samples/ Animations guide students through phonics sample lessons at this preschool site, where sounds of letters are followed by letters strung together, then words, and finally short and simple sentences. Cardboard Box Castle http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Boxcastle.shtml This fairly easy project is perfect for younger grades, especially if they are completing a unit on fairy tales. Turn a cardboard box easily into a magical castle; arm your students with paints and imagination and presto! Welcome to the land of princesses and knights. Exploring Fairy Tales with Preschoolers http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/fairytales.htm Who knew that fairy tales could be this much fun? Engage your preschoolers into the special world of "once upon a time" with some of these activities, including puppet theater, sequencing, crowns, and other exercises to match specific fairy tales. Activities for Fariy Tales and Nursery Rhymes http://www.dltk-kids.com/rhymes/index.htm Activities and crafts are organized here to match up with separate fairy tales. Find ideas for the Frog Prince, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Little Red Riding Hood, and help bring the stories to life in your classroom. Several nursery rhyme activities are also available. Exploring the Wonderful World of Magnets http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/2240.html This unit on magnets is specifically targeted to pre-schoolers, but is wonderfully goaloriented. Hands-on experiments and demonstrations explore different sized and shaped magnets, along with iron filings and materials with varying degrees of magnetism. Preschool students will be able to investigate the concepts of poles, magnetic fields, attraction and repulsion, magnet tricks, and magnet maze games. Discussion questions under "Invention" will challenge students to think beyond mere routine demonstrations.
Printable Coloring and Activity Books http://www.igrandparents.com/grandTopics/articles/features/ColoringBook.asp Choose from several themes of coloring books collected here. Each has a cover and inside pages, and offer topics such as animals, ocean, sports, construction, insects, farm animals, and more.
Graduation Crafts http://www.lhj.com/bhg/category.jhtml?categoryid=/templatedata/bhg/category/data/Gra duationCrafts.xml Find several suggestions here for graduation crafts--from preschool specialties, or ideas for any given grade. You can create scrapbooks, tassels, cards, and more. If you plan on a preschool grad ceremony, then use these ideas to do it in style. Preschool Graduation Activities http://www.askthepreschoolteacher.com/vques12.shtml Preschool teachers themselves have sent in these ideas to help you mark your own graduation ceremonies or end of year programs with preschool students. Printable Preschool Graduation Diploma http://www.igrandparents.com/grandTopics/articles/printables/PreSchDipl.asp Have an awards ceremony at school year end to say a special goodbye to your students, and give them each one of these printable graduation diploma certificates.