Preschool: J for Jellyfish

I was a little more prepared today then I was on Monday. We started with Jellyfish for J. I couldn't find any books I likes about jellyfish so I'm not sure if the kids know what I jellyfish is but they enjoyed this craft.

I folded a handful of coffee filters together and stapled them closed for the body. Then I stapled pieces of paper towel to act as the tentacles. Then with eye droppers and food colors they decorated their jellyfishes.

This had a really cool tie-dye effect to it and they would have gone on for a long time doing this but the filters could only get so wet.

While they dried, we read "My 'j' Sound Box" by Jane Belk Moncure. Hailey really likes these books. Then we did nursery rhymes; "Jack and Jill" and "Jack be Nimble".

I got some books that had jellybeans in it but didn't think the story line so we just jumped into the next craft. They glued jellybeans onto their letter J's.

Again, I knew Robert would only be interested in eating them so here's a cute picture to prove he was there.

After they glued their jellybeans, everyone got a handful to eat. Robert kept wanting more and more and was very cranky that I wouldn't get him any. I was very ready for his nap time.

J is for Jellyfish

This was another hard letter to think of activities to do. After we added the J to caterpillar, we read the J Alphabook. Then we colored the Itsy Bitsy Book that has 5 J words. I got this Itsy Bitsy Book from: http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/learning-letters/ib-book-j.htm. They have a book for very letter expect for the vowels. It gave us a lot of J words to talk about. It is a great learning tool. I wish I found this earlier.

After I put the book together, we made a paper plate jellyfish. The idea is from: http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/search/label/Paper%20plate%20Jelly%20Fish.

I have tons of letter stickers from scrap booking so we decorated our jellyfish with stickers.

This entertained Hailey for 20-30 minutes. It was a big hit.

When we finished with our jellyfish, we watched the video that went along with this craft. Hailey loved this song and we watched it 10-15 times. I did the song without playing the video once and Hailey stopped me and wanted the video back on.

We had a very successful session on Hailey School today!!!