Preschool: Q is for Queen

Preschool was at my house with week. I did Q for Queen. We after we sang our typical songs, I read "My Q book" by Jane Moncure.

Then I had them glue on the different queen pieces onto a toilet paper roll. I got this idea off of DLTK. The one that Robert is playing with is the example that I did. This craft is supposed to be for age 3 and up was a little too difficult for the kids. While I was helping Hailey and Hannah, Audrey was glue the pieces to each other and not onto the toilet paper roll. They could glue on the head, hands, and cape but the body that wraps around, the skirt (which was tough for me) and the feet were too tough.
Then they could paint their Qs with royal purple paint and put glitter glue on their crowns while I cut and glued their Qs to the pink paper. I gave them markers to put a face in the middle of the Q. This idea came from notimeforflashcards.

Since there was still 5-10 minutes left, they could dress up as Queens.

Girls are very fun to have around. I'm not sure how I could have made this letter more gender neutral.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I found this activity on notimeforflashcards and thought it would be a fun way to review and wind up our alphabet section. So, we started by reading the book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin.
I rolled, taped, and cut the newspaper for Hailey.
I had letter stickers for us to decorate. Hailey loves stickers.
While we did this we sang the alphabet song and talked about which letters we were putting on.

H is for Hands and Hippos

The letter of the day is "H"!!!!
We first traced our hands on the letter H template for letter recognition.

This is a paper I copied out of the Primary Helper Book Volume 2 for Sunbeams. One side it has "I'm thankful for my hands" and the other side has pictures of things we can do with our hands.
Hailey cut and glued hers together. (I helped guide the paper while she cut). She is getting a lot better at cutting. She tries to turn right hand at different angles to cut, so we are working on keeping the hand straight up and down.

Hailey needed a lot of help with this craft and Robert woke up and was fussy in his highchair so I didn't get a lot of pictures of this craft. Here is the finished product.

This is a cute video of Hailey playing with the hippo puppets. I love hearing her talk at this age. She's still trying to figure out how to pronounce somethings.

We read "How to be a Happy Hippo" by Jonathan Shipton and Illustrated by Sally Percy. Hailey loved this book and kept saying "hippo" which made it a little difficult to read. I like the story line of the book. It's about a baby hippo who just wants to play with his dad and finally captures his dad into playing with him. Hailey is a kid who definitely needs both of her parents to be happy. I also love the illustrations. Sally Percy drew very cute hippos.

Here are our finished crafts for the letter H.