Even though my kids are in preschool, I still enjoy learning at home. So much so, that a couple of years ago, I was highly considering home schooling for preschool and Kindergarten. I got together with some girlfriends and created a co-op where each mom created lessons around 1 theme each month and we made a learning/home school play date with it.
Then I printed worksheets from some of my favorite resources:
They especially liked practicing writing “T” and doing the Turkey Maze.
While the big kids were practicing writing, the little kids were working on a matching game.
{The tray for the matching game was purchased at the dollar store and the turkey graphics were found on line and printed. For vibrant pictures, I used photo paper}
For the math portion of our class, we counted and added feathers to our turkey.
{To Make the turkey, I used a foam turkey kit, a bag of feathers and a styrofoam block that I found at Michael’s. I assembled it and glued it to a styrofoam cube that I painted brown.}
The children created their own turkeys.
{To make the turkey kits, I used the above mentioned foam turkey as a stencil and cut out pieces of construction paper and put them into individual bags so each child had their own kit – quick and easy to hand out}
We sang turkey songs. Each child got to pick a song that was printed on a feather of the turkey. Once they chose the song, they had to add it to the turkey on the felt board.
{The materials of the felt board were also from Michael’s. I used the above mentioned foam turkey kit to cut out the same shapes in felt and googled “turkey theme” songs for the kids to learn}
