A Week

I love these cute crafts for apples:  http://www.readingconfetti.com/2013/09/easy-apple-tree-preschool-craft.html

And these are so cute for A is for Animals: http://www.readingconfetti.com/2012/12/noahs-ark-craft-kids-virtual-book-club.html

C Week

C is for Cloud
Read "Little Cloud".  Go observe the clouds in the sky.
Make cotton ball clouds
Do this from preschoolalphabet:
Blue Skies & White Clouds

1. On a white piece of paper, use a white crayon to draw cloud shapes all over the paper.
2. Give the kids a “blank” cloud paper and a cup of watered-down blue paint.
3. Have them paint a blue sky over the whole paper, revealing all of the white clouds!

Eat blue jello with whipped cream. (clouds)

C is for Chameleon
We tried this idea.
C is for cow

C is for Cookie
Love these ideas! We did the cookie counting game except with chocolate chips instead of M&Ms.

C is for car
My son will love these ideas!

B Week

I got a lot of my ideas from preschoolalphabet.blogspot.com

B is for Bat

Read about bats and look at pictures of bats on the internet.
Go on a bat hunt.  Hide bat cut outs with googly eyes and a fact about bats written on them in white around the house like these.  Give your preschooler a flashlight and let them find the hidden bats.  When they find them, read the information about bats together.
Love this idea: http://www.readingconfetti.com/2011/10/handprint-bats.html

B is for Butterfly

We made butterfly cutouts in the shape of a B and then he painted them with water colors like these.
We also made a large flower cutout with a hole in the middle and put it over a cup with juice.  He put a straw through the whole to sip the "nectar."  We also made these butterfly cut outs and listened to the song found here.

B is for Baa Baa Black Sheep

Lots of fun from preschoolalphabet.  My son liked doing all of these.

B is for Bear

Again, lots of great ideas from preschoolalphabet.

And I love this idea to add sound effects to "We're Going on a Bear Hunt."

B is for Books

Go on a Book Scavenger Hunt (idea from here.)

Q is for Q-tips and Curly-Q piggy tails (Number 3)

Q is for Q-tips!  So easy.  We started off painting a letter Q using Q-tips.  I also had these pictures for them to paint if they wanted: http://therapyfunzone.net/blog/q-tip-painting-with-templates/

For the number 3 we focused on The Three Little Pigs, I found lots of variations on the story from our library but first read the basic story so that we could practice it.

We had fun acting out the story.  I planned to make piggy noses from egg cartons for the 3 pigs but didn't get around to it.  They wanted to act it out over and over again and got really good at the parts like "little pig, little pig, let me in...not by the hair on my chinny chin chin..then I'll huff..."

Then we experimented building our own houses out of different things: pretzel sticks, marshmallows, Legos, and used a blow dryer (big bad wolf) to see if the it could blow them down.  I got the idea here.

We then used these pictures to sequence the story.

And we made puppets for them to use to tell the story.  I printed them on cardstock.  They colored them, I cut them out and glued popsicle sticks on the them.

T is for Teeth

We had fun learning about T for Teeth.  We had a yummy and fun snack that the kids thought was so fun.  These apple smiles with marshmallows for teeth! :)

I got these books from the library to read.  I especially loved Clarabelle's Teeth!  Such a cute book!

I used these cute flannel board pictures to talk about how to take good care of our teeth by eating good foods.  They liked playing with them afterwards.

Then we "practiced" brushing with a toothbrush and toothpaste on a picture of a tooth I drew on construction paper.

Their favorite part was this fun game.  I cut out a mouth shape from pink paper and drew 16 small circles inside.  They placed a mini marshmallow on each circle.  Then they took turns rolling the dice and whatever number they rolled, they got to eat that many marshmallows.  The person to "loose" all their teeth first, won!  A great way to practice counting to 6.

The kids loved this fun treat!  Apple slices with peanut butter and marshmallow teeth.

R is for Rainbow/ St Patrick's Day

Our preschool day landed on St Patrick's Day so we combined the holiday with R is for Rainbow.  There are so many fun activities to do with both themes and I only had one day to do them but I plan on doing more of these with my son throughout the week. Here's the plan for our 3 hour preschool group (but not necessarily in this order):

Gathering:  Lucky clover rainbow necklaces
While they worked on these I helped each individually make a 4 leaf clover hand print

Books:

Game: Pot of Gold (Played like hot potato but with a pot of gold chocolate coins)
This link also has some great St Patty's Day printables

Art:  Suncatchers
Easy paint rainbows (this is a maybe)

Science:  This is something I will probably just do with my son on our own because I think it would be quite a mess with 6 preschoolers and my infant.  But I know he will like it.
Rainbow Jar
Magic Rainbows and Magic Milk Rainbows

Snack:  Rainbow fruits and veggies; Rainbow goldfish

Optional: Edible rainbow playdough

I also want to do these this week:
Color Hunt
Planting a rainbow: http://wildflowerramblings.com/homeschooling/planting-rainbow-literature-science-learning/
Rainbow art collages
Rainbow transperencies

Great printables for practicing letters

Fun ABC Magnets

Awhile ago I saw these adorable magnets over at servingpinklemonade.  I pinned the idea and have had it in my project to-do drawer for many months.  I thought it would be a great thing to whip out while I'm making dinner and my preschooler is begging for attention, not to mention a great learning tool!  So I finally finished them and all of my boys have liked playing with them.  Probably my preschooler least of all, but I'm hoping that will change once I sit down and play with him.  But we'll see...  Part of parenting is figuring out what works with each child since they are all so different!

Anyhow, I had fun coloring them with my colored pencils while watching my favorite TV shows, "Elementary" and "Castle".  But you can also print out a colored version or let your kids have fun coloring them!  Then I modge podged some cut up magnets- you know the kind you get tons of advertisements on in the mail, etc.  And then I laminated them. I think they turned out really cute!

Dinosaur Printables

http://overthebigmoon.blogspot.com/2012/01/dinosaur-pre-k-pack.html

Snowflake craft & book

http://littlepageturners.blogspot.com/2012/01/snowflake-paintings.html

Matching Butterflies

http://havingfunathomeblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/butterfly-symmetry-matching-game.html

Book Bags

http://thedillspiel.blogspot.com/search/label/Once%20upon%20a%20thread%20Two

Thanksgiving Printables

http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-printable-pack-free.html

U is for Umbrella

http://totallytots.blogspot.com/2011/10/now-i-know-my-abcs-uu-is-for-umbrella.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TotallyTots+%28Totally+Tots%29

The Umbrella by Dieter Schubert

Jellyfish in a bottle

http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2011/09/jellyfish-in-a-bottle.html

Fall Preschool Printables

http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-fun-learning-pack-free-printables.html

Dinosaur Track Matching

Cute idea!! http://www.momendeavors.com/2011/09/dinosaur-tracks-matching-activity.html

Apple Learning Activities and Crafts

http://www.abcand123learning.com/2011/09/thematic-teaching-apples.html

http://www.amazingmess.com/2011/09/learning-bag-apple-tree-number-game.html

F is for Fish

http://totallytots.blogspot.com/2011/09/once-upon-book-not-norman.html

Great ideas to do with fish- cute book "Not Norman", graphing fish, fish folder game, etc.

Texas/Western Theme

http://www.hummingbirded.com/rodeo-western-day.html

Fish Plates

http://www.dana-made-it.com/2011/08/tutorial-paper-plate-fish.html