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Kids World Exploration all about preschool |
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Camp Out
 A camping we will go! (sung to the tune of: Farmer in the Dell) A camping we will go A camping we will
go Hi ho off we go A
camping we will go We will
build a tent We will build a tent Hi ho off we go We will build a tent We will gather wood We will gather wood Hi ho off we go
We will gather wood We will roast marshmallows We will
roast marshmallows Hi ho off we go We
will roast marshmallows Let
the children add other things that they would do when going camping. *Flannel Board Story Telling Mr.
Squirrel Who’s that scampering up the tree? Caring acorns 1, 2, 3, It’s
Mr. Squirrel with a tail so furry He’s ready for winter, so don’t
you worry *Nature Walk Take the children on a nature walk
and talk with them about how the leaves are changing colors. Play the eye spy game as you walk, keep in
mind the colors of fall for the game. (I spy something red, see if they can find the object you are thinking
of.) Let the children collect items as they walk, give each child a brown lunch bag for their collection. *Leaf
Drawings Have children collect leaves. Place the collected leaves in the middle of the table
with tape dispenser and markers. Have children choose leaves and tape to a sheet of paper, next have them
draw a picture using the leaves as part of their picture. Dictate what the children say about their picture.
*Camping Collage Place the contents of the brown lunch bags from the
children’s walk in the center of a table. Have a supply of construction paper, paper plates, shoe
boxes, shoe box lids and cardboard so the children can chose what they want to use. Give each child glue
and scissors and have them create their own nature collage.
*Leaf Pounding Gather a supply of fresh
fallen leaves in different colors. Have a supply of white construction paper on the table and rubber mallets.
Have the children place one sheet of construction paper down and place and arrangement of the leaves on top of the
paper. Next have them lay another paper on top of the leaf arrangement and allow them to pound the top
paper with the rubber mallet. When done have the children lift up the paper and rub off the smashed leaf
pieces. They will see the print of the leaf on both sheets of paper. *Camp
Fire Collage Have children painted a supply of paper tubing brown and black along with a large sheet of cardboard.
Let dry. Set out a supply of yellow, orange, and red tissue paper with scissors. Allow
the children to cut into strips (great for scissor skills). After the paint is dry set the large sheet
of painted cardboard in the center of a table. Have the children glue the painted tubes and tissue paper
to the cardboard to create their very own camp fire.
*Leaf Floating Place dish pans on the table with water in
them and foam shaped leaves floating in each pan. Along side the dishpans place small fishnets and buckets.
Have the children fish out the floating leaves with the nets. Encourage the children to sort and
count their leaves by color. To add alphabetic knowledge place upper case and lower case (L,l) foam letters
into the dish pans. *Fishing
Bobber Float Set out dish pans with water, add fishing bobbers in different sizes. Let the
children scoop out the bobbers with small fish nets. Children can also sort the bobbers by size into small,
medium, and large containers. Have the children graph how many bobbers they scooped out of each size. *Paper Tents Set out a supply of different color construction paper. Have
the children cut out a tent shape and decorate their tent with marker, crayons or colored pencils. Have
children fold paper to make a tent opening. On a separate sheet of paper have children draw a picture of
them self. Place the picture behind the tent opening and glue to secure.
*Pet
Rocks Get a supply of river rocks. Set out different colors of paint and paint brushes.
Let the children choose rock of choice and paint it how they would like. Let rocks dry.
After rocks have dried set out a try of collage material like yarn , google eyes, glitter, buttons, foam shapes and
glue. Let the children decorate their rock with the items. After the children have decorated
their rocks have them come up with the name of their pet rock.
 Hands on Science Nature Scavenger Hunt Children will build problem-solving and visual discrimination skills as they search outdoors
to find matching nature items. · In advance collect examples of six nature items from your playground or another outdoor area accessible
to children. Include various sizes of each item in you collection. Use a marker to divide
the poster board into six equal sections. Glue a different item in each section and label. ·
Place the nature items on a table outdoors.
Invite children to explore them. Can they name them all? Where do the items come
from? · Have children go on an outdoor scavenger hunt.
Give each child a lunch bag for their items. Have the poster board visible for the children
to refer to. · Have children bring their finds back to the poster board and glue them into the appropriate sections.
Encourage the children to talk about the items and describe where they found them. *Twig sorting The children collected twigs on our nature walk along with other items.
After taking our walk we decide to sort and graph the different twigs into three different categories.
Long, longer and longest, the children placed the twigs into the appropriate category. After sorting
the twigs into the columns we count each column and identified which one had the most and lest amount of twigs.
Movement, Games and Activities Stepping Stone Activity:
Goals: Balancing, Directionality and Spatial Awareness ·
You will need two or three bean bags for this activity.
· Have children stand on the bean bags with one foot in front of the other.
While balancing one foot on the front bean bag, each child will reach behind and pick up the back bean bag and place
it six to eight inches in front so that the back foot can now take a step forward. ·
Children
travel across the room by repeating this stepping stone pattern. Pillow Case Race Get a supply of pillow cases and let the
children have sack races. Have the children put both feet in the pillow case and hold the top of the pillow
case with their hands. Have them hop to the finish line.
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