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| FLOWER FRAMES |
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Give your children small cardboard frames to decorate. |
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Set out small felt flower cutouts and some glue. |
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Have your children glue the flower shapes around
the border of their frames. |
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Tape a picture of the child behind the frame. |
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Have child give their frame to a parent, or friend. |
Variation: Use sticker of flowers to decorate the frames.
Variation: Make frames out of cardboard flower shapes. Cut
a picture square or circle in the middle. Decorate with glue and glitter. |
FABULOUS FISH
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Give your children medium sized fish shapes (approx.
8"). |
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Let them cover their fish with water using a paint brush. |
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Then, have them paint the fish using water colors.
Variation: Make FAT FISH by stuffing and stapling
two large fish shapes
Variation: Make FUNNY FISH by adding funny features
to fish shapes. |
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| FINGER PRINT
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Print out large F shapes and give a printed sheet to each
of your children. |
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Then, give them washable ink pads and have them make finger
prints all over their F shapes. |
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| FINGER PAINTING
F"s |
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While your children are finger painting, encourage them to
make upper and lower case F's. |
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Let them choose their "favorite" color. |
FROGS ON A FENCE
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Buy a tablet of small green frog shapes. |
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Tear off 2-3 frogs for each child. |
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Give your children 8 ½" x 11" sheets
of light blue construction paper. |
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Next, give them rectangular strips cut from brown paper
to make a fence. |
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Have your children glue the fence on the bottom of their
papers and then glue the frogs on top of the fence.
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FANTASTIC FANS
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Cut white paper plates in half. |
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Let your children decorate them with marking pens. |
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Attach a large craft stick to each fan with tape. |
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FEELING GAME
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Have your children close their eyes one at a time and
give them an object to feel. |
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See if they can identify the object by only feeling
it. |
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Object suggestions: Small rubber ball, a large crayon,
an apple or orange, a rock or small piece of wood. |
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COUNTING FIVE FINGERS
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Have your children take turns holding up their hands
and count their fingers. |
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How many do they have on each hand. Five!
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INDIVIDUAL
FOOT PRINT PUZZLES
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Have your children take off one shoe. |
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Then have them stand on a piece of light weight cardboard. |
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Draw around their foot with a pencil. |
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Cut out the foot shapes and write the child's name on
the back of the shape, at the top and at the bottom. |
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On the toe part of the foot, print an upper case F,
on the heel part, print a lower case f. |
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Then cut each foot print in-half with a different puzzle
cut across the middle of the foot. |
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Let your children practice putting their foot shape
back together, then let them take them home.
Extension: You could take all the feet puzzles
and mix them up, have children try to make name matches
by looking at the backs of the feet puzzles. |
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MOVEMENT TIME
Have your children pretend to:
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Fly like fairies |
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Be fishing |
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Fight fires |
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Float like a feather |
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Throw a football |
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Fall like a falling leaf |
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Hop like a frog |
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DRESS-UP AREA
Stock your dress-up area with props so that your children can
dress up like:
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Fire Fighters |
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Fishermen |
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Fairies |
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Farmers |
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| F BOOKS |
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Make 6 page blank books for your children. |
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Take 3 pieces of white copy paper and fold
them in-half. |
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Staple the folded edge on each booklet. |
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Write "My F Book" on each cover. |
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Have your children look through magazines
for pictures of F words to glue in their books.
Extension: After the pages have dried, you could go in
and write the name of each F object for your children to "read"
to others. |
FINGER PUPPETS
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Draw faces on small strips of paper. |
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Wrap strips around your children’s fingers and tape ends together. |
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FOLK TALES
When studying the letter F, it is a great time to read and discuss folk tales. |
BOOKS ABOUT FAIRIES
Preschoolers seem to love stories about fairies. After ready a story about fairs, let your children create a fairy land on a table.
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Set out an assortment of cardboard pieces, stones, sticks, leaves, moss, etc. |
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Encourage your children to make a special place for fairies to live. |
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FOG WRITING
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Make gray finger paint. |
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Give each of your children gray paint and a large piece of finger painting paper. |
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Have your children make upper and lower case F’s in the fog on their papers. |
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FAIRY DUST F’s
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Sprinkle some baby powder (fairy dust) on a table. |
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Let your children make upper or lower case f’s in the dust. |
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Clean up with a damp sponge. |
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SCIENCE TIME IDEAS
Here are some ideas for science units while studying the letter F.
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Do some floating experiments. |
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Make paper airplanes and see how they fly. |
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Study fish, where they live, what they eat, how they reproduce, etc. |
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Discuss ways to stop forest fires. |
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Study the life chain in a forest. |
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Learn about frogs. |
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Examine flutes. How they work, how they are played. |
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F SNACK IDEAS
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Fruit bars |
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Fruit cups |
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Finger foods |
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Fruit juice |
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French fries |
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Fish sticks |
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