Pretend Play: Doctor

Pretend play is an important part of our day.  Doctor is always one of our favorites...it just happened to be our theme this week!  While doctoring Texas Bear she said we needed to do an x-ray because bear broke his leg.  It is great to see what their imaginations come up with (may have helped that we've been talking about x-rays this weeks).  Included in our doctor box is a set from Fisher Price, old medicine droppers, an Ace bandage, cotton pads, Q-tips, tweezers, Popsicle sticks (tongue depressors), a little mirror and now an x-ray of a bear.  We are always on the lookout for more to add!

Count the Band-Aids and Build a Skeleton

Here are a couple cute and easy games to go along with our doctor/x-ray theme!

Count the band-aids was printed from the preschool pack made by Homeschool Creations.  We took turns putting band-aids on the mat while she counted.  To mix it up we put the number on first and she counted and placed the correct number of band-aids on the mat.  Cute, fun and good for counting and numbers practice.

Build a skeleton was fun as we've been talking about x-rays.  This can also be used for Halloween!  I printed off the skeleton online (sorry, I can't find the site I used), laminated the parts and stuck them to adhesive magnet sheets.  She had quite a bit of fun building her skeleton, several times.

X for X-Ray and Doctor Theme

This week we are focusing on the letter X.  I decided to incorporate a doctor theme into this week and talk about x-rays and other things doctors do.

Here is our board this week.

Here is a look of what is inside our binder.  The x-ray page can be found here.  The do-a-dot x for x-ray page is found at Making Learning Fun.  The Doc McStuffins pages are found at 1+1+1=1.

Our crafts and activities for this week are these.

Working on her worksheets this week.

Hand Print Seasonal Trees

Here is another easy craft for the seasons.  Paint your hand and arm to make 4 tree trunks and branches.  Use bubble wrap (or finger tips, or several pencil erasers banded together) for the leaves.  We used white paint for winter, pink paint for spring, green paint for summer and red/yellow paint for fall.  Paint your bubble wrap circles and place them on each tree.  Remove and be amazed at your colorful leaves!

Puffy Paint Cloud and Snow

This puffy paint is easy and fun, especially for making clouds and snow!  Mix 3 parts shaving cream with 1 part glue.  We used sponge brushes that I made by gluing a Popsicle stick to a piece of a sponge.  The result when dried was puffy and soft.  We made clouds and snowmen to fit with our weather theme.

Note: Use Eric Carle's Little Cloud as inspiration for clouds.

Weather Chart

Use the back of a paper plate.  Divide the plate into 4 (or more if desired) sections.  Draw and cut images for each weather type (we did sunny, windy, rainy and snowy).  Use a foam sheet to cut an arrow and secure it with a brad.

The 4 Seasons

This is an easy craft to identify the 4 seasons.

Use construction paper to make a chart and images for each season.  You can also print images from the computer.  Enjoy cutting the gluing!  Add stickers for more fun.

Weather and Seasons Theme

This week we are doing a weather and seasons theme.  Our letter is Ww and our number is 4.  Here is our board for the week, binder activities and list of crafts.

The Ww weather page is found here.  The weather pack I used is from Living Life Intentionally.  Other materials are from an ABC learning book.

Working on her worksheets (and getting a little help from dad).