Thursday, January 24, 2013

HAND, HAND, FINGERS, THUMB PRESCHOOL LEARNING - LEARN & LINK




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My 3 year old daughter has been asking to do homeschool more and more so I decided that on top of hands on activities she needed more.

I noticed that homeschool share has several lapbooks for preschoolers. So every 2 weeks we will be doing a new lapbook. Instead of doing them as a tradition lapbook we will have a lapbook binder instead were all her work will be 3 hole punched and placed in the binder.

The last 2 weeks we worked on our Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.


Along with the fun lesson I uploaded Monkey Drum (this is a FREE App) on my iPad for her to play which is a game where the monkey plays the drum and she has to follow his patterns (kind of like Simon Says) and then her and her siblings played Jumpin' Monkey.


Then we did a craft to go along with the book, materials needed for craft:

Paper
Paint
Paint Brush
Pencil & Marker

For the name of the book - Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb - that is exactly what she painted and then pressed on paper and then afterwards we wrote the name of the book on her artwork.




Then I tied yarn on 2 of their desk chairs and handed her The Barrel of Monkeys and had her hang them from the yarn - she loved this - great for hand and eye cordination.
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22 comments:

  1. Both of my daughters LOVE Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb. It looks like you guys had a lot of fun with the book.

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  2. Thanks so much for hosting! It is appreciated!

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  3. What a cute idea! Your preschoolers are mighty lucky to have you as a mom!

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  4. Looks like she enjoyed it too! I pinned this!

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  5. I love your creativity! I would be a horrible home school mom, I am not a natural leader and have a hard time coming up with ideas!

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  6. This looks like a great lesson! Such a good book too!

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  7. Great ideas I"m going to try with m 4 year old and thanks for the linky!

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  8. This has always been one of my favorite books. Fun ideas! I would love to have you link up to Share It Saturday!
    Http://teachbesideme.com

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  9. You always have the best ideas! I love it! So creative. I like the lapbook ideas.

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  10. aawww that's cool. i have a 3 year old daughter too but she can't write yet just scribbles scrubbles. Your daughter is smart :)

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  11. What a cute lesson! I will be trying this with my girl who hates getting her hands "icky"!

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  12. Such a cute lesson! I will be trying this with my girl who hates to get her hands "icky"!

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  13. I love these ideas. Great pictures.

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  14. Fun ideas. I know my daughter would love the handprint activity.

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  15. So creative and fun! I know my kids would have loved these all when they were younger.

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  16. I love your paint project. All the monkey activities look like fun too. I will be sharing this post on the Read.Explore.Learn. Facebook page tomorrow.

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  17. My son is obsessed with that book! Thanks for the great ideas!

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  18. I love the hanging monkey idea! Thanks for sharing!

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  19. Ive never heard of this book but i would love to check it out for my son I have a 2 year old and i am teaching him at home so he will be prepared for preschool he is already really smart he knows his full name and can count to ten and is learning spanish as well im always looking for new things to teach him thank you for the awesome post

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  20. I love all of your ideas!!! Thank you for sharing!
    (Tanya Rubezhov)

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  21. What a great idea for these lap books. I never would have thought of doing this. I like the listing of the sites you gave us to that way we can do one with a different subject for the kids. My grandson will love doing this. Thanks so much.

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  22. What a fun lesson!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

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Nicole, the mama behind the Mama to 5 Blessings blog, is a mom to 5 children. Three boys: ages 8 years, 5 years, 2 years, a daughter 4 years and a new baby girl born April 19th 2013. She has been married to her husband Fritz for 11 years. Here at Mama to 5 Blessings you will find quite a variety of topics: recipes, crafts for moms and children, homeschooling, parenting, reviews and giveaways, thrifty tips and much more! Mama to 5 Blessings can also be found on Twitter @mamato3blessing, Facebook and Pinterest.