Preschool With Ms. Elizabeth! Circle Time, Storytime, Music, & Art Pre K

✨Theme for the upcoming week:✨ 

⛄Starting in January:

🗓Jan 6-10 
🧒 Theme: All About Me! Learning About Myself and Others
Me, My Body, and My Emotions
🎨 Art: Self-Portrait
You will need:
a paper plate or circle cut out of cardstock 
Yarn (color of your hair)
Googly eyes
Markers or Crayons
Liquid glue


Welcome to Preschool with Ms. Elizabeth! 🙂

✨In this ongoing course, learners will meet once a week for 30 minutes to learn about a different theme through songs, movement, stories & rhymes, and hands-on art and sensory activities. 

✨We will practice pre-literacy skills, such as letter recognition, phonemic awareness, phonics, numbers and basic math, colors, shapes, and more. 

✨Each class will begin with a circle time style intro, where we'll sing our Hello Song, go over classroom expectations, do calendar and weather, and then introduce our theme of the week. 

✨ We will learn about seasons, weather, animals, family, friends, and even about ourselves and what we can do!

✨Learners will develop their fine motor skills and creativity through arts and crafts and hands-on activities. They will be able to practice thinking and social skills in a safe, comfortable environment with lots of encouragement and praise. 

✨I will send the PDF files for the week on the Sunday evening before the beginning of the new week so that you know what to expect and what to bring to class. 

✨Since this is an ongoing class, your learner can jump in at any time! 

🕚 Note about the time: Each class will run for an average of 30 minutes, but depending on how many learners are enrolled, this class may last a little over or under 30 minutes. 

🕐 We will have a variety of interactive activities to do during class, with fun transitions to encourage movement, so your learner will be engaged the entire time. If an activity is not working for your learner, we can always modify and change things up to suit your learner's needs.

🌞OUR DAILY SCHEDULE:

Welcome/Hello Song
Weather and Calendar Time
Fun Movement Song or Finger Play
Story Time
Arts and Crafts Time OR Hands-On Learning Activity
Goodbye Song

🌟Here is a breakdown of what we will be doing each week (subject to change at teacher's discretion): ⬇️


🗓 Week 1
Jan 6-10 
Theme: Me, Myself, and Others

DAY 1:
🧒All About Me! Me, My Body, and My Emotions
🎨 Art: Self-Portrait
You will need:
a paper plate or circle cut out of cardstock 
Yarn (color of your hair)
Googly eyes
Markers or Crayons
Liquid glue

DAY 2:
🧒🧒Learning About Myself and Others
🎨 Art: My Friend and Me Cut Out Art
You will need:
My Friend and Me Cut Out PDF (I will send you)



🗓 Week 2
Jan 13-17
Theme: Season of Winter

DAY 1:
❄️Winter Snow
🎨 Art: Winter Snow Scene
You will need: 
dark blue construction paper
white paper (to cut out snowflakes)
white crayons, white paint
snowmen cut-outs
stickers, buttons, cotton balls, etc.

DAY 2:
☃️Let's Make Snowpeople! 
🎨 Art: Snowpeople Sensory Activity
You will need: 
 Play-Doh (white and/or any other colors you have) 
*You can also make your own snow playdough if you want to! I will send you a recipe for snow dough that you can make ahead of time for class if you'd like.*
small objects, such as beads, buttons, googly eyes, gems, pom poms
scraps of yarn or ribbon
pipe cleaners (for arms)


🗓 Week 3
Jan 20-24
Theme: Bears, Bears, and More Bears!

DAY 1:
👱‍♀️🧸Goldilocks and the Three Bears
🎨 Art: Baby Bear Paper Bag Puppet
brown and black construction paper
1 brown paper lunch bag
scissors, glue
markers, crayons
googly eyes
small decorations, like stickers or ribbon (optional)

DAY 2:
🐻Bears and Hibernation
🎨 Art: Bear Cave Sensory Activity
You will need:
A paper or styrofoam bowl
Safety scissors
Small toy bears
Small parts such as wood blocks, small trees, pom poms, buttons, small erasers
A storage container filled with a filler of your choice (such as, kinetic sand or regular sand, dry beans, rice, or small pebbles)



🗓 Week 4
Jan 27-31
Theme: Let's Blast Off to Outer Space!

DAY 1:
🌍The Planets in Our Solar System
🎨 Art: Coffee Filter Planet Suncatcher
You will need: 
coffee filters
paper plates
markers
scissors
spray bottle
tape or contact paper (to hang in the window, optional)

DAY 2:
🚀Astronauts: 3, 2, 1... Blast Off!
🎨 Art: Rocket Ship Space Craft
You will need:
A cardboard toilet paper tube
Washable paint
Small pieces of contruction paper, cut out into different shapes 
Liquid glue
Pom poms, buttons, beads, stickers, glitter glue
Crayons or Markers
Tiny clothespins (for the bottom, to make it stand up)


🗓 Week 5
Feb 3-7
Theme: Groundhog Day 

DAY 1:
😠Grumpy Groundhog
🎨Art: Groundhog Stencil Shadow Art
You Will Need:
Black tempera paint
Scissors and glue
Groundhog cut-out page and shadow stencil (I will send you)
Heavy paper (painting paper or cardstock)

DAY 2:
⛅Light and Shadows
🎨Art: Find the Shadow Art
You will need: 
A flashlight (or another really good source of light, such as bright sunshine from a window)
Small toys such as plastic animals
Blocks
A piece of white paper
Crayons or Markers


🗓 Week 6
Feb 10-14
Theme: It's Valentine's Day!

DAY 1:
❤️Valentine Hearts
🎨 Art: Watercolor Paper Plate Heart Craft
You will need: 
a paper plate
watercolors
heart shaped cut-out (I will send you)
scissors, glue
markers, crayons
any decorations you'd like to use (gems,
stickers, buttons, glitter, glitter glue, etc.)

DAY 2:
🧁Valentine Cupcakes
🎨Art: Valentine Cupcake Playdough 
You will need:
Playdough
Muffin cups and/or a muffin tin (that can be used with playdough)
Small decorations to add to playdough cupcakes, such as buttons, beads, gems, pipe cleaners (cut into small pieces to look like candles), pom poms, etc.

🗓 Week 7
Feb 17-21
Theme: Community Helpers

DAY 1:

DAY 2:


🗓 Week 8
Feb 24-28
Theme: Pets

DAY 1: 
🐶 Puppies at the Pet Shop
🎨 Art: Paper Bag Puppy Puppet
You will need: 
Paper lunch bag
construction paper (for the pet's ears, tail,
and/or markings)
googly eyes
pom poms
markers, crayons
scissors, glue

DAY 2: 
🐱Caring for Kittens (and Other Pets, Too!)
🎨Art: Sleepy Kitten Craft
You will need:


🗓 Week 9
March 3-7
Theme: Who Lives In the Pond? 

DAY 1: 
🦆Five Little Ducks
🎨 Art:
You will need:

DAY 2:
🐸Frogs 
🎨 Art: Frog Life Cycle Art Project
You will need: 
Paper Plate
Google Eyes
Construction Paper (Green and Red)
Crayons, markers
Scissors, glue
Frog Life Cycle Cut-Out Page (I will send you)


🗓 Week 10
Mar 10-14
🐷The Three Little Pigs
🎨 Art: Build a House for the Three Little Pigs
You will need:
Painting paper or construction paper
Toothpicks or sticks
Bits of paper or grass (for straw)
A sponge stamp and red paint (to make bricks)


🗓 Week 11
March 17-21
🌈 Theme: Rainbow of Colors
🎨 Art: Paint a Rainbow
You will need: 
a paper plate, cut in half
washable paints or watercolors (colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet)
cotton balls (for clouds, optional)
hole punch, yarn (to hang in window, optional)


🗓 Week 12
March 24-28
🌦Theme: Weather: The Wind Blows!
🎨 Art: Stormy Weather Process Art 
You will need: 
White cardstock
Washable finger paints (white, black, blue)
Paper plates and paint brushes
(for mixing paint)
Construction paper: cut out blue raindrops
and yellow lightning bolts
scissors, glue
Optional: cotton balls (for clouds)


🗓 Week 13
March 31-April 4
🦋Theme: Bugs and Butterflies
🎨 Art: Handprint Butterfly 
You will need: 
popsicle sticks
pom poms
pipe cleaners
googly eyes
construction paper
markers, crayons
scissors, glue, tape
small items to decorate butterfly wings


🗓 Week 14
April 7-11
💐Theme: Garden
🎨 Art: Garden Flower Art 
You will need: 
a paper plate
washable paint
a cupcake liner
popsicle sticks or green construction paper
brown yarn or pipe cleaners
scissors and glue and/or tape
any other small items you'd like to use to
decorate your flower (I will send you a cut-out page of butterflies as well!)


🗓 Week 15
April 14-18
🐰Theme: Springtime Bunnies
🎨 Art: Easter Egg Q-Tip Painting
You will need: 
Easter Egg Cut-Out Page (I will send you)
Paper plates
Scissors
Glue
Q-tips
Washable paints, various colors
Small items for decorating,
such as stickers, gems, beads, or
pom poms


🗓Week 16
April 21-25
🌏Theme: Earth Day
🎨 Art: Recycled Process Art
You will need: 
Recycled items you already have,
such as: cardboard pieces or
boxes, bottle caps, toilet or paper
towel rolls, cans, plastic containers
or bottles, fabric scraps, egg
cartons, etc.
Scissors & Glue
Assorted art supplies to add to
your creation, such as: buttons,
cotton balls, ribbon, yarn, pom
poms, pipe cleaners, etc.


🗓Week 17
April 28-May 2
🏰Theme: Fairy Tales 
🎨 Art: Shape Castle Collage
You will need: 
Shapes Cut-Out Page (I will send you)
construction paper
markers or crayons
any other decorations you'd like
to use for your castle


🗓Week 18
May 5-9
👒Theme: Mother's Day
🎨 Art: Mother's Day Fancy Hat Craft
You will need:
a paper plate
scissors & glue
washable paint, different colors of
tissue paper, and/or construction paper
decorations, such as:
flowers (real or fake), ribbon, fabric scraps,
gems, stickers, pom poms, pipe cleaners, etc.
Fancy Hat
Mother's Day Craft
Let's decorate a paper plate to look like a fancy hat
for Mother's Day! We'll paint the hat or glue on
different colors of tissue paper or construction
paper, and then we'll decorate the hat with flowers,
ribbon, and any other decorations we have.


🗓Week 19
May 12-16
🏢Theme: The City is Bustling
🎨 Art: Build a City
You will need:
 Let's build a city!
We can use anything we have at home,
such as blocks, Legos, boxes, cartons, and/or
other building materials.
You can add cars and people
to your city as well!
What else does your city have?


🗓Week 20
May 19-23
😊Theme: Keeping My Body Healthy
🎨 Art: X-Ray Art
You will need:
black construction paper
cotton swabs or a paintbrush
white paint
glitter glue (optional)


🗓Week 21
May 26-30
🐳Theme: Ocean Animals
🎨 Art: Paper Plate Ocean Aquarium
You will need:
a paper plate
ocean animal cut-outs
washable paint/watercolors
dry beans, small stones, or shells
green pipe cleaners
scissors & glue
Paint the paper plate blue.
Cut out the fish and ocean animals.
Glue on the ocean animals, beans/stones, and
pipe cleaners to make an aquarium scene.


🗓Week 22: 🌞June 2-6: Summer Break (No class)


🗓Week 23
June 9-13
🦁Theme: Let's Go to the Zoo!
🎨 Art: Zoo Animal Art
You will need:
Zoo Animal Cut-Out Page (I will send you)
construction paper
paper plates
paper lunch bags
scissors & glue
markers & crayons
washable paint
wiggly eyes
yarn
buttons
pom poms
pipe cleaners
any other art supplies you want to use!


🗓Week 24
June 16-20
⛺Theme: Camp Out
🎨 Art: Handprint Campfire Craft
You will need:
Heavy painting paper
Tempera paint (red, orange, yellow)
Popsicle sticks
Cotton balls
Brown construction paper


No class: Have a wonderful summer! 🌞


🎨 For Arts and Crafts Time AND Hands-On Learning Activities, you can have the following materials on hand or nearby: 

✅Crayons, markers, colored pencils

✅Washable tempera paint, watercolors

✅Play-Doh

✅White drawing/printer paper

✅Construction paper

✅Painting paper (for painting projects)

✅Glue

✅Scissors

✅Paperplates

✅Popsicle sticks

✅Cupcake liners

✅Paper lunch bags

✅Yarn

✅Glitter/glitter glue

✅Pom poms, pipecleaners, googly eyes, gems, stickers, beads

✅Counting cubes or counting bears

🔈 Note about the mute/unmute settings: 
Since this is a class for young learners, I will be using the mute/unmute button during class so that everyone can hear me and so that everyone gets a chance to speak in class. Before class, it would be helpful to either teach your child how to mute/unmute, have an adult nearby to mute/unmute for your child, or to change the settings so that the teacher can control the mute/unmute settings for your child. I can give directions for how to unmute, but I cannot change the unmute setting for your child on my end.