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Preschool, winter

Preschool: Reindeer

December 11, 2017

We are loving our holiday themes this year.  Our reindeer theme was a fun way to get in the holiday spirit without going all santa and elves and even do a little nonfiction learning. Check out this week full of all kinds of reindeer themed learning and fun!

Tons of reindeer themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for winter in tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

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Here were our plans for our reindeer theme:

Tons of reindeer themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

And here are the details for each activity:

Practice retelling a story with "Olive, the Other Reindeer" by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold. Great for a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Retelling:

Our first story was Olive, the Other Reindeer, by  Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold. We started by reading the story.  After reading I gave Madelynn a response page divided into 3 columns for beginning, middle, and end. We talked about what happened in the story then Madelynn drew a picture to show each part. Afterwards I asked her to tell me about each picture/part of the story.

Beginning: He was listening to music.
Middle: He went with the reindeer to help.
End: They were at the North Pole and opened presents.

Practice identifying problem and solution with "The Great Reindeer Rebellion" by Lisa Trumbauer. Great for a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

The Reindeer Problem:

Our next story was The Great Reindeer Rebellion by Lisa Trumbauer. Before reading we discussed and defined problem. We talked about how every story usually has a problem or something that goes wrong. After reading, Madelynn drew and labeled the problem in the story (Santa’s reindeer wouldn’t fly the sleigh.) Then we talked about how the problem was solved.

Practice making predictions with "The Wild Christmas Reindeer" by Jan Brett. Great for a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Making Predictions:

Our next story was The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett. Before reading, we practiced answering questions and making predictions.

  I asked “After looking at the cover, what do you think this story will be about?”  Madelynn: “That’s about reindeer.” Then I asked: “What will the reindeer do in the story?”

Madelynn: “They’re going to fly and deliver some presents.”

She is still making very basic predictions initially, but I love that she is starting to use the vocabulary that we have been talking about each week, like characters.

Practice reindeer vocabulary with this word matching activity with reindeer vocabulary book. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Vocabulary:

For some nonfiction learning, we read Reindeer (A Day in the Life…Series) by Katie Marsico. While reading I used picture cards to reinforce new words. Then Madelynn made a reindeer vocabulary book. She drew pictures to show the meaning of each word and used the picture cards and book as a reference.

Practice tracking print with these easy readers. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Tracking Print:

Our last book was this letter R alphabet reader. Madelynn identified the picture then pointed to each word as she read. Afterwards she colored all of the pictures in.

This read & color sleigh activity is great for beginning sound and fine motor practice. Great for a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Sleigh Read and Color:

This week we focused on beginning sounds so we started with this color by code activity. Madelynn identified each picture, then decided what letter it started with. Knowing it was one of the 5 listed on the left side of the page helped with some of the trickier sounds, then she followed the directions to make each spot the correct color.

This reindeer sound stamping activity is perfect for letter, sound, and fine motor practice with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Sound Stamping:

Next, for more letter practice we used our dot stampers. We started out stamping inside the letter to make an R for reindeer. Then Madelynn had to find the upper and lowercase r’s in Rudolph, stamp them and make the “R” sound each time.

This reindeer rhyme activity is a fun and easy way to work on rhyme with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Rhymes:

This week we focused on rhyme again. For this rhyme sort, I taped reindeer feed bag labels onto small paper bags with pictures and printed carrots with rhyming pictures. First we read the word on each carrot, Madelynn found the rhyming word then placed it in the correct feed bag. Afterwards we brought them to our stuffed Sven (the reindeer from Frozen) for a little snack.

This reindeer name craftivity is fun for name writing, recognition, and fine motor practice with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Name Craft:

For this week’s name craft we created this fun reindeer.  First Madelynn cut the reindeer pieces out. Then she traced the letters in her name on each antler piece. After she finished writing, she glued the reindeer pieces together and added the antler pieces in order to spell her name. To finish off the reindeer she used a marker to draw a mouth.

This reindeer journal writing activity is a great way to show learning, practice fine motor skills and learn about writing. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Journal Writing:

For our journal this week Madelynn chose to draw and label a reindeer habitat. She decided that her reindeer lived in a cave because that is what she saw in Rudolph.  After drawing she wrote Rudolph next to her reindeer with “RF.”  All the letter sound work and stretching out words is starting to show!

We LOVE this reindeer feeding sensory bin. Perfect for exploration with a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Magic Reindeer Feed Tray:

Our first math activity this week was a reindeer themed writing tray.  I filled the tray with oats and sprinkled with glitter. Then Madelynn used small reindeer number cards as a model to write numbers in the oats with jingle bells or her finger.

Practice shape identification and gross motor skills with this reindeer shape run. Perfect for a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Shape Run:

It’s starting to get a bit cold to be outside for long so it’s time to incorporate a little movement into our learning inside for sure. For this shape game Madelynn put on reindeer antlers and chose a shape reindeer card from our basket. Then I called out an action and she ran, jumped, tiptoed, hopped on one foot, and flew like a reindeer across the room to find the matching shape carrot in a basket. She named the shape then fed it to her matching reindeer.

This build a shape reindeer activity is a fun way to practice identifying shapes while creating an adorable craft. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Build a Shape Reindeer:

Learning shapes was fun with this little shape reindeer.  To make this activity more about shapes and less about cutting, I precut the reindeer shape pieces from construction paper. I also didn’t want her cutting skills to interfere with her ability to identify each shape. (The circles sometimes turn into squares and triangles into trapezoids depending on her cutting ability that day.)  I named a shape to find. Madelynn looked for it then followed directions to glue the pieces together and create a reindeer.

This build a shape reindeer activity is a fun way to practice identifying shapes while creating an adorable craft. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Shape Puzzles:

These shape reindeer were just too cute, so I had to find another way to use them.  I created these little Rudolph shape puzzles. Madelynn matched the shape pieces together. Then I helped her read the shape words and match them to the puzzles.

These roll and build reindeer mats are a super fun way to practice number identification, counting, and fine motor skills with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Roll & Build Reindeer:

We can never have enough counting practice so I came up with this little game for Madelynn to get some more practice in this week.  First I printed the reindeer (without antlers) page. Madelynn rolled 1 or 2 dice. Then she counted out the correct number of brown connecting cubes and used them to build antlers for the reindeer.

We LOVE this Rudolph sensory bin. Perfect for exploration with a reindeer theme in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Rudolph Sensory Bin:

In this bin: Rudolph finger puppets, artificial snow, artificial trees, and foam snowflakes

This fruit cup reindeer craft was a fun way to create our own reindeer. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Fruit Cup Reindeer:

This little Rudolph was fun and easy to make.  Before we started I used a utility knife to poke 2 holes in the bottom of a few plastic fruit cups. Madelynn painted the entire fruit cup brown then we waited for it to dry. Next she bent small pipe cleaner pieces around a longer one to create antlers.  She pushed the antlers into holes in the fruit cup and I added a little hot glue on the inside so that they would stay in. Finally I helped Madelynn use hot glue to add googly eyes and a large pom pom nose. (I added a dot of glue and she was able to carefully push it into the glue without any problem, but you may want to do this part on your own!)

This rudolph rockets activity was a fun way to explore STEM concepts with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Rudolph Rockets:

These little rockets were hands down our favorite activity of the week. I printed black and white reindeer and Madelynn colored them in. I cut a few inches of length off 4 plastic pipettes and taped them to the back of each reindeer. Madelynn pushed a straw inside of the pipette on the first reindeer. Then  she blew in each one to see how far she could launch it. After she repeat with each reindeer we talked about which one went the furthest.

We had a blast making these reindeer plate masks for our reindder theme Perfect for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Paper Plate Mask:

To prep this mask I cut out a semi-circle from the top center of a paper plate. Madelynn painted the plate brown. While we waited for it to dry she cut out cardstock antlers and a nose. I reinforced the antlers by taping a craft stick to the back of each one. When the plate was dry she drew a mouth with a marker and  helped glue the antlers and an additional craft stick to the bottom of the plate for a mask handle.

This magic reindeer feed themed tray is great for number writing and fine motor practice with a reindeer theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Reindeer Feeding Sensory Bin:

In this bin: oats, pipe cleaners (bent into reindeer shapes), cups, bowls, scoops

Want all of this week’s Reindeer activities for preschool?  You can grab them here:
On my site : Reindeer Plans & Printables On TpT: Reindeer Plans & Printables

Tons of reindeer themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

Or you can grab our entire year of themes and plans:
On my site here: Preschool Bundle On TpT here: Preschool Bundle

45 weeks of engaging themed activities and ideas ready to go for your 3-4 year old. Weekly plans include reading comprehension, literacy, math, sensory play, arts & crafts and Science/social studies concepts. Everything you need for a year packed full of Preschool fun and learning.

Then check out the rest of our 45+ themes on the Preschool Curriculum Main Page.

 
 
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