At group time, provide the directions containing a number.
For example, 1 jump, 2 hops, 3 leaps, 4 tiptoe steps, etc.

Ali promotes number recognition and encourages preschool children to place numbers in order during this early math activity.
Materials: A set of number cards relevant to your children, 0-10 or 1-5 depending on abilities. Try writing the number and corresponding dots along with the number word on each card.
Description: In advance, teachers discuss the number cards with the children. Next, children sit down and close their eyes, then the teacher hides number cards around the room. Children now have to find the numbers. When they find the …

Preschool children recognize numbers, count and sort during this activity by Chris.
Materials: Cupcake paper liners, felt tip marker, poker chips or anything they can count and sort.
Description: Teachers with marker, on the muffin liners write numbers 1-10 and then have the kids count and sort that many items into each liner.

It is a paper cup with a triangle cut out of the closed end of the cup with construction paper teeth glued on. The cups can be painted or covered with paper and a string can be attached so they can be worn. The kids love to do Dino parades with their snouts and noises of their dinosaur after.

To really develop the idea of the meaning of extinct, we hang a sign up saying that cows have been placed on the endangered species list.. then several days later, another sign saying that cows have been declared extinct – what will you miss having?

Make a paste of dry Ivory Snow detergent and water. Form it into an egg shape around a plastic dinosaur. When they’re dry, send them home. The eggs will “hatch” during bath time.

Tie large paper grocery sacks on the children’s feet.  The sacks will be their dinosaur feet.  Let them stomp around to music. Wee-Sing has a great dinosaur music tape.

After discussing how dinosaurs hatch out of eggs, we placed colored plastic eggs out with small rubber colored dinosaurs (the ones for counting and sorting exercises). The children loved matching the dinosaurs with the eggs, hiding them inside the eggs, then pretending that they hatched

Preschoolers are naturally egocentric, but in this activity, they need to focus on another person’s face, gestures and movements.
Each child should have a partner. The partner can be another child or an adult.
Have the partners stand in pairs, facing each other — as if they’re looking in a mirror.
One person starts as the leader. As the leader moves, the follower imitates that movement.
At some point, change roles, so that each partner has the chance to be leader and follower.
In times of conflict, when a child has done something that …

RAOK, play the compliment game, teach your child ncie things that they can say or do for other people and practice giving compliments and saying thankyou for things all week. You can teach the ASL for please and thankyou as well to reinforce the words with an action. Thank you is moving your hand from your bottom lip out ward. Please is making a circle on the top half of your chest clockwise.