Transition Board

Here is a transition board we are using this year to transition from large group to the next activity, usually going outside.  First, we will put the names of all the kids who are at school today on the hand prints. Then, we will have a child use the pointer to count how many girls and how many boys are here at school today and put the number up on the board.

What are you using to transition this year?

Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar?

Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? Well, we never found out, but we did get a good chance to practice all our friends' names with this activity. It's an interactive chart that goes with the book below. Also, you can see the cookies I made with each child's name on it.

Hope you find out who's been stealing YOUR cookies!

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Puzzle Piece Names

Another one of our small groups for "All About Me." We had the children spell their names with these puzzle alphabet stickers identifying each letter as they go. We had their name strips with each child's name pre-written on it for them to look at to help them find the letters.  Some of the younger children just wanted to stick random letters everywhere, so we let them do their thing. When they are more ready for this activity, we will try again.

Then we had them count how many letters in their name. As an extension of this, you can have the children graph how many letters their names have and compare whose name has more or less. 

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