Letter P

I LOVED teaching the letter P! They are so many fun things you can do with it!!
First I had the kids come in their pajamas for a pajama party! During our party the children helped me make homemade playdough where they each got to choose their own color. The recipe for this AMAZING playdough:
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups salt
3 cups water
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Teaspoon cream of tarter
food coloring
Mix in saucepan on medium/low until hard to stir and looking thick. Kneed a couple of times on the counter.
I did it just slightly different than the recipe where I mixed everything except the food coloring. When it was done cooking I split it up evenly so each child had their own and then added food coloring and kneeded it.
We practiced making letter P's out of our playdough and then they got to be creative from there. At the end of the day I took each color of playdough and split it into 4th's so each child could take home 4 different colors. This playdough lasts such a long time and in my opinion is WAY better than store bought!
*We also painted piggy banks at our pajama party. I found the cutest pig shaped banks at the dollar store and so I snatched them up and let the kids paint them whatever color they wished. It was so fun and so cute! There are a lot of versions online where you can make your own piggy bank as well!
*We popped popcorn for snack
*We played with blocks and learned how to make patterns!
You know you all want to have a pajama party now! Tell me what fun games you come up with!

Letter J

All of my lessons are started with circle time where I welcome the children, we do the weather, review counting from 1-10, review the letters and their sounds and then read some books and sing songs. Some of the activities for this lesson were as follows:
*We practiced writing the letter J on the white board. After they had some practice we switched over to an actual worksheet that they could take home with them.
*During our preschool semester we made a book of letters using 1/2 piece cardstock. For the letter J we made a jelly fish using construction paper and making 1/2 circle for the body and strips of paper for the bottom part an markers for eyes.
*I had a huge J printed on paper and I put drops of frosting on it to "glue" jelly beans on that way they could eat it later and not waste jelly beans. :)
*Colored an Itsy Bitsy Letter J Book found online.
***My pictures and templates won't post, I will try later!

Colors

So instead of waiting to catch up on all the lesson plans I have done to put up on here and feeling overwhelmed to do ALL of it I will start by putting up just one simple, easy activity that my girls LOVED! I took an ice cube tray and filled one side with water. I then added 1 drop of food coloring in about 4 of the cubes and gave them each a dropper. They had fun filling the dropper and transferring it and then mixing colors to see what they made. "A" found it so cool to put a drop of yellow and a drop of blue and see that it turned green! After a while "B" thought it funny to drink it and I loved that I didn't have to worry if it spilled...easy cleanup! After they got tired of mixing colors I gave them each a paper and they enjoyed painted with the colors they created. Kept them busy on this rainy day!