Letter S
How about sorting socks by color and size, stringing cut up
colored
straws for necklaces, playing with sand, sorting different types
of
seashells, or decorating giant S's with silver glitter. Or, have
them
make snakes from paper plates by coloring both sides of their plate
and
spiral cutting around the plate. (I think I got this idea from
someone
on the ring.)
Have fun!
-Bethany K/MS
SurberBA@webtv.net
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Make Sand
Jars. Take salt and colored sidewalk chalk.
Rub
the salt with the chalk and put it
is a baby food jar.
The children enjoy doing this
activity.
Have fun.
From: bbillingsley@tcia.net
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We just finished the letter S -
some of our centers included: make a design
out of straws; cut
different lengths of straws and put them in size order;
sort seeds; use 2
hoops and let the children make venn diagrams - things that
are
soft/straight/smooth/square; individual slates and chalk to practice
letters
and numbers; salt or sand trays for the same. Hope this
helps.
Louise
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How about SANDWICH,
and they make their own
Jenny
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Color or paint an S
shape. If colored, finger-paint glue on it and sprinkle
with salt to
make the S textured. If painted, just sprinkle the salt onto
wet
paint.
Cindy/SPED K-2
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for Letter S ~
Sock Sorting
"My goodness," said the
Caterpillar,
"I am such a mixed up messer!"
I need help to sort
my socks -
And put them neatly in my dresser.
Yellow socks, and orange
socks,
And purple socks, and green.
Red, and blue, and pink ones,
too.
And striped ones in between.
I've put them in the washer,
And I've
put them in the dryer.
And now they're in a jumbled heap
That keeps on
growing higher!"
"Don't worry," said the
Katydid,
"I'll help you sort them out -
The reds with reds, the blues
with blues,
That's what it's all about.
We'll sort them all until
each
color's standing in its pile.
With you and I both sorting
We can do it
with a smile!"
"Oh, thank you," said the
Caterpillar.
"Come and have a seat.
Aren't you awfully glad that
you
Don't have so many feet?"
-Sandra O. Liatsos
*activity
sort and graph socks
*give each student a sock, have them find the other
student with the matching
sock
Cindy/SPED K-2
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Graphing
"How do you like to eat your
sandwiches?"
I give ea child a cut out slice of paper bread for them to
keep whole, cut
into halves, diag., into fours, some of the children even cut
off the edges(no
crusts).
From: Dixonles@aol.com
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S: STRAW
SHOW:
Place a straw in water. Hold
your finger tightly on the top end. Lift the
straw out of the
water. What happens to the water in the straw?
IDEAS:
The water
stays in the straw. As long as the top of the straw is
kept
closed
with the finger, the water cannot run out. As soon as
you take the finger
off
the top of the straw, the water runs out. In
the first case, air cannot
enter
the straw so the water cannot
leave
it. In the second case, air enters through the top and the water
falls.
Sandy
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Alphabetically Yours: Volume: 1
Issue: Ss
Free Newsletter by Mrs. Alphabet 26 times
yearly.
Welcome to the nineteenth edition of Alphabetically
Yours. I am looking
forward to introducing you to a multitude of
activities, suggestions, and
tips for Having Fun with the Alphabet.
Please feel free to write with any
questions and comments. I will
answer back A.S.A.P. Anne@mrsalphabet.com
Ss Activities:
Alphabet Animal Sound game
By
Mrs. Alphabet: Letter Ss
Sing like a seal for a treat
Singing
for some fish to eat!
Hear the s sound in my name
Play the s sound animal
game!
San Diego
By Mrs. Alphabet
Use
this poem to identify and spot S names, elicit new S names, and then
brainstorm other places to live that begin with S from your
class.
Sonny, Seth, and Samantha live in San Diego with me
Sam,
Susan, and Sara want to visit and see.
What other S kids do you think live
there
In marvelous San Diego far, far away from here?
Interview 6
people and ask them this question: Do you like salad? Record
the
results.
Describe a squirrel and then illustrate the squirrel.
Fill in the blanks:
Squirrels like to ____________, _____________, and
_____________. Go here
to see a squirrel
http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/barnyard/pictures/squirrel.jpg
Take an imaginary trip on a spaceship; describe what you see and
then
illustrate your story.
Visit South Carolina; locate on
your map or globe, then go to:
http://www.state.sc.us/
Take a taste test using
Snicker bars and create a rating scale or rubric with
your class. You can
become a Snickers V.I.P. if you go here:
http://www.snickers.com/ and sign up. There are
also Snickers post cards
that you can send.
For science, http://www.sandlotscience.com/ is a sensational site or
this
super science site http://home.unicom.net/~warnerr/homepage.htm
I
have a secret; go here and find out:
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Cookies/1105.html
Use Skittles as counters or for simple math problems:
estimating, counting,
graphing, adding, sorting, patterns, subtracting, or
bingo markers.
Play a symphony for nap time or as background music
during center time.
Smarties Math can incorporate counting,
graphing, sorting, measuring,
predicting, and comparing.
Use
different size suitcases for a math lesson demonstrating: color, shape,
size, sorting, and counting.
Graph your favorite S day:
Saturday or Sunday.
Graph how many children were born in South
Carolina.
Create a sister graph.
Set up a pictorial graph using
soup labels from Campbell. The children bring
in their favorite soup label
and place on the graph. Then send them off to
the Campbell Soup
Company http://campbellsoup.com/school/index.html for
your
school to earn prizes.
If I were a singer I would
_________________, but I wouldn't
__________________.
If I were a
senator I would _____________________, but I wouldn't
__________________.
My submarine sandwich has ______________, _______________, and
______________.
Create class S charts and place child's name at the end
of his/her sentence:
Make a list of super heroes characters and
visit them at:
http://www.batman-superman.com/superman/cmp/index.html
and then visit here
http://www.boardmanweb.com/party/hero.htm for some
party ideas.
Find objects that are scarlet in color.
Create a
collage using seeds for a super project.
Try sand art and then see
what's here:
http://www.peoplepage.com/rhese/SandCastles1.asp
to inspire your students
the next time they go to the beach or play in the
sandbox.
Create String Names by letting your students trace letters in
their name
using string. First print their name using marker or glue then
use string to
shape the letters.
Draw a picture of a
sunflower. Discuss what you notice from the pictures.
Smell soaps
and see if the children can guess and match the smell. Then go
here to have some fun with soap bubbles:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/soap_bubbles.html
List names that begin with S and talk about what you see or
hear.
Check names in the class for s sounds. Make a graph of
children that have
the S sound in their name.
Read a poem and have
children color code all the s words.
Try introducing this s word:
signal Ask the children what they notice
about the
word.
Whose family has the most S names?
Use these words to
rhyme: sat same sob sell so sing seed sun
Tongue Twister:
Sister Sue sang sad songs sitting sideways.
Make a predictable
chart: At the subway I saw ____________.
Give 3 reasons you think
some children snore.
Order your students in a line from S to
R.
Record the date and count how many sit ups you can do. Repeat once a
week or
monthly and try to do more .
S Artist: Alfred Sisley
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/sisley_ext.html
S
Books: Seussville, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble, Stone Soup,
Stephanie's Ponytail, and Sing a Song
S Authors: Shel
Silverstein: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/silverstein.htm
Dr. Seuss: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
Seymour Simon:
http://www.pipeline.com/~simonsi/
Alphabetically Yours,
Anne AKA Mrs. Alphabet
P.S. A special
thank you to Maria for editing Alphabetically Yours.
For your Free
Newsletter
Visit: http://www.mrsalphabet.com
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How about
using some cut outs of socks in a range of different sizes?
The kids can put
them in order from largest to smallest, or smallest to
largest.
Another idea, how about having a sink and float center? Have a
variety of
different objects that sink or float. They test each one out
and draw a
picture of it under a sink picture or a float picture.
I
hope these ideas help.
Keep smiling,
Dawn
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The
letter "S"
We read the story Stone Soup and then make it...I
bring the magic stones and
the children each bring a vegetable (canned,
frozen or fresh). A grandparent
makes homemade noodles and shows us how.
Some of the children help with this
preparation. Delicious!!!!
Silly
Socks - we discuss ways to make silly socks (mismatched.)Then everyone
wears
their version of silly socks. I bring several pairs of socks and
children
who did not wear silly socks get one sock from me. We take pictures
of
everyone's feet - sometimes two feet of one child and sometimes one foot
from two different children. The children have to describe ways the
feet/socks are different. We do tall and short, baby and grown up, folded
and
not folded, one on top of the other, different colors, etc. I am always
on
the look out for interesting socks.
Stars - I made star stampers
of different sizes and the children create their
own constellation/dot to
dot picture and give it a name.
We put different colors of sand at the
art center and the children make sand
pictures (among other
things!)
We explore sounds. Every child takes home a plastic liter bottle
and fills it
1/4 to 1/2 of the way up with something and then brings it
back. The children
free explore and compare the sounds for awhile. Then we
close our eyes and
try to guess which bottle it is. We also do the egg sound
activity from AIMS.
Kindergarten Kate
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I saved these
ideas earlier from this
mailring. You might already have them. The only
thing is that I don't
have all the teacher's name under each
idea. Thanks again!
Jan k/ne
I use many of the little
items such as the spiders as counters. I buy
the
neat notepads or
create my own notepad sheets on PrintShop, laminate
them, and
I have
"workmats" to coordinate with counters, mini erasers,
confeti,
etc. I
use the counters and workmats to reinforce number
concepts (give each
child in
a small group 3-5 workmats and ask each to
place a specific number of
items on
each: Put 7 spiders in each
web). This can also be done in game format
wtih
number cards or
dice. Children can begin to explore addition: Work
in
pairs,
Child A throws the die, places the appropriate number of spiders
on her
web.
Child B does the same. Then they put their groups
together. Some 4s
and 5s
will even be ready to print numerals
to go with their sets, to "record"
their
sets , or begin to
learn to write the addition equations - they love
that long
word!!
Hope this helps.
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For the letter
"S" I used another large S and put in
seeds of all kinds (big sack
of bird seed came in handy), stickers, and
stars. We talked about being
silly and what makes a smile. Judy pk
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Activity S
What
sinks and what floats? Fill a sink or small tub with only a few inches
of
water. Collect different objects from around the house and place them one
at
a time into the water. What sinks and what floats? Why do you think that
this
happened? You may want to draw a picture of each object, next to it
write the
name of the object, and if it sinks or floats. Then give your
child a piece
of paper with a line drawn down the center. On one side
write
"sinks" and on the other write "floats". Have your
child draw pictures of
what sinks and what floats.
S: Scarves are especially great with classical music.
Suggest
places for the scarves - in front, to the side,
above below,
between.
Sunflowers
These two are really neat. They are geared
towards the age groups we all
work with. There are pictures available too.
Just go to the Young at Art
section of Moms Online. I am putting a link to
the picture of the finished
products at the bottom of the description. This
is a link to the main Young
at 'Art (Keyword to:
aol://4344:856.Yart.7564695.519328305) screen.
•"Hands-full-of-Sunflower" is a project that I learned from a
fellow child
care provider. This project incorporates a special
"signature" from each
child -- their individual handprint
shapes. Not only are the little hands in
the craft cute -- using a
special item that reflects each child's personally
fosters self-esteem and
sparks a sense of ownership. They can see themselves
clearly reflected
in the craft. This large sunflower "reaches" to the sun
and
has real sunflower seeds on its face, an extra tactile dimension to the
creation. We have hung our "Hands-full-of-sunflower" from
the ceiling in my
daughter's room, but they could also be displayed in a
deep flower pot full
of pebbles or packing peanuts... use your
imagination!
