Miss Mari's Preschool
An Adventure Every Day!
All About Me
Books
Activities
Lots of Feelings by Shelley Rotner
Chika Chika Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
When Sophie Gets Angry --- Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang
No Girls Allowed by Stan Berenstain
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Corduroy's Birthday by Lisa McCue
Clifford's Birthday Party by Normal Bridwell
Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann
The Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway
About a Bear by Holly Surplice
Spot's Birthday Party by Eric Hill
Bella the Brave Fairy by Claire Henley
The Boy Who Wouldn't Share by Mike Reiss
We Share Everything by Robert Munsch
All About Me Bookshare
This is what I do for the culmination of the unit. I bind all the pages together to make a book. Then I invite the parents to come during the last few minutes of class. The students sit with their parents and show off their book. Then they pick one page that is their favorite, and we come back together as a large group and the students take turns showing off their favorite page to everyone.
Life Size Pictures
On the day of the "All About Me Bookshare" (see below), I trace all of the students' bodies during center time. Then they color and decorate themselves for our lesson that day. I hang the life size pictures up in the hall for the parents to see when they come for the Book Share. The students take the pictures home with them that day. The kids love decorating their life-sized picture because they get to sit on the floor to color.
My Best Friend
Students draw a picture of their best friend and something they like to do together. Once again, I forgot to take a picture of a student's work. I'll try to remember next time and post a new picture.
My Favorite Things
Students cut out their favorite foods from grocery store ads. They also use crayons to scribble their favorite color(s).
My Family
I tell my students' parents beforehand to send a picture of their family to class on this day. I let each student show off their family picture by telling who each person is in the picture. Then we count how many people are in each person's family and the students use unifix cubes to make a tower to represent how big their family is. Afterwards we compare all the unifix cube towers and determine who has the biggest and smallest families in the class. Finally the students head back to the tables and use create their own family picture using the family picture clip art.
My Stats
I weighed each student and wrote their weight on the line that says, "I weigh ___ pounds." Then they had to copy the number and write it in the picture of the scale. My school has little crayon dicuts, so I dicut a bunch of those and then made my own larger version that the students could use to measure each other. If your students are mature enough, you can break them into pairs and have them use the large paper crayons to measure each other. Then they had to draw a picture of themself and glue the correct number of small crayons next to them to represent how tall they were with the larger crayons. Finally they wrote the number of how many crayons tall they are. We do this lesson during the first month of school, so my preschoolers aren't ready to work independently. I modify the lesson by breaking up into two small groups (one for me, and one for my aide). Then I have each student lie on the floor while I lay the crayons down next to them and the rest of my group helps me count how many crayons tall each student is. I forgot to get a picture of a student sample, so below is my example. I'll try to remember to get a student sample this year. There's are always so much cuter!
My Age - Birthday Cake
Students color the birthday cake however they want. (I usually encourage them to make their birthday cake REALLY colorful, but as you know, not all students like to color). After the cake is colored, the students count out the correct number of candles to glue on the top of their birthday cake depeding on how old they are. Then the students (or teacher if students can't write numbers yet) write how old they are on the bottom line.
Self Portrait - Gender
Give each student a self potrait printable and crayons. Students color in their clothes and facial features. Then the students tell the teacher whether they are a girl or a boy and the teacher writes it on the line below the picture.
Self Potrait - Name
Give each student a self potrait printable and mirror. Students will use the mirror to color their correct facial features (blue eyes, brown hair, freckles, glasses, etc). Afterwards the students use the star stickers decorate their name by putting them on top of their name that you have written in marker below their picture. (I write each child's name with a sharpie on the bottom of the page. They use the star stickers to cover the marker)
Note: This entire unit is available at my TPT store here.