Preschool fun learning activity suggestion?

Question

I am going in for a teacher assistant position interview @ a local Pre-school tomorrow. I need suggestions on fun-learning and simple activity to do with 7 children.

-Thank you

Answer 1

art kindof activity

Answer 2

Since it is the winter season, you could have precut circles and help the children make snowmen. Use triangles to make the eyes and nose.  This way you help them learn shapes.  A rectangle can be used for the hat.  Also this is a way to review colors, if you wish.

Answer 3

Ah, the days of preschool are still somewhat easy for me to recollect, so here's my two cents...

As previously stated, Duck-duck-goose is a good game to break the ice, as is Heads-up-Seven-up.

Coloring is always a good thing if you need them to be calm for a bit.

For the holidays they could glue together three popsickle sticks in the shape of a triangle, glue on felt antlers and shakey-eyes, as well as a black nose...And tah-dah! Rudolph the red-nose reindeer.

Or for something less-Christmasy, they could decorate felt circles as ornaments, or a tree or something..

Good luck!

Answer 4

You can read the students a story like, "It looked like spilt milk" .  They all love this story. Have the students identify what the pictures on each page remind them of . ( They are all abstract white shapes formed by spilt milk)

Show the children pictures of clouds that have hidden pictures in them. You can make them yourself with cotton balls or check out some websites by looking up "cloud formations"... I found great pics of clouds online...Have the children identify what is hidden in teach of the pictures.

After reading the story, give each child a dark color paper and cotton balls. Have them glue the cottonballs on the paper to form an identifiable object or shape.  Have volunteers guess what the other children's creations are. All answers are acceptable, and then the artist can share what he meant the shape to look like.

Another activity with this book would be to fold a dark color paper and place a spoon of white paint on one side. Have each child fold their paper and press down.  after they open their paper, have them say what they think their shape looks like.

This is a great activity for preschoolers, kdgners etc. It covers all content areas.... Language arts:It promotes the use of the imagination, sparks creativity, language development and is also open ended! It  teaches the use of abstract design(art), symmetry,(math) and (science- weather awareness)etc.

With this lesson, you will impress your interviewers!!!! Have fun,,,, good luck.

Answer 5

Cristmas drawing, or a ornament made out of glitter stuff and paper for their christmas tree at home.

Answer 6

I HAD A BIRTHDAY PARTY .AND THE KIDS LOVED TO PLAY DUCK DUCK  GOOSE. SIT THE KIDS IN A CIRCLE.WE PICKED THE BIRTHDAY GIRL TO START, SHE GOES AROUND IN THE CIRCLE AND TAP EACH CHILD'S HEAD SAYING DUCK 1,DUCK 2,GOOSE 3. THE THIRD CHILD DOES THE SAME . AND SO ON. UNTIL ALL THE KIDS ARE GONE:WHO EVER IS LEFT GETS A PRIZE.

Answer 7

tag and hide in go seek let them color, teach them the hokey pokey (this is how it goes you put your right foot in put your right foot out put your right foot in and you shake it all about do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around and that what its all about) you will have to help them with right and left but it helps them with learning and if you get into a circle it helps hope that helps and HAVE FUN!!! hope you have a blast i like kids so i have fun with them all especially little ones

Answer 8

just play around with them put music like discco rock or rap on to see if they like it do something nice like NO NAP TIME IF THEY DON'T WANT TO OK THAT WILL MAKE THEM BE VERY HAPPY

Answer 9

play the aphbet popcorn game: everyone sit down and pick someone to say the 1st letter of the alphabet. then have them pick someone else that someone else will have to say an object that starts with a then they will pick someone and that kid will say the2nd letter and well so on so forth.

Answer 10

Well what you could do is.....you can see if they all know their ABC's and if not then teach them that, and see if they know they shapes and sizes and their colors. those should be easy for them the first month you work with them. Or you could make something fun and tell them to make a pretty picture for their mommy's and their daddy's.