Hi all! I hope you have enjoyed the Nativity Pre-K Pack I posted this week. It’s so cute and I can’t wait to get started with my own preschoolers. Next week we’ll be focusing on candy canes for our math unit. The academic standards we will be focusing on are patterning and positional words. 
I created this cute printable as one of the many ways we’ll practice patterning. More ideas to come next week, I promise!
Ask the students to color the candy cane in a pattern or in our case, we’re water coloring a pattern onto the candy cane.
For the younger group 2′s-3′s you might want to start the pattern for them and see if they can complete it. I would do a simple AB pattern like red, white, red, white OR green, red, green, red. Patterning skills take time to develop and some kids might not be ready yet.
For 3′s who have had lots of pattern exposure or Pre-K I would challenge them to harder patterns like AAB (example: red, red, green) or ABC (example: red, green white) or harder patterns if they desire.
Download Here: Printable Candy Cane Christmas Patterns
Learning to use patterns will help them greatly as they get older and have to be able to recognize patterns in math problems they are doing.
Enjoy!
Cute clipart is from sweetclipart.com
The kids love “reading” their book and counting leaves. I hope this gives you a fun idea for Fall or for letter “Ll”.
The kids had so much fun getting their little fingers sticky in paint. We started by using a simple drawn rainbow shape. On each level of the rainbow my preschool kiddos used their fingers to “dot” paint onto each arc. Making dots and staying on the rainbow is a great fine motor skill. Then they closed their hand into a fist, we painted the pinky end of their entire hand brown and stamped it into the turkey body.
Numbers, numbers everywhere! It’s so important for preschool kids to begin recognizing numbers. My goal is for my students to recognize numbers 1-10 for my 3 year old class and 1-20 for my Pre-Kindergarten class.
Have a great Thursday!