Preschool Day Mammoth Theme

This was a really fun day for the kids! I  try to do these days as often as possible, at least 2-3 times/ week, and dedicated reading and learning time daily.

·        Outing- Dinosaur Museum, look at caveman and mammoth exhibit. Draw attention to how the cavemen use different parts of the mammoth; bones for housing and tools, skin for clothes, blankets, and housing, meat to eat, etc.
 

·        Movie- Ice Age

·        Stories- Sunset with Sabertooth (after the movie), Mammoth and Me, Life with a Mammoth

·        Letters- Hang sight words from ceiling/ doorway with streamers. Child can either grab a word and read it or else grab the sight word that you call out.

·        Numbers- How many tusks does a mammoth have? How many legs? How many tails?

·        Gross Motor- Pretend to be riding a mammoth (balance on Mom crawling on all fours). Let kids hold something like a spear, and make sure to rock a little so kids have to work on core balance

·        Snack- Do some pit cooking- experiment with foods cavemen might have eaten like meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, etc

·        Science- What did cavemen do? Find out what they would have done in their everyday life

·        Shapes- Pattern magnetic hexagons and squares (or other shapes) into a cave entrance

·        Art- Glue yarn onto pictures of mammoths (This one was their favorite activity, and it was awesome for them to practice cutting and gluing. It made a gigantic mess, but the kids loved it!) 

·        OT activity- Push yoga ball through lycra tunnel (rock through mountain tunnel)

·        Interactive Game- Play caveman hunting the mammoth (hide and seek)

·        Vocabulary- mammoth, caveman, hunt, spear

·        Receptive Language- Spear length- bigger/ smaller/ same size- Use legos to make “spears” of various sizes, and have kids look at which one is biggest, smallest, same size, half the size of another, etc