Exactly about Me kindergarten and preschool activities, crafts, games, and lesson plans. The theme, All About Me, provides children with the possibility to answer the all-important question “Who Am I?” most of the completed activities can be bound into books for every single child once the theme comes to its conclusion. The next pages can be included: Self-Portrait, Facts me Poem, My Hands Can, and Me Recipe about me, My Opinions. So, move out the pencils, crayons, music, and games and present each child a platform for showing the planet his or her self that is special.
Exactly About Me Center Ideas
Dramatic Play Area
Place different sized mirrors in your dramatic play area. Add clothes that are different hats, wigs, and shoes and let children play dress-up and look at their reflection in the mirrors.
Play Dough Center
Draw a relative head with no ears, hair, and face features and laminate. Let children use play dough to incorporate the ears, hair, nose, mouth, and eyes to the mat.
Block Center
Add pictures of one’s children on the blocks.
Science Center
Trace each young one’s hand on card stock paper and cut right out. Write their name in the relative back associated with the hand cut-out. Provide an ink pad and let children make fingerprints to their hand cut-out. Add a magnifying glass into the center for the kids to see their fingerprints.
All About Me Circle Time Activities
I’m Glad I Am Me
Original Author Unknown
No one looks the way I do.
We have pointed out that is true!
No one walks the way I walk.
No one talks the real way i talk.
No body plays the real way i play.
No one says the plain things i say.
I am special! I will be ME!
there is no on else I would rather be!
I prefer / I don’t like
Have children stand. Say, “If you want the color red, jump.” or “If you prefer beans, sit back.”, etc.
I Love Collage
Let children draw a photo of themselves regarding the paper. They cut right out items from magazines of items that they like such as for example dogs, cats, flowers, family pictures, hot dogs, etc.
I Am Special Because
Have children sit in a circle while you play music. Children should pass a bean bag round the circle given that music plays. As soon as the music stops, the little one holding the bag extends to stand up and tell something special I am special because . . about himself/herself with the phrase, ” . .” Make certain each child has a turn within the duration of this theme.
I look in the mirror and what do I see?
give out a mirror to every child. Keep these things looking when you look at the mirror and pointing into the right parts to their face while reciting the rhyme:
My Special Face
Adapted by Jolanda Garcia, KidsSoup Inc.
Once I look in a mirror I see my face,
and all sorts of of the parts are in their place.
I see two little ears plus one little nose,
I see two little eyes plus one mouth that is little.
Whenever I look into a mirror, what do I see?
an excellent and special me! (Give yourself a hug!)
I am Special Mirror Craft
Draw a mirror shape on to craft paper and cut fully out. Cut out an oval shape out of aluminum foil and glue in the mirror. Let children decorate their mirror.
Exactly about Me Activities and Weekly Plan and Lesson Plans
All About Me Activities
Matching Game:
Make pictures of every young child in your class and print out two copies of every picture. Glue the pictures onto index cards in order to make a matching game with pictures of this real faces regarding the children in your group.
My Birthday (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)
Print 12 birthday cakes and write the months for the on the cakes year. Make birthday candles with craft sticks and craft paper and write the names associated with the children in your class on the candles. Make a “Our Birthday Month” chart by writing the names regarding the children in their birthday month column. Let children find and put the birthday candles in the matching birthday cake.
Make 10 Birthday Cakes and Candles Addition Activity (Printables and activity available within our KidsSoup Resource Library)
Life-Size Me
Things you need:
Butcher paper
Washable black markers
Crayons
Scissors
Glue
Yarn
Paper and fabric scraps
Buttons
Everything you do:
Trace each young one’s outline with washable black markers on large bits of butcher paper. Then, let each young child cut right out his or her outline and decorate it with crayons, yarn, fabric scraps, paper scraps, and any other collage items available. Arrange the completed life-size portraits across the room. If desired, they could be arranged together with a timeline that is personal each child.
My Name
Create a true name tag with an image for every child. Allow them to practice writing/tracing their name. Cut the photograph and let children match the names into the photographs. Cut the letters of this true name and let children put their names back together.
Names Spelling Cards
With a black marker write children’s names on an index card. Write each letter associated with young child’s name on a clothespin and put inside a plastic bag labeled with all the name. Let children find their name card. Then find the matching plastic bag containing the clothespins. Let children clip the clothespins to the top of the name card spelling their name. After children have had enough practice spelling their names, allow them to choose a friend’s name card and also to spell his/her name.
Hidden Names Artwork
With a crayon that is white write the youngsters’s names on a white sheet of paper. Let children use watercolors to paint all over the paper to show their name.
Building Names
Tape the letters of children’s names on Duplo blocks. Encourage children to use the blocks to create their names or their classmates names.
My own body (Printables and activity available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)
Write the rhyme below on sentence strips place inside your reading chart. See the rhymes and let children point to their matching body parts. Point to the word”my” and together say the word. Invite a child for every single sentence associated with the rhyme to come up towards the board and employ a pointer to get the word “my” in the sentence.
Here Are My Fingers
Original Author Unknown
Here are my fingers and here is my nose.
Here are my ears and here are my toes.
Here are my eyes that open wide.
Here is my mouth with my pearly white teeth inside.
Here is my tongue that is pink that me speak.
Listed below are my shoulders and let me reveal my cheek.
Listed below are my hands that help me play.
Listed here are my feet that go walking each day.
Reading Center:
Make cards of each physical parts of the body. Let children see the rhyme on their own and put the matching body parts card in the reading chart.