The Forest {Expanded}

Here you go!  Enjoy.

Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables from Google Drive. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site!

Here are the printables included in this unit:

• Forest Animal Track Puzzles
• Color By Letter
• Roll & Graph
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Spelling Book
• Size Sort 
• Count & Clip 
• Which is Different? 
• Letter Match
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)
• “P” for Pine Tree Letter Craft
• Plant or Animal Sort
• Pine Tree Count  

Tot Pack

Looking for some ideas for a younger tot?  Check out our Forest Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack:

• Animal Match
• Forest Puzzle 
• Forest Colors (mini book)
• Pine Cone Size Sort
• Heads & Tails
• How Many?

 

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• Devotional & Memory Verse
• Learning Center Ideas
• Recommended Books
• Craft Ideas & Raccoon in the Forest
• Family Movie Night 

There are also more  ideas, units, printables and crafts available on this theme.  Check out our Pinterest Board for some of our favorites!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

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Memory Verse Helps-Psalms 50:10

Here are some extras to help your kiddos memorize this weeks verse, Psalms 50:10. 

You can download all of the printables, including the devotional, HERE.

Here is what is included in the download:

Memory Verse Card: Use this card daily during your calendar time to work on memorization. 

Memory Verse Puzzle and Cutting Practice:  This puzzle fits together to form this weeks memory verse. 

Memory Verse Color Order and Cutting Practice: Using color order arrange the verse.

Memory Verse Writing Practice: With this you can practice parts of the whole verse, or just work on starting a single letter.      

You may also re-visit this verses devotional from last year.  We hope you enjoy them!

 

Forest Animal Crafts

Our next unit will look at the forest and the animals that live there.  We talk about a couple of animals in our unit, and if there is one thing that E loves, its animals.  Because of that, we are going to try our hand at making a couple of these crafts that happen to involve some of the animals we will be talking about. 

I have put several on our Pintrest Board, but here are a couple of my favorites!

The Owl: 

This Owl Shape Craft from DLTK will not only get you a really cute result, it will also help your kiddo review and learn their shapes! 

 

The Squirrel:

I found this Pinecone Squirrel craft over at the Crafty Crow!  How cute is this!  Some pipe cleaners, pom pom’s, and googly eyes-how easy, and cute!   

 

 

 

The Moose: 
I laughed out load at this craft.  It is really called “Moose Bag”.  It is cute though, and you find the details and the templates needed to make it over at Danielle’s Place.  Just scroll down some to see the directions!

 

 

 

The Raccoon: 

This raccoon finger puppet is made out of pipe cleaners!  There is actually a whole set of them over at Craft Junior, including a squirrel, and an owl.  We will be making these!

 

The Skunk:

This skunk from over at Family Fun is intended to be made out of clay, but I am pretty sure you can take the instructions and make it out of play dough! 

 

 

 

 

The Bear:

Last, but not least, we have the bear.  This Paper Plate Bear looks like it might be for all you mommies out there who craft no further than markers, construction paper, and glue! 

 

 

 

Let us know if you have any other great crafting ideas for this theme! 

Forest Centers

This week we are expanding our Forest Theme printables. 

To get you started, I’ve found some fabulous resources that can be use in independent centers and I even created a few for you. 

Magnet Pages

Since we haven’t done magnet pages in awhile, I decided to go ahead and make some more for you.

Click to Download 6 magnet pages.

You can use several different things with your magnet pages. Do-a-Dot Paints work great, but then you’ll only get one use out of them.  I recommend laminating the pages and using Bingo Chips, Power Magnets or homemade pom-pom magnets with them.

Pretend Play

We are loving our miniatures that we found at Hobby Lobby.  Make sure and use the 40% one item coupon that they usually send twice a month to their email subscribers.  You can also purchase them through Amazon.

Forest Animals Toob.

You can use them in a variety of ways, such as in a sensory bin or even as a counting manipulative.  My son just loves to play with them and if I only pull them out at a specific time it keeps him well entertained.

Games

Sheppard Software offers a variety of free preschool activities related to the forest online.

Hope you have fun exploring the forest.

Tots in Action-The Forest

Here is a look at what we did this week with our unit about the Forest.  Below you will also find our Grab and Gather list for the units activities.

The Forest

This unit has been expanded. Download all printables here.

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Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier! 

Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Day 1:

P is for Pine Tree- Teaches your child how letters are linked to sounds to form letter-sound correspondence.

Count & Match Pine Trees- This activity will help your child begin to read, count and model whole numbers 1-10.  (This activity was inspired by Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

Animal or Plant Sort- Use this activity to review the plants and animals of the forest you’ve learned about this week.

Day 2:

Letter Punch: P- Teaches your child how letters are constructed by tracing them in a fun way. If regular push pins are to hard for your child to grasp, then you may want to look into Jumbo Push Pins. Your child can use one Jumbo Push Pinto poke around the shape of the letter, instead of the example below.

  

Pine Cone Size Sort- This activity can be varied depending on your child’s skill level.  For example you can sort into 2 or 3 piles (Big & Small or Big, Medium & Small).

 

Animal Track Match- Have fun learning about the tracks that forest animals make with this picture puzzle.  We recommend printing this on cardstock and laminating.

Day 3:

Color By Letter- This activity will review letters that we have be learning.

Roll a Graph- This activity will introduce your child to data collection and interpretation.  Once you’ve completed the graph (first animal to 10), make sure to ask simple questions.  Such as, “Which color is taller? What animal is that?  Which color is shorter? What animal is that? How many times did we give the (animal) a sticker?”  Make sure to show them how to use the graph, instead of just counting the stickers.

Online Forest Games- Sheppard Software offers a variety of preschool activities related to the forest.

We hope you enjoy these lesson plans and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.  

Questions?  Post questions or comments on our Facebook Page.  You may have the same question as someone else.  If you don’t have a Facebook account, feel free to email us.

Little Raccoon in the Forest

Here is a fun and easy craft for you to do this week with our forest unit.  You will need to do a little prep work ahead of time, but the kiddos will have fun with it!

Materials:

• Green Paint
• Construction Paper
• Raccoon Heart Template
• Glue
• Markers
• Scissors

Directions:

• Draw the trunks of several trees on your construction paper.  We chose light blue so that the background would look a little like a sky.
• Using the green paint, let your child put their handprints at the top of the tree trunks to make a handprint forest.  Your kiddo can also just mess the paint around to make leaves, like E did with a couple of them. 
• As your paint dries on you forest, help your tot put together the raccoon heart craft. 
• When your raccoon is finished you can paste him below the trees of your handprint forest where he can live quite happily.

Additional ideas:

• Place a moon in the sky above your forest and talk about how raccoons are asleep in the day, and awake in the night.
• Read a book that features a raccoon and do this as a stART activity. 

E loved to put the raccoon together, and before bed for the past few nights she has gone to the kitchen to tell her raccoon good-night!  Its too cute!

Weekly Devotional-The Forest

This week in tot school your kiddo will be learning all about the forest.  Our memory verse for this week is from Psalm 50:10. 

“For every beast in the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.” 

Materials:

• A large tote bag or brown paper bag

Directions:

• Allow your tot to walk around and put some of their favorite things in their bag. 
• Talk about the devotion with your tot.

Talk with your child about the following:

Take a look at what you have in your bag.  Lets look at all the things you put in there.  All of the things in this bag belong to you, don’t they?  It’s nice to have these things.  We can play with them, or watch them, or even listen to them.  Do you know who gave these things to you?  While all of these things were given to you by mommy, or daddy all of things we have really come from God.  You see, everything in the whole wide world belongs to God.  We’ve been learning this week about the forest, and the things that live there.  All of those things, even the animals, belong to God.  He takes care of them, just like He takes care of us.  All of the things we have God gave to us.  God asks us to take care of the things we have because this shows God that we are thankful for the gifts He has given us.  We also know that since everything belongs to God, including us, we don’t have to worry about things.  Everything we need, and some of the things we want, we get from God.  Today, lets thank God for the things that we have. 

Questions to ask:

• What belongs to God? Everything
• Does God give us everything we need? Yes

Additional Resources:

• You may want to go over last weeks questions with your tot.
• Mommy Devotional on the memory verse.

Questions?  Post questions or comments on our Facebook Page.  You may have the same question as someone else.  If you don’t have a Facebook account, feel free to email us.

Family Movie Night- The Forest

Family night this week goes along with our unit, The Forest.  We’ve been learning all about the forest and the animals that live there.  I don’t know about you, but the forest reminds me of camping and if you are going camping you have to have s’mores!  So, that was my plan, until I came across the recipe for Warm Toasted Marshmallow S'more Bars.

When I saw this picture goodness, I just had to make it for our movie night. (Click Link Above to get recipe.)  Lil’man was very excited and helped me out.

This snack was a sweet one, so a glass of milk is a must!  It was a hit with my boys (husband and son).  We enjoyed eating it while watching Brother Bear, which we rented through Netflix.

Movie Ideas:

• Below you’ll find some possible movie ideas for a forest movie night.  Most of these movies take place in the forest at some point, but don’t focus specifically on the forest.
• Use your discretion on what is appropriate for your child.  These movies are merely suggestions and you should read and consider reviews of these movies before watching them.
• Be sure and check Netflix if you have an instant streaming option. 

Have a great time enjoying your family and making new memories.

Questions?  Post questions or comments on our Facebook Page.  You may have the same question as someone else.  If you don’t have a Facebook account, feel free to email us.