Preschool: All About Me - Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten (2024)

The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves.

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Here were our plans for our All About Me theme:

All About Me Activities for Preschool Read Alouds

Concepts of Print:

This week we focused on the title, author, and illustrator and where you can find them in a book. Our first read aloud wasMarvelous Meby Lisa Bullard. Before reading, I gave Madelynn sticky notes to label the title, author, and illustrator with support from me.

All About Me Flower:

Our next read aloud wasI’m Gonna Like Meby Jamie Lee Curtis. This book encourages kids to like themselves exactly the way they are. Afterwards we talked about all the things Madelynn is good at. Then she cut and glued a flower together and wrote one thing on each petal, and added her name on the leaf. I had to laugh when she insisted she was good at jumping because she jumped off her bed a few weeks ago and broke her clavicle.

Emotion Vocabulary Cards:

One of my favorite books for an All About Me theme isThe Way I Feelby Janan Cain. Preschoolers can have BIG emotions, so learning a little bit about what they are and why we feel different ways can only help, right? After reading, we practiced acting out each emotion and telling what would make us feel that way. I took pictures for each one then labeled them and put them on a ring for Madelynn to flip through and learn the words.

Chrysanthemum Retelling:

Our next story wasChrysanthemumby Kevin Henkes. After reading, I showed Madelynn a 3 part flip book with the words beginning, middle, and end on them. Then I told her I was going to read 3 parts of the story and she had to try to put them in order. She then glued then under each flap and illustrated the part of the story to go with each.

Tracking Print:

Our last book was the letter Y book fromAbby’s Alphabet Book Series.Madelynn identified the picture then pointed to each word as she read. We also read The letter Y book from ourNonfiction Alphabet Reader set. This set has many more words per page so Madelynn tracked the print with her finger while I read each page.

All About Me Activities for Preschool Literacy

Y is for You Read and Color:

This week we focused on the letter Y so we started with this color by code activity. Madelynn identified each letter then followed the directions to make each spot the correct color. She had a little trouble noticing the difference between upper and lowercase y’s, but otherwise completed this page fairly independently.

Y Sound Stamping:

Next, for more letter practice we used ourdot stampers. We started out stamping inside the letter to make a Y. Then Madelynn had to find the upper and lowercase y’s in the yoyo, stamp them and make the y sound each time.

Yummy YSound Sort:

First, I printed out foods that started with the “y” sound (yams, yolk, yellow pepper, yogurt) and other sounds. I hid all of the cards in a bin full of split peas. Then I printed 2 kids, taped them on tall boxes and cut out a slot for their mouth. Madelynn found each card, said the word then fed them to “y” and “not y” kids. based on the beginning sound. Next, she completed a cut and paste version of the same activity to show what she learned.

All About MeName Craft:

This week for our name practice, Madelynn did an self portrait craft. First she cut and glued the pieces together to make a girl. Then she used crayons to finish the face and decorate the shirt. Finally she glued the letter tiles to label her shirt.

All About Me Journal Writing:

For our journal this week Madelynn chose to draw a self portrait and write her name. She wrote most of the letters (from right to left) without much help from me. Not too sure about that crazy blue hair though, we might be in trouble the next time she goes to get a haircut!

All About Me Activities for Preschool Math

All About Me Sand Tray:

Our first math activity this week was an all about me themed sand tray. I filled the tray with regular sand, then Madelynn used small hand cards as a model. She chose which letters she wanted to practice and used her finger to write them in the sand.

Fingerprint Patterns:

Our other math focus this week was on AB patterns. We used astamp padto make fingerprint patterns, then we used amagnifying glassto get a closer look at how each one is unique.

Pom Pom Patterns:

Another way we practiced patterns was with pom poms. We started out with pattern cards, then I gave Madelynn amini ice cube trayand told her to use her favorite colors to make her own patterns. I also added ourtweezersfor some extra fine motor practice.

Family Patterns:

I found these really cutefamily countersin different colors and knew they’d be perfect for creating patterns. Madelynn really just wanted to create little families at first, but then once I modeled a few AB patterns for her, she got the idea.

Clothesline Patterns:

For our last pattern practice activity, I pushed 2 sticks into styrofoam blocks, then strung a piece of twine between them. I printed shirts in a rainbow of colors and Madelynn used clothespins to clip them on the line in AB patterns.

All About Me Activities for Preschool Science, Art and Sensory Play

Emotions Play Dough:

This week we learned more about our emotions with thisplay doughmat. Madelynn used the pictures at the top as models to create lots of different emotions and use new vocabulary to describe how her person was feeling.

Family Portrait:

After talking about families and how everyone’s families are different, we talked about the members of our family. Then Madelynn drew our family on a small piece of cardstock and built a house withpopsicle sticksand glue around us.

My Family Sensory Bin:

In this bin: family photos, word cards, shredded paper

In this bin Madelynn had to find and math the people in our bin to their names. In a group setting you could also do this with the students in your class and their names or use generic pictures for brother, sister, grandma, grandpa, etc.

Full Body Self Portrait:

An All About Me theme just wouldn’t be complete without a full body tracing activity. I helped trace Madelynn’s body on aroll of paperthen she used crayons to add the details.

Build a Family Sensory Bin:

In this bin:family counters,kinetic sand

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