June Preschool Activities

June preschool activities will help children learn about this special month.

Theme: Summer Fun and Insects
Letter: E, I
Number: 6
Color: Black
Shape: Octagon
Activities:

1. Holidays:
   Flag Day
   Father's Day
   
   
2. June Preschool Activities: Science
   Go on a bug hunt to see what insects you can find. Talk about the ones that fly and the ones that crawl. If possible, find a caterpillar that you can keep in a container. Record and discuss the changes as the caterpillar goes through the different stages until it changes into a moth or butterfly.
   
   Test the 5 senses using different items that the children have to guess through sight, sound, touch, taste, and feel. (Lemons, cinnamon, pepper, sandpaper, cotton balls.)
   
   
3. Social Studies:
   Teach the children the importance of obeying rules in the community. Teach stop, look, and listen. Practice obeying "stop" by having the children move around then stop when you hold up a stop sign.
   
   
4. Imagination:
   Pretend to have a lemonade stand. Make a sign, put out a table with chairs. Have the children take turns serving and being customers.
   
   
5. June Preschool Activities: Arts and Crafts
   Paint a pet rock. Find a good size rock that the child can paint to keep as a pet rock.
   
   Help the child make a flag using colored construction paper that represents their heritage (Italian, Irish, French).
   
   Have the child bring a white chef's apron (can be used for grilling) or a plain white T-Shirt for daddy. The child will put his handprints on it for daddy. Using fabric markers, write "You are the best daddy hands down" on the apron or T-shirt.
   
   Make a butterfly using tissue paper,pipe cleaners, and clothespin. Cut the shape of the butterfly wings and use the clothespin as the body. Attach the pipe cleaners for the antennae.
   
   
6. Reading:
   Read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle or use the felt storyboard to tell this story. They sell the book with a felt board and all the pieces that can be used to tell the story as you read along.
   
   Read "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle.
   
   
7. Language:
   Introduce the letters and letter sounds for E and I. Provide a worksheet with pictures of objects that start with the letter E as well as other letters. Have the child circle the objects that start with the letter E only. Do the same for the letter I.
   
   Sing the "Itsy, Bitsy Spider" and the "Ants Go Marching One by One."
   
   
8. Math, Thinking Skills:
   Have the children sort different size rocks into groups of small, medium, and large or it can be by color or by rough and smooth.
   
   
9. Math, Shapes:
   Have the children make stop signs using a pre-cut octagaon shapes that have been cut from construction paper or cardboard. Practice using them in a stop, look, and listen drill.
   
   
10. Math, Counting:
    Introduce the number 6 and show everyone how to hold up 6 fingers and count to 6. Make a paper chain using the color of the month, black, to emphasize the number six.
    
    
11. Coordination and Movement:
    Have some summer fun running through the sprinklers.
    
    
12. June Preschool Activities: Social Skills
    Have the children sit in a circle. Pass around a drum and have the child beat on the drum to his name. The children will have to learn to wait patiently while waiting to take turns.