Buttons

This week in Preschool Pretend & Play, our theme is Buttons! Buttons to fasten our clothes, buttons to push and belly buttons to tickle!

We started with our 5 Eggs & 5 Eggs rhyme which my LLFs really have gotten good at doing! Yeah! Then we moved on to our Word Family- the -OP Family.

Can you sing the OP family, OP family, OP family
Can you sing the Op family
Come and sing with me!

We danced to a new song- The Freeze Song on the Three Little Kittens CD.

We read I Like Your Buttons by Nancy Cote. What a feel good kind of book! What a lesson to learn that simple kindness can spread and spread and even come back to visit you!

We read Button by Sara Fanelli which was about a runaway button that goes on an adventure!

Rhymes/Songs:
Let's sing a song of buttons, of buttons, of buttons
Let's sing a song of buttons
That fasten our clothes

There are big ones and small ones
With two holes or 4 holes
Let's sing a song of buttons
That fasten our clothes

Do You Know the Button Kid? (tune of The Muffin Man)
Do you know the button kid, the button kid, the button kid?
Do you know the button kid
She wears lots of buttons!

She has two big button eyes...
She has a button nose...

Song: Hello, My Name is Joe - the Beth and Scott version is hilarious I think! (MP3 download)

We read a great new book- Press Here by Herve Tullet. It says 'dot' in the book, but I said it was a button! Great read aloud!

We ended with button (gingerbread) kids to add buttons to and open-ended button pictures.

There are so many great things to do with buttons- counting, sorting, matching, etc. Have fun!