i is for inchworm - Preschool Lesson

It has been a long time since I have posted a preschool lesson.
(That's because it has been a long time since I've done one.
The kids had to start begging for the next letter.)

i is for inchworm -preschool craft card directions from Totally Tots - as always.

The kids were thrilled.

The theme has been inchworms & measuring.

I haven't been too creative here lately, friends.  

We've mostly been reading books.

Here's our list.

Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

This book is a Caldecott Honor book.  It is pretty, fun & short.  The kids love it.

Inchworm and a Half by Elinor Pinczes

This book teaches a little bit about measuring, 

very simplistically, using worms & inches.

Length

This book is a little bit above preschool level in the measurement lessons.  

But, it is still good exposure.  Gillian found it interesting.  

It didn't hold Peyton's interest.

Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

This book is also above preschool level in the measurement lesson.

But, the story is fun.  

The character is measuring dogs with various units of measure.

The kids love it & again, 

it is just early exposure on stuff they will learn in a few years.

Find the Insect

This book only had one picture of an inchworm.  But we found it at the library.

And, it is a real photo.  

Totally different from the cute cartoon depictions of the inchworm in our other books.

The book shows neat photographs of insects blending in with their surroundings.

Insectlopedia 

This is another library book that had one things about an inchworm.

The book was pretty cute with poetry & art work for various insects.  

I liked most of them.  They were pretty clever.

We played a tossing game with our letter "i" beanbag.

When the bag got tossed to you, you had to say 

a word that started with "i". 

I had to offer a lot of help.

• insect
• inchworm
• inside
• inch
• internet
• itch
• interesting
• imagination
• italy
• impossible
• if

We tried to inch across the carpet like inch worms.

By saying "we" I mean the kids.  It looked pretty hard.  

There was no way I figured I should attempt an inchworm crawl,
at 9 months pregnant.

I cut a bunch of ribbons into various lengths 

& let the kids choose one of each ribbon from a jar.

After each ribbon pick, we measured out how many inches long the piece was.

We made comparisons for what was shorter or longer.

After all the measuring, they arranged the ribbons how they liked it on paper 

& then glued them down.

That's about all, folks.  Other than the standard letter tracing & sand writing.