Ff •Finger Painting Have children finger paint things that begin with F, such as fish, flowers, frogs, etc. •Feet Have each child trace and cout out the shape of his or her own feet. Use everyone's feet shapes to make the Big and/or small letter F for a display on the wall. •Feet Have the children explore all the movements of feet, such as walking, running, dancing, hopping, skipping, kicking, tiptoeing. If possible, have them do the activities with bare feet. •Freeze Call out movements for the children to perform, such as Walk, skip, hop, jump, waddle, etc. When you call "Freeze!" they must stop immediately and hold the positions they are in. •Funny Faces with Fruit Use halved oranges in the peel. Have each child carefully scoop out the insides of the orange, draw a funny face on the outside of the orange shell with a marker and then cut up the scooped out orange into bite-sized pieces and put them back into the shell.. You can add other cut up fruits like bananas, strawberries, pineapple, etc. •Darling Little Goldfish My darling little goldfish (wiggle one finger) Hasn't any toes (point to your toes) He swims around without a sound (pretend one finger is swimming) And bumps his angry nose. (point to nose) He can't get out to play with me (Point to your self) Nor I get in to him (Point to children) Although I say "Come out and play," (motion finger to come out) He says, "come in and swim." (pretend you are swimming) •Flight A bird's body is specially built for flying. It is very light. There are pockets of air in it, and most of the bones are hollow. So a bird doesn't have to lift much weight into the air. A bird has very strong muscles for flapping its wings, and the wings have just the right shape for flying. The inner part of a bird's wing is like the wing of an airplane. It lifts the bird up in the air. The outer part of the wing acts like a propeller. It's long feathers pull on the air and move the bird forward. The design of airplane wings was copied from bird's wings. Some birds will fly upside down to attract a mate! Hummingbirds can fly backwards. •Felt board.. use it for felt board stories or to let the kids play with the pieces •Plant Flowers •Gone Fishin' required: -pencil and paper, -strainer, -styrofaom, -Yardstick or dowel, -masking tape, -bucket or wading pool. optional: _waterproof markers, -scissors First, have the child draw fish shapes on the paper (make sure they are no longer than the diameter of your strainer). Then cut the fish out. Next, have your kids trace the fish onto a sheet of styrofoam. finally, cut out the styro. fish (you will probably have to do this part!). You can have the kids decorate the fish with markers, but you'll have to use waterproof ink---make sure to take appropriate precautions. To make a "fishing pole" attach the handle of the strainer to the yardstick or dowel with masking tape.Fill the bucket or wading pool with water and let the fish loose in their native habitat. Issue some fishing permits (***I know you all know this already**supervise closely around water) and the kids are ready for a day at the fishing hole!! **make up some stories about the ones that got away!!! •Serve Figs for snacks •Fireworks cut and paste Fireworks (strips or misc shapes of bright paper glued to a dark background. •Planting Flowers(math) cut 10 simple flower shapes form wallpaper scraps or construction paper and glue to craft sticks. Print the numbers 1-10 on index cards. Obtain a flower pot and fill with sand or soil. To play the game, place the number cards upside down on a table. A child chooses a card, identifies the number and "plants" the appropriate number of flowers in the pot. •Spring flowers(art) Use pastel cupcake liners for the blossoms. Use green markers or constructin paper scraps to make stems and leaves. Glue to pastel sheets of constructin paper. •Flower garden(art) You will need: Watercolor paint,paintbrushes, white paper, Playdoh, craft stick, saftey scissors, glue, egg carton, Use scissors to cut out heads of flowers from white paper. paint the flowers with watercolor paint. Allow to dry completely. Glue flowers onto craft sticks for stems. Pour a small drop of glue inot each egg carton compartment. Press playdoh into glue and allow to dry completely. Poke craft stick flowers into playdoh for a garden •Fish Make a fishing game by cutting out fish shapes from construction paper and attaching paper clips to the head of the fish. Use a straw to make a pole and attach yarn for the line. Use either a magnet, or another paper clip bent like a hook and let the kids fish for their prey! I have used this to learn colors, if they can name the color of the fish they can keep it. whoever has the most fish wins. You can also use it for letters, numbers, shapes or anything you are trying to teach. •Paper plate fish You will need: white paper plate, watercolor paint, brushes, container of water, construction paper, (blue, green or white) glue, markers, safety scissors. Use scissors to cut out the shape of a fish from the paper plate. Paint the fish with water color paint and allow to dry. Use markers to add things such as eyes scalesand gills to the fish. Glue fish onto construction paper. Paint things such as underwater plants and sea creatures onto the paper. •Fingerpaint Recipe:(add a sprinkling of powdered soap flakes to either of these recipes to help paint glide over the paper and to make clean up easier) Mix 2 parts of liquid laundry starch with 1 part powdered tempera paint of a few dropa or food color as you paint on the paper OR Mix flour and cold water into a paste. Add food coloring ro powdered tempera paint on the paper as you paint •Fugue or Singers that start with F Paint to music..maybe a Fugue, or a singers name that starts with an F?! •Funny Fingerprints: You will need" Sheet of paper, paint, sponge, plastic margerine tub, markers, (fine point) scissors Cut a sponge to fit inside the margerine tub. Saturate sponge with paint for a printing pad. Press fingertip inot pad, then press onto paper for fingerprints. Use markers to draw things such as funny animals, people or funny insects. ( YOu can also do funny foot prints if you are feeling brave!, Just be sure to supervise closely so the kids don't slip!) •Facepaint. Paint the kids faces as ferocious felines, fearless firefighters, funny fish or anything else you can come up with! •Feelings Show pictures of people with different expressions and have the kids guess how they are feeling. Or ask how would you feel if, and have them verbalize or draw a picture of a face that portrays that feeling. This can also be done with a felt board. Make different eyes, mouths, noses, eyebrows, etc and let the kids make faces on a felt face to show different feelings. •Feely bag.. put items inot a bag and have children identify them by feeling.. maybe the things in the bag could begin with f also! •Funnels Water play.. use different funnels for the kids to experiment with for water or sand play •Firefighers (dramatic play) Have the children play firefighters. My kids use ropes as hoses and the couch as the fire engine. If possible have dressup clothes and hats that can be used for fire fighter outfits. Here are a couple of poems to go along with this idea: •Fire, Fire Fire, fire, fire fire Hear the sirent blowing! Fire, fire fire , fire Everybodys going! Climb the lader, squirt the hose, With a sh, sh sh sh!! Out the fire goes! •Fire Engine This is the fire engine this is the hose, the firemen work fast when the siren blows. Up goes the ladder, Up goes the hose. The fire is out When the siren blows. •Fire Station Take the kids to visit a real fire station •Florist Take a field trip to a florist •F collage Ahead of time cut pictures from a magazine or old cards of things that begin with F. Have the children glue the pictures onto construction paper to make a collage of F things. •Snack on Fruit Have different kinds of fruit for snack Figs may be a new one to try! •The Two Feet Game (hold hands and recite and act out this rhyme) I can walk with two feet, two feet, two feet. I can walk with two feet, two feet, all day long. I can jump with two feet... I can hop with two feet... I can run with two feet... I can march with two feet... I can slide with two feet... I can skip with two feet... (Can also be used with other parts of the body--I can blink with two eyes, I can wave with one hand, I can wiggle ten fingers, etc. •Feet Butterflies Have each child stand on a piece of paper with fee slightly apart. Trace around each child's feet to make "butterfly wings." Draw a butterfly body between each pair of wings and add antennae and smiling faces. Let the children decorate their butterflies with crayons. Then have them brush glue over their butterflies and sprinkle them with glitter. •Counting feet cut six egg cups from a cardboard egg carton. Poke a pipe cleaner through each egg cup to make two legs and bend up the ends to make feet. Decorate the last cup with two eyes and two antennae. Have the children place several of the cups in a row to create a caterpillar. Have them count the number of feet it has. Then let them line up a different number of egg cups and count the feet on the new caterpillar they have made. •Fish Story Another teacher workshop I give is "Building Classroom Community." One of the things I do in this workshop is tell this enactable story. I use it in the classroom at the beginning of the year to discuss the importance of learning everyone's name. I ask the kids to find out from Mom and Dad how they got their name. We enact the story then and we do it again at the end of the year during sea life and it is one of the plays we present at graduation. I have felt board pieces (wish I could give you the handout or draw on this darn thing! The sunfish and the sun are from yellow felt with gold glitter paint trim, the diamond fish is black felt with a plastic diamond glued on, the sea horse is orange felt, the sword fish gray felt, and the sea star lavendar felt. I used black fabric paint and fine tip brush to paint on features. I blew up the patterns and put them tag board headbands and laminated them and put velcro on so the kids can wear the fishes when the enact the play. At the end of the year, the kids paint scenery of the cave, seaweed, and coral garden on large boxes with one side removed so they stand in a U shape and the fishes can get behind them. There are five fish parts for the kids to play and we use another five kids to do sound effects with instruments. So when there is a noise made, it comes from an instrument. The story goes in the same pattern as the first paragraph each time the yellow fish meets a new fish so I just went...... when this happens. Here is how the story goes: The Fish With No Name Once upon a time, there was a big yellow fish. He was very sad because he didn't have a name. So he decided to swim through the ocean in search of a name. First, he swam by a dark cave when suddenly, he heard a noise. What noise do you think he heard? (audience response). That's exactly it! He heard ( ). and out swam a black fish. "Hi!, said the yellow fish, what's your name?" "My name is Diamond Fish." "Oh what a beautiful name!," said the yellow fish. "I think I'll call myself Diamond Fish." But the Diamond fish said, "Oh, no, no, no. You can't do that! You see, my mommy named me Diamond fish because I have a diamond eye. You don't have a diamond eye so you can't be Diamond Fish. "Oh," said the yellow fish sadly, "I guess I'll just have to keep on looking." And off he swam until he came upon a beautiful coral garden, where he heard another noise. What noise do you think he heard?......(repeat pattern from above)...And out swam and orange fish. "Hi, said the yellow fish. What's your name?" "My name is seahorse"....(continue with same dialogue pattern as above using (Mommy named me seahorse because I have a head like a horse and I live in the sea. You don't have a head like a horse, etc....) Then the yellow fish swims by a dark garden of seaweed and hears another noise, meets a gray fish. "Hi. What's your name?" "My name is swordfish." "I have a nose like a sword", etc. By now, the yellow fish is so sad and frustrated that he is swimming near the bottom of the ocean when he hears another noise......and meets seastar..... Sea star says, "You see, my Daddy named me sea star because he was looking up at the stars and said, "Those stars look just like you. I think I'll name you Sea Star." ......."You don't look like a star, so you can't be Sea Star." No, said the Yellow fish, but that gives me an idea!" And he swam to the top of the ocean and looked into the sky. But it wasn't night time, it was day time. So what do you think he saw? The sun! Yes! And he said to himself, "Hey! That's round like me, and yellow like me, and it sparkles like me! I think I'll call myself Sun Fish! And he was so happy that he had finally found a name, he swam in circles all the rest of that day and lived happily ever after in the sea. The end. • Frogs Next week my class will be learning all about frogs. I bought two tadpoles to have in my class to watch them turn into frogs. I have ditto sheets of the stages the frog goes through that the children will cut out and glue in the correct order. I drew a picture of a frog and will let the children glue green tissue paper on it. I will have the children cut out a big circle from green construction paper then cut the edges of a coffee filter and glue it on the green circle to make a lily pad and glue their frog on the lily pad.It looks really cute. Also for a snack we will make tapioka pudding and this will be our "frog eggs". •FLEAGLE THE BEAGEL cup hands to mouth as if calling Fleagle the Beagle! point to wrist watch It's time for the tub! point to self the to fleagle -I know you don't like it Make scrubbing motions- But you need a scrub!!! make scrubbing circles I;ll was you with soap point to tail and head-From your tail to your head, Hold palms up And when you're all clean rest head in hands---You can sleep on my bed • FABULOUS FLAGS: Give each child a triangular(pennant shaped) piece of construction paper that is approximately six inches wide at the large end and 12-18 inches long. Provide bright construction paper squares and cicles for the children to glue on. I try to get the children to do this project from left to right and in descending sizes(left to right as they will need to do this for reading purposes later on for reading). When the flags are dry tape them to cardboard tubes from paper toweling. When the flags are finished put on saome marching music, and have a parade.