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Ten Silly Dogs
This is a cute story about dogs that
reinforces number recognition and number order.
Extend the learning with some of
these fun activities:
Dog Count: (Gather an
assortment of stuffed dogs or some other toy dog. You could make
dogs from construction paper if you needed to.)
I Made a dog house out of a box and
some tag-board. Then I programmed bones I had cut from brown
construction paper with the numbers 1-10, you can see I also wrote the
number word on each one. I laminated them.
The kids got to take turns picking a
bone and counting that many dogs to put in the dog house. Oops!
The dogs kept getting out of the house! I played the song
"Who Let the Dogs Out" -kids love this song. So after
each person had a turn we would take the dogs out again and give
everyone a couple chances to count the dogs. With older
preschoolers we would do some simple Math, so instead of letting them
out every time would add the dogs up to see how many we had in the dog
house. Other things I did were: one person would put the dogs in
on their turn and another would subtract the dogs next time. You
may have to manipulate the amounts depending on how many toy dogs you
have.
This isn't the box I originally used.
I had cut a door in my real dog house box. But you get the idea.
Who Let the Letter's Out?:
This is a cute song Dr. Jean has done
to the tune of Who Let the Dogs Out on her Kiss Your Brain CD.
I made a set of Alphabet Dogs to go with the song and I let the kids
take turns putting the correct dog on the felt board. You could
use any kind of Clip Art or draw your own dogs. These Dogs are
from the DJ Inkers Kidillywinks Clip Art CD www.djinkers.com
I laminated them and put a Velcro dot on the back.
Color & Number Dogs:
In this activity we reinforce the
color's and number symbols. Each child gets a copy of the Dog
Handout and then I told the children we needed to find some more lost
dogs, and that I would read the "Clues" so that we could find
them all. So I read the clues and instructed the children to color
the dogs the correct color. I let them know they could color the
whole dog or just part of the dog or just his collar, what ever they
wished.
*Color & Number
Dogs "Clues"
*Color & Number
Dogs Handout
*You may print copies of these
handouts for personal use.
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