eLearning

Recommended daily routines:

● Reading: Read at least one book a day together.

● Name Writing: Have your child practice writing their name each day. Say the name of each letter together.

● Alphabet Cards or Chart: These will be used as a resource later on in the year.

● Numeral Cards: These will be used as a resource later on in the year. .

Reading & Writing

Choose one to complete each day.

Math

Choose one to complete each day.

Play & Explore

Choose one to complete each day.

❏ Form the letters in your name using the objects in/around your home (buttons, rocks, string, sticks). Then trace the letters with your fingers.

❏ Help George catch and count the bugs in this fun game. Can you guess which one has more?

❏ Take a walk in your community. Notice the

different types of buildings and signs in your neighborhood. Draw 3 things that you saw on your walk.

❏ Fold a piece of paper in half to create a book of your favorite things. Add a picture on each page of something that you like such as your favorite color, animal or book to read.

❏ Find all the windows in your home. Answer these questions:

How many are there?
What shapes are they?
What color are they?

❏ Make face masks using pieces of paper or paper plates. Draw an emotion for each mask. Pretend to be each emotion when you wear your mask and talk about how you feel.

❏ Practice singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Draw a picture of the stars in the night sky.

❏ Draw a picture of your family. How many people are in your family. What shapes did you use to draw each person?

❏ Go on a bug hunt and see how many bugs you can find. Don’t forget to look under rocks where bugs like to live! Draw a picture of your favorite bug that you found.

❏ Work through the letter a activities on starfall.

❏ Practice identifying shapes with this fun online game.

❏ Sing “If your happy and you know it.” Move your body and dance along to the song!

❏ Listen to this book read aloud to you on Storyline Online.

❏ Form the shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square) using objects in/around your home (buttons, rocks, string, sticks). Then trace the shapes with your fingers.

❏ Use your imagination while playing a game of pretend outside. Are you flying a spaceship to the moon? Are you dancing on a stage? Share your story with an adult using complete thoughts.

❏ Use your water color set to paint the letters of your name.

❏ Practice sorting with Zoe’s Pet Shelter.

❏ Tell your family about a new friend that is in our class.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Choose any of the experiences provided or you can come up with your own. Explore the experiences with your child and most importantly have FUN!

FEEDBACK

Please take a photo or a video of any activity that your child chose to do and send them to me via email. Feel free to add your comments. I can’t wait to hear from you!

MUSIC and MOVEMENT

One Little Finger song

The Alphabet is so Much Fun

Apples and Bananas

Walking Through the Jungle

Count and Move

Five Little Ducks

One Potato, Two Potatoes

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Handwriting Without Tears Tap Tap Song (Two sticks for tapping)

Days of the Week

STORIES

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Napping House

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

These are some books your child might enjoy. Feel free to explore other books that you or your child are interested in.

After reading or singing some songs, you may suggest creating the character or the setting of the story with the available resources in your home.

Hands On Activities

(Feel free to choose one Or Both)

Construction: Provide different types of materials from home, such as, boxes, cans, containers, etc. You and your child can create something together.

Writing: Have students practice pre-writing skills. Begin with horizontal/vertical lines, then progress to O and +. If that goes well try square, rectangle, and triangle. Once you have pre-writing, move on to the letters in their name.

Concepts of Print

Breakfast: Point out the colorful letters on the front of a cereal box, carton of milk, and etc.

Getting dressed or folding the laundry: If your child has clothing with print on it, read the print while tracking the words with your finger.

Bath time: On the shampoo or bubble bath bottle, find a word that begins with the same letter as your child’s name. Eg, “The word is soft. Soft begins with S, just like your name, Sofia.

During play activities: Point out the words on the toy containers then ask your child to guess what they say or identify any letters.

HouseHold Help

Here are some ways you can involve and empower your child in your homes

Laundry: Allow your child to help sort items. Sort by type (socks, etc.), color, etc.

Cleaning up: Have your child to help with picking up their toys. Have them count items, sort items, identify items as they are put away.

Let’s Eat!

Food preparation: Allow your child to help you wash fruits and vegetables that you will need for cooking. If you are adventurous, allow them to cut the vegetables and talk about the sizes, texture, amounts, lengths after you cut it.

Cooking: Depending on the food you are preparing, you may let your child stir the food and talk about the changes that the food has undergone after it was mixed with other ingredients. While cooking you can engage your child in measuring the ingredients as well.

INVESTIGATING OUTDOORS

Your yard or other outside area: Talk about the grass, trees, look for blooming flowers. Build on directional vocabulary such as what is to our left, right, etc. Explore the different surfaces you have access to--grass, dirt, concrete, asphalt. See if your child can use vocabulary to describe. For example, the grass is soft and the concrete is hard.

INVESTIGATING WATER

Bath time: Explore how water impacts other substances like soap. You can experiment by putting soap on your child without water and talk about how it feels like. Add water then observe what happens to the soap on the body and bath toys.

INVESTIGATING DIFFERENT SOUNDS

Make music: Provide different materials that children can tap and explore to create different sounds. For example, pots, wooden bowls, glass (tap gently), metal and plastic utensils, etc. This will be an opportunity for children to learn that different sounds come from different materials, create different rhythms, and that the intensity of tapping the materials changes the volume of the sound.

Free Play

Enjoy free play with your child! Let your child choose an activity, build with blocks, dress up, color, etc. Have fun talking and bonding with your child!

Arts and crafts

Self-portrait: If you have photos of your child available, let them draw directly on the photo. Identify facial features while you draw. Move to paper alone and start with your head and progress through facial features.

Body tracing: If you have large enough paper, have your child, if willing, lie down and you trace their body. Then have your child color, decorate, etc.

Motor Activities

Give yoga a try! We use Cosmic Kids Yoga in class. The kids love it and she has lots of videos from pirates to mermaids!

Cosmic Kids Yoga