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Mrs. Emde's Office Hours

I will have the following office hours, however, I am checking my email frequently throughout the day. Please feel free to reach out with questions or just to say hello!

Monday: 1:00-2:00

Tuesday: 9:00-10:00

Wednesday: 1:00-2:00

Thursday: 9:00-2:00

Friday: 1:00-2:00

Below are some links to some of the other pages on our website.

Home Learning Opportunities

Here is the link to our "Home Learning Opportunities" page with our weekly activities:

https://sites.google.com/cantonma.org/rodmanearlychildhoodcenter/home-learning-opportunities

Ms. Anna, School Psychologist

Here is the link to Anna Russo's page. She has many resources in the area of social emotional development.

https://sites.google.com/cantonma.org/rodmanearlychildhoodcenter/ms-anna-school-psychologist

Happy Summer From Mrs. Emde!

Our Class Caterpillars

Our butterflies have been released outside! Watch the video below! (Week of 6/15)

We have butterflies! Our caterpillars have emerged from their cocoons! Watch the video below to see! (Week of 6/8)

Our caterpillars have made their cocoons! Watch these two updates on our caterpillars! (Week of 6/1)

Meet our new class caterpillars! These arrived on Friday, May 22nd. I will be documenting their progress as they make their transformation from caterpillars to butterflies! (Week of 5/25)

Water

Watch Mrs. Emde try one of our weekly "Home Learning Opportunities" as she makes a playdoh maze for water. (Week of 6/15)

Miss M tries one of our water experiments, too! Watch the video below. (Week of 6/15)

Ms. Mogana also does some experimenting with water, as she sees what "sinks" and "floats". (Week of 6/15)

Watch Miss M investigate water in her own backyard at her small pond! (Week of 6/8)

Ms. Mogana tries one of our weekly "Home Learning Opportunities" - Alphabet Water Painting. (Week of 6/8)

Spring

Watch Miss M plant her green bean plant in her garden! (Week of 6/1)

In The Small, Small Pond with Mrs. Emde. (Week of 6/1. You can also find this in the "Read Aloud" section.)

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask your child some of the questions below.You can also talk about some of the more challenging vocabulary words in the story (i.e. minnow, quiver, plunge, etc.)

-Can you remember some of the animals in the story?

-Can you move like the animals?

-Can you hear any rhyming words?

Ms. Mogana tries some of our "Home Learning Opportunities". (Week of 6/1)

Look at how much Miss M's green beans have grown! (Week of 5/25)

Watch Mrs. Emde tell the "Five Little Ladybugs" poem from our "Home Learning Opportunities". (Week of 5/25)

Mrs. Emde also makes "Shape Bugs" from our "Home Learning Opportunities". (Week of 5/25)

Watch Ms. Mogana try some of our weekly "Home Learning Opportunities". (Week of 5/25)

Miss M checks on her green beans to see how they are growing! (Week of 5/18)

Watch Miss M plant green beans! (Week of 5/11)

Watch Mrs. Emde go on a "Spring Scavenger Hunt", one of our weekly home learning activities. (Week of 4/27)

Enjoy watching these online spring songs!

Enjoy watching these online spring stories!

Rhyme Time

Rhyming is an important phonemic awareness skill. You can work on rhyming in a lot of different ways including rhyming books, rhyming songs, word play, and rhyming games and pictures as well as many others. Rhyming can be lots of fun! When you are rhyming you can make up true rhyming words or silly non-words. Here are a few rhyming activities that you might want to work on together.

Read this online book Mrs. Emde created, Bug and Insect Rhymes. First, click on the link and then, click on "Read to Me" in the upper right hand corner to hear Mrs. Emde read the book.

https://read.bookcreator.com/eljehqBvpibSqQCzxFvUPUvtj0q2/f3mdWqTnSTawzivLR4tKTQ

Watch Mrs. Emde find rhyming words with pictures. You can also try this at home!

Try this "Erase a Rhyme" Activity. Here are the clues if you would like to try it with your child.

1. Just for fun, erase the _______. (sun)

2. 1,2,3.....erase the ________. (tree)

3. You'll be very proud, if you erase the _______. (cloud)

4. If you want to play some more, erase the _______. (door)

5. Quiet as a mouse, erase the ________. (house)

Here is an online book that Mrs. Emde created that you can read. First, click on the link and then, click on "Read to Me" in the upper right hand corner to hear Mrs. Emde read the book.

Animal Rhymes: https://read.bookcreator.com/eljehqBvpibSqQCzxFvUPUvtj0q2/o0Ed70xJSmCp_jJjBx-m5w

Math Activities

Watch Mrs. Emde read The Best Bug Parade. This book is great for comparing sizes!

Watch this activity about patterns and then try it at home!

Try some of these other math activities!

Counting: Incorporate counting into daily activities so that children learn that counting is meaningful. For example, ask your child “how many crackers do you have?” or count steps as you are walking up a staircase. Count toys when you are playing together or cleaning up.

Making patterns: Use anything! For example, red car, blue car, red car, blue car.

Shape hunt: As you go through your day point out and identify familiar shapes in your world (i.e. square window, circle clock). Go on a hunt around the house and see how many shapes you can find.

Number thinking games: Make up number problems with items in your house and see if your child can solve them (i.e. “How many feet does the cat have”?)

Calm Classroom

Watch Miss M lead us in some Calm Classroom exercises.

Read Alouds with Room 1

Water is Water with Ms. Mogana

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask you child some of the following questions.

-What are some of the different forms of water in the story? (water, ice, fog, clouds, snow, etc.)

-Where do you see water around you?

-What do you use water for?

I Am Water with Ms. Mogana

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask your child some of the following questions.

-Do you remember some of the ways water was used in the book? (i.e. home for fish, people drink it, etc.)

-Where are some ways that you use water every day?

In The Small, Small Pond with Mrs. Emde.

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask your child some of the questions below.You can also talk about some of the more challenging vocabulary words in the story (i.e. minnow, quiver, plunge, etc.)

-Can you remember some of the animals in the story?

-Can you move like the animals?

-Can you hear any rhyming words?

The Very Lonely Firefly with Mrs. Emde.

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask your child some of these questions.

-Who is the main character in the story? (The very lonely firefly)

-What is the firefly looking for in the story? (Other fireflies)

-What are some of the things that the firefly thinks are other fireflies? (i.e lightbulb, candle, fireworks, etc.)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar with Mrs. Emde

When you are done listening to the story, you can ask your child some of the questions below.

-Who is the main character in the story? (The very hungry caterpillar)

-Can you tell me some of the food the caterpillar eats? (i.e. apples, oranges, cake, etc.)

-Can you retell the story to me? (i.e. The caterpillar comes out of the egg, he eats lots of food and gets bigger, he goes into a cocoon, he turns into a butterfly)

-What was your favorite part of the story?

Kite Day with Mrs. Emde

When you are done listening to the this story, you can talk about some of the more challenging words in this story and what they mean such as "constructed", "meadow", "tilted", etc.

Here are some questions that you can ask your child as well.

-Who are the characters in the story? (Bear, Mole, the birds)

-What does Bear want to make in this story? (A kite)

-What is the problem in this story? (i.e. It starts to rain, the kite string breaks, Bear's kite flies away, the kite gets stuck in the tree)

-Can you tell me something that happened in the story (i.e. Bear and Mole built a kite, Bear and Mole flew their kite, it started to rain in the story, the kite protected the birds, etc. )

-Can you retell the story to me? (i.e. First Bear was excited it was nice weather to fly a kite. Next, he and Mole built a kite. Then, they flew their kite outside, but it began to rain, etc. )

Flower Garden with Mrs. Emde

When you are done listening to this story, you can talk about some of the more challenging vocabulary words in the story and what they mean such as "trowel" (a small shovel for planting) and "jamboree" (a celebration or party).

Here are some questions you can ask your child as well.

-Who are the characters in the story? (the girl, her dad and her mom)

-Where did the story take place? (i.e. in a city, at the grocery story, in her apartment)

-Can you tell me something that happened in the story? (i.e. she planted flowers, she rode on a bus, she gave her mom a present)

-Can you retell the story to me? (i.e. first she bought flowers at the grocery store, next she rode home on the bus, then she planted the flowers, etc.)

The Very Busy Spider with Mrs. Emde

You're a Hero Daley B with Miss Caitlyn

Hi-Five Animals! with Mrs. Emde

Miss Spider’s Tea Party with Miss M

The Full Moon at the Napping House with Miss Caitlyn

Laurence the Lost Lamb with Miss Mogana

The Wheels on the Truck with Miss Mogana

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear with Mrs. Emde

Corduroy with Miss M

Goodnight Moon with Mrs. Emde

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie with Miss M:

Rhymes with Doug with Miss Caitlyn:

Big Snowman, Little Snowman with Miss Mogana

Video Messages

"Hello" from Mrs. Emde - April 11th

"Hello" from Mrs. Emde - March 23rd

"Hello" from Miss M

"Hello" from Miss Caitlyn

"Hello" from Miss Kristen

"Hello" from Miss Mogana