PreK

Week of May 11

Academic learning at home resources have been created to provide opportunities for students to engage in meaningful learning experience during the school closure. Below you will find a list of activities that your child can complete both independently and with your support.

Learning Logs are to be completed each day when work is done. These logs will be turned in at the end of the week to your teacher. Your teacher will be in contact with you this week. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher.

Reading

Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read! Read to self, read to a stuffed animal, read to a family member, or have them read to you. Look for rhyming words as you read!

Choose some or all of the fingerplays below (ties to math this week). Can you hear rhyming words in any of these? (example: bees & sees; frog & log; pool & cool). Can you think of other words that rhyme? Choose two words that rhyme. Draw a picture of each word and label it.
Watch this video “What Are Plants” (This ties to science this week) to learn all about plants and watch a plant growing in action. After the video, tell someone what you learned about plants. Then draw a picture about what you learned and label it. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture. If you cannot watch this video, go outside and observe nature. Find a plant, flower, or tree to observe and complete this activity. Practice your name by writing it on your picture. Now think of the word ‘plant’, can you think of any words that rhyme with plant? Here is a clue: think of an insect you might find crawling on the plant!
Watch the story “Planting a Rainbow”(this ties to science this week). Click here: Online Texts. Discuss the book with your family. Pick one word from the story and try to come up with words that rhyme; make it a game and see how many you can say! To challenge yourself, try this game with other words from the book. Next, draw pictures in order to retell the story “Planting a Rainbow” and make sure they are in order. Practice retelling the story to a family member using your pictures. If you cannot access the link above, read a book you have at home and complete the activities listed. Practice your name by writing it on your picture.
Read the book “It Could Still Be a Flower” (this ties to science this week). Click here: Online Texts. Discuss the book with your family. Next, draw a picture of what you learned from the book “It Could Still Be a Flower”. Look on page 2 and find the word ‘rose’. Can you think of words that rhyme with rose? There is another word on page 2, ‘sweet’, can you think of words that rhyme with ‘sweet’? After you read the book, draw and color pictures about facts you learned and label your picture. Use as many sounds, letters, and words as you can when describing your picture. If you cannot access the link above, read a book you have at home and complete the activities listed. Practice your name by writing it on your picture.

Math

Create joining and separating stories (up to 5). Draw or use real objects to “act it out” and represent your thinking. (e.g. Provide a piece of paper for the “cave” and some pinto beans, pasta, or pencils. Tell your child this story,”There is 1 bear in a cave. 2 more bears walk into the cave. How many bears are in the cave now?” Observe as they act out the story. Your child can also draw what is happening. *For Pre-K students, they do NOT need to write a number sentence or equation at this level. You can reinforce the action by saying, “Yes, 1 and 2 more is the same as 3. Try with some other numbers or different scenarios.
Science connection: create joining and separating stories about a mama animal and her babies (great way to include language development). (e.g. There was a mama ewe that had 4 baby lambs. How many are all together? There were 3 baby calves and one got lost. How many baby calves are there now?)
Science/ELA connection: create joining and separating stories about plants and seeds. You can even use real seeds to model the action in the story. (e.g. There were 2 bluebonnets growing by the road and 2 more across the road. How many bluebonnets in all?) Can you draw and label your math story?
Use a five frame (see example below) so students can keep track when adding or taking away. It is easy to draw on paper.

Sing and play fingerplays (attached below) that model addition and subtraction
- “Here is the beehive”
- “5 Green and Speckled Frogs”
- “Five Little Ducks”
- “The Ants Go Marching”
- “5 Cheeky Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”
- “There Were Ten In The Bed”
Display a set of three or four objects on the table. Ask your child to look, then cover the objects with your hand or cloth and quickly ask, “How many are under the cloth?” Continue playing by adding or taking away objects.
Play number board games like Chutes and Ladders or any that have a gameboard (If I start on 1 and roll a 4, and move 4 spaces now I’m on the 5th square). You can even create your own.
Count one more and one less as you have a snack, clean up your room, etc. It’s o.k. to use your fingers!

Five Frame Example

Science

Plants and animals go through life cycles. A life cycle is the way living things grow, make new living things and die. A plant starts as a seed. A seed grows and becomes a seedling. A seedling grows into a young plant. An adult plant makes new seeds.

Open a fresh fruit or vegetable. Can you find a seed? Draw a picture of the seed.
Plant the seed and keep it damp. Place it in the sunlight. Draw a picture when the seedling appears.
Walk around outside and find and draw an adult plant. Draw a picture of it.

An animal starts as an egg. Then it is born. It is a young animal then it becomes an adult animal. Many young animals look like an adult animal.

Look at some baby pictures of yourself. How have you changed since you were born? How do you think you will look as an adult?
At this time of year, birds lay eggs and new horses and cows are born. If you see a baby animal, draw a picture of it with its parent animal.
Baby cats are called kittens. Baby dogs are called puppies. See if you can find out what a baby chicken is called, a baby duck, a baby rabbit, a baby horse, a baby sheep and a baby cow. Draw one of the babies with the parent animal.

Plant Life Cycle

Social Studies

A consumer is someone that buys things in stores or uses people for services. If you go to the store for a new pair of shoes, you are a consumer. If the garbage men pick up the trash at your house, you are using a service.

Draw a picture of you at the grocery store. What are some of the things you buy as a consumer?
Draw a picture of the postman bringing you the mail. What came in the mail today?
Pretend you need to go to the store. Draw a list of the items you would like to buy. How many stores will you go to? How many items will you buy at each store?
Set up a pretend store or garage sale. Draw pictures of the things you have to sell. Use play money or coins and play store.

Pre-K Fingerplays (to be used in Reading and Math)

Here is the Beehive

Here is the beehive (make a fist)

Where are the bees?

Hiding inside where nobody sees

Watch them come creeping out of the hive

One, two, three, four, five (release one finger at a time from the fist/hive)

…BUZZ-ZZZ (wiggle fingers)

Five Green, Speckled Frogs

Five green and speckled frogs (hold up five fingers)

Sat on a speckled log,

Eating the most delicious bugs,

Yum, yum! (rub tummy with other hand)

One jumped into the pool (tuck one finger down)

Where it was nice and cool,

Then there were four green speckled frogs,

Glub, glub!

Four green and speckled frogs…

(Continue until there are no speckled frogs on the log).

Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went swimming one day (hold up five fingers)

Over the hills and far away (hold arm across body and tuck fingers behind shoulder on the opposite side of the body)

Mother duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack” (use other hand to make a mother duck beak and open and close hand to quack)

But only four little ducks came back (bring first hand back to the front with four fingers showing)

The Ants Go Marching

The ants go marching one by one (hold up one finger)

Hoorah! Hoorah!

The ants go marching one by one,

Hoorah! Hoorah!

The ants go marching one by one,

The little one stops to suck his thumb (pretend to suck thumb)

And they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain.

The ants go marching two by two (hold up two fingers)

Hoorah! Hoorah!

The ants go marching two by two,

Hoorah! Hoorah!

The ants go marching two by two,

The little one stops to tie his shoe (pretend to tie shoe)

And they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain.

Keep going up to 5. For a challenge, go all the way to 10.

5 Cheeky Monkeys Jumping On The Bed

Five cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed (hold up five fingers and make them jump up and down)

One fell off and bumped his head (rub head)

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said (pretend to call on phone)

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed” (wag pointer finger like scolding someone)

Four cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed….

Keep going down to zero.

There Were Ten In The Bed

There were ten in the bed,

And the little one said, ‘Roll over, roll over’,

So they all rolled over and one fell out.

There were nine in the bed…

And the little one said, ‘Roll over, roll over’,

So they all rolled over and one fell out.

Keep going down to zero.

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