Activities for the Week

Creative Exploration

Visual Art:

My Home

Make a picture of the outside of your home. What color is your home? What shape is your home? What shape are the doors and windows? Try to add as many details as you can!

Friends Collage

Use newspapers, magazines, or printed pictures and cut out things that remind you of friends. Glue them together to make a “Friends Collage”

Dramatic Play:

Print the address labels or make your own and put them in different rooms around your home. Write the addresses on envelopes or pieces of paper. Imagine being a mail carrier and deliver the mail to the correct address.

Wacky Wednesday

Community Adventure: Address Exploration

Go look outside your home. Do you see any numbers? Talk with your grown-up about what those number mean. If possible, walk around your neighborhood and find your street sign and other numbers. How do these help the mail carrier?

Literacy

In addition to reading each day

Read Aloud:

Watch the video of Miss Rachelle Reading “Something Special” by David McPhail

Talk about the special things the members of your family like to do.

Writing Letters to Friends and Family:

Print the Letter Templates and write and draw messages to someone you care about. Have your grown up help you write the address on an envelope and mail it.

Practice Writing/Tracing your friends’ names:

These were emailed to your grown-ups for privacy.

Numeracy

Number Hunt:

Look around your home and find as many numbers as you can. If you want an extra challenge Print the 100s Grid and see how many numbers you can cross off. http://www.allfreeprintable.com/cont/frm/pdf/frm-100chart.pdf

Phone Number Exploration:

Ask your grown-up(s) to write down their phone number for you to practice writing.

Ask your grown-ups if you can call a friend or family member and let you type the numbers in.

Number Writing Practice:

Print these pages to practice writing the number 1-20. What other number can you write?

ELC Classroom Patterns:

Print the "Shark pattern cards”, color them if you’d like, and then use them to create patterns.

Tip: When you’re finished exploring patterns use them to create an underwater scene while you think about your friends in each of the classrooms!

Movement

Sharks’ Favorite Freeze Dance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcZWXvgMZE