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Activity of the Week April 8

Cooking Activity

The video below (1:50 min) shows how to make scrambled eggs. Watch the video with your child and talk about what you see. There are lots of great vocabulary words in this video to use when you talk with your child (e.g., crack, measuring cup/measure, beat, whisk, frying pan, spatula, firm, flip, liquid). After you watch the video, please try to make scrambled eggs together. While making scrambled eggs with your child, use these same vocabulary words. Use the words many times and in many different sentences to help your child learn the words. For example, you might say, "Next, we have to whisk the eggs. This utensil that I'm holding is called a whisk. When you whisk the eggs you mix the egg white and egg yolk together. Let's take turns whisking the eggs."

Singing is another great way to use new words many times to help children remember them. Here are some songs you might sing while making eggs.

Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Whisk, whisk, whisk the eggs, whisk them in a bowl. Cook them in a frying pan, then we'll eat them up!

Tune: Baby Shark

*note - instead of "doo doo doo", try making the sound that short "e" makes ("eh" as in "egg" and "elephant")

Crack the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh. Crack the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh. Crack the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh. Crack the egg!

Whisk the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh...

Scramble the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh...

Eat the egg, eh eh eh eh eh eh...

Practice

Print the scrambled egg sequence, cut out the pictures, and put them in the right order. Talk about what happens in each step and use the words first, next, then, last. Remember to use your new words (e.g., whisk, scramble, frying pan).

Look at the pictures. Point and talk about which comes first, next, then, and last.

If you can, please record your child telling you the sequence and send it to the KLP staff. You could also just write down what your child says and send it in an email.

scrambled eggs sequence - boardmaker.pdf

Easter Egg Reading Game

If you have a printer at home, you might wish to print out the following reading game. Have your child start reading at the word “bat”. Have your child say each SOUND slowly (not the name of the letter), e.g., b---a--t . Then, say the sounds faster and faster until the sounds are “blended” to make a word. Perhaps you can have a prize/treat for your child once he/she reaches the end.

Other Options

You can also play this game using a regular board game like Candyland or Chutes and Ladders or as a memory game. Here's how:

Board Games: Print the Game Words on a sheet of paper and cut them out in squares/rectangles. Put them in a pile face down. When it's your child's turn in the game, ask him/her to take a word from the stack and sound it out before he/she gets to move the piece.

Memory: Print each Game Word 2 times on a sheet of paper. Cut them out into squares, rectangles, or even egg shapes. Put them into groups of 4-5 pairs. Take one group of words and turn them face down. Take turns turning over each word and sounding it out. If the words match, the reader gets to keep them. Whoever has the most pairs wins.

Game Words: bat, fox, mom, up, van, wind, zip, up, mop, man, pot, hop, not, in, pig, rat, map, jam, egg, pox, dad, can, stop

Easter Egg blending game letter size.pdf

Story Time

Below you will find a link to the book "The Best Easter Egg Hunt Ever" (6:17 min)

After reading the story together you might ask your child the following questions:

When did this story happen? (in the day time / spring time / Easter time)
What was Rabbit trying to find? (an egg)
What was inside the egg that Rabbit found? (a duckling)
Why do you think Rabbit said that her egg was the most wonderful Easter Egg of all? ( Answers will vary. If your child says, "I don't know" you can model an answer. For example you could say, "I think Rabbit said that because her egg had a duckling inside.")

Watch this little video to learn about the sound letter "e" makes (a short "eh" sound).

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