Week 4:

Story Time: Scroll down for the Books of the Week

Choose one book each day to focus on

Scroll down for the Books of the Week. Pause during the book reading to discuss what you see and ask your child to identify items either by labeling or pointing. Keep a list of what they were able to identify and share it with us!

After reading the books/watching the videos, MASK UP and go on a neighborhood walk, trip to the playground or supermarket (even if it's just around the block). While you are out, ASK QUESTIONS and talk about what you SEE, HEAR, SMELL and TOUCH. Use descriptive language (i.e. tall, short, cold, bright, windy, wet); remember to discuss colors, patterns, quantity and attributes and verbs.

Literacy Activity:

Choose an activity to work on over a couple of days or choose one activity per day

Vocabulary words to target this week: brother, dad, family, mom, sister

Other words to consider: aunt, cousin, grandparent, uncle

EXAGGERATE the target letters below and pair those sounds with the vocabulary words

(Focus Letters: B, D, F, M, S)

*Feel free to add your own words, the key is consistency. KEEP LANGUAGE GOING ALL DAY*

CLICK HERE FOR NAME MATS

CLICK HERE FOR LETTER PRINTABLES

There are puzzles, tracing, painting, play-dough mats to choose from. The goal is to have your child engage with letters of the alphabet but also to be able to identify the letters in the vocabulary words. Experiment with what your child shows the most interest in. Target fine motor skills, following directions and communication. Allow your child to use glue, safety scissors, paint, markers, stickers, etc. For play-dough and paint recipes, click on this link below or check our "Resources" page.

NO PRINTER? NO PROBLEM! DRAW LETTERS FOR YOUR CHILD TO TRACE WITH THEIR FINGERS, MARKER, ETC

STEAM:

Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math/ Science

Choose an activity to work on over a couple of days or choose one activity per day

Examples of questions to ask:

What happens when ___? How do you think that works? How could you change that?

What does that remind you of? What would happen if ___? Tell me more.

*Remember to narrate play and ask questions; label objects, animals, parts of things (ie leaf on stem), colors, sizes, tastes, quantity.

*This is where you can use the items gathered during your supermarket trip or nature walk.

1. Family Puppets: Create individual "puppets" with your child. Assist your child to cut out images of family members and glue/ tape to popsicle sticks or empty toilet paper rolls. Assist your child as needed to place letter stickers, letter cut-outs or write family members' names. Focus on identification of family members, letter identification, fine motor skills, following directions and imitations.

2. Family Handprint Wreath: Engage your child in a painting activity where they will explore sensory materials to make hand prints on construction paper. Assist your child to cut out and affix handprints to paper plate While engaged in the activity, focus on counting fingers and hands, identifying colors and introduce patterns (ie yellow, red, green, yellow, red, green) No paint? No problem! Use one of the recipes on the Resources page.

3. Family Glyph: Who Lives In Your House? Assign each family member a color. Assist your child to cut out shapes to create a house shape and squares to represent family members. Once complete, assist your child to count squares and make comparisons to between the chart and the glyph. Target fine motor skills, following directions, counting and family member identification.

4. Family Tree: Assist your child paint a tree trunk on paper and then to trace and cut out leaves. Assign a family member to each of the leaves (you may consider using pictures or assist your child to write out names). Affix the leaves to the tree and have your child count the leaves. Focus on labeling family members, fine motor skills, following directions and counting.

5. Fingerprint Family Tree: Remember the glyph you created? You're going to need those colors for this activity. Assist your child to make a arm and hand print on paper to for the tree trunk and branches. Have each family member dip their thumbprint in the color used during the glyph activity and apply to the "tree". Write a key on the paper to indicate which colored print belongs to who (ie Mommy: pink, Grandma: purple). Focus on receptive/ expressive identification of family members, following directions, color identification, counting, patterns.

Books of the Week

Once finished with the book, go through it again and PAUSE video to get a better look at pictures; assist your child to identify pictures (focus on labels, body parts, sounds, shapes, tastes, verbs, colors, quantity).

Use this as an opportunity to talk about how what makes us unique and special. Discuss colors, shapes, quantity, and patterns. Pause the books at any time to answer questions, ASK questions, and point out important information. At the end of the book, talk about it some more. Ask WH questions (ie WHAT did we just read?/ WHAT did you see?)

Interested in reading some more? Check this out: Joan Snow PreK Library: All About Us

Videos of the Week/ Music and Movement

When exploring these videos, use this as an opportunity to talk with your child about parts of their bodies and the function of body parts (ie touch/ feel with hands/ feet), EMOTIONS and following directions and imitations.

I've included some videos that target daily living skills; review these videos and talk about your daily routines, allow your child to practice and remember to narrate and model.

It's important to engage with your child, narrate videos and PAUSE video if you need to. Have your child perform emotions and movements with their bodies. Write down any reactions or words and share with us!

The goal here is to HAVE FUN! Making mistake and having a do-over is OKAY, it's all part of the learning process!

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