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Baby Unit Week 4

Essential Question: What are babies?

Focus Question: How do babies change?

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, go on a nature walk (even if it's just around the block) and talk about the animals you see. Talk about what you hear, whether it was a bird chirping or dog barking. Gather twigs, leaves, and blades of grass; talk about how animals use these materials to make cozy beds and homes for their babies Allow your child to explore what you've discovered and we'll be using some of these materials throughout the week

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: adult, egg, grow, tadpole

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

(Focus Letters: A, E, G, T)

*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

C91 Remote Learning - Resources

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, be creative!

*This is where you can use the items gathered during your nature/ neighborhood walk (ie branches, leaves, grass, dirt, flowers)

Habitats: Create a sensory bin by adding natural materials that reflect the habitats of the animal babies we've been learning about. Here's an opportunity in include items from your nature walk: flowers, stems from various plants, a variety of leaves, bark from trees, small twigs as well as roots and rocks/ pebble. If possible, add toy animal babies and adult animals to your habitat. Assist your child to identify items and animals by pointing or labeling. Ideas for bins include: pond for frogs or fish/ materials for a bird's nest/ grass or hay for farm animals/ BE CREATIVE and HAVE FUN! Practice: scooping/ pouring, turn taking, following directions and labeling, performing actions (ie make the frog jump/ make the bird fly)
How Have I Grown?: Measure out a piece of string or ribbon of how long your child was at birth. Then measure your child with a piece of string or ribbon of a contrasting color. Compare the two lengths and talk about how much bigger the child is now than when s/he was born. Use words such as longer and shorter throughout the activity. After the comparison, you have the ribbon/ string as a keepsake. Tie it in a bow and add it to a piece of paper with this poem (example attached below):

"This ribbon is very special, as anyone can see... Untie it...and it is the exact same size as me!

Life Cycle Sequencing: Provide pictures that model an animal life cycle. NARRATE THE PICTURES AND SEQUENCE. Invite your child to sequence the pictures. START WITH TWO PICTURES ONLY. Use language like: FIRST/ THEN (ie FIRST the egg, THEN the chick). Assist your child to sequence the pictures by labeling, pointing or moving pictures OR you can draw your own together! *Remember to narrate and label pictures throughout the activity*
Life Cycle Crafts: Life cycles of animals, insects and such are fascinating and can be studied at any time. But in Spring, it is especially relevant to study life cycles, so check out the attachment on Life Cycle activities for kids below!

1.CLICK HERE for Sensory Bin Habitats

3. Animal Life Cycle Google Images

LifeCycleSequencingCardsFREEButterflyandFrogDistanceLearning.pdf

3. Life Cycle Sequencing Cards

2. How Have I Grown Idea

CLICK HERE for Life Cycle Activites

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 animal labels, body parts, animal sounds, verbs, colors, quantity.

Use this as an opportunity to talk about different types of animals and where they live (habitat), as well as the life cycle of animals (how they change). 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?/ WHERE do frogs live?)

Tale of a Tadpole by Karen Wallace

This Little Chick by John Lawrence

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Read by Ms. Lule

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Videos of the Week/ Music and Movement

When exploring these videos, use this as an opportunity to talk with your child about baby animals, how they change and grow. See if your child can identify the many animals in the videos, sequence the life cycle (ie egg to tadpole to frog), make animal sounds and perform animal actions (you can have them point or label to animals).

It's important to narrate these videos and PAUSE video if you need to. There are MANY steps in the life cycle, point out things your child may recognize and identify with. Write down any reactions or words and share with us!

I included Old MacDonald, a classroom favorite, engage your child in dance with the rattles they made (or other instruments) or perform some animal actions from last week!

The goal here is to HAVE FUN! Making noise is okay, it's all part of the learning process!

Tadpole Transformation From Egg to Frog