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Gentle reminder to complete Daily Attendance and Parent Activity Review
Vocabulary Building:
Vocabulary Building:
Labeling: Help your child to label these words. You may show pictures, toys, videos, or real life experiences.
Plant Flower Grow
Leaf Stem Seed Dig Tree
Listening: State these words and model the actions with your child. Help your child to do the actions on their own.
Put In Dig Wait
Look All Done
Monday
Monday
Story Time
Story Time
Rah, Rah, Radishes by
Scroll down for the Books of the Week. After reading the books/watching the videos, go on a nature walk or take your child to the window to look at plants outside. Talk about where you/ they see plants and flowers growing. Plants can grow anywhere
Literacy Activity
Literacy Activity
Flower Names
The first reading milestones include a child recognizing their name and the letters in it. Help your child make a flower with the letters of their name. Count the letters! How special it is to have your very own name!
Challenge: Have your child cut the letters themselves or draw letters on their own (can show them a picture of the letter)
Click here for the full activity
Math:
Math:
Seed Sort
Provide an assortment of seeds and beans as well as trays or containers for sorting. Allow your child to explore and ask them to sort by color, size, design or by categories of their choosing. Narrate the activity and share your thoughts and sorting criteria aloud as you work.
Modification: Give our child two options of seeds to sort. If they do well, add a third seed.
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Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ MathScience
Home Art Activity 3D Thumbprint Sculpture Flowers
Check out the video below for a tutorial!
For a challenge: Have your child create a specific amount for petals to match the numeral on the flower (check out the picture for an example)
Talk with your child about different types of plants (ie flower, plants, tree, grass). Connect this with experiences at home. What types of plants do you have at home? *Include plants you can eat and make comparisons (ie celery, lettuce, berries)
Cooking with Plants:
Cooking with Plants:
Vegetable or Fruit Salad:
Take a walk to your kitchen/ refrigerator and look around for groups of items.
Assist your child to make to make categories, one for fruits and another for vegetables.
Decide if you want to make a fruit salad or vegetable salad and provide assistance to explore the foods.
Check out the video below for a short tutorial and enjoy!
Questions: What colors are the foods? What shapes are the fruits and vegetables? How does the fruit or vegetable taste? What does it feel like? Which is your favorite? Why? Why not?
Tuesday
Tuesday
Story Time
Story Time
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Scroll down for the Books of the Week videos. After reading the books/watching the videos, go on a nature walk or take your child to the window to look at plants outside. Talk about where you/ they see plants and flowers growing. Plants can grow anywhere. While cooking, talk about he plants we eat and the colors of the foods as well as the taste!
Literacy Activity
Literacy Activity
Check out the Scavenger Hunt!
Though it doesn't feel like it yet.. Spring has sprung! The weather has been cool and wet. We encourage you to get out and go for a walk to look for signs of spring. Be on the lookout for singing birds, busy bees and blooming flowers and trees. Be adventurous and take a walk in the rain. The good news is if you get wet, you are going right back home and you can change into something dry. Compare your rainy day walk and sunny day walk. Did you see and hear different things?
Math
Math
Counting Seeds with Ms. Nicole
Provide an assortment of seeds or beans and draw a chart with corresponding numerals (check out the video tutorial). Allow your child to explore and assist them to place the seeds in the column according to the number up top. Narrate the activity and share your thoughts and sorting criteria aloud as you work.
For a challenge: Have you child write or trace the numeral and independently place the seeds in the column
Modification: Draw small circles or place glue dots in the places where the seeds should go
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Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math
Painting with Flowers
CLICK HERE to check out tutorial
You'll need flowers/ leaves, paint, paper and a smile
Talk with your child about different types of plants (ie flower, plants, tree, grass). Connect this with experiences at home. What types of plants do you have at home? *Include plants you can eat and make comparisons (ie celery, lettuce, berries)
No paint? No problem!
DIY Paint Recipes:
11 Super simple homemade paint recipes
Vocabulary Building:
Vocabulary Building:
Labeling: Help your child to label these words. You may show pictures, toys, videos, or real life experiences.
Plant Flower Grow
Leaf Stem Seed Dig Tree
Listening: State these words and model the actions with your child. Help your child to do the actions on their own.
Put In Dig Wait
Look All Done
Cooking with Plants:
Cooking with Plants:
Slice up some vegetables (ie carrots, celery, cucumbers) Try out different dips (ie ranch dressing, sour cream, cream cheese, peanut butter). Talk about the texture, temperature, colors, taste.
For a challenge: Have your child count out pieces of the vegetables, or put into categories by color/ texture/ size
Wednesday
Wednesday
Story Time
Story Time
Scroll down for the Books of the Week videos.
“An Orange in January” by Dianna Hutts Aston
While reading, here are some questions you can ask your child, but try out some of your own questions too! *Where was the orange at the beginning of the book, what other fruits/ colors do you see?*Where else do you see oranges?*What animals do you see? Let's count them!*What are the children doing? How do they feel? Show me!The illustrator of this book, Julie Maren, used curly lines to show the wind. When you see these lines, point them out to your child and model blowing while labeling.
Literacy Activity
Literacy Activity
Check out the Scavenger Hunt!
With today's rain, maybe we'll see a rainbow! Check out the Scavenger Hunt, this can be done inside or outside! While you and your child watch the rain, talk about how plants and trees need the water to grow. What else does a plant need to grow?
Math
Math
Clementine Counting Activity
Let's use clementines instead of oranges! Target fine motor skills as you assist your child to peel the fruit and count the segments inside. Which as more/ less? Which is bigger/ smaller?
Challenge: Have you child independently peel and segment the the fruit using index and thumb fingers (pincer grasp).
Have your child write the numeral that relates to the amount they count.
Modification: Hand over hand assist to peel and arrange pieces to count; can draw orange half-circles on a piece of paper so your child will match the fruit slice to the right place.
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Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math
Engage your child in play to to find fruits/vegetables around the house (can be pretend food or real food). Assist your child to examine foods and determine if they are a fruit/vegetable and sort. As a challenge, have your child find matching colors and draw what they see or have them draw their favorite fruit/ vegetable
Continue to narrate throughout the activity! Remember: NONSTOP LANGUAGE!
Remind your child that fruits have seeds and vegetables do not
Bonus! Save the seeds to use for planting
(video tutorial below)
Vocabulary Building:
Vocabulary Building:
Labeling: Help your child to label these words. You may show pictures, toys, videos, or real life experiences.
Plant Flower Grow
Leaf Stem Seed Dig Tree
Listening: State these words and model the actions with your child. Help your child to do the actions on their own.
Put In Dig Wait
Look All Done
Cooking with Plants:
Cooking with Plants:
Slice up some vegetables (ie carrots, celery, cucumbers) Try out different dips (ie ranch dressing, sour cream, cream cheese, peanut butter). Talk about the texture, temperature, colors, taste.
For a challenge: Have your child count out pieces of the vegetables, or put into categories by color/ texture/ size
Vocabulary Building:
Vocabulary Building:
Labeling: Help your child to label these words. You may show pictures, toys, videos, or real life experiences.
Plant Flower Grow
Leaf Stem Seed Dig Tree
Listening: State these words and model the actions with your child. Help your child to do the actions on their own.
Put In Dig Wait
Look All Done
Thursday
Thursday
Story Time
Story Time
Scroll down for the Books of the Week videos.
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
While reading, here are some questions you can ask your child, but try out some of your own questions too! *Where is the boy? What did he plant?*Who did he talk to?*What did he give to the plant?What happened in the end? What color is the carrot?Literacy Activity
Literacy Activity
Check out the Scavenger Hunt!
With another day of rain, it looks like we'll be spending the day inside! Check out the Scavenger Hunt where you can assist your child to some or all of the items on the list.
Math
Math
Citrus Compare Activity
Let's explore a variety of citrus and other fruits! Assist your child to sort by size or color. Work on fine motor skills by assisting your child to cut or peel the the fruit. You can graph or make check marks to indicate which fruits you and your child enjoyed most/ least.
Challenge: Have you child independently peel and segment the the fruit using index and thumb fingers (pincer grasp).
Have your child write the numeral that relates to the amount they count/ graph.
Modification: Hand over hand assist to sort fruit. Place colored paper on table and have your child place fruits on corresponding colored paper.
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Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math
Check out the "Planting Seeds" video below. If you don't have materials, talk about the planting process and what is needed for plants to grow
Continue to narrate throughout the activity! Remember: NONSTOP LANGUAGE!
Remind your child that fruits have seeds and vegetables do not
Cooking with Plants:
Cooking with Plants:
Talk with your child about the different plants we eat and ways we can prepare them. Assist your child to explore the vegetables and add them to the pot.
For a challenge: Have your child count out pieces of the vegetables, or put into categories by color/ texture/ size
Vocabulary Building:
Vocabulary Building:
Labeling: Help your child to label these words. You may show pictures, toys, videos, or real life experiences.
Plant Flower Grow
Leaf Stem Seed Dig Tree
Listening: State these words and model the actions with your child. Help your child to do the actions on their own.
Put In Dig Wait
Look All Done
Friday
Friday
Story Time
Story Time
Scroll down for the Books of the Week videos.
Rah Rah Radishes
by April Pulley Sayre Read by Ms. LuleRah Rah Radishes
While reading the book, pause throughout to label and count foods as well as identify colors, whether fruit or vegetable. Be creative and remember to just KEEP TALKING!
Literacy Activity
Literacy Activity
Let's go shopping!
Take your time over the next couple of days to organize a grocery list with your child. Have your child point or label to request their favorite fruits and vegetables. Assist your child to cut pictures out of a newspaper, magazine or circular and add to their grocery list. Haver your child match the items on list with the foods (either real or pretend)
CLICK HERE for more information
Math
Math
Counting Seeds with Ms. Nicole
Provide an assortment of seeds or beans and draw a chart with corresponding numerals (check out the video tutorial). Allow your child to explore and assist them to place the seeds in the column according to the number up top. Narrate the activity and share your thoughts and sorting criteria aloud as you work.
For a challenge: Have you child write or trace the numeral and independently place the seeds in the column
Modification: Draw small circles or place glue dots in the places where the seeds should go
STEAM:
STEAM:
Science/ Technology/ Engineering/ Art/ Math
Check out the "Planting Seeds" video below. If you don't have materials, talk about the planting process and what is needed for plants to grow.
Continue to narrate throughout the activity! Remember: NONSTOP LANGUAGE!
Remind your child that fruits have seeds and vegetables do not
Cooking with Plants:
Cooking with Plants:
Talk with your child about the different plants we eat and ways we can prepare them. Assist your child to explore the vegetables and add them to the pot.
For a challenge: Have your child count out pieces of the vegetables, or put into categories by color/ texture/ size
Books of the Week
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 verbs, colors, quantity and all the types of plants and animals you can find).
Use this as an opportunity to talk about different foods (fruits and vegetables), colors, textures and temperatures. If you have any of these items at home, assist your child to explore foods using their five senses. Afterwards, you can engage your child in an art activity to recreate the foods or plants OR have them identify by labeling or pointing
Rah Rah Radishes by April Pulley Sayre Read by Ms. Lule
The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Videos of the Week
Videos of the Week
When exploring these videos, use this as an opportunity to talk with your child about what plants need to grow and the parts of plants. See if your child can locate flowers, sun, plants, dirt, water in the house or while outside (you can have them point or label).
Afterwards, you can engage your child in an art activity to recreate the plants OR have them identify plants and their parts by labeling or pointing.
The goal here is to HAVE FUN! Messes are okay, it's all part of the learning process!
Thumb print flowers
Planting Seeds with Ms. Vicky and Izzy
Fruit Salad
Sesame Street: Grover talks about plants
Tree Song
Cosmic Kids Yoga: Tree Pose
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