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Week 6: Letter Review- Mail letters Gg and Hh with Mailbox Activity 

Thursday- All About Me

Reading: Read a book about you! Look through photos and talk about your favorite memories.

Letters & Sounds: Make up silly nonsense words that rhyme with your name. Then match the Rhyme Time Match card game.

Rhyme Time Match

Math: Put the math number puzzles together.

Math Number Puzzles

Fine Motor: Write your name (first name, last name, or both). Then trace it with stickers or markers.

Art or Sensory: Using a mirror, draw a self-portrait. Notice the color of your eyes, the shape of your eyes, the shape of your hair, and all the special details in you.

Gross Motor: Write each letter of your name on a paper plate. Spread the plates out in a line and hop over them.

Music & Movement: 

Special: Music- Please check with Mrs. Haas on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience)

National Geographic Kids– Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall– Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach.

Harry Kindergarten YouTube– Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation.

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 6: Letter Review- Mail letters Ee and Ff with Mailbox Activity 

Wednesday- Shapes

Reading: Read a book about shapes. Notice the parts of a book (cover, spine, pages).

Letters & Sounds: Put the letter puzzles together. Do some or all of the letter puzzles. Say the letter and sound.

Letter Puzzles

Math: Go on a shape hunt! Call out a shape and walk around the room touching that shape. Repeat with other shapes.

2D Shape Hunt

Fine Motor: Draw big shapes on a piece of paper. Trace each shape with tiny treasures like coins, pom poms, buttons, or rocks.

Art or Sensory: Cut paper shapes and create a shape collage.

STEM: Make shapes with toothpicks and play dough. Count how many points and sides of each shape.

Music & Movement:

Special: No Special Today

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience)

National Geographic Kids– Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall– Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach.

Harry Kindergarten YouTube– Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation.

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 6: Letter Review- Mail letters Cc and Dd with Mailbox Activity 

Tuesday- Dinosaurs

Reading: Read a book about dinosaurs. Is it a fiction or non-fiction book? How do you know?

Letters & Sounds: Make letters with “dinosaur bones” (aka Q-tips).

Math: Find 5-10 dinosaur figures or stuffed animals. Sort the dinosaurs by size, color, and number of legs.

Fine Motor: Dino dig! Hide letters, numbers, or dinosaur figures in sand or salt. Use a shallow pan and paint brush just like real archeologists do.

Art or Sensory: Make fossils with play dough. Press various items into the play dough to create fun fossil prints.

Science: Try the Frozen Animal Escape! Freeze dinosaurs in bowls of water then use salt, water, and tools to melt the ice.

Frozen Animal Escape

Music & Movement:

Special: Reading Center- Check with Mrs. Price on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience)

National Geographic Kids– Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall– Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach.

Harry Kindergarten YouTube– Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation.

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 6: Letter Review- Mail letters Aa and Bb with Mailbox Activity 

Monday- Art

Reading: Read a book by your favorite illustrator or listen to the following story by a famous illustrator, Eric Carle. How did he/she create illustrations?

Letters & Sounds: Go outside and write letters with chalk. Then paint with water and a paint brush.

Math: Find 5-10 different drawing and painting tools. Line them up from short to tall.

Fine Motor: Make Salt Dough (see recipe). After it dries, paint it!

Salt Dough

Art or Sensory: Make a pointillism painting ( little dots to create art). Use Q-Tips and make a painting.

Music: Play music. Paint or draw to the tempo of the music.

Special: French- Check with Mrs. Dailey on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience)

National Geographic Kids– Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids– Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall– Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach.

Harry Kindergarten YouTube– Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation.

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 5: Make a card for someone special each day!

Friday

Zoom Meeting @ 12:30!- How did you celebrate Earth Day?

Reading: Fun Bird Facts!

Math & Literacy: Enjoy outdoors! Count the birds you see and record what you spotted in your bird watching book.  Have Fun!

Fine Motor: Make birds with playdough and add feathers.

Art:  Coffee Filter Earth to celebrate Earth Week – Color the coffee filter with blue and green markers.  Spray coffee filter with water until wet.  Lay the coffee filter out to dry.

Religion:  God’s Gift of Life: God made the earth and the sky.  God made the sun, moon, and stars.  God made our birds, animals, and plants.  People are the greatest of all that God made!  Complete page 67.

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Special: Gym- Check with Mrs. Mullen on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience) 

National Geographic Kids- Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall- Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach

Harry Kindergarten YouTube- Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 5: Make a card for someone special each day!

Thursday- Rain forest

Reading: Read a book about the rain forest. Make predictions as you read. What will happen next?

Letters & Sounds: Make a list of rain forest animals. Clap the number of syllables in each word.

Math: Make snake patterns. Use pom poms, buttons, or beads.

Fine Motor: Cut up “jungle leaves” with scissors. Go outside and find the leaves or cut leaves from paper.

Art or Sensory: Make a rain forest animal face with a paper plate. Color with markers, add construction paper, or string to it.

STEM: Build a rain forest habitat using blocks and animal figures. Make leaves and vines with green paper.

Special: Music- Check with Mrs. Haas on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience) 

National Geographic Kids- Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall- Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach

Harry Kindergarten YouTube- Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 5: Make a card for someone special each day!

Wednesday- Recycle

Help celebrate 50 Years of Earth Day by doing something today to take care of our Earth!

Reading: Read a book about the Earth or taking care of our Earth. Make a list of things you can do to take care of our Earth.

Letters & Sounds: Make your own letter manipulatives. Collect lids, popsicle sticks, bread tags, or small cups. Put letter stickers or write a letter on each one. Line up in ABC order.

Earth Day Letter write

Math: Make environmental print puzzles. Use the front of the box of cereal. Cut it into pieces making a puzzle. Put the puzzle together.

Fine Motor: Cut up straws with scissors. String the cut pieces on a piece of string to make a necklace.

Art:   Make a collection jar using an old jar. Clean it, paint it, and/or glue collage items to it. Put your small treasures in it.

Science: With help from a parent/guardian plant your sunflower seeds in a sunny spot in your yard.

Special: No Special Today

Apps and Websites to try:

National Geographic Kids- Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall- Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach

Harry Kindergarten YouTube- Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 5: Make a card for someone special each day!

Tuesday- Birds

Reading: Read the book about birds. Can you find our state bird, the red cardinal?

Letters & Sounds: Bird Nest Letter Matching Game- Label capital and lowercase letters on plastic eggs. Break them apart, hide them, and have your child match them. They can pretend to be birds and fly around to find all of the eggs. Closing the eggs is great fine motor practice. If you do not have eggs, use the alphabet letter cards from last week.

Math: Go outside and see how many birds you can count. Make sure you listen for bird sounds.

Fine Motor: Bird Identification Book- Cut out the 10 bird identification cards (in packet) and bind them with the metal ring (in packet).  You can use this book for birdwatching!

Art or Sensory: Paint your wooden bird house and find a spot in your yard to hang. Add bird seed and see how many different birds come to visit.

Gross Motor: Pretend you are a bird by hopping, jumping, leaping, and flapping your wings to fly.

Special: Reading Center- Check with Mrs. Price on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience) 

National Geographic Kids- Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall- Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach

Harry Kindergarten YouTube- Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Week 5: Make a card for someone special each day!

Monday-At the Pond

Reading: Read a book about the pond or pond animals. Who were the characters? Who/what was the main character?

Letters & Sounds: Pond beings with the letter P. Make the “P” sound. Think of all the words that begin with the letter P.

Math: Put number puzzle pieces in a “pond” (aka blue piece of paper). Fish for a number, say the name, and trace it on the number hunt page.

Number Puzzle Pieces

Number Hunt Pages

Fine Motor: Sing the song 5 Green Speckled Frogs. Use your fingers to count and your arm as the log as you sing.

Sensory: Make a pond sensory bin. Fill a bin halfway with water then add plastic plates (lily pads), rocks, and plastic pond animals.

Gross Motor: Lilypad leap! Place pieces of green paper on the ground in a path and leap over them like a frog.

Special: French – Please check with Mrs. Daily on her class page for your assignment today.

Apps and Websites to try: (hyperlinked for your convenience) 

National Geographic Kids- Research and learn about animals and their habitats.

PBS Kids- Songs, activities, and videos that teach.

Starfall- Learn about letters and sounds.

Websites and Apps to get kids moving:

Dr. Jean YouTube– Fun songs that teach

Harry Kindergarten YouTube- Fun songs that teach and help develop self- regulation

Go Noodle– YouTube or an App. Dance-alongs, yoga, and more.

Fun Friday! – Grocery Store

Zoom Meeting @ 12:30

Week 4 Write and draw in your journal!

Reading: Listen to the following story. What items do you like to get from the grocery store?

Letters & Sounds: Make a grocery store list.

Math: Find grocery store items in your house. Sort the items by size and color.

Fun Friday Game: Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt- Check off the items you have. How many did you find?

Grocery Scavenger Hunt

Religion: Complete Lesson #24 More About the Bible

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Fun Friday Dance Song: It’s Raining Tacos (class favorite)

Special: Gym – Please check with Mrs. Mullen on her class page for your assignment today.

“Play is the highest form of research.” -Albert Einstein