Early Childhood Education 1

Use today to Catch-Up on fun ’buggy’ activities from the week which you missed.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Mother’s Day!

Look for some sunflower seeds to arrive in your mail soon. Here’s the planting instructions:

Happy Growing!

Spring-

Tuesday

Enjoy my video. Thank you for my beautiful flowers! ❤️

Spring Bugs-

 

ABC’s-

 

Dance-

Daily Book-

Literacy

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2. Complete the sentence-I feel lonely when…

Math

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2. Roll one dice and do the following, repeat.

Arts/Sciences

1.  Lightning Bug Lanterns

Materials: plastic soda bottle (remove label), black paint, pipe cleaners, brown & yellow construction paper, glow sticks, google eyes or pony beads.

-Paint cap black.

-Loop a black pipe cleaner around bottle, twist the ends where they join like a twist tie.  This will be one set of legs. Repeat 2 x.

-Wrap construction paper around the bottle to cover pipe cleaners, but leave legs exposed.  Secure paper.

-Twist pipe cleaner around neck for antennae.

-Glue brown wings to top of body.

-Add glow stick.

-Screw on lid and glue down eyes.

 

2.  Bandage Fireflies

On dark paper (night sky) draw stars and a moon.   On your paper, stick 3 bandaids together in a firefly shape. Add google eyes, mouth, antennae and yellow glitter-glue as the flasher.

Specials Classes:

On Monday is Music-Please see Mrs. Haas’ Class Page

On Thursday is Gym-Please see Mrs. Mullen’s Class Page

On Friday is Reading Center-Please see Mrs. Price’s Page

 

Free Access to a digital program called “ABC Mouse” can be activated on your online devices for the duration of our school closure.  Use the following code, but do not share with others outside of our school, or on social media, it is specific to our school.

SCHOOL8044

Feel free to send pictures of/messages about your fun activities to:

rborman@sacredheartgradeschool.org

                 -OR-

our class Remind group

Missing you!  God Bless,

Mrs. Borman

Monday

Songs:

Spring Bugs-

 

Religion-

 

Dance-

Daily Book-

Literacy

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2.  Play Doh Bumblebees

Use:  yellow play doh, black pipe cleaners, wiggle eyes, flower shaped cookie cutters, etc…

Act out your favorite bumblebee story/ poem using your bees.

Math

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2.  Count and Pollinate

Parents draw 10 simple flower outlines on a paper with different numbers in each flower center.  Kids will identify the number on each flower and ‘pollinate’ the flowers by using tongs to place that many pompomsonto each flower.

Arts/Sciences

1.  Bumblebee Spring Snack

Use fruits and favorite cereals to make this buggy snack!

Ingredients:

1/2 yellow apple or plum, sliced in half-head

2 apple slices-wings

A handful of black grapes halved-bee stripes

1 baby carrot, sliver off two thin slices-antennae

2 raisins-eyes

2 Cheerios-antennae tips

A handful of Honey Kix Cereal or similar-alternating bee stripes

Add a tiny slice of black grape at the bottom to make the bee’s stinger.

 

2.  Marshmallow stamped bumblebees

Dip the end of a marshmallow in yellow paint and press onto a paper to make a stamp.  Make another stamp slightly overlapping the first.  One stamp will be the head and the other the body.  Stamp as many bees as you like and set aside to dry.

Use a sharpie to draw in the details of your bee- antennae, eyes, wings, stinger… for your bees’ features.

Specials Classes:

On Monday is Music-Please see Mrs. Haas’ Class Page

On Thursday is Gym-Please see Mrs. Mullen’s Class Page

On Friday is Reading Center-Please see Mrs. Price’s Page

 

Free Access to a digital program called “ABC Mouse” can be activated on your online devices for the duration of our school closure.  Use the following code, but do not share with others outside of our school, or on social media, it is specific to our school.

SCHOOL8044

Feel free to send pictures of/messages about your fun activities to:

rborman@sacredheartgradeschool.org

                 -OR-

our class Remind group

Missing you!  God Bless,

Mrs. Borman

Friday is now a school wide Catch-Up Day so that you can complete any unfinished activities from the week or the Fun Friday Projects below.  Have a great weekend!

Thursday

Songs:

Spring Bugs-Ants Go Marching

 

Counting 1-100-

Dance-

Daily Book-The Ant and The Grasshopper

Literacy

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2.  Discuss the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”.

What is the correct thing to do?

Should the ants have shared with the grasshopper?

Make an ant hill from brown paper and cut it out.  Make little fingerprint ants with a black stamp pad on the ant hill.

Use:

Thumb-abdomen

Pinkie-thorax

Pointer-head

Draw on legs and antennae.

Math

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2.    How Many am I Hiding?

Use plastic ants or any small item.  Begin with 3 ants.  Put your hand over all the ants. Slide your hand away with 2 under your hand.  Have the child tell how many you’re hiding.  Explain to your child this is not a guess.  They use their brain to think of the answer.  When your child catches on, try the game with more ants.  Then let your child take a turn hiding the ants, and see if they can “trick” you.

Arts/Sciences

1.  Egg Carton Ants

Cut a cardboard egg carton so your child has 3 egg cups for the 3 body parts.  Paint either red, brown or black.  Add wiggle eyes and pipe cleaner pieces for the antennae and legs.

2.  Ant Hill in a Cup

Use a clear punch cup so you can see the layers.First put a layer of chocolate pudding for the “dirt”.  Then crush a graham cracker in a ziplock and pour the crumbs into the cup for the anthill “sand”.  Last, add chocolate chips or raisins for the “ants”.

Specials Classes:

On Monday is Music-Please see Mrs. Haas’ Class Page

On Thursday is Gym-Please see Mrs. Mullen’s Class Page

On Friday is Reading Center-Please see Mrs. Price’s Page

 

Free Access to a digital program called “ABC Mouse” can be activated on your online devices for the duration of our school closure.  Use the following code, but do not share with others outside of our school, or on social media, it is specific to our school.

SCHOOL8044

Feel free to send pictures of/messages about your fun activities to:

rborman@sacredheartgradeschool.org

                 -OR-

our class Remind group

Missing you!  God Bless,

Mrs. Borman

Wednesday

Songs:

Spring Bugs-

 

Letter U-

Dance-

Daily Book-

Literacy

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2.  Name that Bug!

Parent trace 3” colored construction paper circles and let your child cut them out.  (Cut as many circles as the number of letters in your name, plus a head.). Print one letter of your name on each circle, decorate a caterpillar head, and glue all together in a row.

3.  Letter U

Shape the letter U with Play Doh snakes.  Practice making other letters.

Math

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2.  Patterns

Parents draw some open circle caterpillars with heads and have your child use crayons to complete each caterpillar with a different pattern.  Examples:

AB pattern=red, green…

ABC pattern=yellow, purple, blue…

3.  Butterfly Lacing Cards

Trace a butterfly outline on an old file folder, cut out, and punch holes around the edges.  (Or let your child punch holes for more finer motor development.). Use yarn to lace through the holes and decorate the wings with markers.  Explain symmetry to your child and see if they can make the wings match.??????????????

Arts/Sciences

1.   Healthy Butterfly Snack 

Use:

celery stalks, very thin apple slices, peanut butter, raisins, & pretzel sticks

2.  Clothespin Butterflies

(Continued from yesterday☺️)

Paint a coffee filter with watercolors.

When it’s time for your butterfly to come out of the cocoon, the butterfly “wings” are then clipped into the clothespin caterpillar.

Specials Classes:

On Monday is Music-Please see Mrs. Haas’ Class Page

On Thursday is Gym-Please see Mrs. Mullen’s Class Page

On Friday is Reading Center-Please see Mrs. Price’s Page

 

Free Access to a digital program called “ABC Mouse” can be activated on your online devices for the duration of our school closure.  Use the following code, but do not share with others outside of our school, or on social media, it is specific to our school.

SCHOOL8044

Feel free to send pictures of/messages about your fun activities to:

rborman@sacredheartgradeschool.org

                 -OR-

our class Remind group

Missing you!  God Bless,

Mrs. Borman7

Tuesday

 

Spring Bugs-

 

ABC’s-

 

Dance-

Daily Book-The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Literacy

1.  (Use items in your E-Day Bag). Draw a picture of your favorite part of today’s book in your Composition Book and dictate a sentence about it to your parent (who can write it next to your picture).  Allow children to mimic your writing, if interested.

2.  Ask your child to retell the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Encourage them to recall the Caterpillar to Butterfly Life Cycle.  Talk about the Life Cycle of a Person.   Recite the days of the week.

 

Math

1.  Count as high as you can and identify the foam numerals from 1-10 in your E-Day Bag.

2.  Caterpillar Egg Counting Mats

Cut 10 green leaves and label them with one number each, from 1-10.  Use pompoms from your E-day bag and pretend they are eggs.  Using a plastic tweezer, pick up your eggs and place the correct number on each leaf.

Arts/Sciences

1.  Caterpillar and Cocoon 

Wind white yarn around the outside of a toilet paper tube to serve as a cocoon.  Glue colored pompoms along the side of a

clothespin to be a caterpillar.  Add eyes to it.  Place the caterpillar inside the cocoon to grow.  Butterfly will be tomorrow’s craft.

2.  Caterpillar Snack

Peel a banana and cut it into segments horizontally across.  Add raisin eyes and tiny pretzel sticks for legs.

Specials Classes:

On Monday is Music-Please see Mrs. Haas’ Class Page

On Thursday is Gym-Please see Mrs. Mullen’s Class Page

On Friday is Reading Center-Please see Mrs. Price’s Page

 

Free Access to a digital program called “ABC Mouse” can be activated on your online devices for the duration of our school closure.  Use the following code, but do not share with others outside of our school, or on social media, it is specific to our school.

SCHOOL8044

Feel free to send pictures of/messages about your fun activities to:

rborman@sacredheartgradeschool.org

                 -OR-

our class Remind group

Missing you!  God Bless,

Mrs. Borman

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