09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/qS9aUZBxCxgDC4RTA before tracing the name of the animals, ask your child the name of each of the animals.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Commotion in the Ocean If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Here is the action rhyme “slippery fish”. The kids loved it https://youtu.be/-ri8tJZbdO0 This is a wonderful book that takes a closer look at the different kinds of animals that live in the ocean. https://youtu.be/DgNmD7xgvzU named commotion in the Ocean.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Motion of the Ocean) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors use the animals from the book ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ and act out the different motions of each animals.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. What can you find in the Ocean? You can show this 6 min long video to go over the animals we have learned about today https://youtu.be/Fn4bQI6yiTk ask your child to name a few things he/she has learned about today that he/she didn’t know before. Art: Paper plate fish bowl. If you have a paper plate you can use that to color blue, either with watercolor, crayons, or paint. Then find materials from around the kitchen to create your own under water world. You can glue rice to the bottom of the plate for sand, goldfish for fish, if you have shell pasta use that to create a beautiful underwater world. Math: use these math counting worksheets to work on number matching. https://images.app.goo.gl/rHnW8oFRBwgrTwfHA https://images.app.goo.gl/LCLMyTzs86vgpxVD6 Sensory: If you have a large clear container, help your child to fill it with cold water then add rice to the bottom of the container. If you have real sea shells you can add those as well as uncooked pasta.
Tuesday 5/19
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/8ei8nhHFpv4R5cKXA this is a number counting and tracing sheet.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Jelly Fish If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Here is a cute warmup video that is similar to A-tooty-ta https://youtu.be/494e4txpwSg This is a fun quick video that explains the basics of jelly fish. They live even though they don’t have lungs, heart, brain but are still able to live and the instinct to eat. https://youtu.be/bvd-kLL99ss
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (find the different jelly fish) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors print and use this sheet https://images.app.goo.gl/wwZkK3KhXf8iTAM88 cut each jelly fish out and hide the individual pictures for your child to find.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Peanut butter Jelly fish https://youtu.be/vqJR-YkV5ko this is fun little book about a jelly fish and other underwater animals and how to be nice and helpful to each other. Art: Paper cup Jelly fish. Use any size paper cups that you have lying around (you can also use a pt roll) Let your child decorate it with whatever you have at home. He/she can paint, color it, add glue or sequence if you have. Help your child, (either with a hole punch or a pointy object) poke holes to the open part of the cup and add either string, yarn, or ribbon to create the tentacles. Math: use this number writing practice sheets to work on number recognition https://images.app.goo.gl/SP4JC1ZwUt6Z1GgA9 Memory/Vocabulary print this fun memory game: https://images.app.goo.gl/fzpzjUo6umyvqpZC7 you can laminate it, then cut it out and play a fun round of memory. When your child finds a pair make sure she/he names what kind of animal or plant she/he sees.
Wednesday 5/20
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/zdDD2fQmEerVABd7A This is an easy writing practice that will also serve a coloring sheet. Since your child will likely only use one color to color the picture, encourage your child to stay inside the lines as he/she colors
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Sharks If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. If you haven’t had enough of the Baby Shark song over the last years here is a link to the original https://youtu.be/FX20kcp7j5c This is a great video that explains everything you always wanted to know about sharks https://youtu.be/tfWMwG6aYzQ
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (man over board) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors tape painter’s tape to the ground/floor, then stick either paper plates or sheets of paper about one foot apart onto the tape. Let your child walk the “plank” by stepping on the plates only avoiding the blue tape.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Clark the Shark Clark the Shark is a fun fictional book that I hope your child will love. Art: Shark craft. Draw circle on colored cardstock or use regular printer paper. Let your child cut out the circle then fold it in half. You can either leave the color as is or let your child color the circle. When done, help your child to cut out a big back fin, tail and nose and glue them to the folded circle. https://images.app.goo.gl/cvViAXUzSPGMWz7N7 Science: with your help print and fill out this shark report https://images.app.goo.gl/u2gmxPvPqXHRUZBP9 to test your child’s knowledge Math: print this connect the dots shark picture https://images.app.goo.gl/LBqXcvgnZkcjMak58 Memory/Vocabulary https://images.app.goo.gl/N15WibWK9ywkLb8v8 use this link to print out the different kinds of sharks. You can either look over the individual sharks or by playing a round of memory.
Week 9
Monday 5/11
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/XgajsoyRBKMoP7nM9 and go over all the beautiful things you can find outside. If you like create a list of things your child finds beautiful and inspiring to draw.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Nature is all around you If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is a fun song about Nature: https://youtu.be/uv2fDasQ8x0 You can use the list from earlier and encourage to draw one thing they saw outside.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Painters tape tightrope balance) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors use painters’ tape or any other type of visible tape and let your child balance on it. You can let your child hold something while balancing, like a pillow on its head.....
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. The world is a Rainbow of Colors This is a very easy to read book that will also give you the names of common flowers that can be planted in a yard. It will go over the colors of the Rainbow as well as illustrate the beauty right outside our doors. https://youtu.be/sti3PXBeVag Art: Rock painting. Go outside and let your child find a rock. It doesn’t have to be a big rock, just big enough to color. You can either use regular paint or acrylics. Acrylic paint will stay on better. If you like you can paint a rainbow of colors either one color per rock or all the colors on the same rock depending on size. Nature: Gather different types of leaves. If you know the name of the name of the plant, share that information with your child then show how to let the pattern come alive by putting the leaf under white printer paper and coloring over the paper with crayons or color pencils. Science: Use this primary color worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/DsHAXaGxpE3dq8UV6 this is a good refresher for your child to understand how the primary colors create new colors when mixed. Help your child experiment to create the new color.
Tuesday 5/12
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/AkvgfEYxf85Xr4bs6 You can create Art by drawing Animals. Help your child to match the shape of the animal to the picture of each animal and then write the name of that animal.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What’s that Animal? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is a fun activity for your child to mimic animal movements https://youtu.be/26guG6wr5so Talk about the different kinds of animals they pretended to be and which one was their favorite one.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Animal Charades) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors act out an animal first with noise and sound, then only use movement to show what kind of animal you are. You can repeat this for as long as your child likes to.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos This is a wonderful book exploring the life of the famous Artist Frida Kahlo and her pet animals, very different kinds of pets than we would find here. https://youtu.be/zvB3sGupqKQ Art: Handprint art. Use this link to show the different kinds of animals your hand print can make https://images.app.goo.gl/ApP9xdxYEH8ux5iK8 all you’ll need is tempera paint, water color will work too. You can find both at the dollar store. Print the hand on paper and your imagination go wild. I would love to see what you come up with. Math: animal counting worksheets. This is a fun way of introducing addition to your child’s math skills. https://images.app.goo.gl/uebpHXZpgy5Vkueu9 https://images.app.goo.gl/TiBqKpADddatm3tZ7 https://images.app.goo.gl/zUakRMc2dDW6fCmU8 Literacy: abc connect the dots This is another fun for your child to work on alphabet recognition https://images.app.goo.gl/LXRkPf523gz3SXCS6
Wednesday 5/13
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/n8N3hNxMtqWDTsMW7 have a discussion on what he/she thinks is inside the present. Let him/her draw it and name it.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What does it mean to use your Imagination? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is a fun little video that explains Imagination: https://youtu.be/xYSLo7eVLDQ Today can you tally how many times you have used your imagination today.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Imagine that!) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. If outdoors, use sidewalk chalk to draw beautiful drawings use your imagination to describe what it is. Indoors, grab common safe objects from around the house and imagine them to be something else. I’d love to see what you come up with.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Beautiful Oops This is a cute little book that shows even when we feel like we can’t do something, or something didn’t go our way, we can still create beautiful art with it, as long as we use our imagination. https://youtu.be/tjpeb6Xr1nc Art: balloon art. You can substitute with a marble or bouncy ball if you have one at home. You’ll need a filled water balloon, baking sheet and a blank piece of cardstock if you have (printer paper is fine) get a few drops of paint, tempera paint works fine and start slowly rolling the balloon across the paper. Imagination/pretend. Use this circle printable worksheet and let your child draw the circles any way he/she want. You can help your child by giving him/her ideas such as patterns, colors, numbers.... Dramatic play: If you have costumes such as old Halloween costumes, dress up and use your imagination. I would love to see your child use his/her imagination. Come up with a story and act it out.
Thursday 5/14
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/toRAkYhu1tvvkvjw8 You can talk about the different shapes and how adding different shapes can make beautiful artwork.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Henri Matisse If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is a very informative book about Henri Matisse’s life. https://youtu.be/Uh09gdPq2M8
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (skip that shape) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. If outdoors, use sidewalk chalk to draw different shapes on the sidewalk. Let your child hopscotch but ask him/her to skip a specific shape. You can use painter’s tape if you have to stay indoors
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Henri Scissors This is a cute book about the different shapes Henri Matisse uses to create his art. https://youtu.be/lvgOlhFDbq0 Art: Create Art with Shapes. Provide your child with different color paper. Help him/her draw shapes or let him/her just create whichever shape they come up with. Let him/her glue the shapes on a big piece or cardboard to create a beautiful picture. Memory: You can use this link to print different shapes to play a fun round of memory game https://images.app.goo.gl/QVvHH7PqtpCNXYp9A Math: This is another fun activity. Let your child color the shapes to create the picture, then count how many shapes he/she can count. https://images.app.goo.gl/ZrJgGWzJKX5j2aHb6
Week 8
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09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/wLEiFgjQ93JGwtP49 and ask your child what it means to communicate with other. Go over the examples from the worksheet and ask which of these are his/her favorite form of communication.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Different ways of communication If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Another fun song https://youtu.be/NtsoBRcV- qE Continue to talk about Communication and that Communication is a way to pass on information, either by reading, listening, seeing. Here is a quick video https://youtu.be/Z8QxVUGCsoc
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Communication by Speech) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors gather a few items from around the house so that your child cannot see them beforehand. Describe the objects without using the name and let your child guess. Then let your child pick a safe object and let him/her describe it to you...
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Talking in front of others can be scary This is a wonderful book that explores the fear of speaking in front of others. https://youtu.be/lTsa8X0VZ9Y it’s called “Too shy for Show and Tell” Art: Communication box. If you happen to have a shoebox or Kleenex box, use to decorate it either with markers, paint, crayons, sequence, anything to make it beautiful. Explain to your child that you and your family can use the box to leave notes, letters and drawings in the box to communicate with each other. Dramatic Play: Use this time to indulge in some fun pretend play. Let your child present something for “Show and Tell” and pretend it’s in front of the class, if you like post it to the Facebook page. Manipulative sequencing: These are just some examples of using pictures for communication. Pictures tell stories and help us understand and process information https://images.app.goo.gl/H516XX7DKQPi2nKC6 https://images.app.goo.gl/j4GPgRZ787xzB9kY6
Tuesday 5/5
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/URAihTPwXzL47jkq6 ask your child how she/he wants to write a letter to and what he/she wants to say then write it and let your child copy the sentence.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Communication through Letters and Postcards If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Here is another song by Patty Shulka https://youtu.be/-HLjxcrgiPg Yesterday we looked at different types ‘means’ of communication today talk about letters and postcards. Do you get lots of Letters?? Maybe not that much anymore what about emails or texts?? Those means have kind of replaced Letters. The letter from earlier, help your child type it on a computer keyboard or on the keys of a smartphone.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Mail box relay) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Use these printable postcards https://images.app.goo.gl/UJhDSBU7Z797iH6dA and letter printable https://images.app.goo.gl/UJhDSBU7Z797iH6dA put them in the mailbox, call out either letter/postcard and let your child bring you one by one.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. How to write a letter or postcard This is a wonderful book on how to write a letter by Daniel Kirk. This book also has a special message about how to say thank you to those who help us https://youtu.be/SURkdR-AefM Art: https://images.app.goo.gl/oJ4XRPWBidvAcM1z7 use this printable letter or make your own. Make your own envelope https://images.app.goo.gl/XyZNf6vydNSYWebx6 and decorate as you please. Give this letter to someone special. Math: https://images.app.goo.gl/r5VmQgzGugofLYvi7 how many mailboxes, letters and stamps do you count. Have your child either write down the number or have him/her tally the correct number. Manipulative: Mail bingo/memory https://images.app.goo.gl/r5VmQgzGugofLYvi7 you can either use this sheet to play Bingo or print two and play a round of Memory.
Wednesday 5/6
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/c8aeXEEobXLjg9UT8 Talk about other ways of communication such as calling on the phone or through Facetime. Use this time to talk about important phone number your child should know.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Talking on the Phone If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is a fun song by the Learning Station try and see if your child likes it https://youtu.be/zBttxAMxaXE One of the most common ways of communication is through phone, iPad... especially during this time. Talk about who the people are that you most often talk to by either using the phone and why. https://youtu.be/DoBhZEgjEuA this is a video that explains how the phone transmits your voice to another person’s phone
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Cell Phone Hopscotch) If you can use this time to outside, maybe a walk around your neighborhood or in your backyard. If weather permits, draw a big phone on the sidewalk. Make sure you draw the numbers 0-9 on. Use a beanbag or rolled up sock and skip away. Let your child name the number before hoping to it.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Hello! Is this Grandma? This is a cute little story about making a phone call. https://youtu.be/dUu8QffLT1w this book shows how every person has its own number and you need to make your to dial the right number if you want to reach the right person. Art: String phone. Get two paper cups. Help your child to draw a phone or use this templet https://images.app.goo.gl/CLziLyJt9D6VEDgW7 let him/her draw on the numbers. Poke a hole in bottom of cup use paper clip to hold in the string (Kite string or Fishing line works best). Make sure the string is held tight and talk away. Language/Literacy: Either on real keyboard on computer (under supervision) or on this templet https://images.app.goo.gl/51iA8i83Db78Wyuj6 let your child practice finding the letter to his/her name.
Thursday 5/7
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/w1KwTPQcj9ScvT2A7 You can go over the Sign Language Alphabet and practice finding the letters of your child’s name.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What is Sign and Body Language If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Here is another song that uses movement to express and send information by Jack Hartmann https://youtu.be/3jPsradyuyI Like our Good Morning we use movement to express ourselves. Even without words we can show other how we feel. This is another way of Communication. Can you show me some ways of how to express how you feel without using words?
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Charades) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors play Charades with your child. You can start with a motion like “brushing your teeth” and then let your child come up with a motion. You can also add facial expressions like sad, happy, scared....explain that our facial expressions can tell other how you feel.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Saying what you mean This is a great book that explains the different ways of communications https://youtu.be/1hnLfnulwZw We can communicate with people far away and people right in front of us, either using words or just motions that we make with our bodies. Have a discussion which way is your child’s favorite way of communication. Math: Use this link https://images.app.goo.gl/NGBRY1PyNVUWk36L9 experience different emotions. You can either make 2 copies and play memory or you can use the one copy to pick one emotion, then let your child mimic that emotion. If you have a hand mirror let your child look at him/herself. Art: Sign Language Sign. https://images.app.goo.gl/cPjGAGSuhuRZNJn4A Help your child trace her hand, make sure the fingers are somewhat spread to make the cutting easier. Repeat this step three times. Either on large craft stick or paper glue the handprint in the order of “I Love U” link from above.
Week 7
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09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/vBxKuSzk4iRKKCe77 and explain the 5 stages every scientist should follow. (Ask, observe, guess, do, share)
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What is the Scientific Method? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Ask your child if he/she remembers the 5 steps to a scientific method and what he/she thinks each of the steps mean. You can play this short video: https://youtu.be/_3wzx2C6Bt8 Here is a fun little song that reiterates scientific method https://youtu.be/LzGeKJzY5_w
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (5 steps of Scientific Method Hopscotch) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors prepare a Hopscotch pattern 1-5 make sure to label each step (1 ask, 2 observe, 3 guess/hypothesize, 4 do the experiment, 5 share the results) help your child read the word/identify the number and let him/her explain what the step means.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. How to be a Scientist (Ada Twist, Scientist) This is a great book that explains the scientific method with beautiful illustrations. https://youtu.be/5tQcSKH37AY Sensory: If you happen to have rice or any other household grain at home, fill a small bin with it add little metal paper clips, magnetic letters, toy cars, non-pointy screws... use magnet and help your child sort out the items by amount, size, color.... Science: let your child come up with a science experiment. Help him/her to write down the theme for example Theme: Ice cube. Step one, question: what happens if I leave an ice cube out on the counter? Step two, observe, look at, feel, ask a parent. Step three, hypothesize/guess, it will melt! Step four, do the experiment, have the ice cube out on the counter, have an egg timer or set an alarm every 3 min and document the progress. Step five, share your result with someone. If you like change the variable in this case temperature (add the ice cube to warm water and set the timer. Does it still melt at the same rate of time??? I will show this experiment in my daily video log.
Tuesday 4/28
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today explain to your child what “Matter” is. Anything that takes up space is called Matter, Air, rocks, water and even people are examples of Matter. Let your child write the word Matter and draw an example of Matter.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Solids, Liquid, Gas If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. We learned that Matter is anything that takes up space. Matter can be grouped in 3 categories: Solids, Liquid, Gas. Use this worksheet to explain https://images.app.goo.gl/62frjJYKhF3pdSix6 find things around the house and let your child identify the right type of matter.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (What type of Matter Song ) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors play this song by Jack Hartman https://youtu.be/3IW8E1YR0kE use the matter images from earlier https://images.app.goo.gl/62frjJYKhF3pdSix6 pick one and give direction sit for liquid, stand for solid and wave your arms for gas.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. What is the world made of? This is a great book that explains matter in great detail. Please be sure to follow that link https://youtu.be/-H9qDUlzBls Let your child come up with examples of Liquid, Solids and Gas. Sensory experiment: How to make rock candy. You’ll need I cup of water and 2 cups of sugar, wooden popsicle stick and cloth pin. Bring sugar water to a boil, let sit and cool for 15min for safe handling. Use glass jar such as tomato s jar, prepare wooden stick by wetting it and rolling it in sugar then stick the popsicle stick in jar. Make sure the stick does not touch any sides by attaching a cloth pin cover with paper towel and document progress daily. The sugar will slowly crystalize. I will show this in my daily video log. Science: Silly putty. 2tbs of cornstarch, 1tbs plus 2 tsp of dish soap mix and enjoy.
Wednesday 4/29
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today explain what Density is. Density is the amount of space an object takes up. This is a hard concept to understand and to make it a bit easier we will stick with air/volume. Go over this sheet and ask sink or float and why. https://images.app.goo.gl/TeCCtDS9Rp5hjcZBA
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Why will a small rock sink but an apple float If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today we learn about the amount some object take up. Like a beach ball for example is filled with air, it’s hollow inside, it makes it very light. Boats float because it’s like a bowl filled with air. How about a bag filled with dirt, dirt or a rock. Their doesn’t seem to be much air inside a rock or penny or even a bag of dirt so it’s more dense. https://youtu.be/eQuW8G2QV_Q https://youtu.be/2dyCe1GPagE
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (sink or float experiment) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors have a plastic bin filled with water. Let your child gather objects they would like to try out, before you start take a guess and explanation as to why he or she/he thinks something will sink or float.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. What floats in a Moat? This is a fun book that explores the concept of Density. Science: Density Tower. https://images.app.goo.gl/LqnVs9dasc7k2VWLA you’ll need: Honey, Corn syrup, Dish soap, water with food coloring, vegetable oil and a glass jar. Depending on the size of the cup/jar use equal amounts of each of the liquids and pour in order from above. Slowly pour each liquid and see the different colors. Ask why the colors don’t mix. The most dense liquid is on the bottom and so on... I will show this experiment in my video log. Science/fine motor: Egg spin. Have two eggs ready one boiled and cooled the other raw. Spin the raw egg and observe what happens, it will wobble, because the yellow and white (yolk and white) have different density even inside the egg. Now spin the boiled egg. It will spin smoothly and faster because the inside is one solid mass inside using up almost all the space.
Thursday 4/30
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this worksheet https://images.app.goo.gl/mGCdE13jVkVNriLe8 and ask your child how to conduct a science experiment.
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What is the Scientific Method? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today discuss what your child has learned and which of the experiments was his/her favorite. Science is all around us and we can be scientist for everything we see. Here is a book that explains all different fields of science. https://youtu.be/PzqHs2Qb9Tk
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (how to create something that works) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors explain that science is trying something out until we make it work, so an inventor can also be a scientist. If you can, use tp and pt rolls, even wrapping paper rolls and small bouncy ball, marble. Let child figure out how to get the ball from side of the room to another by using the rolls so not to touch the ground but by transporting it through the tubes.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Scientist, Scientist who do you see This is a book about real life scientist. I could only fine this on online ;) https://youtu.be/IusKEW_rIRI this might make you want to take a closer look at some of the most famous real life scientist. Art Science: dry and wet chalk. If you are able to go outside. Have a glass of water and sidewalk chalk ready. Let your child draw a picture with wet chalk and another with dry chalk. Talk about the difference in color. Observe what happens when the chalk dries. Sensory Science: Evaporation Path. If weather permits go outside, have a bucket of water ready and find a dry safe sidewalk or driveway. Have object ready that can be submerged in water and create a path with the shapes. Now use your hands, dip them in water and print them to the sidewalk. Use your feet too. See how many steps you can take before the transfer stops. Observe how long you are able to see your path before the water evaporate.
Week 6
Monday 4/20
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today you can practice writing Earth Day with this worksheet https://images.app.goo.gl/YsVYmzWdwB3saEmy8
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What is Earth Day? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today start by having pictures of earth ready https://images.app.goo.gl/mzJFMNBc8May8tJDA https://images.app.goo.gl/1Uz3iNDhBM5DrJYk8 you can use a globe or find pictures online as well. Have a discussion about what he/she sees in each of the pictures. Let your child know that each year on April 22nd we celebrate Earth, that’s why you are going to learn about Earth all week.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (This Land is Your Land) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors practice this song (This Land is Your Land) https://youtu.be/WGKU8awk7Vg you can use this link for the song, the link has lots of beautiful pictures of the United States and uses only one verse. (Very easy to catch on)
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. (The Earth and I book) This is a great one liner book. https://youtu.be/Bg-rxJp9z3M If you can, pause the video after each page to look at the beautiful illustration and have a discussion as to how your child can be a friend to the Earth. Sensory/Art: Fill the Earth https://images.app.goo.gl/RC2ACUPsiQYwatMX7 use this Earth color sheet. Go over what parts are Land and what parts are Water. Make two bowls of puffy paint one green, the other blue by using equal part of liquid glue and shaving cream, add food coloring and have fun creating earth. Your child can either use his/her fingers to transfer the puffy paint. You can also use a Q-tip, spoon or brush. I will show how to make puffy paint in my daily video log Math: Match the objects to the number game. https://images.app.goo.gl/UyMM7t16ZMcr47bC7 let your child cut out the number squares and match the number to the pictures. Alphabet practice: This is a fun printer friendly Earth day puzzles. Print and cut out for your child https://images.app.goo.gl/L7aL8S8ytayxiPuE6
Tuesday 4/21
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today talk about how we can keep the earth clean. Should we just throw trash on the ground??? No, the trashcan! Use this fun sheet https://images.app.goo.gl/AbF5xQHrvpLS9NwD7
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What is Litter? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is another fun song: https://youtu.be/C3c8fzbsfOE If your child does not know the word ‘litter’ explain. Ask what we should do with trash outside. Explain what we can do to give Earth healthy and safe for us to play and live in.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (keep Earth clean Obstacle course) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors explain what areas can get littered such as rivers, roads, ponds, caves, mountains. Use long blanket for river to swim through, piece of cardboard for pond to jump in, chair to crawl under, a sturdy chair to crawl over
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. (What does recycle mean?) This a very in depth book about recycling called “Recycle Every Day by Nancy Wallace https://youtu.be/KelPH8eS9bM I highly recommend watching this video Science: this will be a long-term science observation project. Here is a video that explains “Compost” https://youtu.be/cBkBwVFFEWw If you’d like to make a compost jar. You can use a tomato sauce jar. Go outside and get some “browns” such as fallen leaves or mulch, gather some compostable items such as an apple core, banana peel those are called “greens” if you have paper egg carton or small pieces or card board use that to create air pockets in the soil. Fill your jar with the soil then add the greens and small egg carton, then more soil. If you like you can add a few more apple peels to the top then put on the lid, make sure you punch a hole through the lid. Observer and write down the process over time I will perform this science experiment in my daily video log Math: Have 10-15 different (safe) recyclable items each with a number written on. Have cards with matching number. Pick one number let child say the number on card then find the item with that matching number, then recycle this item. Number puzzle: https://images.app.goo.gl/aqHtzqe6GNQHkcLVA https://images.app.goo.gl/yEqnpwvQNxuYs5Yh7 Print and cut for your child.
Wednesday 4/22
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today use this color sheet https://images.app.goo.gl/ES1M1TYCk1vVZRgH6 let child identify the numbers the color in the number that color represents. Have fun coloring!
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Prevent Waist If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is another fun song the kids love: https://youtu.be/fN1Cyr0ZK9M what does “Waist” mean. Can you think of a time where you waisted something? Maybe water while brushing teeth or paper towels after washing your hands. Have a discussion on how to prevent waist.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (trash, paper, plastic relay) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Either indoors or outdoors have 3 paper bags ready. Label and have one example in the bag for each of the waist items. Have lots of different items ready. Yogurt container, newspaper, if you have diaper, Styrofoam packaging, floor sweepings. https://images.app.goo.gl/MvE5WjhATWyZfXpm6 help your child find the right bags to dispose the items correctly. I will show this game on my daily video log
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. (How to help the Earth by the Lorax) This is a cute book about how to keep the earth healthy and how to help others. https://youtu.be/lbUS3jPjyrc After you are done with this video talk about how we can safe water, energy, paper and keep air healthy and clean so that we can enjoy this wonderful planet. Science: Recycle Planters. If you would like use egg carton, yogurt cup... and plant some flowers. Use soil form your yard and plant flowers such Marigolds. You can get those at the dollar store. Let your child document the growth. Art: Coffee filter Earth. If you have round coffee filters at home, let your child color the filter blue and green. You can use a picture of the Earth as an example. When finished use a brush, Q-tip, dropper and brush the water to the filter to create Earth. Playdough: If you have blue and green playdough use it to recreate Earth.
Thursday 4/23
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today you can use this 3 R’s worksheet. https://images.app.goo.gl/jBxCtp2MPcn8YmFe9
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What are the 3 R’s? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. This is another fun song the kids love: https://youtu.be/NwT5oX_mqS0 Talk about and explain what Reduce, Reuse, Recycle means and let your child give you examples how to follow the 3 R’s.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (reuse, reduce, recycle relay) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. Use this song to reiterate the 3 R’s https://youtu.be/AOvcW8l3RzE use 3 paper bags, label them with the 3 R’s and have an example for each bag. Have different materials ready to sort out. Here are examples for you: https://images.app.goo.gl/zJ4Q3BJerwYfzyei8
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. (Every Day is Earth Day) This is another fun book about what we can do to keep Earth healthy and it gives everyday items. https://youtu.be/KBx8O7MkoPQ Afterwards you can talk about things that you have learned that you may not have known about before. Science: Family Earth Day Chart. Together with the rest of your family members make a chart of things you can do as a family to help the Earth stay healthy such as; turning the lights off when not home, not letting water run when brushing teeth, taking a shorter shower, recycle and reuse items....... I would love to see your family chart. Art: Recycle craft Milk jug Bird feeder. This is an easy craft. You can literally use any plastic jug you have at home. https://images.app.goo.gl/irq2EJHD7igV5NNJ8 let your child draw the openings for the birds onto the milk jug with a Sharpie. Help child cut out the openings, cover edges of openings with thick tape. If you like, let your child draw on the jug with waterproof markers or Acrylic paint. Poke four holes one on each side of the jug and stick long sticks, twigs or wooden dowels through the holes. Add Birdfeed. I will demonstrate this craft. 3 R’s memory game: print this sheet out twice, cut the squares and play the game. https://images.app.goo.gl/zJ4Q3BJerwYfzyei8
Week 5
Tuesday 4/14
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8Today you can practice writing words of common animal names https://images.app.goo.gl/C9yJ7LnRaDLh2LYf8
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Name the baby animals If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing the Good Morning song: https://youtu.be/-0o79IMmAYE you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today you can start by either having lots of different stuffed animals ready or use this worksheet https://images.app.goo.gl/XGBLQXvaNCy2iq4o7 help your child to identify the animals and the names of their babies. Read “If Animals kissed good night” by Ann Whitford Paul. https://youtu.be/6aPJszG6uD4
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Animal hide and seek) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. If you plan to stay indoors you can play hide and seek. Hide a stuffed animal in our around the house and let your child find the stuffed animal.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. This is a fun book about baby animals and bunnies: Home for a bunny https://youtu.be/6PIxyik9NuU you can also play the fun bunny hop song https://youtu.be/E48VnTqEDec I will read Pat the Bunny in my Video log Sensory: The Sensory bin is so much fun. If you happen to have plastic animals use them together with paper or plastic grass or. You can use real grass as well. If you don’t have plastic animals print these: https://images.app.goo.gl/rH4g8u282GGYzq5t5 and add these to your little sensory bin. Art: Bunny craft. Draw 2 circles, one smaller than the other. Let your child cut out the circles. Cut 2 bunny ears. Glue the ears and circles together. Let child draw eyes, nose and mouth. https://images.app.goo.gl/GqtR4z87PExeYA6k8 I will have a video of this craft attached to today’s lesson plan Math: Carrots are great for counting. Use this worksheet to match the bunny to the carrot. https://images.app.goo.gl/qTuRbAFAT3FA4dqN7
Wednesday 4/15
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today you can practice writing the word bird. Use this worksheet if you like https://images.app.goo.gl/UzM4hxCemWgDUyAH8
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) from building a nest of baby bird If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, here is an easy one: https://youtu.be/DYPTJj6hd44 you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today continue to talk about different animals and their babies. You can take a closer look at birds. This is a great time to observe birds outside, here is a quick video that will show the time from egg to little bird https://youtu.be/QvQRlncwuuw
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (mimic the bird) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. If you plan to stay indoors print these https://images.app.goo.gl/i6P1n37cxoVB49587 https://images.app.goo.gl/D9HMnCFwwwNjn73g8 give your child instructions by showing the bird on the card. Let your child act out the action
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. How do birds make nests? https://youtu.be/xAagI_LeS9Y this is a very great book with tons of information about all kinds of different animals that lay eggs not only birds but also frogs, fish, turtles...This book is called “A nest is noisy” by Dianna Hutts Aston. Another great book is “Mama built a little nest” by Jennifer Ward. Here is a link to the book https://youtu.be/2t3tkn2rys4 I will be reading “Mama built a little nest” and post it with my lesson plan. (edible Peep slime) Sensory: The Sensory bin is so much fun. If you can cut up strips of paper, yarn, string, drinking straw, you can even use little twigs outside. Use clothes pins and let your child pretend to either make a nest by collecting materials or gather food for the little hatchlings... Art: Make a bird nest, by either using the material form your sensory activity or let your child come up with ways of making a nest. Let our child cut out a half circle out of card stock and glue lots of different stringy material to the “nest” Your child can cut longs strips of paper as well. Then let child roll pieces of paper into balls and glue them to the half circle to make it look like a nest. https://images.app.goo.gl/ViuFYJcdFfqD4ZjU8 Math: https://images.app.goo.gl/XtSYRAGGPq2bMHjZ7 bird counting
Thursday 4/16
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection https://images.app.goo.gl/2FqDXvHx6zeeAGRR8 Today you can practice writing the words of these farm animals https://images.app.goo.gl/gMhtGX8SyZ3xHsV16 09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) what animals do you find on the farm If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, here is an easy one: https://youtu.be/3jPsradyuyI you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today continue to talk about the different animal babies you can find on a farm. Let your child name the animal and what their babies are called. Here is a fun book https://youtu.be/2NabxmEj5GE
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (mimic the farm animal) If you can, use this time to take a walk outside or play in your backyard. If you plan to stay indoors print https://images.app.goo.gl/gzRHxKBcU5Q1eRJz9 give your child instructions by showing the different animals on the card. Let your child act out the action
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Baby animal song https://youtu.be/cJg4YFtvOp8 this is a really sweet song about Mama Farm animals and the name of their babies. Another fun book about all the different farm animals is “Baby Farm Animals” I will read this book for my daily video log. Science: this is a cute video with long enough pauses to test your child’s knowledge on animal baby names. https://youtu.be/_DxgMofZ6Ms Art: Origami pig https://images.app.goo.gl/d4DHPADuZy6X4Ye56 I will show how to make this in my daily video log. Math: Farm animal memory game. You can print out this bingo card: https://images.app.goo.gl/AbUX2zQ4TRadi9DT9 you can either play Bingo or cut out the squares to play memory with your child. When you play make sure to ask your child to name you the baby animal of each of the animals.
Week 4
This week is Spring Break! Please join Ms. Toy as she reads "Good Night Yoga" and shows you how to do some yoga moves of your own.
Week 3
Monday 3/30
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Today you can practice writing the word Yard and Bee as well as your first and last name https://images.app.goo.gl/6k3jsc1oB7H64zis5
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What’s buzzing in your yard? If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, another fun song the kids like is: https://youtu.be/3mKkQQPWoCI you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today you can start talking about what kinds of animals they have seen outside such as; birds, deer, some are very small.... Let your child come up with some examples. Read the book https://youtu.be/8XWAyeRrRcY The Honeybee by Kristen Hall.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (be a bee relay) game Go over what you learned about bees and that bees work together to collect nectar to bring it back to the beehive, it takes a long time to collect it and all the bees have to work together. Do a relay game outside, have two buckets one filled with water.... The other one empty, sitting opposite about 10 yards away, then let child use a ladle and transfer what’s inside on bucket to the other.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. It’s hard work being a bee. Bees help “pollinate” flowers that in turn helps other flowers and trees grow. These two links are super fun and full of information about bees. BEE sure to check them out ;) https://youtu.be/ta154f5Rp5Y https://youtu.be/txv2k7OoY7U Sensory: The Sensory bin is so much fun. You can keep the grass if you’d like, if you have fake flowers add those or pick some from outside. Science: explore the stages of life with your child. I normally wouldn’t use a worksheet but I understand that your recourses might be limited right now, so here is an easy worksheet let your child cut the squares https://images.app.goo.gl/PHdVqGN4yaSCCWWS9 Art: use toilet paper roll, paint yellow and black. Let child draw and cut two circles for eyes, two circles for wings and two long strips for antennas, glue on eyes, wings and antennas. I will demonstrate this craft in my daily video. Dramatic play: you can use an egg carton as a nest, dye cotton balls yellow or get yellow pom poms, use the flowers from the sensory bin and recreate the steps a bee takes from morning to night.
Tuesday 3/31
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Today you can practice writing the word Ant as well as your first and last name https://images.app.goo.gl/autZ9rXv3GenFL8e7
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What’s crawling in my Yard/ If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, another fun song you can introduce to the kids is: https://youtu.be/CuI_p7a9VGs you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today you can continue talking about what kinds of animals they have seen outside. Yesterday we learned about the bee, today we learn about the Ant. Read the book “Are you and Ant” by Judy Allen https://youtu.be/6kslwOWhMa0
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (fly, crawl, run, jump) game If you can, go outside. If you have a printer, print the link https://images.app.goo.gl/8nYaV4oposLGRzs6A if not, no worries. You can go over the way certain animals and insects move and then let your child copy that motion. Buzz like a bee, crawl fast like an ant, run like a squirrel, fly like a bird.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. It’s not easy being ant, it’s actually quite dangerous. You can read the book “Hey little Ant” by Phillip Hoose. You can see me reading this book in my daily video. Sensory: If you have rice and black dried beans at home, make a little sensory bin with 2-3 cups of dry white rice add half a cup of dried black beans, if you have tweezers let the child “rescue” the ants. Math: an easy way to work on number recognition use this worksheet https://images.app.goo.gl/J9scuJPwtCkuytNT8 Art: draw 3 circles all same size, let kids cut them out, glue the circles in the shape of an ant onto paper. Let kids cut out 6 strips of paper for legs and 2 for antennas, draw 2 circles for eyes. Playdough: make black playdough, let child roll 3 balls and let child make an ant. 1 cup of water, 1 cup of flour, 1/3 cups salt, 2tsp cream of tartar, 1tbs vegetable oil.
Wednesday 4/1
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. https://images.app.goo.gl/jTUAzAnusVYQNwDN7 Today you can practice writing the words Caterpillar and Butterfly https://images.app.goo.gl/fQAwiBN2GXTVaZHf9 https://images.app.goo.gl/wSqkR394qcJeKfCw9
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) What’s crawling in my Yard/ If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, another fun song you can play is this one by Patty Shulka https://youtu.be/t9WAGkQUUL0 you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today you can continue talking about what kinds of animals they have seen outside. Yesterday we learned about ants, today we will learn about caterpillars. What do caterpillars turn into?? You can read “10 little caterpillars” https://youtu.be/9J8F7oK2VHE by Bill Martin Jr.
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground 4 stages from egg to butterfly If you can, go outside. If you have a printer, print the link https://images.app.goo.gl/KwH9urjT3wqfh76s5 if not, no worries. Explain the different stages a caterpillar goes through. 1. Egg= roll up in ball, 2. Caterpillar=crawl around the floor, 3. Chrysalis=be as still as you can, 4.Butterfly= fly like a butterfly
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Caterpillars are not as pretty to look at as butterflies, keep them alive, they’ll turn into beautiful butterflies. This is a beautiful book by Vivian French https://vimeo.com/62784711 you can follow this link. I will read this book in my daily video since I could only find an audio recording. Another fun book is “Pete the cat and the cool caterpillar by James Dean https://youtu.be/HLB8TdSYY9c Sensory: you can keep the rice and beans or switch over to all beans. Use empty paper towel rolls, use some taper or string to wrap around the roll, you can even add some flower pedals or leaves from outside Math: an easy way to work on number recognition is this link https://images.app.goo.gl/HmAWT7BDRg32yfgx5 Art: Origami Butterfly. If you don’t have a square shaped paper at home just cut printer paper into size and follow those easy steps. Origami is a great way to work on fine motor and eye-hand coordination. https://images.app.goo.gl/pgv1EZv4YYP8ZjCV6
Thursday 4/2
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Center As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. https://images.app.goo.gl/jTUAzAnusVYQNwDN7 Today you can practice writing the word Ladybug https://images.app.goo.gl/xJKihHJzMQDUCAdJ7
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Ladybugs are helpful If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, another fun song that will help with rhyming words is this exercise song by Jack Hartmann https://youtu.be/cSPmGPIyykU also count the days of the month and days of the week. We learned a lot about what crawls and flies around outside. Today ask your child if they know what a ladybug looks like and if they have seen one before. Read the book “Are you a ladybug” by Judy Allen https://youtu.be/pWZps1z_NjM
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (ladybug dot counting) game If you can, go outside. If you have a printer, print the link https://images.app.goo.gl/DGGnPRELSLWZb8H8A if not, no worries. You can draw different amounts of dots on paper and let your child count them, then come up with a movement for example: Ladybug has 6 dots let child jump up and down 6 times. You can use ( squat, hop, skip, turn around...)
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Another very informative nonfiction book about ladybugs is this one https://youtu.be/1jS_Wg6Zck4 by Katie Marsico. Did you know Ladybugs help trees, bushes and flowers stay healthy? They are kind of like our toothbrush that keeps our teeth healthy. If I get the book “It’s a good thing there are Ladybugs” in in time I will read the book for my daily video log. Sensory: you can keep the rice and beans or switch over to all black beans. If you can, go to the dollar store and get red pom poms. You can also print the ladybugs from this link https://images.app.goo.gl/AZM34xG7a5ss4Js7A cut them out and add them to the bin Math: an easy way to work on number writing is this worksheet https://images.app.goo.gl/DWiSZH487rtuy2xk8 Art: something hopefully all of you have at home are paper plates/bowls. Have child color the outside of the plate red, let child cut out as many little black spots as they want, one big black circle for the face. Child can then glue the pieces together, draw eyes on the face. https://images.app.goo.gl/E7S35Bscy1SViS6JA Playdough: Make ladybugs, form big red ball add lots of little black dots.
Week 2
Monday 3/23
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups First letter in your Name + write the Theme As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Today you can practice writing the first letter of your child’s first name as well as writing the word Spring. Here is a worksheet you can use for tracing: https://images.app.goo.gl/W4EgbrEEWFyaDUSJ6
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) It’s Spring If you’d like you can continue with our morning routine of singing a Good Morning song, here is a fun one: https://youtu.be/WJfhw5FDPGY you can also count the days of the month and days of the week. Today you can start talking about what your child has noticed outside. Have a discussion about the Spring season In my daily party I will read the book “Abracadabra it’s Spring” by Anne Sibley O’Brien https://youtu.be/rGKg-fbbG5c (if you’d like you can also view a video of me reading the book, the video will be posted on the school website)
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Signs of Spring) Nature walk Today take your child outside, either in your backyard or around your neighborhood. You can discuss all that you see. If you know the names of the trees, flowers, bushes, tell your child this will help expand their vocabulary. If you’d like to take a picture and send it to me, I will add it to Sandbox.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. You can read the book “When Spring comes” https://youtu.be/Q_kNU3XpMew We can experience Spring with all our senses. Ask your child how he/she can taste, feel, see, smell and hear Spring and experience it together with your child. Sensory: The Sensory bin is so much fun. Today you can fill it with fake grass, you can get it at the dollar store very cheap, add little sticks fake flowers... and let your child explore the bin. Math Raindrop counting game https://images.app.goo.gl/SBqj3i8tirMmKWq4A https://images.app.goo.gl/RF5jtAC3EDoXbAhY9 Art: Umbrella craft. Use dot markers or any other type of markers to decorate a round piece of paper or cardstock, let child cut it in half. Attach pipe cleaner or make a handle out of paper to bottom of plate to make a handle. Glue the umbrella to a piece of paper and let your child draw big raindrops around the umbrella. Playdough: Playdough is always fun and very good for strengthening hand muscles. Your child can roll and knead the dough. Let him/her pound it, flatten it with palm of hand rather than a roller.
Tuesday 3/24
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups last letter your Name + write the Theme As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Today you can practice writing the last letter in your child’s first name as well as writing the word Rain. https://images.app.goo.gl/dUk5WCkyW7U8ipbQ9
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Spring is here You can continue with our morning routine. You can choose from one of the songs. Here is another favorite song for you https://youtu.be/fN1Cyr0ZK9M Continue to talk about Spring. What do you like about Spring? You can read the book “Spring is here”. https://youtu.be/DKAyvvJwG8U
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child.
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Puddle Jump) If weather permits use this time for some fun outside time. If you plan to stay indoors, cut out brown and blue and black cardstock into shapes of puddles, tape them to the floor. You can toss a beanbag or bundled up socks and hop, jump to that puddle.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. A new Beginning You can read the book “A new Beginning, the Spring Equinox” by Wendy Pfeffer https://youtu.be/KUJHeeyMtVI Sensory: The sensory, filled with plastic or paper grass, fake flowers, little butterflies and bugs. You can also add blue and clear glass beads (also available at dollar store). Math: Umbrella, galoshes match game https://images.app.goo.gl/EFGu8EGy4Cjot8kL9 https://images.app.goo.gl/SupPsi6JU7S5LtJw9 color/number match Art: Rain cloud Tree craft. You can use cotton balls or crumbled up toilet paper to make clouds then use blue finger paint or any other blue color for raindrops, cut a tree trunk out of brown paper, use green paper, let child rip into small pieces and glue to brown paper. Playdough: this is my favorite recipe (1 cup of flour, 2stp cream of tartar, 1/3cup of salt, 1cup of water, 1tbs vegetable oil) mix in pot, heat on stovetop, when big lump forms, take out and knead. You can either mix the food coloring in while mixing the liquid in the pot or after the playdough is formed. (I will have a video of making the playdough ready to view.)
Wednesday 3/26
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups. Most letters in your Name + write the Theme As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Your child can write the letter that is most used in his/her first name plus the word Soil. If you have potting soil at home or like to go out in the yard to get a small amount of soil that would be a great starter for explaining the topic. https://images.app.goo.gl/CKdcoy5vrsZTVsxH8
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Worm Weather by Jean Taft Please continue with the morning routine. Here is a fun, silly song for you: https://youtu.be/NwT5oX_mqS0 Today you can continue to talk about Spring. Your child learned we need rain for things to grow, but what happens when rain hits the ground (the dirt the soil)? Have a discussion about what soil is, then read the book “Worm Weather” by Jean Taft. (There will be a video of me reading the book) If you’d rather see it on YouTube, here is a link to it https://youtu.be/9UoIpTRYJlw
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Have a healthy snack with your child
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (Puddle toss) If weather permits use this time for some fun outside time. If you plan to stay indoors and you feel brave (use your garage, awning, bathroom) have 2 containers filled with water. You and your child can take turns in throwing a ball into the water filled container. This is a great pretend play exercise, make sure to emphasize that the buckets, containers are great big puddles and you are tossing the balls into a puddle.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. I’m a little Flower pot Rhyme Today you can practice a fun little rhyme “I’m a little Flower Pot” https://youtu.be/44nlOH3GWKs Sensory: The sensory table will be filled with plastic and paper grass, fake flowers, little butterflies and bugs. If you like you can also add sun flower seeds... Sensory/Science: another fun way to experiment soil is to have a little soil filed bin. I understand you may not have or want to go to the store to get actual soil. You can always dig up some dirt with your child and take it inside. There you can use a flashlight and record what you found inside. Send me pictures and I will post them to sandbox. Art/Science: Flower pot painting. If you can, stop by the dollar store and pick up a small flower pot and acrylic paint, let your child paint the outside, then plant a flower (Marigolds are very good for this science project, you can also get that at the dollar store). Take pictures of your progress and I will add them to sandbox.
Thursday 3/26
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups. Name writing As we have worked very hard on recognizing the individual letters, you can now focus on writing common words, sight words and words that we use frequently as well as words from our word family collection. Today find a fun way of writing your way. You can use anything you have at home. You could use tooth paste, frosting, tomato paste... to trace your first name and the word Flower with your finger, Q-tip... https://images.app.goo.gl/ArE9MRQopUFqF61s8
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Flower Garden by Eva Bunting Please continue with our morning routine, also recite the pledge of Allegiance. You can use one of the songs from the previous days. Here is another fun way to start the day https://youtu.be/PXvh08Mnork Today you can continue to talk about Spring. We have already learned a lot about Spring, why we need the rain, sun, soil. We planted flowers and it takes a little bit for flower to grow but when they do, they look so beautiful. You can read the book “Flower Garden” by Eva Bunting. https://youtu.be/DapnfKx2CHE
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Have a healthy snack with your child.
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (What’s missing) Spring objects If weather permits use this time for some fun outside time. If you plan to stay indoors, use the Spring themed items from the sensory bin (flowers, pots, plastic butterflies, bugs, grass, leaves).... all lined up. Have your child close its eyes, remove one item and let your child guess what’s missing...... continue until all items are gone. (I will have a video of this activity on the school website)
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Part of the Flower song Introduce the “Parts of the Flower” song to the tune of head, shoulders, knees and toes. https://youtu.be/rJzn_joMoz8 You can practice this song several times Sensory: Continue to use the sensory bin. Let children find each object that is needed to grow flowers. (grass for soil, seeds for flowers, fake flowers for the final stage, blue decorating beads for the water) Sensory/Science: You can also make a bin out of the soil form yesterday, if you have little plastic Easter eggs children can fill the eggs with the soil. Math: Spring images memory match game. I like using bingo cards to make memory games but you can use them either way, just print them and cut them and you have a fun spring memory game https://images.app.goo.gl/VGS6SmobzrSEhGJq7 Art: If you have some kind of liquid color at home (you can find some at the dollar store) use the backside of a fork, dip it into pain and print to piece of printer paper, use green paint and finger to draw the stem and leaf. This is such a fun, hands-on, quick and easy craft.
Week 1
Wednesday 3/18
The 5 Senses Touch-What organ do we feel with?
9:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups/Letter Zz sideways N, zig zag right to left Children should practice writing first and last name daily. First letters of name should be upper case the following letters lower case. Use tracing cards to help, then let child copy the letters of their name. You can use worksheets for letter Z such as: https://images.app.goo.gl/1LGL4C9x5sSYCBuD8
9:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) My 5 Senses You can play a Good Moring song such as: https://youtu.be/zGi4KrHRLZI Ask your child about the 5 senses, see if he/she can tell you all, then read the book “My five senses” by Magaret Miller https://youtu.be/mDNqRUZL910 . After story time you can ask if he/she has learned some new things he/she didn’t know before and give your child time to answer
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child.
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (blindfold guessing game) If weather permits use this time for some fun outside time. If you plan to stay indoors, have a big pillow case and let your child pick items form the room to add to the pillow case. Blindfold your child and let him/her pick an item out of the Pillow case to guess the item by feeling it.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. My 5 senses Read the book “My five senses” by Aliki https://youtu.be/qgl7FAHygOc with each page ask what sense was used. Explain that we often use more than one sense at the same time. Ask child if he/she can give you an example and give him/her time to answer. Sensory: have small bin filled with cotton balls and pom poms as well as stripes of gritty sandpaper, slick rocks and bendy strings of yarn Science: have a tray full of items ready, some are soft, hard, sticky, wet, dry...child can then sort it to the right bin Art: I can feel...craft. Child will trace his/her own hand, then pick different items to glue to each finger. Soft, sticky, hard, rough, smooth Playdough: Child can then create things that you would be able to identify with your 5 senses such as; cookie=taste, smell, a hand=feel.....
Thursday 3/19
5 Senses Seeing-what organ do we see with?
09:00-09:45 Free play/Writing Groups/Letter Zz sideways N, zig zag right to left Children should practice writing first and last name daily. First letters of name should be upper case the following letters lower case. Use tracing cards to help, then let child copy the letters of their name. You can use worksheets for letter Z such as: https://images.app.goo.gl/6pmmvwyyUsvxDJdY7 You can also use a tray of flour and let your child draw the letter with his/her finger, brush....
09:45-10:10 Circle time (Theme discussion) Sight by Maria Ruis The kids love to gather for the morning circle, you can either sing one of the sings from day 1 or 2. Here is another favorite the kids love: https://youtu.be/WJfhw5FDPGY . You can continue to talk about the 5 senses. You can ask about the senses you have learned so far, then ask what we do with our eyes. I couldn’t find the book on YouTube and will read it for my circle video instead. A more scientific book about our eyes is “Look! A book about Sight”. https://youtu.be/PDJZCWB5udQ
10:15-10:35 Snack Time Enjoy a healthy snack with your child.
10:40-11:10 Movement/Outside/Playground (let’s build a tower blindfolded) If weather permits, use this time for some fun outside time. If you plan to stay indoors, blindfold your child then use blocks, either Legos, wooden blocks even shoe boxes or food containers will work and let your child build a tower. They can do it but it’s hard. Let them build a tower without the blindfold and talk about the difference between the two.
11:15-12:00 Circle Time and Centers. Pin the tail on the Donkey Game Continue with the poem https://images.app.goo.gl/xaKjGa7TEdXxHgr26 You can then read the fun short book called “Duck! Rabbit! By Amy Krouse Rosenthal. https://youtu.be/36AqMX5uua4 Sensory: Today you can add colorful beads, maybe even crayons, string, little toy cars... anything colorful Science: what’s missing? have an assortment of small toys, tell your child to cover its eyes, then remove one item and let child guess what’s missing. You can start by having 5 objects all the way down to none, see if your child can remember all 5 objects. Art: binoculars craft. Give your child two rolls of toilet paper, then let him/her use markers to color and decorate the binoculars. When finished he/she can choose from different colors of tape (if you have) tape together the 2 rolls to finish the craft. Play dough: Playdough is always and excellent choice for hand strengthening. Let your child roll a ball in its hands to make eyeballs.
