By Season of Fall

Let’s sing together our song “Rise and Shine – Welcome to School Today” by Dr. Jean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAD2OoFuoY and our greeting song “Hello to all the children of the world”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYjGy_ZUG8

I realize that you might have to survey other members of your family for the question of the day so that your child have enough tally marks to count or have your child put more than one tally mark.

Acorns come from……

APPLE TREE OAK TREE PINE TREE CHERRY TREE

For the writing/reading process, have your child trace or copy (advanced skill) daily his/her name on paper/dry eraser board/ mini blackboard (kindergarten handwriting page) starting at the top of each letter (you could draw 🙂) either in all uppercase letters or just first letter in uppercase and the rest in lowercase.

Making the Letter H shape:

  1. 2 big lines and 1 little line for capital H/ 1 big line, 1 small curve and 1 little line for Lowercase h. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going down and going back up to make the curve and then down. (In order to start learning letters, your child will need a set of big curves, little curves, big lines and little lines in wood. You can purchase them at https://www.lwtears.com or make them your self. Here is a picture: http://cdn.lwtears.com/images/uploads/1_787_large.png)
  2. Wet-Dry-Try on small chalkboard (Handwriting Without Tears) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6p4LUEGbwM
  3. Play dough with small chalkboard (recipe: https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/playdough-recipe/) or you can purchase the Roll-A-Dough Set from Handwriting without Tears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spjVLDXDixI

A whole week activity:
For the phonetic part, have a big yogurt container with a lid filled with small objects or pictures that start with the letter H (hair, heart, helicopter, horse, hat.) You might want to add a picture of a kitty, so that your child can say that kitty does not start with H! Here is a book of H word pictures https://twistynoodle.com/h-is-for-house-2-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter H every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.

Science

For the Sink or Float Science Experiment, you need (1) acorns, (2) bowl of water, and (3) magnifying lens, if you have. Predict with your child what would happen if your drop acorns in water. Have your child drop acorns one at a time in the bowl of water and observe if acorns sink or float. Discuss with your child your discoveries: why acorns float or sink. Your child can use the magnifying lens to observe.

For an advanced experiment, have other nuts, fruit and seeds on hand (fresh or dried like raisins, pumpkin seeds) and observe what floats or sinks. Have a chart with 2 columns labeled: one Float and the other Sink. Help your child to record the discoveries.

On the tune of “Oh, my Darling Clementine”, we can sing: what’s the weather, what’s the weather, what’s the weather like today? Is it cloudy, is it rainy, is it sunny, is it cold? (You can also change the weather words).
Let your child check the weather and tell you about it. You might want to ask your child to do a weather drawing that you can label. Some activities will be repetitive to create a routine that brings comfort to your child.

Language Arts

Which animal loves acorns? ….. Here is Squirrel’s Busy Day by Lucy Barnard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEKK99B6Ds

For advanced reading, Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0Nm4e0ZsQ

After viewing either story, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next and at the end. Acorns make math fun! For this matching numbers with its amount of acorns, your child needs acorns and to print these squirrels with numbers http://makinglearningfun.com/themepages/Squirrel-MathActivity.html

5 Little Acorns Fingerplay

5 little acorns hanging in a tree.
Along came Mr. Squirrel as hungry as can be!
Then the fall winds blew and rustled all the leaves.
Down came an acorn. Mr. squirrel was pleased! (Repeat with 4,3,2,1)

“I’m a Nut” Song

I’m an acorn, small and round,
Lying on the cold, cold ground.
Everybody steps on me.
That is why I’m cracked you see. I’m a nut! I’m a nut! I’m a nut! I’m a nut! I’m a nut!

“Put your Nut in the Air” Movement

Put your nut in the air.
Hold it high and leave it there.
Put your nut on your nose.
Now reach down and touch your toes.
Put your nut on your back. Now please lay it on your lap.

Math

For the Sorting Exercise, you need (1) acorns, (2) muffin pan, and (3) small (salad) tongs. Ask your child to sort acorns in the muffin pan any way your child wants.

For the Patterning Exercise, you need (1) acorns and (2) leaves. Start with a simple pattern: 1 acorn followed by 1 leaf, then 1 acorn followed by 1 leaf, etc. This is an AB pattern. Move to more advanced patterns: ABBA, AABB, AABAA, ABAABA, ABBBA, … Also help your child to come up with patterns. Have fun!

The calendar is a daily activity to do with your child that develop number and pattern recognition. Here is the link to print a calendar to update daily with your child. The set has a weather component, if you like. https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/october-calendar-setbr4-pages/october-calendar-set-3

Daily counting of tally marks and show your child a number card or write the number down to show your child. The numbers of the tallies will be different every day. Extend the concept by comparing numbers: which has more? Which has fewer? Which are the same? How many more (count with fingers)?

Art

For the Acorn Painting Project, you need (1) cardboard paper sized lid (of box containing reams of printing paper is best), (2) paint in various colors, (3) construction paper, and (4) acorns. Put the construction paper in the lid with drops of paint and acorns. Let your child roll acorns in paint by moving the Lid left and right. Other methods are good too. Your child can also dip, for instance, an acorn in paint and dot the construction paper!

For the Acorn Lacing Project, you need (1) yarn, (2) tape, (3) dark and light construction paper, (4) scissors, (5) hole puncher, (6) glue, and (7) marker.

Directions:

  1. Print template as stencil https://coloringpage.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/falacn2.pdf
  2. Cut along the lines and use acorn bottom as stencil on dark brown construction paper.
  3. Cut along the lines and use top or cupule as stencil on light brown construction paper.
  4. Use the hole punch to punch holes all along the edge of the Light brown cupule.
  5. Attach a piece of yarn to the paper cupule and put a piece of tape around the other end of the yarn piece.
  6. Lace around the cupule with the piece of yarn (in and out).
  7. Glue the 2 pieces of acorn together and have your child write/dictate his/her name on acorn.

For the Alphabet Matching Game, you need (1) same template as above, (2) scissors, (3) brown construction paper, (4) marker, and (5) long piece of white paper.

Directions:

  1. Cut around the paper acorn for making a stencil.
  2. Use stencil to draw many acorns on long piece of white paper.
  3. Use stencil to cut brown construction paper acorns.
  4. Write alphabet capital/uppercase letters on brown construction paper acorns and the same letters on long white paper in Capitals or lowercase (advanced).
  5. Ask your child to match letters on brown construction paper acorns with letters drawn on long white Paper.

Small Motor Skills

Trace and Color the Acorn https://twistynoodle.com/trace-and-color-the-acorn-coloring-page/

Acorn Maze https://twistynoodle.com/acorn-maze-coloring-page/

Finish the Acorn Pattern https://twistynoodle.com/finish-the-acorn-pattern-coloring-page/

Gross Motor Skills

Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.

For rainy days, here is Yoga for Kids with Animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCQfYsFa3Q