By Celebration, Halloween

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

My favorite Closing Song sung on “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” tune with movement:

Twinkle, twinkle little stars! Time is over and we say goodbye. (Open and close hands)
We had fun with all our friends. Let’s come back and do it again! (Arm moved up and back)
Twinkle, twinkle, little stars! What a wonderful bunch you are! (Blow kisses)

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.

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.

What is your favorite celebration?

HALLOWEEN 🎃 / CHRISTMAS 🎄 / HANUKKAH 🕎 / DIWALI 🪔 / EID

Making Letter U shape:

  1. 2 big lines and 1 big curve for capital U/ 2little lines and 1 little curve for Lowercase u. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going down and going back up from left to right and going straight back down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gosWhkMwf8). 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
  4. If you have My First School Book from Handwriting Without Tears methodology https://www.lwtears.com/hwt. Have your child complete page 32 and 33.

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 U (umbrella, uncle, ugly, up, under, underneath, understand, upstairs, upside down, us for short /U/ and unicorn, university, uniform, United, unicycle, use, useful for long /U/.) You might want to add a picture of ice-cream, so that your child can say that ice-cream does not start with U! Here is a book of U word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/letter-u-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter U every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.

Science

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.

Kitchen Science

In the classroom, I love baking with children and see them learn with fun activities. The choice is wide between boxed cupcakes mixes from Duncan Hines, Pilsbury, Betty Crocker and others, with few ingredients needed (eggs, oil, water/milk), and recipes with ingredients in my kitchen. It is the same for icing. Therefore, I found many websites with a wide variety of cupcake recipes from scratch like https://www.allrecipes.com/search/results/?wt=Cupcakes&page=2. The choice is yours and your child’s! Happy baking day!

Language Arts

Happy Halloween to all! Here are cute stories:

  1. Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0T1a3pAT8
  2. Happy Halloween Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-oEOLWDEGo

After viewing a story, help your child to sequence the story, what happened first, next,… and at the end. If you are going trick or treating, brainstorm with your child expectations or what is safe to do and what is unsafe when trick or treating. The more prepared your child is with expectations, the better your child’s experience will be!

Jack-O-Lantern Song (“Mary Had a Little Lamb” tune)

Jack-O-Lantern smiling bright, smiling bright, smiling bright.
Witches flying in the night. It’s Halloween!
Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats, cats and bats, cats and bats.
Witches with their funny hats. It’s Halloween!

“Trick or Treating” Song (“Are You Sleeping” tune)

Trick or treating, treat or treating.
Boo, Boo, Boo!
Boo, Boo, Boo!
Halloween is near. Halloween is here.
You scare me. I scare you!

“Five Little Jack-O-Lantern“ Fingerplay

Five little Jack-Lantern sitting on a gate.
The first one said, “Oh, my, it’s getting late!”
The second one said, “I hear a noise!”
The third one said, “It’s just girls and boys!”
The fourth one said, “Come on. Let’s run!”
The fifth one said, “It’s Halloween fun!”
”Wooooo” went the wind and out went the light.
And away went the Jack-O-Lanterns on Halloween night!

Math

Halloween Sorting https://twistynoodle.com/halloween-sorting-coloring-page/ and Halloween Graphing https://twistynoodle.com/halloween-graphing-coloring-page/

The last week of October! 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 Letter U Art Project, you need (1) scissors, (2) colored construction paper, (3) glue, (4) different colored yarn, (5) googly eye, and (6) brown marker.

Directions:

  1. Cut letter U out of white construction paper and medium oval for unicorn head. Stencil https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-u-2-coloring-page/
  2. Cut strands of different colored yarn for unicorn hair.
  3. Cut 4 strips of white construction paper for unicorn feet.
  4. Cut 1 small triangle out of yellow construction paper for unicorn horn.
  5. Take a sheet of colored construction paper and glue Letter U, hair, feet, horn and googly eye.
  6. Use marker to color the tips or hooves of unicorn feet.
  7. Picture https://www.funwithmama.com/printable-letter-u-craft-unicorn/

For the Masking Tape Mummy Art Project, you need (1) person cut-out, (2) scissors, (3) masking tape/white tape, (4) 2 googly eyes, (5) glue, (6) scissors, (7) sheet of black construction paper. Picture at http://easypreschoolcraft.blogspot.com/2014/06/easy-halloween-tape-mummy-craft.html

Directions:

  1. Glue googly eyes on person cut-out and glue on sheet of black construction paper.
  2. Put pieces of tape on cut-out.
  3. Cut around cut-out.

Small Motor Skills

Halloween Tracing https://twistynoodle.com/halloween-tracing-coloring-page/

Yummy Treats Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/yummy-treats-coloring-page/

I See Halloween Book https://twistynoodle.com/sight-word-see-halloween-minibook/

Gross Motor Skills

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

Your child will benefit from a walk in his/her costume around the neighborhood. If you stay home, let’s dance on Halloween Stomp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jieCxKqPk0