Fall Harvest – Apples (Part II) – Letter C (4)

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 capital/uppercase and the rest in lowercase. If your child is starting to write on paper, you can write your child’s name with a highlighter and your child can use a crayon to trace it.

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?
APPLE SAUCE / APPLE PIE/ PUMPKIN PIE / CANDY APPLE / CHEESECAKE

If you have My First School Book from Handwriting Without Tears methodology https://www.lwtears.com/hwt. Have your child complete page 34 and 35. There is a also Candy Corn Worksheet https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap4_zb_tracers/c5.gif and C Worksheet https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/c.gif

C has two different sounds to emphasize: a hard sound like in corn, cat, car, cook and it’s called Hard C. But it also has a soft sound like in city, cent, cereal, circle, centipede, celery, cymbals, cyclist, and it’s called Soft C (https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/c2.gif) To practice, write with your child on a sheet of paper divided into 2 columns all the Hard and Soft Cs you and your child know. If C is followed by the vowels i, e, and y, it is a soft C.

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 C (cake, car, cat, candle, cap, castle, clean, clever, climb, clock, clothes, cold, color, come, cook, count, cross, cuddle, cup, custard, cut.) You might want to add a picture of a unicorn, so that your child can say that unicorn does not start with C! Here is a book of C word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-c-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter C every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.

Kitchen Science

For Simple Applesauce recipe, you need (1) 4 apples peeled, chopped and cored, (2) 1/2 cup of water, (3) a small pot, and (4) cinnamon, if you want. Put water and apples in a small pot with your child and let it simmer on your stove for 30 minutes (adult only). The sauce will be chunky and you can blend it for a smooth consistency. Yummy!

You can also find many other recipes with apples on various website. I enjoy https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/1099/fruits-and-vegetables/fruits/apples/

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.

Language Arts

Math

Let’s bead patterns! For Beading Patterns, you need pipe cleaners and beads of any kind (plastic multicolored beads, plastic straws cut into beads, Fruit Loops, Penne noodles,…) Encourage your child to make a pattern (ABAB, ABBA, AABAA, …) and explain it to you.

November is here! 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/november-calendar-setbr4-pages/november-calendar-set-2

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

It is Friday or time for free painting with watercolors!

For this Apple Tree Art Project, you need (1) brown and green construction paper, (2) glue, (3) scissors, and (4) green, red, yellow dot paint (or paint with cotton balls attached to clothespins)

Directions:

Trace your child’s hand and forearm on brown construction paper. It is the tree.
Cut out tracing.
Glue it on green construction paper.
Dot paint around the fingers or branches, around the forearm or trunk, and at the base. The dots are tree leaves.
You child can decorate further with pompoms, tissue paper, beads, real leaves, sticks, nuts,…

For Lacing an Apple Art Project, you need (1) apple print out, (2) white and green construction paper, (3) scissors, (4) hole puncher, (5) yarn, (6) red and brown paint with brush, and (7) glue.

Directions:

Cut apple stencil and trace 2 apples on white construction paper.
Paint paper apple red and the stem brown.
Once dry, hole punch around the rim of apples.
Cut 2 green leaves out of green construction paper and glue on apples.
Cut 2 long pieces of yarn and attach one end with tape and the other end to the paper apple for both paper apples.
Lace in and out holes in paper apple with the piece of yarn.
Picture https://teachpreschool.org/2010/09/10/lacing-up-apples-in-preschool/

Small Motor Skills

Apple Maze https://twistynoodle.com/apple-maze-coloring-page/

Falling Apples Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/falling-apples-coloring-page/

Apple Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/apple-puzzle-coloring-page/

Gross Motor Skills

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

For this Keep It Up Game, you need an inflated balloon. The players have to keep the balloon in the air. As a variation, you can let the balloon fall and count how many seconds it takes to touch the floor/ground.

Social-Emotional Development

To boost your child social-emotional development, I encourage you to have conversations with your child all throughout the day. Zoom or FaceTime calls, especially in this pandemic time, is a way for children to connect with other children. The call length depends on the maturity of your child. Short calls are productive too.

Many preschool books can help explore feelings and I will introduce books each weeks. I can start with feeling sticks that your child can access at all time and is an easy first non-verbal way to express himself/herself.

For Making Feeling Sticks, you need (1) yellow circles for drawing faces, (2) popsicle sticks, (3) marker, and (4) glue. Draw various faces on circles (sad, happy, mad, angry, nervous,…) with marker and glue them on popsicles stick:

Have feeling sticks in a cup available to your child.
Explain to your child that he/she can take one every time he/she has a feeling that he/she wants to share with words. (You might need to help, at first, articulate the feeling.)
Tell your child that you will ask to choose feeling sticks at the end of the day so that your child can share with you and express the feelings experienced.
Pictures https://sunflowerstorytime.com/2015/04/28/feelings-faces/