By Birds

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 kind of birds have you seen?
BLUEBIRDS / RED CARDINALS / BLACK CROWS / BROWN HAWKS

On Monday, we started with Oscar Orange from Letterland and listen to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6g3W__BdY After listening, your child traced a capital O and a lower case o, starting at the top (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJnZePnDo-U). Let’s listen in the Letterland Story Corner, Oscar Orange at the Docks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wE5PDKLDeQ After listening to the story, help your child to retell the story using lots of O words.

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 O (object, October, octopus, odd, off, of, or, office, often, on, opposite, orange, ostrich, otter.) You might want to add a picture of a cat, so that your child can say that cat does not start with O! Here is a book of O word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/my-oo-book-5-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter O every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.

Science

Eagles have a wide wingspan of about 5.9 to 7.5 feet. To show your child the wingspan, you can:

  1. Draw an eagle with a wingspan of 6 or 7 feet on a large piece of paper. I drew it in the classroom with children helping me for the wing size with wooden rulers. I hung the drawing on the classroom wall. Each child stood in front of the drawing with arms open wide and I had a body mirror for the child to see and compare himself or herself to a real eagle. A phone with a camera would work too.
  2. Have you or your child stand with arms open wide and measure from one hand to another (I have about 5 feet + 2 rulers = 7 feet) Give you or your child wooden rulers to hold by both hands with arms open wide and measure the distance from one end of a ruler to the other. Have a bed sheet to cover the span, arms and rulers, for a special effect. Have a body mirror or a phone/camera to show you or your child. Is it very big?

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

Stories about eagles are hard to find. Eagles are a symbol of America and you can find an eagle on money, a quarter and dollar bill, and on the American Seal. Here are two stories:

  1. The Eagle and the Swallow from the Fables of Aesop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNkOfQRoeOE It is better to listen to the story.
  2. That’s Mine! By Mitchel van Zeveren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Qg4p33uSI

After listening or viewing a book, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next,… and at the end. Both stories have a surprised endings. Encourage your child to change the endings and come up with a different one. Children have an amazing creativity!

Eagle Song (Bingo tune)

I saw a bird flying so high and eagle is its name-o.
E A G L E, E A G L E, E A G L E and eagle is its name-o.

“Powerful Bald Eagle” Song by Pinkfung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmw_KABbzFk

Math

For Measuring an Eagle Wingspan, you need blocks, legos, toys,… any object. Have your child:

  1. Line up, one in front of another, objects from one tip of an eagle wing to the other tip on the paper drawn eagle, or
  2. Line up objects alongside a tape measure/measured distance of 6 to 7 feet.
  3. How many blocks/legos in length?
  4. Your child can extend the learning by measuring other things inside or outside your home.

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

For Paper Bag Eagle Puppet Project, you need (1) brown paper bag, (2) brown, white and orange construction paper, (3) scissors, (4) glue, and (5) 2 googly eyes/marker to draw eyes.

Directions:

  1. Cut a white construction paper rectangle to glue to the bottom of paper bag.
  2. Cut orange construction paper triangle for eagle’s beak, a crest and 2 feet (see picture)
  3. Cut 2 brown construction paper wings (see picture)
  4. Glue eyes (or draw them with marker), beak, crest, feet and wings on brown paper bag.
  5. Picture http://learncreatelove.com/paper-bag-craft-eagle-puppet/

For the Eagle Hand Print Art Project, you need (1) sheet of blue construction paper, (2) brown, white and yellow paint with brush, and (3) black marker.

Directions:

  1. Take blue construction paper as the base.
  2. paint your child’s hands with brush and brown paint.
  3. Press your child’s both hands on blue paper, hand prints touching at the palm with thumbs down. Hand palms are the eagle’s body, thumbs are the eagle’s legs, and fingers are the eagle’s wings.
  4. Wash hands. Once dried, paint with brush and white paint the side of one thumb and press it at the top of painted hands for the eagle’s neck and head.
  5. Paint the beak and toes with brush and yellow paint.
  6. Once white paint dry, make a dot for eagle’s eye.
  7. Picture https://parentingpatch.com/e-eagle-handprint-craft/

Small Motor Skills

Go Eagles Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/go-eagles-coloring-page/

Count the Birds https://twistynoodle.com/count-the-birds-coloring-page/

Help the Bird Find the Worm https://twistynoodle.com/help-the-bird-find-the-worm-coloring-page/

Gross Motor Skills

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