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 an emoji 🙂) 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.
Where do you see flowers?
ON GROUND / ON TREES / IN VASE / IN BOOKS
Making Letter Z Shape:
- 1 big line and 2 little lines for capital Z/ 3 little lines for Lowercase z. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going straight across, going diagonally down, and straight across. 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)
- Wet-Dry-Try on small chalkboard (Handwriting Without Tears) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6p4LUEGbwM
- 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 have the letter Z (zebra, zero, zip, zoo, zoom, crazy, dizzy, fizzy, lazy, puzzle). You might want to add a picture of yarn, so that your child can say Yarn does not start with Z! Here is a book of Z word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-z-minibook/ and https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/z.gif Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter Z every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.
Science
On your next nature walk, encourage your child to look for flowers and trees and make a nature journal entry with your child’s drawing, that you can label. Common flowers or trees in bloom in my area are (https://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/MarylandersPlantTrees/Recommended-Tree-List.aspx):
1. Daffodils
2. Hyacinths
3.Forsythias
4. Cherry trees
5.Crabapple trees
6.Magnolia trees
You might want to make a bouquet and put it in a vase with your child.
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.
Language Arts
Your child can see a rainbow of colors outside!
1. Let’s sing the Rainbow Song:
Rainbow purple, rainbow blue, rainbow green and yellow too.
Rainbow orange, rainbow red. Rainbow smiling overhead!
2. Let’s read:
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sti3PXBeVag.
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DapnfKx2CHE
After viewing a book, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next,… at the end. Brainstorm with your child what you learned about flowers and their colors. Your child can take a survey of your family members’ favorite colors and flowers.
For an advanced activity, have your child fill in a simple story map. Take a sheet of paper and divide it into 3 equal size parts. Write “Beginning”, “Middle”, and “End” and encourage your child to make a drawing about the beginning, the middle and the end of the story.
After the reading, ask your child to tell you his/her favorite color(s) and tell your child that he/she will do an art project with your child’s hands and favorite color(s).
“If you are happy and you know it” Song and Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hqRT9U0wg
“Five Pretty Flowers” Fingerplay
Five pretty flowers in the nursery shop.
Five pretty flower, who are they for?
Along came (child’s name)
With a penny to pay.
(child’s name) bought a (name and color of flower),
And then (child’s name) went away.
Four pretty flowers in the nursery shop….
Three pretty flowers in the nursery shop….
Two pretty flowers in the nursery shop….
One pretty flower in the nursery shop…..
Little Daisy Song (“I’m a Little Teapot” tune)
I’m a little Daisy slim and tall.
Here are my petals; here is my stem.
When the sun comes up and the rain comes down.
I grow so tall up from the ground!
Math
Independent Practice:
1. Tulip Sort by Size https://twistynoodle.com/tulip-sort-by-size-coloring-page/.
2. Count the Roses https://twistynoodle.com/count-the-roses-coloring-page/
For a Flower Memory Game, draw/print pairs of flowers (about 5) on a grid and cut all flower squares. Place all flower squares face down and have you and your child take turn turning over only two squares at the time. The winner is the player turning over 2 flower squares that are identical and the game ends when there are no more cards unturned.
Spring is in the air in March! 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/march-calendar-set/march-calendar-set-4
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
There are 2 possible art projects:
A. For the Hand Print Art Project, you need (1) tempera paint with brush and (2) paper.
Directions:
1. Draw a small circle in the middle of a piece of paper.
2. Paint your child’s hands with different color temper paint (need to wash hand 2-3 times).
3. Print your child’s hands with the palms touching the circle line.
4. with thumb in paint paint the inside of the circle. What a beautiful colorful flower!
B. For the Bleeding Color Art Project, you need (1) piece of paper towel, (2) scissors, (3) tray, (4) color markers, (5) spray bottle filled with water, and (6) glue.
Directions:
1. Put the paper underneath the paper towel on the tray.
2. Color paper towel with markers.
3. Once done, spray the paper towel with water until nicely wet. The marker lines will spread in all directions with water and bleed on the paper.
4. once dry, add details to your flower like stem and leaves with color markers. What a colorful design!
Make a Paper Flower https://twistynoodle.com/make-a-flower-coloring-page/
Small Motor Skills
Tree Dot Painting https://twistynoodle.com/tree-dot-painting-2-coloring-page/.
Tree Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/tree-puzzle-coloring-page/.
I Can See Nature Book https://twistynoodle.com/i-can-see-nature-minibook/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.
Let’s sin a fun pirate song in this book – Port Side Pirates by Barefoot Books https://youtu.be/_qAngsMJD3I