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.
Which word start with letter B?
BABY 👶🏿 / BIRTHDAY 🎂/ JACKET 🧥/ BOOTS👢
Let’s start with Bouncy Ben from Letterland and listen to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDwj_529HjI After listening to the song, have your child trace a capital B and a lower case b, starting at the top (song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJnZePnDo-U), go down, jump back up and do a curve line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1MfdgzzdHo
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 B (baby, bad, balance, ball, bar, beautiful, bed, bee, big, bird, birthday,biscuit, blue, boat, bounce, bread, breakfast, bridge, brown, bubble, bun, bus, butter, butterfly.) You might want to add a picture of a pig, so that your child can say Dog that does not start with B! Here is a book of B word pictures: https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/b.gif Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter B every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.
Science
For the Red and Blue Food Coloring Race Science experiment, you need (1) blue and red food coloring and (2) 2 water bottles/tall clear water glasses of same size. Does a difference in water temperature has an effect on the food color race?
Directions:
1. Pour cold water into 1 bottle/tall water glass and warm water into another.
2. At the same time, put 1-3 drops of red food coloring in warm water and 1-3 drops of blue food coloring in cold water at the same time. What happens? Which color touches the bottom of the bottle/glass first? Which color won the race?

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
Winter Clothing Literature:
1. Sledding by Elizabeth Winthrop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UN4VKKhfCI
2. Caps, Hats, Socks and Mittens by Louise Bourden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVKdmb9oLk
3. The Jacket I Wear in the Snow (advanced) by Shirley Nitzel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT86Jf44WGA
After viewing a book, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next,… at the end. The major themes are winter clothing and seasons. Pretend with your child you are going into the cold winter to play and putting on clothes. With your child, name each piece of clothing and make a movement for putting on socks, undershirt,….
Here are some riddles for your child:
1. In wintry wind, I keep your neck warm. What am I? (Scarf)
2. I can have a zipper or buttons. I start with the letter J? (Jacket)
3. With snow and ice, I am very nice and protect your hands twice. What am I? (Mittens)
4. Your toes slip right in when a new adventure outside begin. We start with letter B. What are we? (Boots)
5. You might think they are nice for your nose, but they are actually for your toes! What are they? (socks)
6. Put me on your head, please . You do not want to freeze. What am I? (hat)
“Warm Clothes for When It’s Cold” Song (“The Farmer in the Dell” tune)
Warm clothes for when it’s cold. Warm clothes for when it’s cold.
Hi-ho, the Derry-o!
Warm clothes for when it’s cold.
Warm hat goes on my head. Warm hat goes on my head.
Hi-ho, the Derry-o!
Warm hat goes on my head.
Other verses: fuzzy mittens on my hands, soft scarf around my neck, thick boots on my feet,….
”Warm Clothes” Song (“If You’re Happy and You Know It” tune) with Movement
If you’re cold and you know it, wear your hat (clap, clap).
If you’re cold and you know it, wear your hat (clap, clap).
If you know you’re cold, if you know you’re cold,
If you know you’re cold, wear your hat. (clap, clap).
Other verses: scarf, boots, mittens, jacket, snow pants,….
Math
For this Dress-Up Math Activity, you need a die and your child winter clothing. Each number of the die corresponds to a piece of clothing:
1 if for hat, 2 is for jacket, 3 is for scarf, 4 is for mittens, 5 is for socks, and 6 is for boots. (For advanced, extend to 12 with 2 dice adding other pieces of clothing.) Each time your child roll the die, your child has to put on a new piece of clothing. As an alternative, you can use a paper person with paper clothing too. (https://makingfriends.com/f_winter-2/)
January just started. 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/january-calendar-set/january-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 the Collage Art Project, you need: (1) sheet of construction paper, (2) scissors, (3) glue, (4) catalogs of clothes (Lands’ End, LLBeans, ….) and (5) markers.
Directions:
1. Encourage your child to cut pants, shirts, hats,…. in various catalogs.
2. Let your child glue outfits together and complete them with faces, buttons,…. with markers.
For Letterland Letter B Art Project, you need: (1) letter B template to print https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-b-5-coloring-page/, (2) pink and white construction paper, (3) scissors, (4) glue, (5) googly eyes, (6) black marker, and (7) cotton balls.
Directions:
1. Take sheet of pink construction paper and trace letter B.
2. Glue googly eyes inside top part of B and cotton balls on the traced line for B.
3. Cut bunny ears in white and pink construction paper.
4. Glue ears on top of letter B.
5. Draw bunny’s nose and whiskers.
6. If you have a Letterland binder, add letter B to it.

Small Motor Skills
Ready to Play in the Snow Coloring Book https://twistynoodle.com/ready-to-play-in-the-snow-minibook/
Trace the Clothes Coloring Book https://twistynoodle.com/trace-the-clothes-coloring-page/
B is for Banana Book https://twistynoodle.com/b-is-for-banana-minibook/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.