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 starts with the letter K? (Acknowledge the sound “k” in cat)
KOALA 🐨/ UNICORN 🦄/ CAT 🐈⬛/ KITE 🪁
Your child started with Kicking King from Letterland and listened to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV83Ke07Ovk After listening to the song, your child traced a capital K and a lower case k, starting at the top (song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJnZePnDo-U), go down, jump back up and then 2 diagonal lines down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXjKhVqswMM
Now, Now, let’s listen to the story from the Letterland Corner: Kicking King and His Socks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWW3VeaT7Y After listening to the story, help your child retell the story using lots of K 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 K (kangaroo, keep, kennel, ketchup, kettle, key, key, kick, kid, kilo, kind, king, kiss, kitchen, kite, kitten, kaleidoscope). You might want to add a picture of a rainbow, so that your child can say rainbow does not start with K! Here is a book of K word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-k-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter K every day and let your child explore the container all through the week. More K words https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/k.gif
Kitchen Science
For the Fruit Salad Snack, you need (1) any kind of fruit, (2) bowl and spoon, (3) plastic knife (with adult only), and (4) lemon juice to prevent oxydation. Cut hard fruit and assist your child cutting with a plastic knife (advanced learners) a soft fruit like a banana. After all pieces of fruit are cut, help your child to put all together in a bowl with some lemon juice. Yummy!
Ask your child: what happens to a piece of raw apple left on the counter for 1-2 hours? Do the experiment having 2 pieces of raw apples: 1 raw piece and 1 raw piece with lemon juice on it. Observe the pieces of apples after 1-2 hours. What happened? The raw piece of apple went through a process called oxydation reaction or reaction to oxygen in the air. The other piece did not because the lemon juice or vitamin C (ascorbic acid) prevented the oxydation reaction and the change of color.
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.
Language Arts
Fruits and Vegetables Literature:
1. Eating the Alphabet – Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7BdF3F8f-o.
2. Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcTprkImlmI.
3. Fruit Bowl by Mark Hoffmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GrGZNBrVq8.
After viewing a book, help your child either to review the letters of the alphabet or sequence the other 2 stories: what happened first, next,… at the end. Brainstorm with your child how you and your child made or plan to make a fruit salad.
“Apples and Bananas” Song
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas.
(Then change to the sound of the vowel A).
I like to ate, ate, ate apples and bananas.
I like to ate, ate, ate, apples and bananas.
(Then change to the sound of the vowel E).
I like ete, ete, ete, epples and benenes.
I like ete, ete, ete, epples and benenes.
(Then change to the sound of I, O, U)
Fruit Salad Song (“Skip to My Lou” tune)
In goes the orange. Fruit salad for you!
Apples and bananas. Fruit salad for you!
In goes the strawberries. Fruit salad for you!
Healthy salad for me and you!
Common Expression: An apple a day keeps the doctors away!
Math
For this Math Memory Observation Activity, you need (1) toy fruit or vegetables and (2) small blanket/dish towel. Show 5 (10 for advanced) toy fruit to your child, cover them with a blanket/towel, take one away without your child seeing it, and uncover the toy fruit. Ask your child which toy fruit is missing. Take away a different toy every time you play.
For independent practice:
1. Sort the Fruit https://twistynoodle.com/sort-the-fruit-coloring-page/.
2. Graph the Fruit https://twistynoodle.com/graph-the-fruit-coloring-page/.
3. Fruit Patterns https://twistynoodle.com/fruit-patterns-coloring-page/.
4. Cut and Paste Fruit Shape https://twistynoodle.com/cut-and-paste-the-fruit-shapes-coloring-page/
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 Fruit Collage Art Project, you need (1) grocery store fliers or magazines, (2) scissors, (3) sheet of paper, (4) glue, and (5) markers.
Directions:
1. Cut pictures of fruit and vegetables out of grocery fliers or magazines.
2. Take sheet of paper and glue cut pictures to shape: a face, a house, a truck, … For a face, children used a pear picture for nose, oranges for eyes, banana pictures for lips or eyebrows, …
3. Draw more details with markers.
For Painting with Fruit Art Project, you need (1) fruit like apple, pear, orange, mango, peppers,…. (2) tempera paint, red, green, orange, (3) 3 small paper plates, (4) white construction paper, (5) fork (optional), and (6) markers.
Directions:
1. Pour some red tempera paint on 1 paper plate, green on another and orange on a third.
2. Take a sheet of white construction paper.
3. Dip fruit whole or cut into 2. You can pierce the fruit with the fork for a handle.
4. Print painted fruit on paper.
5. Use markers to draw a basket or a plate or any details you want.
6. Instead of paper sheet, cut a big paper plate into 2 and use each half as a basket to print fruit on. Cut a piece of yarn/strip of paper to attach to each side of the half paper plate basket as the basket handle.
Small Motor Skills
Fruit Bowl Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/fruit-bowl-coloring-page/.
Fruit Dot Painting https://twistynoodle.com/fruit-dot-painting-coloring-page/.
Orange Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/orange-puzzle-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.