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.
Would vegetables would you put in your soup?
ONIONS 🧅/ LETTUCE 🥬/ CARROTS 🥕/ TOMATOES 🍅
Making Letter K Shape:
- 1 big line and 2 little lines for capital K and Lowercase k. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going down, jump back up, and 2 diagonals down. (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
For Making Number 3 Shape, you need 2 little curves. For writing number 3: start at the top, go down and around twice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuHFOuopiKQ Encourage your child to trace with pointer finger.
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
What is your child’s favorite vegetables? For any Basic Soup Recipe, you need (1) onion, (2) potatoes, (3) garlic, (4) oil, (5) vegetable broth/chicken broth, (6) water, (7) salt, (8) pepper, (9) vegetables of choice, (10) spices, (11) pot, and (12) any cooked meat/cream/cheese/pasta if needed. For onion soup, I use beef broth.
Directions:
1. In your pot, heat oil. Chop onions, potatoes and any other vegetables.
2. Cook onions in oil until translucent, add garlic and cook for 2 minutes.
3. Add potatoes, other vegetables, salt, pepper, spices, broth and water to cover vegetables.
4. Bring to a boil and lower temperature to simmer.
5. When all vegetables are soft, add any other ingredients. Your soup is ready!
6. When I make butternut squash soup, I use a food processor to blend all pieces and have a smooth thick soup and then I add cream.
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
Soup Literature:
- Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDynkCgAj4
- The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5pUArHKlw
- Stone Soup retold by Kama Einhorn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGs-euvPhw
- Seaweed Soup by Stuart J. Murphy (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJw5hnav9ko After reading, encourage your child to set up the dinner table.
After viewing a book, encourage your child to share (sequence) what the book was about: what it describes, what happens,… Brainstorm with your child what are your favorite vegetables and, if you were making soup, which vegetables would you put in your soup. The major theme in Stone Soup and Seaweed Soup is sharing. Brainstorm with your child what it means to share and how you, your child or people share.
Soup Song (“The Farmer in the Dell” tune).
We stir the soup around.
We stir the soup around.
Hi-ho, the Derry-o!
We stir the soup around.
In the pot goes the carrot.
In the pot goes the carrot.
Hi-ho, the Derry-o!
In the pot goes the carrot.
In the pot goes the ……. (celery, onion, potato,….)
Math
For the Vegetable Memory Game, you need (1) dish towel or small blanket and (2) vegetable toys or vegetable pictures. Lay out 5 vegetable toys (10 for advanced) in front of your child and name them. Then ask your child to observe them: colors and shapes. Cover toys with blanket and take 1 vegetable toy without your child seeing it. Uncover the toy vegetables left and ask your child which one is missing. Play the game taking away a different toy vegetable each time or taking away 2 vegetable toys at a time.
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 Veggie Print Art Project, you need (1) white construction paper or paper plate, (2) little plates, (3) tempera paint, (4) vegetables (carrot, potato, Brussels sprout, broccoli, cauliflower, celery).
Directions:
1. Pour tempera paint on plates: brown for potato, green for broccoli, Brussels sprout, celery and green beans, orange for carrot, red for radish, …..
2. Dip each vegetable into one color paint and print on white construction paper or paper plate.
3. Use bubble wrap instead of vegetables by cutting it in the same shape and painting bubble wrap shapes. Then, print them on paper.
For the Veggie Collage on a Pot Art Project, you need (1) white and black construction paper for pot, (2) grocery fliers or magazines for veggie pictures, (3) scissors, (4) glue, and (5) color markers.
Directions:
1. Cut a half circle out of construction paper for cooking pot.
2. Cut veggies out of fliers and magazines.
3. Glue paper pot on white construction paper as well as all cut-out vegetables on and above pot.
4. Use markers to draw handle, spoon and fire under pot if needed and decorate.
5. Write “Stone Soup” at the top of collage.
Small Motor Skills
Veggie Colors Book https://twistynoodle.com/veggie-colors-3-minibook/.
Carrot Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/carrot-puzzle-coloring-page/.
Practice Writing Letter K https://twistynoodle.com/practice-writing-the-letter-k-coloring-page/ or https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/dino/trace-zb/k.gif
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.