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.
Do you celebrate the Lunar New Year?
YES / NO
If you have My First School Book from Handwriting Without Tears methodology https://www.lwtears.com/hwt. Have your child complete pages 56, 57, 58 and 59. Your child can also practice writing number 5 on page 83. Review with page 82.
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 M (magnet, mouse, man, mat, me, meet, melon, metal, milk, miss, mix, monkey, monster, morning, most, mug, mummy, mushroom, my). You might want to add a picture of an Apple, so that your child can say apple does not start with M! Here is a book of M word pictures: https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-m-minibook/ . Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter M every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.
Science
For Shiny Clean Penny Science Experiment, you need (1) pennies, (2) paper towel, (3) cup, and (4) vinegar. What happens to dirty pennies in vinegar?
Directions:
1. Pour vinegar in a cup and add dirty pennies. Let all soak for an hour.
2. Take one penny at the time from the cup with vinegar and rub it with paper towel.
3. Observe and explain. Are pennies shiny?
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
Lunar New Year celebration Literature:
1. Bringing the New Year by Grace Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UmFlBzXJMY.
2. My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGghkuEMZl8.
3. How to Catch a Dragon? by Adam Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPmmSTfLuEI.
4. Ruby’s Chinese New Year by Vickie Lee (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiOl4XMh9E
Brainstorm with your child and compare how the Lunar New Year is celebrated and how you celebrate the New Year.
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.
Math
For Money sorting Math Activity, you need a handful of various coins. Take a sheet of paper and divide it into 4 columns titled penny, nickel, dime and quarter. Encourage your child to sort the coins in the columns and make tallies. As a supplemental game called Race to 10 (20 for advanced) with a die (dice for advanced), have each player roll the die and take a number of pennies from a penny stack corresponding to the number of dots on the die (dice). The winner is the first player getting 10 pennies (20 for advanced).
Independent Math Practice:
1. Counting Puzzle (1-4) https://twistynoodle.com/counting-puzzle-1-4-coloring-page/.
2. Put Number in Order (1-5) https://twistynoodle.com/put-the-numbers-in-order-1-5-coloring-page/
February is here to stay! 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/february-calendar-setbr-4-pages/february-calendar-set-3
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 Paper Lantern Art Project, you need (1) red construction paper, (2) scissors, (3) tape, and (4) red ribbon.
Directions:
1. Fold red sheet into 2 lengthwise.
2. Hold paper with fold toward you and cut straight line 3/4 way.
3. Unfold paper and attach both bottom and top ends together.
3. Tape piece of ribbon to hang and decorate lantern as you like.
For Paper Plate Drum Art Project, you need (1) 2 paper plates, (2) red tempera paint and brush, (3) tongue depressor, (4) hoe puncher, (5) 2 pieces of red ribbon, (6) 2 black pearls, (7) stapler.
Directions:
1. Paint both backs of paper plate with red paint.
2. Once dry, staple paper plates together with tongue depressor at the bottom.
3. Hole punch a hole on each side.
4. Attach a piece of red ribbon to each hole with a pearl at the end.
5. Have fun twisting the drum to have pearls hit the painted paper plates.
6. Decorate drum as you like.
Small Motor Skills
Zodiac Animals Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/gong-hey-fat-choy-coloring-page/.
Flying Dragon Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/flying-dragon-4-coloring-page/.
Number 5 Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/number-5-puzzle-coloring-page/
Practice Writing Number 5 https://twistynoodle.com/practice-writing-the-number-5-3-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.