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 N?
MONKEY 🐒 / NIGHT 🌙 / DOG 🐕 / PIG 🐖 / NURSE 👩⚕️
Your child started with Noisy Nick from Letterland and listened to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdcVt2xJS5A After listening to the song, your child traced a capital N and a lower case n, starting at the top (song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJnZePnDo-U), do a line down, jump back up, do a diagonal line down, do a straight line up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8q0UAT1NbE Now, let’s listen to the story from the Letterland Corner: Noisy Nick in the Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlftOpQu83A After listening to the story, help your child retell the story using lots of N 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 N (nails, name, nap, near, neck, need, needle, nest net, never, new, next, nice, night, nine, no, noise, nose, not, now, number, nurse, nursery, nuts). You might want to add a picture of an Mouse, so that your child can say mouse does not start with N! Here is a book of N word pictures: https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/n.gif Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter N every day and let your child explore the container all through the week. More N words: https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-n-minibook/
Science
Observation in science is crucial. Whether you have a pet or not (neighbor’s), encourage your child to observe a pet with these questions:
1. what does it eat?
2. Where does it live?
3. How does it move?
4. When is it awake?
5. Why is it a pet?
To conclude, encourage your child to draw the pet using paper and crayons/markers.
As the Spring is around the corner, you and your child can already grow grass. For this science activity, you need (1) cup, (2) soil, (3) grass seeds, and (4) watering can with water. What will happen to the grass seeds?
Directions:
1. put soil in cup and push in grass seeds.
2. water cup with soil and grass seeds with a little water every other day and observe grass seeds grow.
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
Pet Literature:
1. Some Pets by Angela Diterlizzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hgthypz70.
2. Pete the Cat – A Pet for Pete by James Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGHaWr_Excc.
3. Little Critter’s These are my Pets by Mercer Mayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVGt8zZ3AI
After viewing a book, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next,… at the end. Brainstorm with your child which pet do you have or would like.
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.
Bingo Song
There was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was its name-o.
B I N G O, B I N G O, B I N G O (say each letter individually)
And Bingo was its name-o!
“Hey, Diddle Diddle” Nursery rhyme
Hey, diddle diddle!
The cat and the fiddle,
And the cow jumping over the moon.
The little dog laughs to see such sport,
And the dish runs away with the spoon!
“1,2,3,4,5” Nursery Rhyme
1,2,3,4,5, I caught a fish alive.
6,7,8,9,10, I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
The little finger on the right!
Math
Let’s have fun reviewing shapes! Have you already played with a geo-board with rubber bands? Instead you can make your own (adult only). For creating a geo-board, you need (1) hammer, (2) 25 flat head nails, (3) a wood board, and (5) rubber bands. Nail a 5×5 nail square and show your child how to stretch a rubber band over the nails. Stretch a rubber band over the 5×5 square first, over 2×5 rectangle, and then different types of shapes (triangle, pentagon, trapezoid,…) Encourage your child to stretch rubber bands and make shapes too! Your child can also further practice counting the number of nails inside a shape.
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 Letterland Letter N for Number Art Project, you need (1) template https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-n-2-coloring-page/, (2) blue, black, yellow construction paper, (3) scissors, (4) glue, (5) black marker.
Directions:
1. Cut template out of blue construction paper.
2. Glue template on a sheet of black construction paper.
3. Cut stars and a sliver of moon out of yellow construction paper and glue on paper N with heading “N for Night”.
4. As an alternative, glue elbow macaronis with heading “N for Noodles” or a large strip of brown construction paper with 2 googly eyes with heading “N for Ninjas”, or small strips of brown construction paper together with an white construction paper oval with heading “N for Nest” or squares of paper with numbers written on them with heading “N for Numbers”, or strips of newspaper with heading “N for Newspaper”.
5. if you have a Letterland binder, insert this art project in.
For N for Necklace Project, you need (1) yarn, (2) any type of beads (number beads if needed), (3) scissors, and (4) tape. You can also use a plastic needle too! Make one end of yarn stiff with tape and start beading. Have fun!
Small Motor Skills
What Can Be a Pet? Book https://twistynoodle.com/what-can-be-a-pet-minibook/.
Letter N Bookmarks https://twistynoodle.com/letter-n-bookmark-coloring-page/.
Letter N Puzzle https://twistynoodle.com/letter-n-puzzle-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.