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.
How to do the rhyming ”Hop on……”.
BOB / CAT / POP / COP
Make Letter V Shape:
- 2 big lines for capital V/ 2 little lines for Lowercase v. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going diagonally down, and then back up diagonally. (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 writing Number 7 Shape: start at the top, go straight across and down diagonally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up8IwPj5VYY Encourage your child to trace with pointer finger. Practice https://twistynoodle.com/practice-writing-the-number-7-coloring-page/
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 V (valley, van, vanilla, vanish, vase, vegetables, velvet, very, vest, vet, village, violets, violin, visit, visitor, voice, volcano, vole). You might want to add a picture of an Ninja, so that your child can say Ninja does not start with V! Here is a book of V word pictures: https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/v.gif and Letter V Book https://twistynoodle.com/letter-v-v-book-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter V every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.
Kitchen Science
Have you heard of Moose Juice or Goose Juice? Brainstorm with your child a funny juice name that you will make. For a simple juice recipe, you need (1) lemons or oranges, (2) water or seltzer water, (3) sugar, (4) 1 quart pitcher, (5) manual juicer, (6) spoon, and (7) cups.
Directions:
1. Use manual juicer to squeeze 1 cup of juice from 2-6 lemons or oranges and pour it in pitcher.
2. Add 1 cup of sugar and water to fill the pitcher.
3. Mix with spoon and pour in cups. Enjoy!
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
Dr. Seuss Literature:
1. Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxN4iFN9Go
2. Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? By Dr. Seuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1okXQCECKg.
3. I can Read with my Eyes Shut! by Dr. Seuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqHC9SW2EIA.
4. Oh, the Places You’ll go! By Dr. Seuss (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmOCyP4VyP4
After viewing a book, brainstorm with your child the rhymes in the story and the positional words.
Math
Map Reading and Making is fun! Show a paper or virtual map of your neighborhood, town,… and point with a finger the way to different places your family goes regularly. Be sure to give access to a map wherever you go on foot, by bike or with a car. As an activity, brainstorm with your child the roads and details around your home and encourage your child to draw them on a large piece of paper with crayons/markers with you. For further exploration, take your drawn map with you on trips that your child can expand with more details.
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
All the Places You will Go! Picture Frame https://www.seussville.com/activity/oh-the-places-youll-go-picture-frame/.
For the Hot Air Balloon Picture Frame Art Project, you need (1) small white paper plate, (2) a trapezoid out of blue construction paper, (3) 2 thin strips of white construction paper or 2 white pipe cleaners or 2 white straws, (4) tape or glue, (5) little squares of tissue paper, (6) a picture of your child, and (7) marker.
Directions:
1. Glue little squares of tissue paper (any color) on small paper plate for balloon.
2. Attach construction paper trapezoid or basket to small paper plate with paper strips, pipe cleaners or straws using tape or glue.
3. Tape your child’s picture between basket and balloon.
4. Label: “All the places I’ll go!” on basket with marker.
Small Motor Skills
The Tall and the Small Coloring Page https://www.seussville.com/activity/the-tall-and-the-small/.
Count to Seven Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/count-to-7-2-coloring-page/.
Letter V Bookmark https://twistynoodle.com/letter-v-bookmark-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.
Let’s try the Body Alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy1FI3KGX3Q