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.
Riddle: it has many colors, has 4 wheels and transports people. What is it?
BUS 🚌/ CAR 🚗/ TRUCK 🛻/ BICYCLE 🚴
Your child started with Walter Walrus from Letterland and listened to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPhSwygBgw After listening to the song, your child traced a capital W and a lower case w, starting at the top (song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJnZePnDo-U), do a diagonal line down, do a diagonal line up, do a diagonal line down, and a diagonal line up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUifh-6Z7cg Now, let’s listen to the story from the Letterland Corner: Walter Walrus and the Weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd9ZIFSrbTc After listening to the story, help your child retell the story using lots of W 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 W (walrus, walk, want, warm, wash, water, wave, way, wax, we, week, well, wet, whale, what, win, wind, window, winter, wish, with, word, witch, wicked). You might want to add a picture of a violin, so that your child can say Violin does not start with W! Here is a book of V word pictures: https://www.first-school.ws/t.asp?t=http://www.first-school.ws/images/alpha/ap1/w.gif and https://twistynoodle.com/my-letter-w-minibook/ Also, you can add new objects/pictures starting with the letter W every day and let your child explore the container all through the week.
Science
How do you move a matchbox car without touching it? Brainstorm with your child how to move a matchbox car (pushing it, blowing on it, using magnets, ….) For this propulsion experiment, you need (1) matchbox car, (2) tape, (3) magnets, (4) balloon, (5) thick rubber bands, and (6) straw. Attach 1 magnet or balloon attach to a straw with a rubber band to a matchbox car and use other magnet or blow into the balloon through the straw to make matchbox car move. For a similar experiment, use a paper clip on a paper plate and move a magnet under the paper plate to move the paper clip. Have fun!
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
Car Literature:
1. My Car by Byron Barton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHdIe3vPqM
2. Race Car Count by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and Michael Slack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaXX8swZElw
3. Cool cars by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQFJfzu68k.
4. If I build a Car by Chris Van Dusen (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgEPZwfPBk
After viewing a book, help your child sequence the story: what happened first, next,… at the end. Brainstorm with your child what you know about cars and what you would like to have in a car (a bed, table, ……)
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.
”The Wheels on the Car” Song (“The Wheels on the Bus” tune) and Movement
The wheels on the car go round and round, round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the car go round and round, all through the town.
The wipers on the car go swish, swish, swish,….. (move arms left and right)
The engine in the car goes vroom, ……. (move fists up and down)
The door on the car goes open and shut,…… (open hand and clap hands)
“5 Little Cars” Fingerplay.
One little car went to the zoo,
It met another car and then, there were two.
Two little cars driving by the sea,
One drove up from the beach and then, there were three.
Three little cars driving by the store.
Another car pulled out and then, there were four.
Four little cars out for a drive.
A car joined in and then, there were five!
“At the Car Wash” Rhyme
one little car is in the car wash line,
Covered with mud and dirt and grime.
It went in the car wash.
Scrub, scrub, scrub,
Splash, splash, splash,
And rub, rub, rub.
When it came out it was clean and dry.
The happy little car said, “Thanks, goodbye!”
Math
Let’s be creative with roads! For Building a Shapes’ Road, you need a big piece of paper, a black marker and cars. Draw big shapes (square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, …) with black marker and draw a road along each shape side connecting each shape. Also draw a dotted line to separate the road’s left and right lane and write the shape’s name in the middle of the shape. Encourage your child to drive cars on the paper shapes road and have fun! For a colorful experience, your child can add details like houses, trees, playgrounds, buildings,…. with color pencils or markers.
Spring is in the air in March! 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/march-calendar-set/march-calendar-set-4 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 Easy Painting with Cars, you need (1) tempera paint, (2) paper, (3) cars, (4) printing paper box top, optional.
Directions:
1. Drop tempera paint on paper and roll car in it. You can use a box top to avoid paint splashes or…
2. For more fun, line up 5 cars on paper and drop a different color paint in front of each car, lift the box side where the cars are to see cars rolling down with color paint!
For Paper Plate Car Art Project, you need (1) 1 paper plate, (2) scissors, (3) black and white construction paper, (4) glue, (5) squares or other shapes of tissue paper, (6) dot painting, (7) crayons or markers.
Directions:
1. Cut paper plate in halves: 2 car bodies.
2. Cut 2 black circles and 2 smaller white circles to fit into black circles.
3. Cut 2 white rectangles for windows.
4. On car bodies, dot paint with different colors, use markers/crayons to color, or glue small shapes tissue paper.
5. Once dry, glue 2 white squares for windows.
For a Paper Traffic Light Art Project, , you need (1) 1 big black rectangle of construction paper, (2) glue, and (3) 3 circles (red, yellow, green) fitting in the black rectangle. Glue all together.
Small Motor Skills
Car Book https://twistynoodle.com/car-2-minibook/.
Time for a Drive Book https://twistynoodle.com/time-for-a-drive-minibook/.
Cut and Paste Letters C-A-R https://twistynoodle.com/cut-and-paste-the-letters-c-a-r-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.
Play a Red Light or Green Light Game: one person is the light and others have to follow directions. When the light says, “Green light”, other player(s) can move around. When the light says, “Red light”, other player(s) stop. Each player can move and sound like a car!