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.
What is your favorite truck?
DUMP TRUCK / TOW TRUCK / CEMENT MIXER / TANKER
Make Letter W Shape:
- 4 big lines for capital W/ 4 little lines for Lowercase w. Your child use a finger to trace the letter starting at the top, going diagonally down, and then back up diagonally, then down diagonally and up diagonally again. (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 8 Shape: start at the top, go around down diagonally and back up around diagonally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fq4p216c3s 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 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
Every child is an engineer! For this activity, provide your child with recyclables like empty toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, cardboard, bottle caps, containers, scissors, tape…. and brainstorm first how to build a truck by listing the different truck parts. Then, assist your child in the building phase. Once built, encourage your child to paint, color and add details to the truck.
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
Truck Literature:
1. Trucks by Byron Barton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l-Fn58Cvvo.
2. Little Blue Truck by Amy Schertle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xTByqX-I0.
3. Digger Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8f6ePdphU.
4. Roadwork by Susan Sutton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBSBwp-2EE
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 trucks. Discuss what “helping hands” means and how you and your child use it every day.
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 Truck” Song (“The Wheels on the Bus” tune) and Movement
The wheels on the truck go round and round, round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the truck go round and round, all through the town.
The wipers on the truck go swish, swish, swish,…..
The door on the truck goes open and shut,…..
The engine on the truck goes vroom, vroom,…
The horn on the truck goes beep, …
The brakes on the truck go screech, …
The driver on the truck says, “Buckle up”,……
“Five Big Dump” Trucks Fingerplay
Five big dump trucks rolling down the road.
One pulled out and was ready to download.
Four big dump truck rolling down the road.
One pulled out and was ready to download.
Three big dump trucks……
Two big dump trucks……
One big dump truck rolling down the road.
One pulled out and there were no more dump trucks!
“Construction Truck” Song
This is the way we dump the soil, dump the soil, dump the soil.
This is the way we dump the soil with a dump truck.
This is the way we push the rocks…… with a bulldozer.
This is the way we roll the dirt….. with a roller.
This is the way we fix the light ….. with a bucket truck.
This is the way we lift the load…… with a construction crane.
Math
On the Transportation-Cars-Letter W(2) Day Lesson, you drew a Shapes Road Map. Encourage your child to play on the map with trucks and add more details to it like a parking lot, a dumping site,…
Independent practice:
1. Truck Color Matching https://twistynoodle.com/truck-color-matching-coloring-page/.
2. Truck Number Tracing https://twistynoodle.com/truck-number-tracing-coloring-page/.
3. Truck Count and Match https://twistynoodle.com/truck-count-and-match-coloring-page/.
4. Truck Patterning https://twistynoodle.com/truck-patterns-2-coloring-page/
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 Egg Carton Dump Truck Art Project, you need (1) egg carton (makes 2 trucks), (2) hot glue (adult only), (3) scissors, (4) tempera paint or markers, (5) bottle caps or black construction paper circles for wheels, (6) plastic egg for driver (draw a face with marker).
Directions:
1. Cut, build and glue dump truck.
2. Paint, color and add details.
For Trucks with Shapes Art Project, you need (1) color construction paper, (2) scissors, and (3) glue.
Directions:
1. Cut many shapes out of color construction paper and glue together on paper:
a. Dump truck: rectangles, square, triangle, circles.
b. Cement truck: oval, rectangle, square, circles.
c. Garbage truck: square, rectangles, rectangle with 1 corner rounded.
d. Pick-Up Truck: rectangles, square, circles, triangle.
2. Add more trucks with shapes like pentagon, trapezoid, octagon, hexagon, …..
Small Motor Skills
Tow Truck Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/tow-truck-coloring-page/.
Help the Dump Truck find the Rocks https://twistynoodle.com/help-the-dump-truck-find-the-rocks-coloring-page/.
Truck Dot Painting https://twistynoodle.com/truck-dot-painting-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child. Playing outside with trucks in a sandbox is age appropriate and reviews many concepts in the preschool curriculum.