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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.

Can you ride a bicycle………..?
WITH 2 TRAINING WHEELS / WITHOUT 2 TRAINING WHEELS/ I RIDE A TRICYCLE

Make Letter W Shape:

  1. 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)
  2. Wet-Dry-Try on small chalkboard (Handwriting Without Tears) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6p4LUEGbwM
  3. 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

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

What is faster? For Time Measuring Speed Experiment, you need a bicycle/tricycle and a timer. Encourage your child to run a distance and time it. Then, ask your child to bicycle/tricycle the same distance and time it too. Which experiment was faster and why?

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

Bicycle Literature:
1. Bear on a Bike by Stella Blackstone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7YZ24mYPIE
2. My Bike by Byron Barton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tidNERXmc.
3. Duck on a Bike by David Shannon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpD51JzQcU.
4. Frogging Rides a Bike by Jonathan London and Frank Remkievicz (advanced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvjxMkLb5xQ

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 bicycling. Discuss how your child can keep safe. (Reference website below)

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 Bicycle” Song (“The Wheels on the Bus” tune) and Movement
The wheels on the bicycle go round and round, round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the bicycle go round and round, all through the town.
The bell on the bicycle goes ring, ring, ring,…..
The breaks on the bicycle goes screech, screech, screech,…..
The biker on the bicycle says, “I have fun; I have fun; I have fun”,…..
The handle bar on the bicycle goes right and left,……

“I Wear my Helmet” Song (“Skip to my Lou” tune).
I wear my helmet when I ride,
When I ride my bike outside.
I don’t take it off till I’m done with my bike.
It’s time I wear my helmet!
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou!
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou!
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou, my darling!

“My Bicycle” Finger-play
One wheel, two wheels on the road. (Arms make circles)
My feet make the pedals go round and round. (Pedal with feet)
The handle bar helps me steer so straight. (Hold handle bar)
Down the sidewalk and through the gate!

Math

Pattern blocks and design cards are fun geometrical puzzles and excellent math tools. I strongly recommends exploring them with your child. You can make your own by printing free pattern blocks mats found on different websites and cutting shapes out of color construction paper.

Do you have a set of dominoes? Here is a free template http://www.supercoloring.com/paper-crafts/printable-dominoes-set-template. For playing dominoes, put a domino in front of players and divide equally all other dominoes. Each player takes turn to find a domino that has the same number of dots as the one(s) in front while making a domino chain.

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 Spin Art Project, you need (1) salad spinner, (2) tempera paint, (3) white paper.
Directions:
1. Take lid off salad spinner and place a piece of white paper in.
2. Drop some tempera paint of choice on paper.
3. Put lid back on and spin.
4. Take lid off and see beautiful colorful art!

For Building with Pasta Art Project, you need (1) paper, (2) Little Wheels and Penne noodles, (3) markers, and (4) glue.
Directions:
1. Take paper and build bicycles with little wheels and Penne noodles.
2. Glue all pieces together. Add details of choice.

Small Motor Skills

Bicycle Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/b-is-for-bike-3-coloring-page/.
My Alphabet Book https://twistynoodle.com/my-alphabet-book-66-minibook/.
Match the Numbers https://twistynoodle.com/number-matching-2-coloring-page/ or https://twistynoodle.com/match-the-numbers-4-coloring-page/

Gross Motor Skills

Outside time with climbing, jumping, bicycling, running, walking are great ways to develop the whole child.

Bike Safety for Kids – Advice for Parents https://kidsittingsafe.com/bike-safety-for-kids/