Week 13

Day 1  

Read Books

Read Words

Game: Place all shapes in a bag or basket, feel the shapes without looking and name the shape

Writing Skills-             Join the dots worksheet

Review Shapes- Use flash cards

Math- flower sorting

Play-  http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/turkey/load.htm?f&n=main

Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper):   Phone number

Day 2

Calendar Activity 

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books

Read Words

Review Colors-  Use flash cards

Writing Skills- Join the dots worksheet

Make:  Pilgrim Hat Cookies
       Ingredients:
             Vanilla frosting
             Yellow food coloring
             32 miniature peanut butter cups (unwrapped)
             32 fudge-striped cookies
             32 pieces orange mini Chiclets gum or orange tic-tac
        Directions:
             In a small bowl, combine frosting and enough food coloring to make the frosting yellow.
             Dip the top (wide part) of the peanut butter cup in yellow frosting.
             Center the peanut butter cup on the cookie forming a pilgrim hat. Add a buckle using frosting and a piece of Chiclets gum or a tic-tac.
             Repeat with the remaining peanut butter cups and cookies.

Line characters #1 ):   Phone number

Play-   Play Go Fish with numbers and/or letters

Fine Motor Skill:

Write "My Family" on the bottom of a blank piece of paper.  Have your child draw his/her family.  Your child will be doing this activity periodically throughout the curriculum.  Write the date on the back of the picture and save the picture to compare each time.  The pictures should become more detailed with time. 

 

 Day 3

Calendar Activity 

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books

Read Words

Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper) ):   Phone number

Review Colors- Use flash cards

Count Your Blessings:
Make a family tradition to have each person say one thing that they are thankful for before eating the Thanksgiving meal.

Writing Skills-  Join the dots worksheet

Block Activities -  Parquetry Block 

Play-  http://www.sesamestreet.org/game_player/-/pgpv/gameplayer/0/9b9d7c77-486c-11dd-bf7b-df62be721a24

Gross motor skills-

Play basketball with a rolled-up sock and a laundry basket. 

 

Print:

Join the dots worksheet -3

flower sorting -1

Week 12

Day 1

Read Books: All by myself-

- Discuss things that the child can do all by themselves. 
- Discuss things that the child wasn’t able to do last year but can do this year. 
- Discuss things that the child can’t do now but will be able to next year. 

Read Words-

Letters (and rhymes) - o,

o - little curve and close

Starfall:

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-o/load.htm?f

Posters letter(s) –

Glue cheerios or fruit loops on the Oo Poster.

Math – Counting worksheet

Review Shapes-

Art- A Child's Thanksgiving Tree

To make your own Thanksgiving Tree you will need the following materials:

sheet of white poster board
pencil
tempera paint, markers or crayons
construction paper in red, yellow and orange
markers
scissors
glue or tape
glitter glue (optional)

Trace hand and cut out.  Write something your thankful for on each hand.  Glue hands on a poster board or card stock to form tree leaves, color a tree trunk.  

Information ( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper):   Phone number review and

Phone etiquette
Continue practicing answering the phone using play phones and the real phone

 

 Day 2:

Calendar Activity 

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books:

Read Words-

Introduce Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper):

Review Colors-

Coloring-  Pilgrim coloring page

Math -  Opposites – Responsible & Irresponsible

Review Shapes-

Line characters #1 Trace curved lines

Spatial:  In and out

Fine Motor Skill:

Using safety scissors, have your child cut out shapes (square, rectangle, circle, & diamond) that have been drawn on construction paper with thick lines or cut squares to create a robot

 

Day 3:

Calendar Activity 

http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books:

Read Words-

Introduce Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper):

Review Colors-

Writing Skills-             Circle characters

Review Shapes-

Character Education: Responsible Activities

Cleaning up coloring page

Even though the child is young, they still have responsibilities.  Discuss and list the responsibilities that everyone in their family has. 

http://myyoungchild.org/stories/listen-alongs/rosa-takes-responsibility-listen/

Block Activities -  Build a castle

Play- My Mittens! book - Color the mittens to match the sentence.

Gross Motor Skills Activity

Ribbon Dancing - Attach ribbons, streamers or scarves to the ends of a ruler, dowel, or paper towel holder.  Hold the ribbon swirling it from side to side, up and down, etc.  Be sure to switch hands.  This activity improves hand-eye coordination.

To Print:

Counting -1

Build a robot -1

O poster -1

Cleaning up coloring page - 2

Pilgrim coloring page -2

Trace curved lines - 1

Spatial, inside and outside -1

Week 11

Day 1 

Read Books

Read Words

Letters (and rhymes) –

A-Pull down, pull down, across

N - line and valley

Y - a little bit down, a little bit down, all the way down
y - a little bit down, all the way down

Starfall:           

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-n/load.htm?f

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/load.htm?f

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-y/load.htm?f

Posters letter(s) –

Find numbers in magazines and newspaper ads.  Cut out and glue on the Nn Poster.

- Paint "ants" on the Aa Poster - using an ink pad, ink one finger and paint three fingerprints in a row.  Add antlers, six legs, and a face to make the fingerprints look like ants

Glue yellow yarn on the Yy Poster.

Math - Sorting by shape – circle, rectangle, etc.

Sorting- Happy stars, sad stars

Maze- Worksheet

Pragmatic Activity-  knowledge

Phone Number
Continue to sing the song learned last week to help your child learn their phone number.  This week place individual numbers (flashcards, magnetic numbers, or index cards) in the correct order of your phone number.

Art- N is for necklace
Let the children make a necklace using Fruit Loops and/or Cheerios.

Introduce Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper):  Home phone number – place numbers in order

Visual Perception Activitiy

What's Missing

Place a few items on the table in front of the child.  Have the child turn away while you take one object away.  Have the child tell you what object is missing. 

Day 2:
 

Calendar Activity http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books:

Read Words-

Introduce Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper): Home phone number – place numbers in order

Letters (and rhymes) - Angle line characters

Popsicle Stick A’s: get 3 popsicle sticks and show the child how to make a big A.  Either glue them together when you are done with the lesson or just attach some velcro so the child can create it over and over!  Remind the child that "A" is shaped like a triangle.  Show with popsicle sticks that a big A is shaped like a triangle! Create an "A" and say "A" and then move the stick down and say "triangle." 

Writing Skills-   Horizontal line

Coloring-

 Sort - Halloween candy or various items by shape – Always have your child explain to you why they sorted the items in their chosen piles.
 Have your child help empty the dishwasher.  Help them sort things on a low table or cabinet if they cannot reach to put items away.

Math Sorting by shape – circle, rectangle, etc.

Review Shapes-

Art- Nose
Discuss what and why we have noses. Make a collage of noses cut from pictures. Use scented markers to draw pictures of noses and identify the smells.

Spatial:  In and On

Play-  go fish

Fine Motor Skill:

Hide little beads in a large piece of play dough or putty.  Using their index finger, have your child find the beads.  Using their thumb is "cheating" and not working the weaker muscles.

 

Day 3: 

 
Calendar Activity http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/calendar/load.htm?f&n=main

Read Books

Read Words

Introduce Information( Write of 1 ½” tracing paper): Home phone number – place numbers in order.  Correctly answer the phone.

Phone etiquette
Using practice phones, demonstrate how to answer the phone 
Answer the phone by saying, “Hello, this is _____”
Explain the importance of speaking clearing in the phone with a moderate volume
Ask a relative or friend to call to give the child extra practice

Review Colors- Color recognition

Math - Sorting by shape – circle, rectangle, etc.

Writing Skills-             Horizontal line

Art- Thanksgiving
- Make Handprint Turkeys (example on November calendar) - construction paper, colors or paints - Either draw around your child's hand and allow them to color the inside or paint the hand and create a hand print.  You may want to begin the Handprint and Footprint Calendar for a great Christmas gift. 

Character Education: Do something nice for someone else to show them friendship – make a card, cookies, or visit a friend in need

Gross Motor Skills Activity -

Play Twister - While the real game will probably be too hard now, have fun matching colors and body parts.

To Print:

Happy stars, sad stars- 1

Maze- 1

Pragmatic knowledge -1

Spacial -1

Y poster- 1

A poster- 1

Color recognition 1-