May 13, 2020 - Day 37 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min read
It's Wacky Wednesday! Will you tell a joke or do something wacky today?
Please note it is important to keep in mind your child's IEP goals. These skills may be addressed through the provided activities as well as the very natural everyday interactions such as daily routines and play. Play with your child as play is a child's work. All areas of development - cognitive, social/emotional, motor, and speech/language skills are achieved through everyday activities including play. It is through play that your child learns, grows, and will retain new skills and information.
These are all suggestions for you to have in one location; if you find, that you need additional resources for your child. Our key word is Flexible and that is very important when working with young children. If you are in need of other resources, please just contact me. I will continue to send a morning email each school day with links to this page, Ms. Cosgrove's morning message, and attendance form.
Please continue to email me your pictures. I love seeing your faces!
Theme: Insects
Suggested Activities
Read Aloud - The Very Greedy Bee
Calendar Activities
Month of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Bee Crafts
Begin by painting the outside of your cardboard toilet roll yellow. After it is dry, paint a few black stripes around your toilet roll. Set that aside to dry completely. Have your child flatten the tube. Trace and have your child cut out wings from newsprint. Add pipe cleaners for legs and antennae. Add eyes.
Trace 1 yellow oval, 1 yellow circle, 2 wings, and 1 black triangle. Have your child cut out. Add black stripes with crayons, marker, paper, or yarn. Assemble and glue bee's body pieces. Cut 6 black strips and have your child fold each. Glue to bee. Add eyes.
Bee Pollen Counting Activity
The egg carton represents the bee hive and the pom poms are our pretend pollen. No pom poms any small object will work. Pretend to be the worker bee transferring the pollen from the flower back to their hive. The bee pollen counting activity may be played 3 different ways. The first way is to simply move the pollen pom poms from the tray to the bee hive with the kid-friendly tweezers. May roll one of the dice, identify the number, and then count out loud while moving the correct number of pom poms into the hive. The last option is to just move the pollen pom poms as your child counts counts.
Letter Review Weekly Activities
We have completed our weekly letters. The remaining weeks of the year will focus on reviewing and reinforcing letter recognition as well as initial sounds. The suggested activities are designed to be practiced throughout the week.
Letter Activities and Alphabet Songs
Alphabet Name Letter Hunt
Have your child write their name on a piece of paper or index card. You may need to assist your child. Have your child look through books, magazines, and or newsprint to hunt for letters from their name. Let them check off each letter of their name on the paper or card. Extend the activity - find pictures or objects of items that begin with the sounds from the letters of their name. Find upper and lowercase letters. Write family members' names and repeat activity.
Rainbow Name
Have your child write their name in pencil. You may need to assist your child. Have your child trace each letter using 1 color of the rainbow for each letter. Repeat with a 2nd, 3rd, etc colors.
Letter - Mystery Box
Find and place 5-7 items/pictures that begin with the a single letter. Have your child label each item/picture - talk about the item/picture - place items/pictures in box. Have your child recall the items that have been placed into the box. Repeat this activity daily with your child. Some items/pictures will be recalled easily - others may require a clue. Make this into a game with your child. This is an activity that we do during our circle time and was enjoyed by all.
Sensory Writing/Play dough/Object Letters
Write your name as well as other letters and numbers in shaving cream, rice, sand, or flour. Any substance will work to give your child that sensory input when writing letters.
Use play dough to form letters. You may write a letter on a piece of paper and have your child roll out play dough to cover the letter. Cover the letter with small objects such as buttons, beads, cereal, or macaroni.
Letter Scavenger Hunt
Have your child search for items that begin with letter any single letter. Have your child name/label each item emphasizing the beginning sound of the letter
Scholastic - My Big World magazine
The students enjoy learning with our Scholastic News as well as the followup activities. Please explore May/June 2019 issue - Backyard Insects - the issue, video, and game. The link below will bring you to the Scholastic - My Big World site - Log in as a student with the code cornfox7099
Music/Movement
Bee Pollen Race
Gather pom poms, ping pong balls, or even rolled up socks to act as pollen and place them in a basket or pile. Using a spoon or tongs or tweezers of some kind, carry each individual piece of pollen across the room and drop it in another basket or bowl. Your child is the bee transferring pollen and the baskets are the flowers. Add fun ways to move in between the baskets — run, buzz, tip toe, leap, walk backwards, etc. Set up 2 baskets across the room if 2 children are playing!
Insect Songs
Mrs. Maygar - Art Class
Our class may select any activity but the Kindergarten art is very appropriate. In addition, there is a live class that you may want to check out. All the information for that class is provided on the below link.
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