May 28, 2020 - Day 45 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- May 27, 2020
- 4 min read
The daily suggested activities for your preschooler are listed below. 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 the attendance form.
Please continue to email me your pictures. I love seeing your faces and all the fun you are having while we are apart!
Theme: Zoo
Suggested Activities
Read Aloud - Goodnight Gorilla
Calendar Activities
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Monkey Craft
Trace a large oval and large circle on dark brown paper. Trace a smaller oval on light brown paper. Have your child cut out the shapes. Glue. Cut out 3 rectangular strips for the legs & tail from the dark brown paper. Cut out 2 smaller rectangle strips for the arms from the dark brown paper. Now have your child do an accordion fold for the arms and legs. Glue. Trace ears and paw shapes on light brown paper and two while circles for eyes. Cut out and glue. Roll tail around a tube and glue. Draw the mouth, pupils, and nostrils with a black marker or crayon. Optional ( Cut a banana shape with yellow paper) and glue.
Free The Zoo Animals
The set up for this activity is supper simple. Grab all your zoo animals toys that will fit into plastic ziplock bags. Place one animal into each bag. Have your child open each bag. While opening the bags, talk with your child about each animal. The name, sound, where they live, colors, what do they think the animal eats, etc.
Good Night, Gorilla Matching Eyes
Cut out 7 pairs of circles in a range of sizes. These will be the eyes for each animal in the story. Draw a pupil on each eye with black marker. Depending on your child, you may begin with the eyes sorted by size or ask the child to help match and sort them. After reading the book, ask your child to choose a pair of eyes. Ask them whose eyes they would be. Are they big like an elephant or small like a mouse? Or, as you read the book, stop when each animal appears and ask your child to choose which eyes would belong to that animal. Then invite them to put glue on the eyes and stick the eyes to the paper. Using the glue stick on paper is great for fine motor practice. As they are choosing and gluing eyes to the paper, you can discuss matching pairs and size comparison. Below is a link to the book so you may stop it while doing this activity with your child.
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
Letter Cups
Grab a set of plastic/paper cups and letter stickers. You may write the letters on the cups with a marker, too. The pictures are examples of various letter activities you may explore with your preschooler. Too many letters at once, work on a few at a time until you feel as if your child has mastered those letters and beginning sound. Select letters of your child's name. If your child has mastered their first name, start working on last name. Extend this activity with numbers. The possibilities are many....
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.
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.
Scholastic - My Big World magazine
The students enjoy learning with our Scholastic News as well as the followup activities. Please explore March 2019 issue - Are You My Mother? - 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
Tip Toe Gross Motor Quiet Activity
In our book, Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathman, a zookeeper says goodnight to the animals, but the sneaky gorilla grabs the keys and lets himself out. He helps the other animals out as well, and they follow the zookeeper to his home. For this activity, practice being sneaky and quiet on your tip-toes, just as the animals had been. One pretends to be the zookeeper and walk normally, saying “Good night!” and the other walks on tip-toes behind pretending to be the animals. Add a key to sneak away, if possible. Switch roles to play again. It takes certain muscles to walk on tip toes which may be a challenge, and it is a good action. The idea to be quiet and not bother the zookeeper adds some great pretend play into the tip-toe gross motor activity while providing an active time after story time... that is fun for all!
Zoo 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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