May 29, 2020 - Day 46 of Flexible Learning
- Suzanne Flammer
- May 28, 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 - The View at the Zoo
Calendar Activities
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Counting Song
StarFall Calendar
Virtual Field Trip - Australia Zoo
The below link is a tour of the the famous Australia Zoo. Check it out!
Lion Crafts
Paint the outside of foam/paper cup with yellow paint. Let it dry completely.
Cut a handful of orange yarn. Add a line glue around cup. Start placing your yarn pieces all around the glue. Trace and cut out some lion ears from yellow paper. Fold the end down, glue them onto your cup. Finish your lion craft by gluing on your googly eyes and using your brown marker or crayon to draw on a nose, mouth and whisker dots.
Cut the center out of the paper plate or a large round paper circle. Have your preschoolers cut the yellow and orange paper into strips. Stick strips around the edge of the paper plate or circle using a glue stick or glue. Keep sticking until there a mane all around the circle. Say ... “Rawr!!”
Zoo Counting Activity
Watch the video 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo by Eric Carle. Encourage your child to count the animals along with the story. If you have plastic or zoo animals, have your child set them up to count as well as name and talk about the details of each animal, ie. a zebra is black and white and has stripes. A tiger is black and orange and has stripes. How are zebras and tigers alike? How are they different? Extend activity by sorting the animals - large vs small, fly vs walk, habitats - water, land, etc.
Zoo Animal Snacks
Cheesy Giraffe: Use a colby jack cheese stick for the neck, provolone and cheddar cheese pieces for the head, celery for the grass, and mini/regular chocolate chips or raisins for the final details.
Monkey Crackers: Spread crackers with peanut butter, add a wafer cookie for the mouth and one half on each side for ears, use icing for the final details.
Lion Face: Spread crackers with peanut butter, cut thin slices of yellow and orange peppers/carrots for the mane, use mini/regular chocolate chips or raisins for the face.
Please use this as a guide. You may use bread, rice cakes, cream cheese, etc. to create these great zoo snacks with your child.
Technology
Enjoy exploring various websites to reinforce skills. Please reach out if you need assistance logging into your child's accounts. Please remember IXL can be reached through Roxbury Classlink using your child's email account.
IXL
KhanAcademyKids App - This is an app that would need to be downloaded to your own device. The app is free of charge.
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.
Music/Movement
Jungle Crawl
To prep this activity, weave green party streamers all throughout a room or outside using outdoor furniture to create a jungle full of vines. Have your preschooler crawl through the jungle without disturbing any vines and waking the animals sleeping in the jungle
Zoo Songs
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