Friday, December 4, 2015

Halloween (3 days)

Day 1:
-P is for polka dot pumpkin activity.  Find ps and color them in the pumpkin
-Read Halloween books
-Halloween Songs "10 little Pumpkins"
-Go pick out a pumpkin
-Carry it around the house and show it around
-Vocab:  Spell out words like pumpkin, spooky, jack o lantern, halloween, boo in lowercase and uppercase.  Place uppercase words on top of lowercase (matching)
-Roll a Jack o Lantern game:  Use dice and when roll a one get your pumpkin, 2 eyes, 3 stem, 4 nose, 5 smile, 6 leaf (something like that) whoever finishes first wins.  If roll a repeat skip turn.  "Oh no, I already have my eyes."
-Count and group candy pumpkins in groups of 5
-Paint pumpkin that you choose

Day 2:
Spiders:
  -Learn about spiders
  -Operation spider:  Pick out spiders using tweezers from a box strung with yarn
  -Make spider webs:
Make spider webs with yarn and holes around a paper plate lacing yarn across plate
  -Spider toss:  Make a tape spider web across hall and throw tissues in it and see if the spider will stick
Candy:  Letter and number tracing with candy corn
Mummy: Place masking tape on top of a black construction paper mummy
Monsters:  Roll a Monster game.  How many eyes does my monster have?  Roll a 5  Draw 5 eyes on your monster
Witches:  Make witch hat cookies.  Chocolate cookie with kiss stuck on top with frosting
Sing songs and read books
Learn the monster mash on youtube and dance to it

Day 3: (after Halloween)
Catergorize candy
Read Hansel and Gretel
Make house with toothpicks and candy or marshmellows
Color patterns with candy from Halloween
Pinch sugar and put in one jar from the next
Guess the candy that is described
Super why-Hansel and Gretel- A Healthy Adventure
Candy corn numbers and letters
Group pumpkins in sets of five

All About Me Unit: 5 sense (3 days) My Body (2 days) All About Me (2 days) My Family (1)

5 Senses
 -Learn what the 5 senses are
-Letter S: Smell, put cinnamon on it with finger
-Sight: -blindfold walking
            -make rainbow bread: using a paintbrush paint bread and toast it
            -backyard picture scavenger hunt: take ipad and look for things to take a picture of
            -ABC hide n seek:  Find the alphabet letters hidden in the room
            -Find a word from the book and put a sticker on it
-Touch: -What Am I: Put things in paper bags and guess what it is
              -Sock Touch: Feel different things with a sock on your hand
              -Ice Cube Paint: Paint with food colored ice cubes
              -Cutting exercise: Cut grass out of paper, pokey (use some for hand craft)
              -Hand Craft: Trace hand:  Put something scratchy (sandpaper), soft, bumpy (glue dots), smooth (aluminum foil) one on each finger, sticky (sticker, tape).....
              -Jump to scratchy, crunchy, fluffy, bumpy, soft, hard
             -Find the ABCs: In beans

5 Senses
Letter T: Sprinkle food on it for Taste (see word taste and how it starts with T. "t"
Taste: -Taste guess:  Taste foods and guess what it is
          -Plug nose:  Try to taste, cant, thats why when you're sick and have a cold you can't taste
           -Cheerio necklaces:  String cheerios and make bracelets, necklaces, eat them
           -Q Tip taste: Sour (lemon) Sweet (sugar) Salt (salty)  Pungent (garlic), astringent (green apple skins and grape skins)
Smell:  -Guess/Play with scents (cinnamon, lemon juice, peanut butter, ....
            -Spice Name: Place spices on letters of BRIEL
            -Bubble Bath
            -Make Gingerbread cookies
            -Spice Letters: Write letters in spices
Learn 5 senses song

5 Senses Day 3
Letter H: Hear, glue bells
Hear:
           -Musical Cups:  Tap cups with different amouts of water in them
           -Blindfold Game:  Guess the sounds
           -Egg Game:  Match eggs with similar sounds
           -Word find: Listen for the word in a story
           -Sound Safari:  Go on a walk and find the sounds
-Review Song
-Sense Pictures: Make eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hand on popsicle sticks and take pictures with them
-5 senses chart
-Sorting Game
-All 5 senses craft
-5 Senses dice game

My Body (Day 1)
-Letter B:  Body, fingerprints on the B  
Skin:
-Fingerprints:  Trace hands, place fingerprints on each finger and see how different
-Fingerprint counting
-Make pictures using fingerprints
-Sunscreen on black paper experiment
Bones:
-Make a skeleton on black paper with qtips
-Make a skeleton using cutouts and bracket pins
Teeth:
-Make a gum with playdoh and place marshmellows in it to represent teeth
-Spitting Exercise
Snack Marshmellow teeth

My Body (day 2)
-Letter M:  Muscles, Markers
Muscles:
-Push, Pull, Jump, Put Rubberbands on a pinecone (all using muscles which )
-"Were all made of hinges" primary song
Organs:
-Color different organs
-Digestive system wk
-Draw food thru intestines (maze activity)
Brain:
-Brain Surgery: Make Jello, pick out letters from the brain
-Learn:  In your head, the boss, squishy,
-Match BRAIN to brain
-Make a brain headband
-Pin the brain on the head, Place sticker on brain for using her brain and answering questions
-Decorate brain with things Briel thinks of
Lungs:
-Blow in a straw to create bubbles
-Blow bubbles
-Hold breath contest
Snack: Jello

I Love Me (DAY 1)
-letter L:  Love, draw hearts on it
-Trace Body:  Draw clothes on the body.  Place skeleton on top to show bones underneath, and organs
-Sing "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes"
-Name Activities:
  *Trace it in rainbow colors
  *Paint Trace on top with qtips in paint
  *Use chalkboard and write it out and use wet paintbrush to erase Letters by tracing it over
  *Roll Playdough snakes and lay on traced letters of name
  *Create animal with letters written on back and put clothespins of letters from name on it
  *Worksheet to slowly write own name
-What I Am Sesame Street Song
-Starfall (computer game)

I LOVE ME (DAY 2) Emotions
-Look at different emotions and talk about them and how they look
-Cutting Exercise:  Cut out emotions in squares (use them in emotion game later)
-What things make us happy, sad....
-Take pictures of different emotions on ourselves
-Read a story and pull up a face emotion on a popsicle stick when happy, sad, scared....
-Make a face using playdough
-Change a face around with bracket pins.  Lower eyes, turn frown around etc.
-Emotion game: Emotions in one pile and animals in another.  Act out the emotion with the animal.
-What can we do when were happy, sad, mad....
-Help a barbie know what to do when angry (play)

My Family 
Letter F
-Draw a picture of your family on a small square that can use with popsicle craft later
-What does each family member like to do?
-Do Family Packet Worksheets on Pinterest
-Spell Dad/Mom/Dillon/Briel
-Dad Pretend:  Talk about dad, wear a tie, pretend to be on the computer working, Briel can earn money too by working hard, do chores to earn money, use money to buy something at the store
-Mom Pretend:  Play with dolls and take care of them, make a treat, sing songs with Dillon (learn a new song), clean the house
-House Popsicle Craft:  Place family picture in a popsicle house frame
-3 Little Pigs Story
  Straw- build house out of shredded wheat
  Sticks-build house out of pretzels or popsicle sticks
  Bricks-build house out of legos
-Create houses from various shapes
-Room Sorting:  Place objects in correct room where you find it (toothbrush, movie, toys, teddy bear, hairbrush, blanket, remote, piano music, food)
-Primary family songs
 




Thursday, December 3, 2015

Modes of Transportation: General Modes of Transportation, Ambulance/Doctor, Fire Engine/Fire Safety, Car/Road Safety, Police Car/Stranger Danger, Bike/Walking/Healthy

Modes of Transportation

1. General Modes of Transportation:
10        -Letter Recognition  Letter T worksheet, put tape on the outline of a T on back of wks
            -Color Page- Color different modes of transportation
1030    -Land/Air/Sea- Cut out and measure different modes of transportation and measure them or measure them on a worksheet.  Place them on a piece of construction with light blue for the sky and brown for dirt and blue for water.  Have them draw clouds and sun in the sky and waves in the water and roads or lines on the land. Glue modes of transportation on the multi colored construction paper.
11        -Land Modes:
             Car Sight Words Races: Place masking tape on cars with words written on the tape:  me, I, a, is, it, and, the  (call out a sight word and have them pick out the car with the matching sight word.  Let them drop the cars down a steep incline.  Have masking tape numbers on the floor saying numbers 1-8.  See how far the car went.  What number did the car get too?  5!  etc.
            Number Roads: Trace roads made from masking tape in the shape of a number.  Where is number 4?  Child will trace the number four with their car.
1130    Craft: Make Toilet Paper Airplanes
            Number Train: Color train with each square of the train a different number.  Glue all the train compartments on the train in the right order 1-10
12        Craft/Gross Motor/Imaginative Play-  Make a cardboard car/plane/boat and play with it.  can practive red light green light with popsicle sticks and circles of green, yellow, red glued to the top.


2. Ambulance/Doctor
10        -Letter Recognition  Letter A worksheet, put rolled up balls of red playdough (apples) on the outline of A on back of wks
            -Color Page- Color doctor tools
1030    Doctor Play Vocab- Stethescope, cast, bandaid, shot, siren, ambulance, doctor, nurse, paramedic.  Use a stuffed animal and use vocab and doctor tools on the stuffed animal.  Put a bandaid on the stuffed animal, check ears, heart, reflexes.  Wrap arm in a cast.  Talk about medicine and safety of not taking any without an adult.
            Books Read Ambulance Books from library
            Bandaid Numbers:  Show four bandaids.  How many are there? Etc.  Also can write the number 4 on one and 4 dots on another and match them.
11        Eye Chart:  An eye chart with big letters on top and getting smaller and have them see how far they can read it.  If don't know letters well can do with numbers or shapes. 
            Tracing:  Have a doctor, nurse, paramedic at one end with a crazy dotted line to the bandaid, shot, or ambulance and trace it first with your finger then with a crayon.
1130    Chart:  What doctors Use and don't Use
            911: Youtube videos and songs.  Practice calling 911 on a paper display of phone or fake phone or phone not in use.  Say only do this in emergency and practice on toy phones but not an actual phone unless a real emergency and scared.
12       Doctor Kits:  Paper doctor kit (square construction paper with pipe cleaner stapled on top for handle. Glue cotton balls, band aids, popsicle sticks, gauze, etc into the kit.


3. Fire Engine/Fire Safety
 10      -Letter Recognition  Letter F worksheet, paint with a plastic fork and make red, yellow, orange flames on the F on the back of the wks
           -Color Page- Color fireman color by number
1030   -911: Review song, and practice dialing
           -Read Fire Safety/Firefighter Books
           -FireTruck Puzzle:  Print a firetruck and cut 10 rectangles from top to bottom.  At bottom of each piece number 1-10.  Child will put puzzle together with 1 first, then 2, then 3....see what picture it makes.
11       -Hot/Not Hot Chart
           Make Firefighter Hats:  Color paper plate red with yellow star in middle.  Cut circl big enough for head but not all the way out.  Keep 1/4 attached and let stand up on top of head.
1130  -Be a Firefighter:  Go outside and use a spray bottle or squirt gun and make the chalk flames go away all while wearing the firefighter hat.
12       Fire Safety:  Find smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, fire hydrants, practice a drill, test door if hot or cold and what to do, stop drop and roll practice, smoke crawling


4. Car/Road Safety
-Letter C:Make it into a road
-Color Disney Pixar Car characters
-Masking Tape Roads that spell out BRIEL: trace them with toy cars, trace the letter I call out, practice using directions
-Sight Word Cars: Choose the car with the appropriate masking tape sight word called out.  Let it roll down a steep incline and see what number it goes to.
-Traffic light song:  Twinkle twinkle traffic light, shining round the corner bright, red means stop and green means go, yellow means go very slow, twinkle twinkle traffic light shining round the corner bright
-Red light game:  Use popsicle sticks with circle construction paper
-Vocab for a car:  Point out steering wheel, horn, tires, etc
-Stop/Look/Listen: Practice it



5. Police Car/Stranger Danger
-Letter P: paint it
-Read police books and stranger danger books
-Make police doll
-Fingerprint book: Make 1 on one page, 2 on next, ...
-Upper/Lowercase police hat match
-Stranger Danger:  No, yell, run, tell
-Bernstein Bears clip on strangers
-Discuss rules:  Don't take anything, don't go, don't let them touch you
-Red light game

6. Bike/Walking/ Healthy Habits
-Letter B:Cover in blue things
-Bikes/Walking are healthy
-Exercise vocab:  learn what a jumping jack is, crab crawl, bridge, etc
-Learn about germs:  Rub lotion on.  Rub glitter on.  Wash with water.  Then with soap.  Glitter represents germs
-Ride bikes/take a walk