Pre-K At-Home Learning (Suggested) Schedule Hang in Your Child’S Learning Space for Them to Follow the Schedule Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Pre-K At-Home Learning (Suggested) Schedule Hang in your child’s learning space for them to follow the schedule Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Morning Routine Wake up ~ Make your bed ~ Brush your teeth ~Get dressed~ Be ready to learn! Breakfast: Have conversation during breakfast and discuss what your child is learning about and what they did yesterday and the plan for today 20 minutes

Circle Time: Teaching Staff Communication 10-15 minutes Teaching staff will provide pre-recorded videos or make phone calls to discuss the activities for the day.

Independent Work Time: Choose at least three activities to do each day. Students should do an activity for at least 10 minutes. 30-45 minutes Pre-K Expectations: Act Safe ~ Be Ready to Learn ~ Care for People and Things

Art Games Writing Social Emotional Music Adventure in a Box

Online Learning Reading/Writing Math Science Free Choice

Physical Activity 30 minutes Kindergarten PE link

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Read Aloud Teaching Staff Communication 20 minutes Teaching staff will provide pre-recorded read aloud videos or include a story in the daily phone call.

Lunch... 25 minutes Set the Table: 1 fork, 1 cup, 1 napkin for each person eating Discuss what you did earlier during Independent Work Time and how you want to extend or change it after rest time.

Rest Time/Quiet Time… 30 minutes Free Choice… Independent Work Time: Choose two activities you did earlier today to finish, extend, or change you you may have Free Choice 30 minutes Pre-K Expectations: Act Safe ~ Be Ready to Learn ~ Care for People and Things

Art Games Writing Social Emotional Music Adventure in a Box

Online Learning Reading/Writing Math Science Free Choice

Week 1- Health Choose three areas to explore each day. Then select one activity to complete from each area. Each activity should take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity4

Emergency number- Draw 3D germ- Using playdough or Clean hands vs. dirty hands- Painting letters- use a bucket out the numbers 9-1-1 then clay have the child make a Fold paper in half, trace the full of water to “paint” letters have the child cut/tear pieces ball. Add q-tips or anything child’s hands and then cut out. outside on a hard surface like of paper to glue on. As an you can insert such as sticks Have child draw on one set the sidewalk. You can use Art extension, you can also have a cut in half and place around (dirty) and then make blue your fingers or a paintbrush. discussion about dialing 211. the ball. circles on the other (clean; 211 is for community bubbles) information and referral services.

Babycare-Gather supplies. Paper Bag Lungs- Gather Vision test- Print out a free Guess the weight Gather (2-3: band-aids,Q-tips, cotton supplies. (2 straws 2 vision test or make one of your materials. (bathroom scale, balls) Pretend that the baby is paper/plastic bags) Twist each own.(ashliesimaginationstation paper, pencil) Write the names Games crying and needs care. Talk bag tightly around a straw. .com) On a sheet of paper of your family members on a about what’s needed to care Blow into the straws and then print large letters and continue piece of paper and write what for the baby and why. Use suck the air out of them. This printing letters that shrink in your child thinks they weigh. your imagination! demonstrates the expansion size as you near the bottom of Use the scale to find the actual and contraction of the lungs as the paper. Tape the paper to weight. You can try this with we breathe. a wall and have your child other household items too. stand a distance away, covering 1 eye. Your child should name as many letters as possible.

Guess the weight. Gather Doctor and dentist both start Practice writing your name Big Alphabet Memory Game- materials. (bathroom scale, with the letter D. Go on a using crayons, pencils, pens, Have your child write letters 2 paper, pencil) Write the names search around your house for markers or chalk. times on small pieces of Writing of your family members on a things that start with the letter paper, cards, or paper plates. piece of paper and write what D. How many things can you Place them face down and mix your child thinks they weigh. find? Write the words of the them up. Take turns flipping 2 Use the scale to find the actual items that you find. over at a time to find a match. weight. You can try this with other household items too. Social- Establishing new “at-home” Follow the leader Explain to Clean up routine Establish an Big Helper, Little Helper Emotional routines In the morning talk your child that your job is to area in the house for your There are many things your about what each person will keep them safe and for them child to maintain (bedroom, child can help with around the focus on for the day, including to be safe. One way of playroom, living room, etc). house. Doing so will help your the adults. Let your child know staying safe is to follow When the room is tidy, discuss child learn responsibility. For what to expect for the day and directions. Play the game ways to keep the room clean. example, model how to use a when to expect it by reviewing “follow the leader”. Give your Show ways of tidying up this broom and let your child hold a general schedule. Feel free child a direction to follow such area. Allow your child to clean the dustpan. Switch roles and to use the schedule provided as clap your hands, your child this area when it is messy. let your child try the broom. in this packet or use one of follows. After playing, have a Show you are grateful for the your own. This will help your discussion about ways to stay help! Have your child write, child be aware of how the day safe at home. Write, draw or draw or tell how they can be a will flow. As you move tell about how following helper around the house. throughout the day, review directions keeps them safe at your goals for the day and home. things you have accomplished. At the end of the day, have your child write, draw or tell you their favorite part of the day.

Music Stay away from the germ. Wet ball activity. (this activity Dodge the Germ This game Germ song (to the tune of Freeze game practicing is for outside) Wet something is played much like a snowball Mary had a little lamb). covering coughs or sneezes. that rolls such as a ball or fight. Allow your child to “Please keep the germs away, Tell your child you are going to water bottle and have your crumple a few sheets of paper. germs away, germs away, play music. While the music is child sit opposite you with their While playing music with a fast Please keep the germs away playing they can move any legs spread like a “v”. To the tempo, pretend to throw germs they will make me sick” way they like. Encourage tune of “hot potato”, have your at one another. Be sure your Explain that you will give them them to explore different ways child repeat Icky germs, Icky child knows they are to avoid a movement (ex. Pat your of moving such as running, germs, are here every da. Icky the germs that are being shoulders) to add to the song hopping, galloping, or jumping. germs, Icky germs, we need to thrown. Have your child draw, as they sing. Sing multiple When the music stops, they wash away. Practice various write or tell how to avoid verses of the song, adding have to stop. Each time the ways of moving the ball back germs. more movements. Have your music stops, have your child and forth such as rolling, child choose a new movement practice the ways to cover a bouncing or catching. After each time. For a challenge, cough or sneeze. Have your playing for a few minutes, have your child choose two child write, draw or tell the allow the child to see the dirt movements and alternate the ways to keep germs away. on the ball. Explain the dirt is movements throughout the like our germs. Come up with song to create a pattern. a way to wash them all away.

Hand Washing Song. Ask your child to tell you about how they wash their hands at school. Ask them to show you how they wash their hands and the song they sing when washing their hands at school (ex. ABC song or “Tops and Bottoms” song). Next, allow your child to teach you the handwashing including their unique handwashing song. Have your child write, draw or tell how washing our hands keeps the germs away.

Match the Lids Have any Count the band-aids you Sort band-aids by big, small Talk about the placement of Tupperware or containers at have around your house. and medium. pictures in a book. Use the home? Take the lids off and Have a discussion of what words under, over, behind, in have your child find the match. they are used for. front of, above and below. For Great sorting activity example, as you’re reading a Math story ask “where is the moon? Is it above the tree or under the tree?”

OVERNIGHT PREP Use flour or cornstarch, or Use lipstick to show how Soapy water wash tub. REQUIRED. Gather materials. baking soda to show how germs travel. Put lipstick on Gather materials. (liquid soap, (1 brightly colored washable germs can hide. Sprinkle flour your child. Have them kiss washcloths, bathtub/sink/large marker, a bowl, soap, and a on your child's hands. Notice their hand or put their mouth bowl, plastic items) Fill the tub Science plastic glove, sandwich bag, or how it gets in the cracks of the on a piece of paper. This with water and liquid soap for a bread bag) Color the latex skin and in between fingers. shows how germs transfer a sudsy experience. Add glove with the washable marker. Germs can do the same thing, from mouth to surface and plastic dolls, cars, dinosaurs, Fill the glove or bag with water which is why proper why it is important to keep combs, brushes, etc. Allow and tie a knot to keep the water handwashing is always things away from their mouths. your child to wash the toys in. Freeze the glove or bag overnight. Take the glove out of important. Once you show practice washing your hands and talk about the importance freezer and put it in a bowl. Use them how the flour can hide, to the song “Mary Had a Little of cleaning commonly used the soap to scrub off the marker. practice washing your hands Lamb” items often to cut down on the Talk about the importance of to the song “Happy Birthday”. spread of germs. washing hands thoroughly to remove germs.

Free Choice Choose something you want to do at home that can help you learn. Examples include but are not limited to: cooking, building with legos or blocks, doing a scavenger hunt in the yard, organizing, helping an adult, cleaning, or walking your dog.

Complete the activity of your choice. Draw a picture and try to write about what you did. Be sure to tell what you learned.

Example: I made a lego monster. I used blue, red, green and yellow legos to make it. I learned that it takes two yellow legos to make one blue

Choose a book to read. Before Read a book that features a Read a book that features a Go for a community walk and reading the book, talk about “safety helper” (community “safety helper” (community see what words you can spy the word “safe” (“I won’t get helpers that keep us safe). helpers that keep us safe). on your walk. Take pictures hurt, you won’t get hurt). Draw, write or tell about the Draw, write or tell about a or write them down while Reading/ Make a list of ways to be safe community helpers in the story community helper and how walking. See if you can spot Writing with our families. You can (be sure to include their tools, they keep us safe. community helpers while on dictate or have your child write where they work). your walk such as garbage Book or draw the list the ways to be collectors or postal workers. Awareness: safe. Read a book and At home, help your child make Select a discuss if the character in the a map of what they saw. Have book and book was safe or not safe. your child tell how the people practice or things they saw in the turning the community keep us safe. pages and pointing and naming items on that page

Going to the Doctor. Go to Washy Wash game. Go to Doc McStuffins Sticker Book. Doctor Daniel game. Go to brainpopjr.com Select health. sesamestreet.org. Select Go to lol.disney.com. Select pbskids.org. Select games. Select Be Well. Select Going games. Scroll down to Caring games. Scroll down to Sticker Select Daniel Tiger. Select to the Doctor. Choose to for Each Other. Select Washy books. Select Doc games again. Choose Doctor Online watch the video or just play the Wash. MCStuffins. Daniel. Learning game below.

1. *EC game app for Android and Apple devices. Pepi Play Bath. Language free game highlighting bathroom routines and life skills. The lite version is free.

Week 2- Health Choose three areas to explore each day. Then select one activity to complete from each area. Each activity should take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity4

Healthy Food Collage: Tear Mood Music Drawing: Play Item Collection Bodies: Take Shape Faces: Draw and cut or cut out Healthy Foods from different types of music. Make a piece of paper or paper out a variety of shapes old magazines or newspaper, faces and/or draw how that plate, collect items from (different sized circles, half or have your child cut, tear, or music makes you feel. outside (small rocks, pine circles, triangles, rectangles, Art draw them and glue or tape straw, grass, etc.) or around squares) and use these onto paper plates or sheets of the house (spaghetti noodles, shapes to create different paper and hang in the kitchen q-tips, cotton balls, etc.). faces that show different area for the reminder of Encourage your child to use emotions and feelings. “Healthy Eating” (demonstrate these items to make their what you want the student to bodies on that piece of paper do, sometimes you may have or paper plate. to help them to get students started and most times to complete activity)

Yoga Pose Drawing: Draw a picture of your favorite yoga pose (tree pose, downward dog, butterfly, etc.) and label the pose by sounding out the different sounds/letters you hear in the word. Start with the first sound of the word. For a visual of different yoga poses you can look at the picture at the end of Week 2, or search through google or on Pinterest for kids yoga poses.

Play Simon Says: Demonstrate and model what needs to Healthy item scavenger hunt: Have children search their happen - Simon Says touch your head, Simon Says blink your homes for “healthy items” ( soap, toothbrush, fruit, etc.) once eyes, Simon Says wiggle your nose, Simon Says stick out your they have found all the items they can talk about what letter Games tongue, Simon Says jump up and down - Repeat as many times each item starts with. as needed.

Go, Lungs, Go: Tape (or use some type of string, shoestring, straw, etc). Make two lines on the table or floor. Give the child/children a cotton ball (or something that can be blown easily like a small ball made from paper) and have them blow the item from one line to another. Explain that we have lungs in our bodies that hold air for us to breathe. You can also explain why our lungs are an important part of our bodies. To make this fun, you guys can race to see who can blow the item from one side to the other the fastest, time the child on how fast they can blow the item.

Body Part Riddle: Say riddles to your child/children such as, “I’m thinking of a body part that you can put in your socks and shoes. What is it?” Another example: “It’s on your face, you use it to eat and talk with. What is it?” Hygiene Charades: Act out a good habit to take care of our bodies WITHOUT talking (brushing teeth, coughing in your elbow, washing hands, running, jumping jacks, etc.) and have other people guess the good hygiene habit. Talk about why it is a good habit and why it’s important for our bodies. Extension - write or draw different options on small pieces of paper, then the person pulls one out of a bowl or hat and acts it out.

Using Crayons or Markers / Paper: Let students practice Mood Music: After listening to and drawing with different types gripping crayons/markers and practice making lines and curves of music, ask what type they enjoyed the most and why. Kids and creative designs on paper or write name of student - have can journal (draw) their thoughts Writing student trace letters in name help as needed Make Your Own Healthy Living Book: Fold pieces of paper together to make a book - 1. Fold paper hotdog style and make a crease. 2. Return paper to original size and make a hamburger style fold. 3. Fold the paper in half again and make a crease - the burrito fold. 4. Unfold step 3 and cut along the center crease to the halfway fold. IMPORTANT: Make sure you cut from the folded side - do NOT cut from the outer edge. 5. Return your paper to the hotdog fold, so that when viewing from the top, you see a square or a diamond. 6. Hold both edges of the paper and smush it together to form your book!

Now draw pictures of ways you can take care of your body and be healthy (eat fruits and vegetables, exercise, get enough sleep, drink milk, wash your hands, etc.), and label each picture or dictate to an adult or older sibling so they can write what you say. This is your Healthy Living Book!

Social- Good Morning Song for Calm Down Kit: Create a calm down kit for when you feel upset, angry, or sad - it can be made Emotional kids: The Kiboomers from an empty shoe box, tupperware container, basket, bag, etc. Come up with activities that can (youtube.com) or singing help you calm down to put in there. You can create your own, but some ideas are: a fidget simple songs for the students spinner, a squishie or squeezamal, drawing a star or square and follow the lines to breathe to join in -The Wheels on The (breathe in through your nose while tracing one line, out through your mouth on the next line, Bus, If You Are Happy And continue breathing in and out as you trace around the shape), coloring page and crayons, picture You Know It Clap Your Hands, of kids yoga poses, a book to read, picture of a bowl of soup and use deep breaths (smell the Stomp Your Feet, Rub Your soup, blow the soup cool - do this at least 5 times), brush a doll’s hair, any ideas that are calming Tummy to you!

Blowing Bubbles - Kids can Feelings Squares: Outside version: take chalk, draw a few squares on concrete, inside the practice calming down by square draw a feeling face (happy, sad, mad, frustrated, etc.), encourage your kid to hop to an taking deep breaths to blow emotion and tell about a time they felt that emotion. EX: hop to the happy face then the child bubbles, watching where the should proceed to tell about a time they were happy. Inside version: same concept, instead of bubbles land, or popping them using chalk, you may use paper instead. Follow all the same instructions for “outside version”. Music Head, Shoulders, Knees and Dance Party with songs (all Toes - Sing and have students can be found on youtube): Sing If You’re Happy and You Know It and substitute touch their head,shoulders, Hokey Pokey, Head, different emotions: (Have child show the different emotions on knees and toes Shoulders, Knees and Toes, their faces) This is the way we wash our - If you’re sad and you know it, say, “boo hoo” The freeze- Dance or move hands - If you’re excited and you know it, say, “WooooHooo!” while music is playing and - If you’re mad and you know it, say, “Argghhh” when it stops freeze, clap - If you’re scared and you know, say, “Ahhhh” while music is playing then - If you’re sleepy and you know it, say, “Yawn” (do freeze, ect. yawning motion and/or pretend to snore)

Dice/Number Match Physical Activity: Use a dice or glue paper on the outside of a small tissue box or any cube shape and draw the dice pattern on each side of your cube. Have child roll the dice and work on child quickly recognizing how many dots based on the pattern, or have them count and tell how many. Then child matches that to the written numeral to determine what activity to do - 1 = See how far you can jump 2 = Do 5 squats Math 3 = Gallop for 30 seconds 4 = Jump up and down 3 times 5= Do 5 jumping jacks 6= Spin around 4 times

Counting to 10: Have Make a healthy snack- cut a students count 10 objects in banana into 10 pieces, slice the kitchen or bedroom areas; an apple into four parts, cut Healthy/Unhealthy Sort: Draw, print, or cut out (from Singing Walrus Counting 1-10 your sandwich into four magazines or newspaper ads) pictures of 10 healthy and https://www.youtube.com/watc squares or two triangles unhealthy foods or activities. Then sort the pictures into h?v=DR-cfDsHCGA healthy/unhealthy.

Make Your Own Calm Down Bottle: Using any empty plastic bottle you can create your own calm down bottle! There are so many possibilities for what to put in it. Use an empty water bottle, soda bottle, mouthwash bottle, Ketchup bottle, etc. Ideas for what to fill it with: - Fill halfway with vegetable oil/olive oil/baby oil, other half with water (you can color the water with food coloring), glue and Science screw the top on and have your child watch how the oil and water separate. - Fill with water and add glitter, glue and screw on the top. When child shakes the bottle they can watch the glitter swirl and watch it settle to the bottom. - Fill with water and different materials (paper clip, small piece of wood, screw/nail/washer, small piece of pipe cleaner, beads, jingle bell, etc. Glue and screw on the top. Child can use a magnet on the outside of the bottle to see what is attracted to the magnet. Why are some items attracted to the magnet and not others?

Taste Test - Select Fruits and Vegetables, have students taste them and then tell or point to the one they like the best - Make a chart of like/dislike and add pictures. As an extension - have child explain taste (salty, sweet, sour, bitter) and texture (hard, soft, smooth, crunchy). Pepper and soap experiment: Shake a lot of pepper into a small bowl of water and explain that we’re going to pretend the pepper is germs. Have the child stick one finger in the bowl and pull their finger out. Notice the pepper (germs) that are now on their finger. Now have the child dip their finger in soap (dish soap or hand soap) and then in the bowl of pepper. Notice what happens to the pepper (germs)! This is what happens when we wash our hands with soap - the germs get cleaned off of our hands! https://youtu.be/uvG6uBq-dV0 Learning Letters/Sounds: Identify Our Emotions: After Character Emotions: After reading a story, draw faces Practice Fundations materials reading a story, talk about how showing some of the emotions the characters in the story felt at the end of this packet or one of the characters felt in (sad, happy, angry, worried, excited), then label the emotions. google Fundations Letter the book (happy, sad, angry, Hear the first sound in the word “sad”, what letter makes that Reading/ Cards (students can practice worried, excited). When was a sound? Write the letter next to the picture. You can work on Writing going through the time you felt that way? Draw a hearing and writing the sounds in the rest of the word too! letter/keyword/sound); picture and write about it (or See It, Say It, Sign It have an adult help you write (youtube-JackHartman) it).

Book Awareness: Select a Healthy/Unhealthy Book Response: Listen to the book Good for Me and You by Mercer Mayer. book and practice turning the (On YouTube) What were some healthy habits in the story? What were unhealthy habits? Point, pages and pointing and draw pictures or write the healthy habits you saw or heard in the book on one side of your paper naming items on that page and point/draw/write the unhealthy habits you saw or heard on the other side of your paper.

Cosmic Kids Yoga for Anxiety PBS.org/parents - define age Character Emotions: After reading a story, draw faces (can be found by searching on and topic: Here is the link for showing some of the emotions the characters in the story felt You Tube as well) 3-5 year olds and (sad, happy, angry, worried, excited), then label the emotions. Online Social/Emotional Hear the first sound in the word “sad”, what letter makes that Fun Brain Jr. (educational Learning sound? Write the letter next to the picture. You can work on games) hearing and writing the sounds in the rest of the word too!

Complete the activity of your choice. Draw a picture and try to write about what you did. Be sure to tell what you learned.

Example: I made a lego monster. I used blue, red, green and yellow legos to make it. I learned that it takes two yellow legos to make one blue

Yoga Poses

Week 3- Changes in Weather

Choose three areas to explore each day. Then select one activity to complete from each area. Each activity should take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity4

Fill a bowl or bucket with Make a rainbow using the Go on a nature walk. Gather Draw yourself (Mat Man) water. Go outside on a dry crayons sent in Phase 1 materials. When you get outside in the weather- add day. Paint the sidewalk with packets, or any other materials home, create a nature collage. sun, clouds, rain, or an

water using fingers, q-tips, you have in your home - How many colors did umbrella. Add clothes that Art paintbrushes or any other you collect? would fit the weather (coat, (playdough, sidewalk chalk, rip material you have in your - Sort items into boots, hat, bathing suit, etc). colored paper). home. categories (hard/soft, big/little, living/nonliving)

.Make a rain puddle shape with a piece of paper, a jump rope, Weather Charades - parents and students take turns acting and or other object. Practice jumping over the puddle and talk about guessing: who can jump the farthest. While jumping, shout FREEZE and - Different kinds of weather (sunshine, rain, thunderstorm) Games PUDDLE JUMP. When the child hears “PUDDLE JUMP” they - Act out getting dressed for different kinds of weather can jump in the puddle. (putting on gloves, boots, etc

Play Rain Rain Sun In a safe area in the home or outside, take turns “chasing” your a form of duck duck goose. child and letting your child “chase” you

Social- Use a doll or bundled object (stuffed animal, other household Review the Zones Picture. Discuss weather events (rain, Emotional item) and pretend that it is a baby. Encourage the child to rock, thunderstorms, sunny days, rainbows) how do they make you soothe, feed, sing to the baby. feel? What zone does it put you in - blue, green, red, yellow.

Review the Zones Picture. Draw faces with different Review the Zones Picture. Think of different times in your home

See ZONES expressions (smiling, frowning, etc.) when your child feels sad, mad, excited, bored, tired. Discuss those times: Board below -or- ● How does it make you feel? Make different emotions out of playdoh ● What zone are you in? What zone is the picture/face/playdoh in? ● What can you use in your Calm Down Kit (from Week 2) to

Playdough recipe on the last page. feel better and get back in the green? Practice: deep breaths, blow bubbles, sing a song, read a book, etc. Using salt/sand/dirt Use your 5 senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) to observe ● Trace horizontal lines in the weather outside today. Generate a list of descriptive words ● Trace vertical lines in (warm, wet, dry, chirp, sweet, bumpy, bitter) and model writing Writing ● Trace circular lines in them for your child. ● Trace cross in

Go outside and observe the weather and draw a picture. Label Draw pictures and shapes related to weather. Write the first picture with beginning sound of each object (ex. S=sun). letter of the word Examples: Sun, Rainbow, Raindrops, Kite, Clouds, Flowers

Music Provide household items, such Children can create the Sing this song with your child: Scarf/Clothing/Fabric Creative as plastic plates and cups, sounds of rain. Rub their (to the tune of: If You’re Happy Movement Activity (inside pots and lids, empty clean fingers together to make a and You Know It) and/or outside) choose your cartons, etc. for your child to mist, rub their hands together favorite music and move to the play with, stack, and make to make a drizzle, pat knees to If it’s windy and you know it beat with your music. Observe their make a downpour, stomp the Swing and Sway (clap, clap) scarf/fabric/clothing. reactions. floor to make thunder. Then reverse the movements to If it’s windy and you know it make the rain stop. Swing and Sway (swish, swish)

Use anything in your house to Draw your own version of the Counting “raindrops” use Observe the weather for a make a rainbow tower sun and count the number of cotton balls, torn paper, coins week. Make a chart with the (different items that are the rays you have put on it. to work on 1:1 sun and rain at the top and put color of the rainbow (red, correspondence “hand me 1 a check for each day. Count Math orange, yellow, green, blue, raindrop” etc the total on Friday and write purple)- see how many items Also rote count to 5 with the number under each. See you can stack! “raindrops”. chart below

Pretend you’re the wind. Use Make the playdough recipe Lay outside and observe the Take a nature walk outside. a straw in a ziploc bag with below. Use it to complete clouds. What shapes/animals Take your scissors with you torn pieces of paper and see if activities from other sections! do you see? Describe. and cut pieces of nature that you can blow the wind around. you see to take with you Science Blow it fast, slow. Go for a walk and observe (blades of grass, a piece of your shadows as you walk. branch, dandelions). Bring the Do you have a shadow when cuttings inside and use the it’s sunny? When it’s cloudy? scissors to cut and explore the Spring objects. Talk about what you found and describe them.

Complete the activity of your choice. Draw a picture and try to write about what you did. Be sure to tell what you learned.

Example: I made a lego monster. I used blue, red, green and yellow legos to make it. I learned that it takes two yellow legos to make one blue

Book Awareness: Select a Look at books together. Point Sit with your child outside. Retell the story you created book and practice turning the out different faces and feelings Create a story about your with your child. Add to the pages and pointing and Talk about feelings that the family. Take turns adding to story by doing one of these: naming items on that page character might have. Expand the story. Draw a picture of ● Acting out the story Reading/ on language and gestures. your favorite part of the story. ● Adding more Writing For example: descriptive words to Look at books together. Point the story out different faces and - “She is sad. She is ● Adding music or feelings. Talk about feelings frowning” (make a sad sounds to the story that character might have. face) ● Changing the ending - “She seems mad. Her - She is sad face is pinched.” (make - He seems mad. a mad face and ball - She is happy. fists) - “He is laughing; I think he is happy!”

Watch the song and sing Watch the book and move Watch this video on Art Hub Watch this video about being a along to along to about how to draw a rain cloud weather watcher. Can you and give it a try. create a journal? Online How’s The Weather? Going on a Bear Hunt Learning using this link: using this link: https://safeYouTube.net/w/5w https://safeYouTube.net/w/Rx E3 E3 https://safeYouTube.net/w/lwE https://safeYouTube.net/w/OtE 3 3

Play Dough Recipe

Zones of Regulation Board:

Rainy Day Sunny Day

Write an ‘S’ or make a check for every sunny day. Write an ‘R’ or make a check for every rainy day.

How many sunny days were there? ______How many rainy days were there? ______

Week 4- Changes Outside Choose three areas to explore each day. Then select one activity to complete from each area. Each activity should take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity4

Collect leaves, flowers, grass Using a paper plate, markers, colored pencils, or crayons draw how you can outside, and glue or just help a plant. arrange on paper to create a spring picture. Art

Collect some leaves, then Egg Carton: Use watercolors or markers, tape, straw or wooden stick. Cut the create and glue a spring egg carton, decorate and paint. Make a wonderful flower for your mom or animal like a rabbit, squirrel, special family member. bird. Then try to write the name of the animal.

Pick a nice grassy spot If the weather is warm, play Egg and spoon race using Create an obstacle course outside and at least one some water games outside plastic eggs or other objects using yarn, crepe paper person to play with you. Play like water relay or water found at home. streamers or other material Games ring around the rosie (join tossing using materials like found at home. Place an hands in a circle and recite buckets, cups balls,and object at the end. Use a timer “ring around the rosie, pocket sponges. to increase challenge. full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down” and fall to the ground), make sure to “fall down”in the soft grass! Choose a different song/circle game to do outside if your family has one you prefer.

Use shaving cream, salt or Use a cotton swab, kids can Spring Scavenger hunt: Turn pre-writing strokes into a sand to practice letters, submerge onto some paint or Kids will go outside and look drawing about what you saw numbers, lines and shapes. water and trace the alphabet for items on a list and try to outside (practice yellow circles Writing Put shaving cream, sand, or letters, they can practice the write using crayons, pencils of to make a sun, make a circle dirt onto the table and have letters of their family members’ markers the name of the item and add a line for a tree or the kids write or trace a letter, name or objects around them. next to the picture or check off flower, draw green vertical number, shape or line that you the ones they’ve found. lines to make grass or draw a tell them. They can use the horizontal line and color green finger to trace. below it)

Social- Take a walk around your neighborhood, wave and say “hi” (from Allow the child to make a Call a family member to ask Emotional a distance) to anyone you see or cars as they pass by. If no one flower card or art project for them how they are, describe is outside making sure to say hi to the birds, squirrels, mom or a friend. Use this what you see outside, the dogs/cats, bugs, etc. opportunity to talk about changes in the spring, ask . Mother’s day if your family them what they see celebrates it.

Using paper plates, paper bags or paper, scissors, crayons or markers, make emotions masks. Draw how it looks to be feeling mad, happy, sad, excited and frustrated. When you are done, act out the emotions with your family, or share it with your teacher. Practice how you can calm down by taking deep breaths, blowing bubbles, singing a song, reading a book, etc.

Count how many birds you Measuring/comparing outside. Find and count rocks. Sort Match familiar items in nature see around your home. Students will gather 5 leaves them by color, shape and size outside, pick one flower and and they will decide which one see if you can find another, or Count how many trees you is the smallest vs largest or make a collection of all of the see around your home. which one has a different color green things you find. Math Count how many big rocks . you see around your home.

Count how many squirrels you see around your home.

Music Listen to the sounds of the birds outside, try to imitate their songs

Make music with things you find outside, have fun being creative (use a stick to hit a tree or hit two together, tap a rock on the sidewalk, have an adult show you how to “whistle” with a piece of grass, etc.)

Choose a Use your body to make music/rhythms as you walk along--clap your hands, stomp your feet, jump up and down, make funny spring song sounds with your mouth to learn to sing: Plants (to the Tune of Farmer in the Dell) Spring is Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRhGOdqWIIo https://www.learningstationmusic.com/blog/2014/04/24/spring-s La The farmer plants the seeds pring-dance-song-lyrics/ Primavera The farmer plants the seeds Llego: Hi, Ho, the Dairy O Additional verses https://www. The farmer plants the seeds ● I just saw a bee youtube.com ● I just saw a ladybug /watch?v=hb Additional verses- ● I just saw a butterfly Uro-BSJFc ● The sun comes out to shine ● I just saw a frog ● The rain begins to fall Primavera ● The seeds begin to grow https://www. ● The vegetables are here youtube.com ● The farmer digs them up /watch?v=IY ● Now it’s time to eat 1bcIw0cnk

Free Choice 1. Choose something you want to do at home that can help you learn. Examples include but are not limited to: cooking, building with legos or blocks, doing a scavenger hunt in the yard, organizing, helping an adult, cleaning, or walking your dog. 2. Complete the activity of your choice. Draw a picture and try to write about what you did. Be sure to tell what you learned.

Book Awareness: Select a Look at the sky and observe. Bottle story: go outside, grab a Go for a walk and take note or book and practice turning the Draw or write or point out what few small items, place it inside draw what you see or have pages and pointing and you see. the bottle, make up a story mom/dad take pictures so you naming items on that page with those items or show them can show them to someone Reading/ Make up a story using the sky to another family member. else later (Flowers, trees, Writing and nature as your resource. birds, squirrels,etc.)

Use your senses to explore Plant using an eggshell: outside (smell flowers/wild a. Keep an eggshell Plant a bean: You can use a cup or clear plastic bag, water, 2 onions, look and talk about the b. Find some soil or dirt dried beans and a paper towel. different colors, touch different from outside a. Wrap the bean in the paper towel Science textures-flowers vs tree bark, c. Put the soil and the b. Put the bean and the paper towel in the cup/ziploc bag listen to and look for the birds). seed inside the shell c. Water the beans and paper towel gently by sprinkling d. Water the soil and seed enough water gently by sprinkling with d. Place the cup/ziploc bag in a location that will receive just enough water. sunlight for at least six to eight hours a day and water as Leaf collage: The kids can pick e. Place the shell in a needed. up different kinds of leaves, location that will receive e. Use a journal and try to draw what happened to the bean. then they can make an sunlight and water as amazing collage. needed

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Week 5- Changes in Living Things

Choose three areas to explore each day. Then select one activity to complete from each area. Each activity should take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity4

Create 3-D Bugs using the Draw or paint your favorite Design a paper plate insect of Craft a few crawling and flying playdough you created in insect (ladybug, bumblebee, your choice using items found critters with popsicle sticks. week 3 butterfly, and ect). in your home. Use other art supplies you https://docs.google.com/docu Art have around your house to ment/d/1OSUv7UFzpXNyRyV help create them. xwSg-fgvE0PTvmAWM5Mm9 nIDjMdU/edit

Bug Charades- Act out your I Spy- Describe bug Bug Builder Sort the Bugs favorite bugs and see if your characteristics and see if your https://www.pestworldforkids.o https://www.pestworldforkids.o family can guess which bug family can guess which bug rg/games/bugbuilder/index.ht rg/games/sortthebug/index.ht Games you are. you are describing. ml ml

Use playdough/string/yarn to Practice writing Fundations- Create a journal and draw a Copy words from a favorite form numbers 1-10 letters: l,h,k picture, write, scribble, and story you read at home.

draw shapes Writing

Notice the child’s feelings. Have open conversations on Social story: I Miss My Friends Fairness becomes a big issue Social- Ask them to name what they various topics of interest to the (Attached) for children at this age. Notice Emotional are feeling, such as excited, child. Simple answers are all opportunities to examine frustrated, and happy. that is desired or needed. The Have the draw and write the aspects of fairness and justice child’s curiosity needs to be names of their friends at with the child. Have Have them share what is supported. Find answers school. discussions about how to be making them feel that way. together if needed. fair to others. Ex. I notice that you are

frowning. How are you feeling? Why?

Music Sunny-Side Up, Kids Sesame Street-Usher’s ABC Months of the year syllable Dr. Jean-Insects body song-Days of the Week song song (Jack Hartman) https://www.youtube.com/watc https://www.youtube.com/watc https://www.youtube.com/watc https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=6pe_p5FXE2g h?v=IRnnLPjRn84 h?v=SWvBAQf7v8g h?v=SSl-SbVz2oA Elmo’s Egg counting game Bug counting survey Create Bug Pattern Count to 20 Exercise https://www.sesamestreet.org/ worksheet (attached) https://www.abcya.com/games https://www.youtube.com/watc games?id=230# /fuzz_bugs_patterns h?v=_MVzXKfr6e8

Math

Bug Hunt- If permissible, look Bug Research- Pick a bug that Help your child write a list of Brainstorm about ways insects in and around your home for you found or that you are every insect they can think of. can get the things they need. different bugs and insects. interested in research online. Then encourage them to Compare these things to what Draw pictures or take notes in Practice writing some discuss all they know about humans and other animals Science your journal. keywords in your journal. Cut insects. need for life. insect pictures out from a You can use the list from the magazine and compare color, worksheet to help. size, etc.

Complete the activity of your choice. Draw a picture and try to write about what you did. Be sure to tell what you learned.

Example: I made a lego monster. I used blue, red, green and yellow legos to make it. I learned that it takes two yellow legos to make one blue

Book Awareness: Select a Bug hunt by Tom .Very Hungry Ten Magic book and practice turning the Story-(Extended learning: Caterpillar-(Extended learning: Butterflies-(Extended learning: pages and pointing and Name some of the bugs found Trace or write the letter Cc Create simple math problems naming items on that page in the story) and make the caterpillar’s using flowers and butterflies) Reading/ body)Add eyes, legs, etc. Modifications: count flowers Writing Transition to bed-No More and butterflies, name colors Noisy Nights

10 interesting insects-Bugs for Kids vocabulary-Bugs - Video National Geographic Kids - Bug Facts - Explore the site to kids(Talking flash cards) - Explore the site to learn cool learn cool facts about different Video facts about different insects. insects. Write down, draw a Online Write down, draw a picture, or picture, or discuss your Learning discuss your findings. findings.

I Miss My Friends

School is one of my favorite places to be. Everyday we can count on our teachers to teach us something new and share lots of experiences with our friends. Right now we are not able to be together at our school. It’s just not safe for us to be in a close space for a long period of time.

Why Can’t We Go To School ? A virus called corona or covid-19 has begun to spread across the United States. In order for us to remain safe, our governor would like for us to stay home and keep a safe distance if we go to the grocery store. Most public places are closed temporarily, this means for a short time.

Should I Be Afraid? We will be okay. You may see a lot of grown ups and kids wearing face masks or gloves when you are out in the grocery stores but this is just a precaution to be safe. Germs can stay on surfaces for a long time, gloves protect our hands from getting the germs we may not see. It’s really important that you wash your hands regularly. Make it fun by singing the ABC song as you wash your hands.

What Should I Do If I Feel Sad? If you feel sad about not seeing your friends and teachers, talk to your parents about how you are feeling. This is very normal and we all are feeling a bit sad that we are not able to see each other regularly. Maybe you can sing your favorite song or do a favorite fingerplay. You could also draw a picture of a friend and give it to them when you see them again. We are in this together.

Survey the family to see what kind of insect everyone likes. Make a check or write their name.

Insect Choice How many family members Like this How many family members Dislike this insect? insect?

Ant

Butterfly

Bee

Dragonfly

Firefly

Wasp

Beetle

Moth

Ladybug

Which insect got the most likes? ______

Additional Resources

Fundations: Have your child say the letter, picture, and sound. Have your child practice writing the letters using the lines.

Vowels/Vocales: Alphabet memory numbers 1 - 20/numeros Flowers: website is in Spanish https://arbolabc.com/juegos-de game/:Juego de memoria del 1-20 but game can be played by -vocales/juguemos-con-burbuj alfabeto https://arbolabc.com/juegos-de any child as no language is as-vocales https://arbolabc.com/juegos-de -numeros/que-desorden-nume involved/ Flores: la página Online Learning l-abecedario/memoria ros-1-20 web está en español pero el Spanish juego puede ser jugado por cualquier niño ya que no hay ningún idioma involucrado https://www.juegosinfantilespu m.com/teclado/04-flores.php

● Milestone Tracker ● NAEYC Math at Home ● PBS Parents ● Storyline Online ● https://www.sesamestreet.org/games ● https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Insect-Survey-86188 ● https://www.abcya.com/games/fuzz_bugs_patterns ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8 ● https://www.actionforhealthykids.org/activity/exploring-imagination-play-based-yoga/