Learning Activities Classroom: New York Week Of: June 8-12, 2020

Learning Activities Classroom: New York Week of: June 8-12, 2020 APL: Approaches to Play and Learning ESD: Emotional and Social Development HPD: Health and Physical Development LDC: Language Development and Communication CD: Cognitive Development Math APL ESD HPD LDC CD/MATH June Displaying Your Child’s Me Do It! The Cat and the Bunny Listen for the Word Erupting Volcano 8 Name When your child has Creeping, creeping, creeping, Materials: Materials: 1) Your child is opportunities to participate comes the little cat. +Book with repeated word, + Cardboard beginning to recognize But the bunny with the long phrase, or sound +Plastic cup in personal care routines, the letters that make up +Construction paper she/he has some control ears, hops like that. her name. Children enjoy listening to +Paint, crayons or markers 2) So be sure to display it over these experiences and *Instructions on attached stores that have predictable and +¼ cup vinegar throughout your home— can be proud of her/his sheet. repetitive words, phrases, and +Dish soap on her bedroom door, a growing accomplishments. sentences. Through these stores, +Baking Soda bathroom step stool, the your child can develop word +Red food coloring fridge, etc. 1) Instructions on attached and sentence awareness and feel 3) Point to the letters, sheet. confident as he reads or recites *Instructions on attached saying each one out the familiar parts of the text. sheet. loud. 4) Talk about other 1) Instruction on attached words that begin with sheet. the same letter as her name does ("C is for Caitlin, but it's also for cat and cup"). June Free Like the Wind It’s Something New Draw a picture of yourself Alphabet Train Matching Animal Shadows 9 Materials: Some children have Materials: Materials: Materials: +Scarves or Ribbon difficulty adjusting to new +Writing utensils +Masking or Painter Tape +Glue Stick +Music situations and people. They +Construction Paper +Train engine and rail cars +Shadows of Pets, Farm, with Alphabets on them. will be more likely to Forest, and Zoo Animals interact in these new (provided) (provided) 1) Play some instrumental circumstances if they have a 1) Look in the mirror with +Matching letters of +Animal Homes with music as you and your caring, trusted adult to guide your child and talk about alphabet wheels shadows (provided) child dance with the them through the process. your facial features. scarves. 1) Instructions on attached 2) Go to the table and have 1) Tape the train and rail cars 1) Cut out the farm animal 2) Swoop the scarf high sheet. your child draw a picture of to the wall at your child’s shadows. into the air and then low to him/herself. height. 2) Have your child name the ground. 3) Give your child cues, if 2) Place tape under each of each of the shadows, name 3) Hold the scarf out as they need help about what the letters on the rail card so them if they need help. you turn in a circle. she/he saw in the mirror. your child can stick the 3) Have your child match the 4) Dance with your child as matching letter wheels. shadow to same shadow you both hold one end of 3) Encourage your child to inside the home. the scarf. Encourage your match up the “wheel” to 4) Match other shadows like child to “show” you how where it goes on the train. the zoo, forest, and pet to dance with the scarf. You can make it fun for them animals. by letting out a big “Choo Choo!!” every time they get a letter in the right place. Trust me. They’ll love it! June Reading Signs Three Nice Mice Exercising Number and Letter Writing in Sticky Wall Art 10 a Sand Tray 1) When you and your This is a wonderful rhyme to 1) Model for your child some Materials: child are on a walk, teach your child to do with simple exercise like toe Materials: +Contact paper point out words and other siblings. Older siblings touching, knee lifts, arm + Sand (filtered of rocks, +Masking tape or any other letters on street signs, in will enjoy teaching this fin circles, squats, etc. sticks and bugs!) kind of tape stores, and at the interaction to their younger 2) Help your child count how +Flat metal or plastic tray +Variety of “things” to stick doctor’s office. siblings. many you both do (maybe up +Notebook paper cut into to the paper (cotton balls, 2) Say them out loud to 10). squares pieces of paper, tissue paper, ("That sign says stop"), 1) Instructions on attached 3) Record how many times string, etc.). and help your child sheet. your child did each exercise. 1) On one side of each think of other rhyming square, write a letter or 1) Peel the paper backing to words ("Stop sounds like number and on the other expose one small corner of hop, bop, and mop"). side, if a number, write dots the contact paper, then tape 3) To help your toddler to correspond with the that corner to the wall, sticky connect letters to the amount that is on the other side facing out. sounds they make, speak side of the card. For 2) Slowly peel off the slowly, enunciate example, write the number 4 backing to reveal the other clearly, and place your on one side and four dots on corner, tape that side down. finger under the letters the other side:: 3) Repeat for the other two and words as you read. 2) For letters, on one side corners. Now it’s time for the write the letter you want fun part! them to learn (first letter of 4) Give your child the their name?) and on the variety of things and let her other side you could put a place on the contact paper. picture of them or even a picture of an object that begins with that letter. For example, start with the letter of their first name, such as J. Then on the other side of the square, draw or paste a picture of an object that begins with that letter. J. Make sure to say the letter sound with your child! June The Edible Snowman Care for the Animals The Big Crash Yes or No Sounds Counting Object 1-10 11 Materials: Toddlers have a difficult 1) Pick up and hold your When your child can Materials: +Vanilla ice cream time taking on another child as you swing him/her respond verbally to a yes/no +Whatever your child is +Raisins, and interesting person’s perspective. Having around in the air. question, his ability to playing with at the time cereal shapes them help someone who is 2) You can say, “Look at the communicate expands hurt or sick will help them airplane, soaring through the significantly. Answering 1) While your child is 1) Talk with your child understand, to a limited sky. Oh no! Bumpy weather! questions helps your child playing, line up toys (no about the activity and what degree, others have feelings. It looks a storm. We are become more independent, more than 10) and have your you both are going to do. crashing!” As you say, “We as he/she is able to make child count while pointing to 2) Let child try to help you Materials: are crashing,” fall gently to his/her wants, needs, and one toy for each number place two scoops of vanilla + Stuffed and plastic animals the floor with the child in ideas known to others. said. ice cream one on top of the +Small boxes or berry your arms. 3) Then continue 2) Ask them how many they other on a plate. baskets the story by saying, “What a Materials: have. Repeat a few times 3) Set out a variety of nuts, +Napkins or small scarves crash! I need to check you out +Small objects (rocks, paper with different amounts. raisins, and interesting to make sure that nothing was clips, bean bags, seashells, cereal shapes. 1) Help the child gather hurt.” Remember to touch the etc.) 4) Encourage your child to her/his favorite stuffed and parts of the body that you +Opaque plastic containers make a face on the ice plastic animals. look at. You may say, “This with lids cream snowman. He may prefer to put the goodies 2) Provide small boxes or arms looks good, and these 1) Instructions on attached all over the ice cream. berry baskets for her to use eyebrows are OK. You’ve got sheet Either way, you will as cages or carriers. She can all five fingers on this hand,” stimulate his creative use napkins or small scarves and so on. After all the parts juices. as blankets. are checked, take off again. 3) Talk to her/him about the 4) Continue running into poor ways in which animals get weather or running out of gas hurt: how they cut their to keep playing. paws, get bugs in their ears, break their wings, or get stomachaches. 4) Help her care for her sick animals by washing and bandaging their wounds, wrapping their broken limbs with gauze, and giving them a quiet place to sleep (plus lots of pats and kinds words). 5. Provide a toy doctor’s kit to give the animals a thorough examination. June Taking Care of Myself Our Circle of Care Painting with Cotton Balls ABC Song House Color Scavenger 12 When children are very 1) Instructions on attached Materials: Children love to sing and Materials: young, they obviously sheet. You may draw or +Paint or water with food move in various ways, and +Cardboard depend on adults to take write on attached or use coloring some even learn best +Colored markers or care of any personal need.

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