NPS Distant learning week 2

Reading –

Week two has a poem Little Tadpole. We plan to talk more about/review the life cycle of a frog 🐸 while reading this poem. My preschooler actually created a cute life cycle before schools let out! We will listen to a read aloud of There was an old lady who swallowed a frog (YouTube), read A Frog in a Bog and Frog and Toad Together. There’s also a writing prompt: Tell a story about a frog.

There’s also a short story My Dog 🐶 in the packet and it just so happens that my 4-year-olds letter of the week is V. I’m going to roll with a veterinarian theme for the week. We have a doctor’s kit, so I printed out labels for items in the kit, to introduce/expose new vocabulary.

Ideas for the week💡 ….

Go on a walk, make a tally mark for every dog you see, practice grouping sets of 5
Plastic pets in dirt/mud outside – have children “wash” them – sensory
“Would you rather….” pet addition — There’s a writing prompt on this as well!
Veterinarian Dramatic Play
Syringe Art !!
Brown paper bag pet puppets
research a specific dog of choice

There’s been a lot of rhyming worksheets in this packet. This book has a lot of rhyming and a perfect option for beginning readers.

These books are just options I’ll have out to read throughout the week.. either at “school” or during bedtime.

Math-

Week two is different shape activities and a Shape Hunt- it’s very simple. I will feel her out and see how she does, but I anticipate her doing the whole week in a day or two. I plan to break it up into two different shape hunts, the first hunt will be her fav color (Red), which may be pretty time consuming considering our house is all very neutral colors inside. 🤣 I’ll tie in her writing prompt about favorite color this day. I plan on extending it by giving her a camera and letting her take pictures of allllll the things she can find for each shape in the house and yard. (I.e circles- she can take a picture of the tops of cups, candles, door knobs, plates, trampoline, etc. Rectangle- door, windows, picture frames, bricks.. you get the drill)

Last week, we played a 3 way version of the card game WAR with her subitizing and number cards. Both my girls had a lot of fun with this, but I noticed Teaghan could use more practice with her perceptual and conceptual subitizing (quickly recognizing dice/tally/domino number sets without having to count). This was also exposing Rowan to sets of numbers, Teaghan helped her along the way! Since they loved it, and actually played together we will definitely be playing again this week.

When we played last week, I mixed this sheet with the number sheet. I plan to switch it up and just use subitizing cards the next time we play.

They have a lot of small stuffed animals that I plan to use with them while they play Veterinarian. “If three frogs came in your clinic and then two dogs came in, how many animals are in your clinic now?!” Throwing in math and word problems to them while they PLAY!

Science(week3)/Social Studies(week 2)

The Sun ☀️ We will talk about how the sun is a big star and it’s importance to plants and animals. We will talk about how the sun is the source of energy and light that warms the land, air, and water. We will also start a chart of the weather for each “school” day for the rest of March and April.

We will recreate something similar to this using the Science reading for the week.

Social Studies– K.7- The student will describe how the location, climate, and physical surroundings of a community affect the way people live, including their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.

We recently went on a ski trip, so I plan to use utilize that to teach this week’s “lesson” on physical surroundings. She will compare and think about the differences of being on that mountain compared to where we live. We will discuss and talk about characteristics of Norfolk and the bodies of water near us! Hopefully we will be able bike over and explore around the Lafayette River with some sort of nature hunt.