Suggested Schedule for the Week:
MONDAY: Introduce the Weekly Theme
- Introduce the weekly theme with pictures and post one or two on your learning poster.
This week's theme is HORSES.
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner
The Sleep Ponies by Gudrun Ongman
Twist and Ernest by Laura T. Barnes
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by Jan Brett
Calico the Wonder Horse, or the Saga of Stewy Stinker by Virginia Lee Burton
Old Thunder and Miss Raney by Sharon Darrow
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
My Horse
by Katrina Lybbert
My horse can walk, walk, walk,
My horse can trot, trot, trot,
My horse can gallop, gallop, gallop,
Now please, my horse, stop!
- Sing a song based on the theme.
All the Pretty Little Horses
The Old Gray Mare
- Do the gross motor skills activity with your child.
Ride on a hobby horse. If you don't have one, create one with a short broom handle, or even a wrapping paper roll. You can ride your hobby horse while reciting the poem "My Horse" above.
- Introduce the vocabulary word & post a picture for it on your learning poster.
The vocabulary word is mane - the long hair growing on the neck of a horse.
TUESDAY: Introduce the Shape/Color
This week you will teach the color brown.
- Introduce the color by coloring in the rectangle (previous week's shape) on your learning poster with a brown crayon.
- Put on a brown article of clothing.
- Point out objects around your home of the color brown.
- Add the color to a meal by choosing a brown food, or using a plate, cup, or utensil of the color brown.
- Let your child color in a coloring book or on a printout using a brown crayon.
Weekly Theme
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
- Sing the song based on the theme that you chose on Monday.
- Review the vocabulary word and use it as you talk to your child about the theme.
WEDNESDAY: Introduce the Letter for the Week
The letter this week is the letter N.
- Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter N to color. ~Letter Printouts~
- Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter N using her finger. You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.
- Point out the letter N in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
- Post the letter N on your learning poster.
Review the Weekly Theme
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
- Sing the song based on the theme that you chose on Monday.
- Review the vocabulary word and use it as you talk to your child about the theme.
Review the Shape/Color
- Point out the shape and/or color on your learning poster and discuss with your child.
THURSDAY: Introduce the Number for the Week
The number this week is the number 14.
- Show your child 14 objects to count, or eat 14 mini crackers, 14 cheerios, etc.
- Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 14 and put on your learning poster.
- Add 14 stickers to your counting book.
- Show your matching index cards for the number 14 to your child.
- Draw 14 rectangles on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
- Walk around your home counting 14 of many different objects.
Review the Weekly Theme
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
- Sing the song based on the theme that you chose on Monday.
- Review the vocabulary word and use it as you talk to your child about the theme.
Review the Shape/Color
- Point out the shape and/or color on your learning poster and discuss with your child.
Review the Letter
- Point out the letter on your learning poster and discuss with your child.
FRIDAY: Introduce the Nursery Rhyme for the Week
***Continue to recite this rhyme daily till the next Friday***
- Post the words to the rhyme on your learning poster.
The nursery rhyme this week is Ride a Cock Horse. Recite often!
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
With rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
- Sing and/or recite the nursery rhyme for your child.
- If possible, read a book based on this nursery rhyme.
Review the Weekly Theme
**Do theFine Motor Skills Activity for the Weekly Theme on Friday
Glue a mane on a printout of a horse with cuttings of yarn.
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
- Sing the song based on the theme that you chose on Monday.
- Review the vocabulary word and use it as you talk to your child about the theme.
Review all Shapes, Colors, Letters, Numbers
- Review all the shapes, colors, letters, and numbers previously learned.
- Point out the current ones on the learning poster.
- Use the matching index cards of all the previously learned numbers and play a matching game.
- Create a small booklet that has a page for each week in the program. Each page of the booklet will have the shape/color, letter, and number for one lesson(week). Add to the booklet as you work through the program and look through this booklet every Friday.
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