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 SHEEP.
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
The Lamb and the Butterfly by Arnold Sundgaard
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn About Wool by Teri Sloat
Sheep Don't Count Sheep by Margaret Wise Brown
Little Baa by Kim Lewis
Emma's Lamb by Kim Lewis
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
- Share a poem based on the theme with your child.
Woolly Lambs
by Katrina Lybbert
White, woolly,
Frolicking, wobbling, bumping,
I love to count when going to sleep,
Sheep.
- Sing a song based on the theme.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Little Bo Peep
Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Do the gross motor skills activity with your child.
Play hide and go seek. Pretend you are Little Bo Peep looking for her sheep.
- Introduce the vocabulary word & post a picture for it on your learning poster.
The vocabulary word is wool - the curly, soft, hair-like covering of a sheep.
TUESDAY: Introduce the Shape/Color
This week you will teach the shape of a heart.
- Collect 3 - 5 everyday objects in the shape of a heart... ie: jewellry, cookie cutter, toys, trinket box, make one out of felt, etc... to share with your child and discuss.
- Walk through your home looking for hearts. (Or look in a magazine.)
- Cut hearts out of playdough or cookie dough... bake the cookies!
- Put a drawing of a heart on your learning poster.
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 Q.
- Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter Q to color. ~Letter Printouts~
- Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter Q using his finger. You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.
- Point out the letter Q in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
- Post the letter Q 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 17.
- Show your child 17 objects to count, or eat 17 raisins, 17 cheerios, etc.
- Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 17 and put on your learning poster.
- Add 17 stickers to your counting book.
- Show your matching index cards for the number 17 to your child.
- Draw 17 hearts on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
- Walk around your home counting 17 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 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. Recite often!
Baa, baa, black sheep,Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
- 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 cotton balls on a picture of a sheep.
Play "Pin the Tail on the Lamb."- 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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