Suggested Schedule for the Week:
MONDAY: Introduce the Weekly Theme
This week's theme: Lighthouses
I recommend you rent "Pete's Dragon", great kids movie with lighhouse setting (Clip1 Clip2 )
- Introduce the weekly theme with pictures and post one or two on your learning poster.
- Choose one story to read based on the theme.
- Share a poem/song based on the theme with your child.
- Do the gross motor skills activity with your child.
Make a spiral "staircase" with books, stools, cushions, chairs, etc. Create it so that as it moves around it gets higher. Then imagine you are climbing to the top of a lighthouse. (Hold your child's hand if needed.) Let your child hold a flashlight at the top and shine around the room.
- Introduce the vocabulary word & post a picture for it on your learning poster.
TUESDAY: Introduce the Shape/Color
This week you will teach the shape of an octagon.
- Collect 3 - 5 everyday objects in the shape of the week to share with your child and discuss.
- Walk through your home looking for the shape.
- Cut the shape out of playdough or cookie dough... bake the cookies!
- Put a drawing of the shape on your learning poster.
- 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 E.
- Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter to color.
- Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter using their finger. You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.
- Point out the letter in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
- Post the letter 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
Traceable Number 5
Show your child the appropriate number of objects to count, or eat the appropriate number of snacks of crackers, cheerios, etc..
- Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for the number and put on your learning poster.
- Add the correct number of stickers to your counting book.
- Show your matching index cards for the number of the week to your child.
- Draw the appropriate number of shapes (using the shape of the week) and count them.
- Walk around the house counting objects up to the number of the week.
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***
The nursery rhyme this week is Bobby Shaftoe. Recite often! (Video of It)
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea,
Silver buckles at his knee;
He'll come back and marry me,
Bonny Bobby Shaftoe!
Bobby Shaftoe's tall and fair,
Combing down his yellow hair;
He'll be mine for ever more,
Bonny Bobby Shaftoe!
- Post the words to the rhyme on your learning poster.
- 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
Build a lighthouse with a tower of blocks, duplo, or other building toy.
- 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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