Monday April 12
Theme 8 Week 1 Farm Animals
Spring Pictures
Greeting Circle
You will review the STAR, BALLOON, DRAIN, and PRETZEL breathing activities. Pick one to do for the day after reviewing them.
Commitment for the week: Have your child pick which commitment they would like to try for the day: Helping Hands, using My Big Voice, Listening Ears, Kind Words
Vocabulary:
agriculture
farmer
farm
animals
Morning Message
Animals begins with A.
- Read the words in each sentence.
- Count the number of words in their sentence.
- Identify letter a in the sentence.
Moving and Learning
Reading
Farm Animals
Vocabulary:
Farmer
agriculture
pasture
farm
domestic
livestock
products
Take picture walk through the book talk about the animals that you see and what a farmers job is on a farm.
Literacy
Letters of the Week A,F,P,HG,N
Build a KWL chart about farms and farm animals.
K= What do you know about farms and farm animals?
W=What do you want to know about farms and farm animals?
L= What have you learned about farms and farm animals? ( Wait until later on in the week to fill in this part of the chart. You can add to this at the end of each day.)
Daily Literacy Practice
- writing your name (first and last)
- practice saying the letters and sounds of the letters when someone points to the letters in random order
- Review flashcards for letters that you have already covered from previous weeks.
- Find things in your house that start with each letter we have studied.
- Play a memory game matching uppercase and lowercase letters using the flashcards that you have made.
- Choose 2 -3 letters and make groups of items in your house that start with those sounds.
- build 3 letter words and practice reading them. Ex: cat, bat, bug. rug
Math
Identifying Numbers 1-20 and counting groups 1-10
like objects to use for counting
number flashcards for numbers 1-20
Directions:
practice identifying numbers in mixed orders and counting out groups of objects up to 10.