We hope you all are enjoying the wonderful weather and getting outside to play in the sun this week! Writing TimeWrite your name(Names can be all upper case, or can start with upper case and then use lower case. You probably know where your child is at). Note: Children are at all different stages here. The goal is fine motor practice to develop the muscles needed for proper grip and control. Scribbling is OK, tracing is OK, and any variation of those are all OK! Write the date : 4-8-20Write the word of the day: BARN(These words will reinforce the weekly theme and provide practice writing letters that may not appear in your child's name. Parents can talk about the word and encourage a story or drawing.) Parents, your children may need help with these tasks, so feel free to practice along with them. Your child may need you to write their name or the date lightly and have them trace or copy it. Circle TimeLast week we posted a butterfly life cycle. All living things on earth have that one thing in common→ a life cycle that starts with birth. Spring is a season that celebrates new life….especially on the farm. There are a variety of animals that live on a farm. They are all unique with special names and sounds. Even the babies have unique, even funny names. Animals and their babies: Dog → Puppy Cat → Kitten Cow → Calf Hen → Chick Goose → Gosling Goat → Kid Horse → Foal Duck → Duckling Sheep → Lamb Pig → Piglet Turkey → Poult Come join Ms. Anne sing “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” by clicking on the link. Did you know baby animals have the same sound as their parents? So, she made some changes to help us remember the animal baby names! Daily Activity - ArtNot only is our art activity for the day super fun and crafty... it also becomes a game! Materials Needed:
Daily Book JournalThree times a week, help your preschooler to pick out a book and read it together. Then, help your preschooler to create a journal entry using any of these same options from our book bag job.
Fun Activity IdeasBored? Not anymore! Choose one (or all three) to do with your family! 1. Farmers often make a lot of their own food because they live far out in the countryside away from grocery stores. You can be like a farmer by making homemade bread and butter! (Here's a recipe for the bread: https://lilluna.com/basic-homemade-bread-recipe/ and here's one for butter: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/42264/homemade-butter/ ) 2. Have a picnic or "tea party" outside with your family (the weather is going to be really nice this week!) 3. Play charades with farm themed words. Guest Book ReadingWe have a VERY special surprise for you this week! WE HAVE A GUEST STORY TIME READER!!!! Say hello to, Katie Thomas (also known as Everett's Mom!), who is our Guest Reader this week! She will be reading Little Blue Truck's Springtime by Alice Schertle *If you are interested in reading a story, contact us at [email protected] and we will set up a time!* Survey - Day 2Adventures of our Friends!
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Hello friends! We love and miss you all so much and hope you and your family are having fun joining in on our virtual preschool activities. We know that missing school and your friends and teachers isn't easy, and so we are making a plan to bring more of your teachers to you soon! Don't forget how much each one of you means to us! We are hoping for the day when we can all see each other again. Until then, stay safe, hold your loved ones close, and find joy-especially in the small things! Writing TimeWe are doing something a bit different this week as we try to bring more of our normal routines to you at home: We are going to begin doing "Morning Sign In" each day. During our normal preschool day, each child would begin the day by practicing writing their name. We had also begun practicing writing our numbers and so would like to incorporate the date to encourage this practice as well. We hope you will do this at home. Begin by opening your journal (which we made last week!) and do the following things: Write your name(Names can be all upper case, or can start with upper case and then use lower case. You probably know where your child is at). Note: Children are at all different stages here. The goal is fine motor practice to develop the muscles needed for proper grip and control. Scribbling is OK, tracing is OK, and any variation of those are all OK! Write the date (write it with dashes like this: 4-7-20)Write the word of the day, which is.... FARM(These words will reinforce the weekly theme and provide practice writing letters that may not appear in your child's name. Parents can talk about the word and encourage a story or drawing.) Parents, your children may need help with these tasks, so feel free to practice along with them. Your child may need you to write their name or the date lightly and have them trace or copy it. Circle TimeFrom now on, we are going to call our "mini lesson" for the day, Circle Time, because it is what the children would have learned during their daily group meeting. This week we are exploring Farms! Farms are very, very important. A person who owns or manages a farm is a farmer. Here are some examples of farms (see slideshow) Farms grow crops (like fruit, vegetables, flowers, and trees) and raise animals that produce many things for our life. Chickens, cows, pigs, turkeys, sheep, duck and horses are just a few of the many farm animals. Do you know what sound each farm animal makes? In October, We went to a farm! That's right- a pumpkin patch IS a farm! (Here's some photos to refresh our memory! Daily Activity - LanguageFor this activity, we are exploring the alphabet and identifying their sounds to discover which items in our home begin with certain letters. Materials Needed:
Daily Book JournalThree times a week, help your preschooler to pick out a book and read it together. Then, help your preschooler to create a journal entry using any of these same options from our book bag job.
Fun ActivitiesHere's 3 things you could do today! 1. Go for a drive in the countryside and try to spot some animals and barns! (A few places you could drive are out on Hillsboro Hwy (By Jackson Bottom Wetlands), SW Scholls Ferry Rd (By Groner Elementary school), and River Road (By Jenkin's Estate). All of these roads have beautiful farms and landscapes!) 2. Consider becoming a farmer yourself by planting a garden in your background! 3. Watch videos online about farms and how they work- this is one that we found, but there are many! ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgoYoc8oBFw) Book Reading by our TeachersJoin Teacher Ashley, as she reads Duck On A Bike by David Shannon Which has a lot of different farm animals in it! Survey - Day 1Adventures of our Friends!Please continue to send photos of what your children are doing at home to [email protected] . We love seeing what everyone is up to!
We've reached the last day of Insect Week, and we want to end it with a fun activity where you get to be a bug detective! Learn about Good Bugs and Bad Bugs, grab your preschool journal, and start your search! 4 There are over 1 million types of insects in the world. Often times we call those little critters "bugs". A fun fact is that the earliest use of the word bug was a verb that meant "to scare". Insects were called bugs because they scared the person that they were 'bugging'. Then they began calling all those creepy-crawlies that scared people bugs! But not all bugs are scary! Here are some characteristics of both good bugs and bad bugs to help you know which ones you might want to stay away from!
Also, some bugs are thought to be bad because maybe they look scary, or they have the ability to hurt us with a stinger...but even those bugs might have really important jobs too - like pollinating our flowers! Do you know which "insect" I am talking about? (Hint: It starts with a "B"! You can use this knowledge in our science activity today when you try to decide if the bugs you find are good bugs or bad bugs! Daily Activity - ScienceToday we will be scientists as we go on a search for bugs, observe them, and record our findings in our preschool journals! We will use our handy-dandy Bug Checklist to decide what we think we have found! Insect or just a Bug? Great question! Well, to be an insect, you need to have a few special characteristics (or body parts). An insect must have a head (good thing!), a thorax (like our chest area), and an abdomen (like our stomach to our bottom). An insect must also have THREE pairs of legs....that means SIX all together! They must also have wings - usually two sets of them! Check back on Tuesday's post for more on that and a diagram! Here is our Bug Observation Checklist:
I'll tell you about my bug hunt, and then you can take off on yours!
Thanks for joining me on my bug hunt! Good luck on finding your bugs, and you can send any pictures of your bug hunt or your bug checklist to [email protected] Daily Book JournalThree times a week, help your preschooler to pick out a book and read it together. Then, help your preschooler to create a journal entry using any of these same options from our book bag job.
Fun Activity IdeasWhen boredom hits, have no fear! We have three more fun & spontaneous activity ideas!
Happy 5th Birthday Rian!Book Reading by our Teachers!Today our book reading is by Ms Anne! She will be reading: "The Crunching Munching Caterpillar" by Sheridan Cain This is a great book that shows us a couple of different animals- including a couple of insects! See if you can name the insects during the reading! Adventures of our Friends!Our preschool friends have been having some fun, and we are so glad that we get to share it with you! To share your adventures with us, email us at [email protected]
Hope you all are diving right in to our online learning! Remember you can send us pictures of what you have been up to and of these activities at our new email: [email protected] Today we are going to focus on caterpillars and butterflies- because they are both insects! And don't forget to check out our book reading video and survey at the end of the post! As you can see in our life cycle diagram above, First there is a little egg laid by a butterfly. After about 6 days, a caterpillar breaks out of the egg, and is so tiny, sometimes it is very hard to see! Next, for 2-5 weeks, the caterpillar eats a lot and grows bigger and bigger! Caterpillars love to eat leaves off of milkweed plants. Then one day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf, and begins to create their cocoon. They will stay in their cocoon anywhere from 5-21 days! Inside the cocoon, they are growing and transforming. Last, when they are ready to emerge they begin to break open their cocoon, and come out as a beautiful butterfly! Once their wings have dried, they begin to fly, and after about 4 hours, they have become an expert at flying! This process is called metamorphosis! Now that is a big word that you can learn to say! Daily Activity- ArtThere are thousands of species of butterflies all over the world. (About 20,000!) Each species are different colors, patterns, and sizes, but they have one thing in common! A butterfly's wings are the same on each side, and this is called symmetry! If you were to fold the left side onto the right side, the patterns would line up perfectly! For our art activity, we are going to learn more about symmetry as we create our very own butterfly! Follow the instructions in the slideshow below! (If you do not have all of the supplies, you can see some alternative options below the slideshow.) * If you do not have paint, you can use crayons, markers, or other coloring utensils and follow along in the instructions. But instead of folding over your butterfly to press the paint, you can try to match your design as you color the other side. What a great challenge! When your butterfly is dry, you can tape it into your preschool Journal for safe keeping! We would love to see how your butterfly turns out! Send a picture of your preschool and their butterfly to [email protected] Daily Book JournalThree times a week, help your preschooler to pick out a book and read it together. Then, help your preschooler to create a journal entry using any of these same options from our book bag job.
Fun Activity IdeasLooking for ways to pass the time? Here are three great ideas!
Book Reading by Our Teachers!Watch Teacher Bethany read us a classical favorite, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. This is a great story to teach about Metamorphosis and goes along with our art activity about butterflies! What do you like to eat when you are a very hungry caterpillar?? (You can answer in our survey!) See what our friends are doing!I hope you all know how much you are missed by all of us here at Little Jags. We want you to stay active and learning, and share all that you are doing with us!! Thank you for the pictures of things you have been up to while on this unprecedented break. Many of you made truly inspiring and creative art projects, have practiced your writing, and have spent quality time with your family learning life skills. Please don't forget to keep sending pictures to this new email: [email protected] to share what you are doing each week
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