A typical day in January:
Day 5:
ABC’s: Practice writing E, e. Look for items that start with the letter ‘e’.
Math: Find some stairs, walk up/down and count how many stairs there are. Try to find stairs with at least ten steps.
Cold days: Read The Snowman and complete Learning Through Stories page. Using dolls you have dress them for the cold weather. If you don’t have dolls dress yourself. Discuss the clothing we wear on cold days and why.
Healthy foods: Read book. Discuss some healthy food choices. Look in your kitchen for some healthy food choices and identify what type of food they are (fruit, grain, etc).
Following directions: Give your child three commands and ask him to follow them. The commands need to be related and reasonable. For example, “Go in your room and get your red sweatshirt and tennis shoes.” Or, if you would like a slightly more difficult command, “Get a pair of white socks out of the top drawer and jeans out of the third drawer.”
Spanish: count to ten in Spanish.
Physical: Using a large soft ball (at least six inches in diameter) toss it to each other. Work on your child’s ability to catch today. He should be catching the ball using both arms and hands. Then bounce the ball to him and see if he can catch it as it comes up toward him. Enjoy this activity but observe his skills and work on improving them.
A few days of activities from Bugs and Birds Theme Unit:
Day 1:
Read a book on bugs and birds.
Make a butterfly. Using a coffee filter (round style); have your child paint with different color watercolors. Let it dry and then squeeze the middle together with a clothespin. Add google eyes to the clothespin and pipe cleaners for antennas.
Write bug words. We write: bug, butterfly, bee, insect, worm, fly and ant. You may choose to spread this task out over a few days. Since we do this in the summer we write it outside with sidewalk chalk or in our sand table using our fingers.
Day 2:
Read a book on bugs and birds.
Discuss being kind to animals.
Using an empty egg carton cut it in half long ways. Turn the carton over and have your child paint and decorate it as a caterpillar. Add google eyes and pipe cleaners as desired.
Day 3:
Read a book on bugs and birds.
Go outside and hunt for bugs. It is best to have something to catch them in and a magnifying glass so you can examine them for a few minutes. Keep a list of the bugs that you find.
Using celery, peanut butter and raisins make “ants on a log”. Spread the peanut butter on the celery then place the raisins on top for the ants.