Letter of the Week

Our letter this week is D. Duck, daisy, daffodil and desert are all outside things that start with the letter D.

Write the names of the people who live in your house. If anyone has a letter D or d make sure to circle the letter. If you don’t have anyone in your house that has a letter D or d can you think of a name that starts with D. Write that name.

Math

Today we are practicing some math skills. For today’s activity you will need: 1-3 pieces of blank paper markers,crayons,or anything to write with scissors

The first thing you need to do is take your paper and fold it to make about 16 squares.

Next you are going to write numbers and counting dots to match the numbers, like this:

Have your child cut on the creased lines so you have two groups… one with counting dots and the other group with the numbers, like this:

Now your child will match the number card with the correct amount of counting dots.

Please be sure to start with numbers 1-5 then move to 6-10 and to challenge children who are ready, you can add higher numbers.

Also to challenge students who are showing interest in reading you can add the number word and have them match the number word to the correct number and counting dots, like this:

Please remember to only challenge your children with higher numbers or number words if they are showing that they can count and identify numbers from 1-10 easily and consistently.

REMEMBER TO KEEP THESE CARDS TO USE LATER AT ANYTIME! IT’S IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN TO KEEP PRACTICING SKILLS!

Work Time

Turn off those screens and play with some toys, color, paint… anything you can think of!

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Story Time

This is another one of the classroom stories that you child already knows. See if they can tell the story along with the story reader.

Movement/Outside

Here is a scavenger hunt you can do today. See how many items you can find.

Have fun and have a great day!

Letter of the Week

Our letter this week is D. Capital D and lowercase d look very different. Capital D is written with a big line and a big curve. Lowercase d is written with a small curve, small curve and a big line.

Draw a picture of two things that start with the letter D. Now write D. If you can write the words of what you drew, write the whole word (s).

Math

Last week on Thursday you compared things that were bigger/smaller or taller/shorter. Today we are going to compare again. For our math activity we are going to work on comparing weight. Ask your child the following questions:

• Which is heavier: a mouse or an elephant? a bike or a car? a house or a block?
• Which is lighter: a feather or a brick? an egg or a basketball? a tree or a flower?

Find some objects around your house and have your child compare their sizes and test to see which one feels heavier and which one feels lighter! Send me a picture of your child figuring out the different weights!

Work Time

Turn off those screens and play with some toys, color, paint… anything you can think of!

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Story Time

This is another story that we have read in class. Stop the story part of the way through and ask your child if they can tell you the ending.

Movement/Outside

Here is a movement activity for inside…an Alphabet Dance. Try to get outside and go for a walk. Don’t forget our letter this week is D so look for signs with the letter D or d on them.

Have a great day everyone! I miss you all.

I hope that everyone had a Happy Mother’s Day yesterday!! As I wrote May 11th I realized that the school year is done on June 11th. Wow, I can’t believe it is already May and school would be out in one month. It is really weird not being at school for all of the end of year activities. I hope that the weather will cooperate. It makes it much easier to be at home with young kids when the weather is nice and you can go outside a couple of times a day. Here we go with a new week and a new letter but first our good morning song.

Letter of the Week

Our letter is D! D says dah like door, dog, doctor and dinosaur. Here is a song about D.

How many D’s can you count in the sentence below? Count them.

Daisy duck dropped her dogs off at doggy daycare.

Now write the letter D that many times. Then listen to the D story below to hear even more words that start with the letter D.

Math

For math today I would like you to explore the math site Happy Numbers that I set up for you. I created an account for each student. Click on the link below. Click on your child’s name and the password is 5.

https://happynumbers.com/classes/909711/students

Work Time

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Story Time

This week we will be listening to a different story each day. Some of them you child should know very well. This is one of those books and all of the kids have loved it. This read aloud has real pictures in it that I thought would be different and fun for the kids to look at.

Movement/Outside

Hopefully we will have lots of sunshine today. Make sure to get outside and move your body! Here is a song about sunshine…

I hope you all have a great day!!

Today we will take a tour of the Australia Zoo! There are two separate videos to watch. One is an older tour and the second is a more recent tour. Enjoy the animals!

Gave a great weekend!

Good morning! Kindergarten Registration Packet pick-up is still going on today. There will be someone at the building passing out packets from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM.

Letter of the Week

Our letter this week is O. Remember that capital O and lowercase o look exactly the same.

Plants Growing All Around

This week our story was Fran’s Flower. We talked lots about plants, their parts and what they need to grow! Here is one more story about a plant growing. The title is Bright Yellow Flower.

If you have been outside to play, ride your bike or take a walk I’m sure you have noticed the new flowers growing outside. Have you noticed that they are all different colors. It makes it look like a beautiful rainbow outside. Draw a picture of a flower. Remember to include the flower, stem and leaves (remember we don’t see the roots because they are under the ground). Don’t forget to color you flower. I wonder what color you will choose. Please send me a picture of your flower. I can’t wait to see them all.

Math

Let’s think about comparing sizes. Mrs. Lott is taller/bigger than you. A house is taller/bigger than Mrs. Lott. Let’s think about flowers now. Find a flower with your parent. Tell your mom or dad 5 things that are bigger than that flower. Now tell your mom or dad 5 things that are smaller than that flower. There are so many things around us to compare. If you want to keep comparing find 5 things that are bigger than YOU and 5 things that are smaller than YOU!

Work Time

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Movement Activity

I hope everyone has a great day!! Don’t forget to send me a picture of your flower drawing. I can’t wait to see them.

Good morning! Make sure that you check out this blog post but also the post that I created last night. The one from last night is about Kindergarten and Young 5’s Registration. McDonald school is having a packet pick-up today and tomorrow from 10:00 to 2:00pm.

Letter of the Week

O says the sound that Orange, octopus and October start with. Here is another one of our O songs…

Go for a walk outside and see if you can find the letter O. It doesn’t have to be at the beginning of a word. It can be in the middle too. Make sure you check signs all around you.

Fran’s Flower or Grow Flower Grow

Here is our second reading of Fran’s Flower.

Draw any three things you can remember from the story WITHOUT LOOKING at the book or videos. So we have talked about the parts of a plant…flower, stem, leaves and roots We have also talked about what plants need to grow…water, air and sunlight Now we also need to know that all plants start as just a tiny seed. When Fran found her flower there was already a tiny green tip. Usually we plant a tiny seed or seeds in the soil (dirt). Sometimes we plant them but sometimes nature just does it for us. When we see little white fuzz being blown in the wind…those are really seeds. Here is a story about seeds.

Math

See how many fruits you can think of. All fruits have seeds inside of them. Do you have any fruit at your house? If you have fruit, count how many different kinds of fruit you have. Now pick a fruit for a snack and when you open up the fruit see if you can find any seeds. If you can find the seeds, count them and see how many seeds there are.

Work Time

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Kids will tell you what they are planning to do/want to play with/how they will use toys at home. 

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Movement

Have a great day!

Dearborn Public Schools is moving to Online Registration for incoming Kindergarten students. If you will be at McDonald School next year they are doing a packet pick-up for all of the information that you need. It will be both tomorrow, Wednesday May 6th and Thursday May 7th. You can go either day. You only need to go one time. They will be giving out the info between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. It should only take a couple of minutes to pick up information. Here is more information…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IQ7sE24hsr6Cbt4PCqAYqplOm-oXPUyOUVGKwusDlGs/edit#

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XjTPjG0Jhz6AVKKFuieV_QB-e2lYaXEQDClWcqjPtwk/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=5eb1a680

Hello Everyone! After such a beautiful weekend the weather has gotten a little bit cooler but I hope you still make time to get out for a little while. The fresh air and sunshine are so good for you.

Letter of the Week

Write the Letter O. Write the names of the people that live in your house. Do any of their names have the letter O?

Plants

Yesterday we listened to Fran’s Flower. We learned that a plant needs rain, air and sunlight to grow. Today we are going to learn about the parts of a plant (or flower). Draw a picture of a flower. Can you name the parts?

Listen to this song and it will help you.

Now can you draw another picture of a plant with all of the parts on the same paper? Does it look the same or different? Haha, that is kind of tricky. When we draw a plant we don’t usually draw the roots because we don’t see them. The roots are under the ground in the dirt. So, the parts you should have drawn in the second picture should show…The flower, the stem, the leaves and the roots.

Gus Grows a Plant

This is one of the books that I brought to you on Friday. Get your book and you can read along.

Math

In that story Gus’s plant grew big, very big! I wonder how big you are. If you have a tape measure, see how big you are. I am 64 inches tall. How many inches tall are you. Draw a picture of yourself and write how many inches tall you are next to the picture of yourself. I can’t wait to see how tall everyone is now.

Work Time

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Kids will tell you what they are planning to do/want to play with/how they will use toys at home. 

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Make sure to get outside and look at the changes happening in nature! If you see anything cool take a picture and send it to me.

Have fun and have a great day!

Happy Monday! It was so much fun seeing the boys and girls that I was able to see on Friday when I dropped materials off at your houses! I really miss all of you but it made me happy to see you. It is the Season on Spring right now and we are right in the middle of it with beautiful things happening all around outside. We had a couple of days of rain and then a couple of days of sunshine and now…I see green leaves on trees and lots of flowers. This week we will be talking about flowers growing! But first our letter of the week…

Letter of the Week

Our letter of the week this week is letter O or o. Capital O and lowercase o look exactly the same. O sounds like Octopus, Otter, October. It can also say it’s name O in a word like Open, Over. Here is a song about Oo.

Find some items in your house that start with the letter O. See how many items you can find.

Story of the Week

Fran’s Flower is one of our books that we read 4 times and then put out 4 copies for the kids to enjoy reading together. We didn’t get a chance to read it before we started “at-home” learning so we will listen to this 4 times. This story is about trying to get a flower to grow.

Does anyone know what a flower NEEDS for it to grow?? I will give you a hint. There are 3 things that flowers need to help them grow. Draw a picture of what a flower needs for it to grow and then listen to the story.

Now that you have heard the story look back at your ideas of what a flower needs to grow. Were you right? In the story Fran’s Flower needed rain, air and sunlight. All flowers, plants and trees need rain, air and sunlight to grow.

Math

When you are outside today see how many flowers you can find around your house, just in your front or back yard. Count them and then write that number 5 times.

Work Time

Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  

Kids will tell you what they are planning to do/want to play with/how they will use toys at home. 

Work Time (45-60 minutes): During work time kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS.  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.

Clean Up (about 15 minutes):  Kids clean up the mess they have made while playing.

Recall Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)

Have a great day!

Today we will be going to Paris to visit The Louvre Art Museum! See if you can find the Mona Lisa painting. It’s a very big museum so it’s okay if you don’t find it, just make sure you have fun exploring the museum. Click on the link under the picture.

https://www.youvisit.com/tour/louvremuseum

Happy May! I will be stopping by your house today for a porch delivery. Please stay in your house and wave from the window or inside the door. I can’t wait to see you.

Have a great weekend!