Kinderpond Jr.: 18

Friday, January 5, 2018

W is for Winter... penguins too!

Learning Board-

Letter N

Color Gold

Shape-hexagon

Numeral- 18

Name Practice

Monday-

Story: Biggest Snowball Fight

Poem: Snowball Fight, letter style

Alphabet Study: Penguin Beginning Sound

Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Marshmallows and hot chocolate use any/all tongs

Science: Hot Chocolate Stem

Math: Patterns

Art: Q-tip mitten

Writing: Tracing Cards

Theme/Life Skills: Snowman Stew

Tuesday

Story: Snowman for Little Bear

Poem: Snow Pokey

Alphabet Study:Alphabet Video
Here are tons to choose from on my Alphabet Video Board

Fine Motor: Eraser Patterns

Science: Bubbles Outside
It is cold in my neck of the world, so we are going to blow some bubbles outside.

Math: Blue and white/clear Water beads

number cube

cookie cutter

Roll and add that many colors to your cookie cutter.

You could do those dice in dice.

Using a blue double dice, add that many blue ones and look at the one inside to the white cookie cutter.

OR

roll a blue dice and a white dice and add that many blue ones and that many white ones.

Art: Melted Snowman

Writing: Writing Sandbox letters
snowman beads or clear/frosted beads or erasers

Theme/Life Skills: Snowball Tower
Snowball (a rolled up white sock would work too)
Blue cups Dollar Tree

Build a cup tower and knock down the cups.

You could:
write letters one it- they could get a point if they could name the letter.
write numbers on it- they could get a point if they could name the number.
write math problem on it- they could get a point if they could say the answer.
write words on it- they could get a point if they could name the word.

Thursday

Story: Elmer in the Snow

Poem: Chant

Alphabet Study: Penguin upper and lowercase

Fine Motor: Play dough shapes

Science: Snow Dough
use what we made a few weeks ago- add additional items:
*glass beads
*ice cubes from break the ice
*play dough letter stamps
*play dough shapes

Math: Shake Up Games:
We will do number recognition.

Use a mini marshmallow for the Hot Cocoa one
snowman eraser,
penguin eraser
snowflake eraser

Hot Cocoa

Snowman

Snowflake

Penguin

Art: Cupcake snowflakes

Writing: Penguin Pull and Trace

Theme/Life Skills: Scissor Skills

Friday

Story: Snowy Day

Poem: Snowy Day Activity

Alphabet Study: Feed the Fish

Fine Motor: Pokey Pin

Science: Target Tube
Last week we did the snow, you can watch the video in our week in review.
So this week we will do the cubes with polar bear.

Math: Ping pong balls
Grabber
Ping pong balls

We will be doing number recognition :)
She did number comparisons.

Art: Warm heart, cold hands (broken link)

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Penguin Number Sense

Shopping List:
Hot chocolate
Mini Marshmallows

Snowman Stew ingredients Q-tips cupcake liners
Mini erasers
Bubbles
Water beads blue & white
Blue cups
Ping Pong balls

Friday, July 28, 2017

P is for Pets in Kinderpond

Learning Board-

Letter P

Color Orange

Shape- Oval

Numeral- 18

Name Practice- Binder

Monday-

Story-What Pet Should I Get?

Poem Pets and their Homes

Music- Move over Rover

Math/Life Skills/Science Feed the Dog
Draw a bowl. Roll a number cube. Take that many dog bones.

Theme- Toys

Bring out any toys that can be pets :)

Snack- Puppy Chow

Tuesday-

Story- Charlie Book

Poem My First Pets
Grab some toys and ask what they sound like. So what I would do, would be hide the pets inside the house, use whatever you have, and play a game.

1) I am thinking of a pet that goes "woof" child guesses a dog, pull out the dog.

2) Pull out an animal and say this is a ______ it says ______.
This is a cat and it says "meow"