Kinderpond Learns about the Chinese New Year

Learning Board-

Letter J

Color Red/Gold

Shape- Square

Numeral- 19


Name Practice- Your choice again :)

Monday-

Story: My First Chinese New Year

Poem: 5 Green Dragons

Alphabet Study: Alphabet Readers

Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Letters Punch Sheet

Science: Video

Math: Counting Clip Cards

Art: Paper Lantern

Writing: Tracing Cards

Theme/Life Skills: Practice Tying Shoes
I have this big one and some little ones.

Tuesday

Story: Chelsea's New Year

Poem: 

Alphabet Study: Bingo Dauber Sheet

Fine Motor: Mini Muffin

So you don't have this toy?  Grab a cupcake tin at Dollar Tree and some liners, write numbers on the bottom.  Have them add that number of pony beads or pom-poms to the bottom.

Science: Dollar Tree Experiment

Math: Puzzles  (I will add a photo later, it's nap time and I am not disturbing that!)  As always, any puzzle will do :)

Art: Stained Glass

Writing: Writing trace number

Theme/Life Skills: Chinese Food Dramatic Play

Thursday

Story: Bring in the New Year

Poem: Lion Dance Song

Alphabet Study: ABC Magnets  I am going to write the alphabet on a sentence strip... or strips :) and we will match the letters to the letters.

Fine Motor: Pattern Beads patterns

Science: Chinese Slime  
Minus the glitter for me though lol

Math: CNY Count the Room

Art: Dragon

Writing: CNY Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Scissor Skills

Friday

Story: Happy Happy Year

Poem: Chinese New Year

Alphabet Study: Alphabet Bottle

Fine Motor: Lo Mien Transfer

Science: Red Rice Gold Coins

Math: Chinese Calendar Pieces  We are just going to put the numbers in order.

Art: Ice Cube Color Mixing 
Give the children water colored with food coloring, an ice cube tray and some droppers. 

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Food toys again :)

Shopping List:

Hole Punch Walmart
Clear Glue


Dollar Tree
Clothes Pins
Shoe with laces (I got mine at Dollar Tree)
Bingo Dauber
Tissue Paper
Pony Beads
Food Coloring
Sequins
Rice
Beans (alphabet bottle or just use more rice)
Ice Cube Tray
Yarn
Chopsticks


Muffin Tin
Science Experiment

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