Junior Entomologists visit Kinderpond

Learning Board-

Words he, is, it, do

Color pink

Shape- hexagon

Numbers  69-72


Name Practice- binder or

Monday-

Story: Bee Book

Poem: I See a Bee

Word Study: Buzzing Bumblebee 

Fine Motor: Bugs 
I grabbed these toys from Dollar Tree. 
Pick up bugs and add to containers.

Science: Insects can/have/are

Math: Buggy Number Sense 

Art: Play dough shapes

Writing: Bug Eyes Sheet . I grabbed these "bug eyes" in the party section at WalMart.

Theme/Life Skills: Ants in the pants game

Tuesday

Story: We Like Bugs

Poem: We Like Bugs  this is the song to go with the book :)

Word Study: I See Bugs

Fine Motor: Clip it bug words

Science: Observe meal worms Grab some meal worms from the pet store

Math: Bug Spinner

Art: Bug Finger Print book

Writing: Tracing we use smelly markers :)  
makes everything better ;)

Theme/Life Skills: Bug Stew

Thursday

Story: Ladybug books

Poem: Insect Syllables

Word Study: Ladybug 

Fine Motor: Caterpillar names

Science: Observe ladybugs  
I got this set from Amazon.

Math: Graph bugs

Art: Directed Drawings ladybug and bee

Writing: Grid

Theme/Life Skills: Scissor Skills Cootie

Friday

Story: Quiet Cricket/Quick as a Cricket

Poem: Head Thorax Abdomen 

Word Study: Sight Word Swat . I am going to put a sticker over the numbers or letters and write sight words on instead.

Fine Motor: Erasers & tongs
We will use mini erasers and tongs and fill up cups.
Either see how many we can get in a minute or roll and fill a cup.
We will use those small containers with lids from the Dollar Tree.

Science: Observe crickets

Math: Pattern Blocks

Art: Butterfly Symmetry

Writing: Trace and Write

Theme/Life Skills: Grid Game

Past units

2017  
2017 review
2016   
2016 review
2014 week 1  
2014 week 2

Shopping List:

Pet Shop:
meal worms
crickets

ladybugs** Amazon link above

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