Monday February 22

The songs below are what we use for our greeting circle. Your student will use these every morning to get ready for the day.

You will review the STAR, BALLOON, DRAIN, and PRETZEL breathing activities. Pick one to do for the day after reviewing them.

Commitment for the week: Have your child pick which commitment they would like to try for the day: Helping Hands, using My Big Voice, Listening Ears, Kind Words

Vocabulary:

construct

friends

Parent Write the morning message on a sheet of paper large enough for your child to be able to circle and underline letters.

Today's Morning Message:

List some kitchen tools you like to use.

• Read the words in each sentence.
• Identify letters s and l in the sentence.
• Then work on producing additional words that begin with the same sound.

The Do Nothing Machine

Vocabulary:

assemble

blueprint

Look and the book cover and predict what you think the story will be about.

Make a list of tools used in the story.

We have now covered all letters. Continue daily practice with all letters. Your child should be naming the letters and saying the sound that the letter makes.

Letters of the Week : C, N, B

Alliteration Sort:

Gather several items that start with the letters C, N, B ( Ex. can, card, necklace,note, newspaper, basket, book, ) Sort the items into 3 groups by their beginning sounds.

1. writing your name (first and last)
2. practice saying the letters and sounds of the letters when someone points to the letters in random order
3. Review flashcards for letters that you have already covered from previous weeks.
4. Find things in your house that start with each letter we have studied.
5. Play a memory game matching uppercase and lowercase letters using the flashcards that you have made.
6. Choose 2 -3 letters and make groups of items in your house that start with those sounds.
7. build 3 letter words and practice reading them. Ex: cat, bat, bug. rug

Gather items that your child can sort by attributes(hard, soft, different colors, size)

Have your child sort the items and discuss the attributes they used to group the items.

Discuss if their is a different way that the items could be sorted.

Gather items that you could use for your own do nothing machine and build your own machine.

Making your own blueprint: Draw a picture of something that you plan to build.