Daily Practice
Note: It is important to remember that children learn by repetition! Repeating the same name page or video is key for teaching preschoolers. We may get bored with it, but they love it and will learn from the repetition. These Daily Practice resources can even be extended for use all week long, not just school days!
▸ Name Practice Sheet – Find and Download Your Child’s Name
▸ Calendar and Songs Video
*Songs begin at 10:45 in the video
▸ Phonogram Video
Monday
▸ Complete Daily Practice Activities
▸ Zoom Story Time! 9:00 am (Arizona Time)
The Little Red Hen – We will be doing activities all week centered around the main story elements of this book. If you can’t join us for the reading of this story, please read or retell it with your children.
▸ Join our Zoom Classroom – Meeting ID: 757 654 5624
Tuesday
▸ Complete Daily Practice Activities
▸ Activity #1 – Stretch-n-Spell
▸ Activity #2 – Find the number
Print out the “Identify the 10 Frame” PDF. Have your child look at the ten frame, what number does it show? Cut the numbers from the bottom and paste (or just lay) the number under the 10 frame that shows that same number.
▸ Activity #3 – Little Red Hen
If you were unable to make our Monday Zoom Book Reading, Read or retell the story of The Little Red Hen. What makes this story a Fairy Tale? Do you remember what things make a story a fairy tale? (a fairy tale has to contain just one of these things to be considered a fairy tale).
- It has magic
- It contains magical creatures (like Fairies)
- It has talking animals.
Print out the “Little Red Hen Sequencing” PDF have your child cut out the pictures and put them in order they happened in the story. Have your child retell the story once they have all the pieces in the right order.
Wednesday
▸ Complete Daily Practice Activities
▸ Zoom Story Time! 12:00 pm (Arizona Time)
Today we will read the fairy tale Mañana Iguana
▸ Join our Zoom Classroom – Meeting ID: 757 654 5624
▸ Activity #1- Phonics Review – same activity as last week, but with different sounds
**NOTE: If your child is not ready to write letters yet (which is TOTALLY OK!), look at the second page of the “Initial Write In Animals” worksheet. Follow the same steps below, but have your child circle the correct letter instead of writing it.
Print the “Initial Write In CVC 3” worksheet. Say the name of the picture, (you may need to emphasize the first sound in the word). Ask the child, “What is the first sound you hear?” Discuss what letter makes that sound, what it is called, and what it looks like (you may need to write it for them on a white board or different paper).
Example:
What animal do you see? (answer: dog)
Dog! Right. /d/ /d/ /d/ dog.
What sound do you hear when I say /d/ /d/ /d/ dog? (answer: /d/ /d/ – they should not say the letter name, but the sound the letter makes)
What letter says /d/ /d/? (Answer: d)
What does a ‘d’ look like? How do we write a d? (Feel free to write the letter on a different paper (white board or chalk board) for them to see. Drawing specific attention to the way you are forming the letter.)
▸ Activity #2 – Making a Number Sentence Using a Ten Frame
▸ Activity #3 – Fairy Tales
*Don’t forget that we will be reading Mañana Iguana on Zoom at Noon*
Print out the “Venn Diagram Story Comparison” PDF. Start a discussion with your child comparing and contrasting “The Little Red Hen” and “Mañana Iguana”. Write the things that happened only in “The Little Red Hen” in the left circle. Write the things that happened only in “Mañana Iguana” in the right circle. Then write the things that happened in both stories in the middle.
Thursday
▸ Complete Daily Practice Activities
▸ Activity #1 – Writing Letters – same activity as last week, but with different sounds
Practice Writing the letters Jj Oo Gg and Hh. Trace the letter on the left and write the letter on your own on line right.
Challenge: What words can you make with these letters? This may take a lot of guidance from parents.
Have them stretch each sound of the word.
Example: /j/ /o/ /g/
What letter says /j/? – write the letter
What letter says /o/?- write the letter
What letter says /g/? – write the letter
▸ Activity #2- Using number bonds to see the Parts of 10
Print out the “10 Frame Subtraction” PDF. Have your child use the 10 frame to make a subtraction number sentence. Make sure you’ve watched Wednesday’s video before you begin this activity.
▸ Activity #3 – Aesop’s Fables – The Ant and the Grasshopper
Friday
▸ Complete Daily Practice Activities