Below is an example of what you can expect each week with our online program. Our teachers work hard to craft our online curriculum so that your child’s online experience is as close to an in-person experience as possible.
October 20-22, 2020
Tuesday, October 20
▸ Calendar Video
▸ Morning Work
This week we are going to continue practicing tracing our names! Please print the practice page with your child’s name on it, and remind him or her to begin writing at the dot, and to follow the arrow to form each letter correctly. If you feel your child is ready, encourage them to practice writing the first letter of their name on their own on the lines next to where they traced their name.
▸ Activity #1 – Learning the Letter “P”
▸ PRINT: Pp
▸ PRINT: P Search and Find
Our next letter is the letter P! Please watch the video with your child so they can learn all about the sound the letter P makes and look at some objects that begin with the letter P. After watching the video, look at the “Pp” practice page and encourage your child to practice tracing and writing P’s. For some extra practice recognizing the letter P, they can circle all of the P’s they can find on the “P Search and Find” page.
▸ Activity #2 – Ordinal Numbers
▸ PRINT: Ordinal Numbers
This week we are going to begin applying our counting skills and working with ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers simply define an object’s position in a series. We can use words such as “first”, “second” and “third”, or even “beside”, “next to”, “behind”, etc.
Look at the “Ordinal Numbers” worksheet. To complete this activity, your child will need a variety of colors of crayons. Read each sentence to your child and help them count and color the correct object to begin learning about ordinal numbers.
▸ Activity #3 – P is for Parrot
▸ PRINT: P is for Parrot
▸ PRINT: P is for Parrot Template
Parrot starts with P… so let’s a make a P Parrot!
Find the “P is for Parrot” and “P is for Parrot Templates” pages. Help your child cut out the diamond for the beak (this will be folded in half to make a beak that opens and closes), the eyes (you can simply cut around the general shape of the eyes. Your cutting doesn’t need to be precise) and the feathers (if you have craft feathers at home, feel free to use those in place of the paper feathers). If you are using the paper feathers, have your child color them with bright colors before assembling the P Parrot.
Once all pieces are cut and colored, glue the beak, eyes and feathers onto the large P on the “P is for Parrot” printable (use the “P is for Parrot Sample” page as a reference for where to glue each piece onto the letter P).
Wednesday, October 21
▸ Calendar Video
▸ Morning Work
This week we are going to continue practicing tracing our names! Please print the practice page with your child’s name on it, and remind him or her to begin writing at the dot, and to follow the arrow to form each letter correctly. If you feel your child is ready, encourage them to practice writing the first letter of their name on their own on the lines next to where they traced their name.
▸ Activity #1 – P Sort
▸ PRINT: P Sort Pictures
▸ PRINT: P Sort Chart
Look at the “P Sort Pictures” and “P Sort Chart” pages. Talk with your child about the images that they see and what letter each one begins with. Next, ask your child to cut out each picture and glue it in the correct column – either “P” if the object or animal begins with the letter P or “Not P” if it does not.
▸ Activity #2 – Halloween Ordinal Numbers
▸ PRINT: Halloween Ordinal Numbers
Before watching the video, find the “Halloween Ordinal Numbers” worksheets and have your child cut out the 3 pictures as they will be moving them around several times while they follow along with the video.
Have your child watch the video and follow along with their teacher as they practice rearranging their pictures and recognizing some different ways to describe ordinal numbers. After your child has moved their pictures for the final time and glued them down feel free to encourage them to color them with their best coloring.
▸ Zoom Story Time LIVE! 12:15 pm (Arizona Time)
Big Pumpkin – One of your teachers will be reading this story to you live!
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▸ Big Pumpkin Story Sort
▸ PRINT: Big Pumpkin Size Order
▸ PRINT: Big Pumpkin Strip
After listening to our story, look at the “Big Pumpkin Strip” page. Cut the “Big Pumpkin Strip” page along the dotted lines. You should now have 3 strips of paper. Tape them together along the short edges to make one long strip of paper (this is where your child will glue their story pictures in order).
Next, look at the “Big Pumpkin Sequencing and Size Order” page. Ask your child to cut out each picture. Lay them out in front of your child and talk with him or her about each picture and ask them to point to which character came first in the story, second, etc. (if you need to review the story as a reminder please follow this link to a YouTube read-aloud:
After they point to the pictures in sequential order, you can ask them to point to them in size order (either biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest), as well. After reviewing the pictures, you may choose if you’d like the have your child glue them onto their strip in sequential order or size order depending on their understanding of each one.
Thursday, October 22
IT’S PAJAMA DAY! Stay comfy in your favorite pajamas while you do your schoolwork today!
▸ Calendar Video
▸ Morning Work
This week we are going to continue practicing tracing our names! Please print the practice page with your child’s name on it, and remind him or her to begin writing at the dot, and to follow the arrow to form each letter correctly. If you feel your child is ready, encourage them to practice writing the first letter of their name on their own on the lines next to where they traced their name.
▸ Activity #1 – Pajama Time Video
Since we are in our pajamas, let’s have a little fun in them! Watch the “Pajama Time” video below and dance along while listening to a fun little story about pajamas.
▸ Activity #2 – Pumpkin Size Comparison
▸ PRINT: Pumpkin Size Comparison
Find the “Pumpkin Size Comparison” printable and talk with your child about the different sizes of the pumpkins – by now they are probably experts at recognizing big, bigger, biggest, etc.! Help them draw lines from each word on the right to the appropriate pumpkin on the left. Don’t forget to remind your child that our letter this week is P and the word pumpkin starts with… P!
▸ Activity #3 – My Pumpkin Book
▸ PRINT: My Pumpkin Book
Before beginning the video, find the “My Pumpkin Book” activity pages and a green, yellow and orange crayon. Follow along as we look at the different stages of growth for a pumpkin.
Encourage your child to listen for the color that the pumpkin is at each stage and color their growing pumpkin to match. After they have colored their pumpkin at each stage, fold the cover page so that the title and the printed image of the pumpkin are facing out, and fold the page that your child drew their yellow and orange pumpkins on in so that you cannot see their drawings.
Slide the page with the yellow and orange pumpkins inside the title page and staple the pages together at the folded edge to make a book.