March 7, 2020

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by emails at: Ms.Sanchez.COVID19@gmail.com 

This is a video to best explain the crisis we are in to your children. 

Time to Come In, Bear: A Children's Story About Social Distancing

Monthly Focus: Moving 

Weekly Focus: Investigating How Bodies Move  

Question for the Week:

Can you name the parts of our bodies ? How do they move?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud:

Ten Tiny Babies By Karen Katz

The YouTube Link to the weekly Read Aloud is located: Here


Questions to ask your child in response to the read-aloud:

1. The babies are moving in lots of ways. How do you like to move your body?
2. Can you wiggle the toes inside your shoes like the babies?
3. One of the babies fell. How do you think the baby felt when it fell? Why?

Suggested Text 

Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions  by Abrams Appleseed

Supply your child with writing materials, paper, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, etc. Let your child experiment with making marks on paper to express ideas as they are ready. 

Suggested questions during activity

• I see you are ________. • Tell me about your work.

• You are making (curvy, zigzag, straight, etc.) lines.

• I see other (curvy, zigzag, straight, etc.) in our home (indicate).

Learn at Home activity for today:

Tuesday: 

Shadow Play: Hang a white sheet, place a light source behind it, and invite your child to stand behind the sheet and act out stories. They can retell familiar stories or create new stories of their own. Parents and children can take turns being the performers and the audience.

Open ended questions:

•I wonder what would happen if ____. 

•What will you do next?

•What do you think about ____?

•How did you do ____? 

•What does that remind you of?

Movement Activity:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!

For additional Music and Movement Activities, please look at Ms. Alma's Blog, located HERE 

Other Useful Resources

Scholastic Learn at Home - The website offers multiple days of content including read-aloud, movement activities, STEM activities, drawing activities, building activities, etc. 

I will be calling parents twice a week to check in.  If you would like to share any resources with other families, please let me know and I will add it to the blog!