May 14, 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

Be Kind | A Children's Story about things that matter

Monthly Focus: Care

Weekly Focus: World 

Question for the Week:

How can we take care the world around us?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud:

Safe in a Storm by Stephen Swinburne

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


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

1. What are some of the things the animals in this book do to care for themselves during a storm?
2. Animals have fur and skin that helps their bodies stay warm and dry when the weather is cold and wet. What are some things that people can use to care for their bodies when it is cold or rainy?
3. This book is about staying safe in a storm. Let’s think about some other types of weather. What do you do to take care of your body when it is really hot outside? What about when it is really sunny?

Sing along song for children 

Farmer Plants the Seeds

Suggested Text 

The One Day House by Julia Durango

1. Wilson cares about Gigi and wants to help fix her house because it needs some repairs. What are some of the things Wilson wants to do?
2. Think about the people in your life. What are some of the things they do to take care of you?
3. Do you ever help take care of other people? What are some things you do to take care of other people?

Activity
Reflect on different things around us that we may be able to take care of. Invite children to a conversation on the world arounds us.

Suggested questions during activity

1. What can we do? Plant, recycle, reduce the usage of plastic materials, avoid littering, keep the street clean. 
2. Why do you think it is important to keep our streets clean?
3. Why should we care about our world?
4. What do you think will happen if we do not care about our world?

Learn at Home activity for the week:

Monday- Friday

Movement Activity:

Twilight The Unicorn of Dreams

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!