May 1st 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: Self

Question for the Week:

What are some items used for self-care? 
Who are the people around us that take care of us?

Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud:

The Pigeon needs a bath by Mo Willems

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


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

1. Why did the pigeon need to take a bath?
2. At the beginning of the book the pigeon did not want to take a bath. What happened at the end of the book?
3. Why is it important to wash your hands and keep your body clean?

Suggested Text 

Hands Say Love by George Shannon 

1. This book talks about the things people can do with their hands to show they care. What are some of the things the people in this book do to care for each other? 
2. Remember when the big child was helping the little child? Have you ever helped someone smaller than you? What did you do to help? 
3. An adult in this book gives a hug to a child who was feeling sad. What else can we do to help people when they feel sad? 

Activity
Collect different recycle items, boxes, cardboard, toilet paper roll, and more.. invite your child to use his or her imagination to create a vehicle, a form or transportation that is used in the city. 

Suggested questions during activity

• What do you notice about ____? • Why do you think ________?

• How do you know? • What else does ________?

• Look at what happens when you __________.

• How can you ______?

Learn at Home activity for today:

Friday

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” Roger Lewin

Math: Grab a few items from home, kitchen tools makeup tool whatever may grab you children interest, can even be their toys. Invite them to discuss different things they notice about the tools. Ask them to try to make a pattern with the tools in front of them or ask them to count. If they need help lead them. Repeat a few times 

Open ended questions:

• You are __________. • How do you know?
• Let’s count these together. • Look at this pattern.
• Are these the same or different? How do you know?
• I noticed this is _________ and this is ___________. Why did you do that?
• You put _______ here and _____ here. Why did you choose to put ____
  there?

Movement Activity:

The Wizard of Oz | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!

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 ones 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!