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This is a video to best explain the crisis we are in to your children.
Monthly Focus: Care
Weekly Focus: Others
Question for the Week:
How can we take care of others?
Weekly Foundational Read-Aloud:
Oonga Boonga by Frienda Wishinsky
The YouTube Link to the weekly Read Aloud is located: Here
Questions to ask your child in response to the read-aloud:
- Who tried to make baby Louise feel better?
- Who helped baby Louise stop crying?
- Daniel was very good at taking care of Louise, making her feel better, and stop crying. What are some things you do very well?
Suggested Text
- 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?
- Think about the people in your life. What are some of the things they do to take care of you?
- Do you ever help take care of other people? What are some things you do to take care of other people?
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.
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:
MONDAY
“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?
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!
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