Week of Oct 5 - Oct 9

10/5 Happy International Teacher Day to all teachers! 

 Exploration One 

Exploration 1: Our Community 

Essential Question: What is our community?

Focus Area: Our Classroom 

Weekly Focus: Our Teachers

• This week teachers will work with students to help them understand that teachers will keep them safe. 
• Teachers will be working with children to build a relationship with each child. 

Monday 

Book: Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

  Questions 

·       Where did the owls in this book live?

·       When the baby owls woke up, they noticed their mummy was gone. Where did the baby owls think she went?

·       What did Bill say while his mummy was gone?

·       How did the baby owls feel when their mummy came back?

Learning the letter Tt song 

Have children write the letter Tt or just simply try to write it 3 times. 

Writing: Workbook pages 12 - 13

Gross motor: Cosmic kids tiny T-Rex yoga

How to make Play-dough at home 

With younger children it is important for them to have a visual of things to follow so that it becomes more understanding for them, as well as repetition. 

For example how to use the bathroom and how to wash your hands are important. 

Tuesday

Love is a Truck by Amy Novesky

• What are some of the truck the boy has? 
• What are the trucks used for?

Blocks: They may begin to create enclosures and start to explore concepts of sorting, ordering, counting, one to one correspondence, size and shape. Later, children begin to combine structures and build vertically. Additionally, their block play may become more social in nature. Hand your children Blocks, Lego, or any building materials that you may find around the house. Let them explore the objects and observe what they do. 

Ask them open-ended questions like:

 • I notice that you ____.

• This reminds me of ________.

• You put this ______ here and this _______ here.

• You are ____. Last time you played here you______. I wonder _________.  

Every child is at different developmental levels whatever your child creates is great do not tell them what to do or do it for them, it will just hold them back. 

Writing: pages 14-15

Gross motor: have your children engage in some physical activities daily 

Colonel Crockles the Crocodile yoga 

Wednesday

Book: My Friends by Taro Gomi 

Social Emotional: Ask you children about all the different things they have learned to do? How they learned to do them and who taught them how to do them?

Art: They may use water paint to illustrate something they learned to do and the person who taught them how to do so.

Gross Motor: Dance Songs for Kids/Super Simple Songs

Friday 

Book: Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

  Questions 

·       Where did the owls in this book live?

·       When the baby owls woke up, they noticed their mummy was gone. Where did the baby owls think she went?

·       What did Bill say while his mummy was gone?

·       How did the baby owls feel when their mummy came back?

What is the first letter of your name? Write the letter, cut out little bits of scrap papers, glue the bits of pieces along side the first letter of your name.

Writing: Workbook pages 16 - 17

Gross motor: Cosmic kids tiny T-Rex yoga