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Vanilla yogurt Granola Fresh fruit, i.e., kiwi, strawberries, banana, blueberries, raisins Clear plastic cups
1 pound lean ground turkey 1 c bread crumbs (I used Italian seasoned) 1/4 c milk 1 medium zucchini grated 1 small onion finely chopped (I used food processor) 1 cup cooked smashed carrots pinch of sea salt Muffin tin
Cooking Friday, May 20-Astronaut Food Buy freeze dried ice cream dots, strawberries, other fruit (Target/Costco) and eat like the astronauts eat. Buy fresh fruit of the same variety to compare and contrast. Cooking Friday, May 27Mama Bear porridge
3 cups water 1 cup powdered milk 1 1/2 cups rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 eggs 4 teaspoons butter 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons honey
ART SHOW $1 frames Cheap art mats in bulk Name tags for artists Index cards or labels for each artwork displayed Invitations made by children, or decorated from $1 store Handpicked flowers for dcor Milk and cookies (made by children) or other refreshments
Cheap plain yogurt in bulk for yogurt painting Celery stalks for color science activity Alphabet cereal Fruit loops Coffee filters for flower craft
Craft Store/Dollar Store/Already on hand: Poster boards (4) ($.50 each at $1 store). ALREADY ON HAND Index cards 1 plastic gardening pot per child/Soil/Flowers Empty water or 2 liter bottles (10 for zebra bowling, add Acrylic paint stripes of black paper as stripes in advance) Shaving cream Playdoh/clay Refrigerator box for space shuttle dramatic play Stickers (about 50 each child) Bubbles Bubble wrap (12 inch square per child) Food coloring Purple paint or purple paper Newspaper ads, magazines, cookbooks with favorite foods Craft sticks Yarn Straws 10 paper lunch bags or paper grocery bags Construction paper Foam paper cut into shapes Colored masking tape Black paper and white chalk 3 small zippers for Z zipper board Zig zag craft scissors Plastic/plush zoo animals for dramatic play, zoo activities, build a zoo, veterinarian/zookeeper roleplay Magnetic ABC letters2 activities Paperplates ABC beads for bead matching board and name necklaces
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. New month May. Demonstrate where May is on the yearly calendar with all the months ($1 store). Add childrens birthdays to the new month, holidays, and any other special days. Introduce some things to learn in Mayletters Y and Z, number 10, moon shape, learn more about flowers and gardening, celebrate Mothers Day, learn about outer space, zoo animals, and more. Song: Months of the Year (to the tune of "Ten Little Indians") January, February, March, and April, May, June, July, August, and September, October, November, and December, These are the months of the year. Song: Days of the Week (Sung to "The Adam's Family Theme") Days of the week (snap, snap), Days of the week (snap, snap) Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week There's Sunday and There's Monday There's Tuesday and There's Wednesday Theres Thursday adn There's Friday and then there's Saturday Days of the week (snap, snap), Days of the week (snap, snap) Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week Introduction to gardening theme. Discuss plant life cycle, seasons. Use books with pictures. What does a plant need to grow? What can hurt a plants growth? What can you plant (flowers for beauty, trees for shade, vegetables and fruit to eat)? Movement: Work in own garden (weeding, gather flowers, water) or plant vegetables/flowers/ consider sunflowers seeds (so easy and fast), or a pumpkin patch (if you have the space). Flower craft: How Does Your Garden Grow or Look How Much Weve Grown bulletin board display. Allow children to make several of these flowers to display all the letters of the alphabet, or childrens pictures in the middle of the flowers, or just a display is beautiful too! Paint coffee filters (or use markers, and then spray with water). Use plastic cup to trace circles from construction paper. Cut out paper circles and paste to middle of coffee filter flowers. Cut stems and leaves of green construction paper.
Worksheet: Lifecycle of a plant worksheet (page 30). Worksheet: Sequencing growing plants worksheet (page 31).
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. Weather. Who is Here Today? Story, teachers choice. Introduce Letter Y: Show the children the Letter Y poster (page 27). Trace over the letter with your fingers. Ask the children to do the same. Trace the letter Y in the air or use personal wipe-off boards. Make a letter Y basket that includes several items that start with the letter Y. Enunciate the Y sound when identifying the items. Ask children to repeat or name the items in the basket. Ask the children what other items could be put in the basket. Play I Spy Something that Starts with the Letter Y. Song: Yak Song (by Jack Prelutsky) Yickity-yackity, yickity-yak, the yak has a scriffily, scraffily back, some yaks are brown yaks and some yaks are black, yickity-yackity, yickity-yak. Sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag, the yak is all covered with shiggildy-shag; he walks with a ziggildy-zaggildy-sag, sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag. Activity: Play Yyyyyyyes! Game. Ask the class silly questions that have a yes or no answer. If the answer is yes, the children shout, Yyyyyyyyyes! Examples: Can you dance on your head? Do you have purple eyes? Do you have a furry tail? Do you like to eat chocolate ice cream? Letter Card: Y made from yarn. Print out template (page 32) Provide yarn. Allow children to cut yarn and to figure out how to make a Y shape and then glue onto paper. Activity: Yum-Yum Tree. Print template (on page 34) 1 for each child. The Yum-Yum tree is a special tree that grows the childrens favorite yummy foods! Provide pictures of food printed from internet, or magazines, or Sunday newspaper ads, or cook books. Allow children to cut and paste onto their own Yum-Yum tree. Display in classroom. Craft: Use poster board to make painted handprints in circular fashion, like flower petals. Foot print stem and petals. Add or draw picture of child to center of flower. Sensory: Yogurt painting. Buy the cheap plain yogurt in bulk. Cover table with plastic wrap or tablecloth. Paint with yogurt. Use fingers like finger painting. Encourage shapes, numbers, faces, writing names. Worksheet: Y is for yellow worksheet (page 33)
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. Weather. Who is here today? Story, teachers choice. Review Letter Y: Review Letter Y. Write on large paper or poster board ($.50 at dollar store) all the words that the children can think of that start with the letter Y. Play I Spy Something that Starts with the Letter Y. Repetition of the Y items from the day before shows that the children are learning. Ask each child to come up and draw something on the poster board that starts with the letter Y. Label the picture and hang in classroom. Song: Yak Song (by Jack Prelutsky) Yickity-yackity, yickity-yak, the yak has a scriffily, scraffily back, some yaks are brown yaks and some yaks are black, yickity-yackity, yickity-yak. Sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag,t he yak is all covered with shiggildy-shag; he walks with a ziggildy-zaggildy-sag, sniggildy-snaggildy, sniggildy-snag. Activity: Guessing Game. Guess all the words that can begin with the Y sound. Shout Yes when they hear a Y word: yellow, yarn, purple, dog, yesterday, today, you, juice, yard, house, yams, slide, yo-yo, tree, yolk, flower, yes, yak, apple, yogurt Sensory activity: Taste. Y is for Yummy and Yucky. Remember the Yum Yum tree from yesterday? Provide tiny tasters of different foods in a row for each child. Maybe, 1 black olive, 1 green olive, 1 jelly bean, 1 chocolate chip, etc. Taste test each food together and see who thinks each item is yucky or yummy. Activity: Mothers day craft. Hand print flower pots. Incorporate gardening theme as a lesson while planting. Buy $1 plastic pots from $1 store. Use acrylic paint as it is non-washable. Paint childs hand with paint, then make handprints on plastic pot. Older children can use permanent markers to make designs instead or in addition to handprints. Add soil and flowers.
Activity: Craft stick Y. Use craft sticks to make letter Y. Decorate with yellow markers or paint. Worksheet: Letter Y phonics worksheet (page 35)
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. Weather. Who is here today? Story, teachers choice. Mothers Day Theme: Discuss Mothers Day. What moms do, how they help us, some children do not have a mother, how are animal mothers similar to human mothers. What are some favorite things about the childrens mothers. Song: I Love Mommy (tune of "Frere Jacques") I Love Mommy, I Love Mommy, Yes, I do, yes, I do. Mommies are for hugging, (Hug self) Mommies are for kissing, (Blow a kiss) I love you, yes I do. (point to mother) Activity: Back art. Divide children up in circle with a partner. In each pair, have children back up to the other child. Have the children use their fingers to trace a shape onto the other childs back. See if the child can guess the shape. Try some more shapes. Switch places. Movement/Art: Bubble art. Add 1 drop or 2 of food coloring or paint to small container of bubbles. Have child blow bubbles up to a partner who is holding a sheet of paper. The child will try to catch the bubbles with the paper! See the bubble art that is created on the paper! Switch places so each child has a turn. Try using 2 different colors. If you have a large white bed sheet or large butcher paper, hang on wall or outside on fence and allow children to make a group art project. Craft: Handprint flowerscan be used for Mothers Day gifts. Option #1: Trace childs hand on several colors of construction paper. Cut out hand shape. Bundle together or tape to individual pipe cleaners to assemble a beautiful bouquet. Wrap with aluminum foil or add to decorated plastic cup or plastic vase. Option #2.: Dip childs hands into stamp pad or paint and onto paper. Add finger printed stems and leaves. Printable: Mothers Day printable (page 36)
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. Weather. Who is here today? Assign helper of the day. Story, helper of the days choice. Song: I Love Mommy (tune of "Frere Jacques") I Love Mommy, I Love Mommy, Yes, I do, yes, I do. Mommies are for hugging, (Hug self) Mommies are for kissing, (Blow a kiss) I love you, yes I do. (point to mother) Craft: Growing handprint flower craft. Use paint or cut out brown paper bags to make brown pot. Use green paint to paint childs hands and press onto paper. Have child paint or add flowers to the hands. Write in poem: Look at Me! It isnt showing. You cant see it. But Im growing.
Craft: Mom I love you to pieces puzzle craft. Cut out jigsaw shapes or purchase from craft store or use template on page 37. Break apart puzzle, color each piece. Write a nice word or something that you think of when you think of mom onto each puzzle piece. Put all the pieces back onto a heavy cardstock paper and caption: Mom I love you to pieces. Cooking: Y is for Yogurt. Yogurt parfait. Provide clear plastic cups. Have the children follow along and use spoons to add all the ingredients. Step 1Add spoonfuls of yogurt. Step 2Add spoonful of granola. Step 3Add spoonful of yogurt. Step 4Add fresh fruit (kiwi, strawberries, blueberries, banana slices) or raisins. Step 5Add spoonful of granola.
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Welcome Circle: Calendar. Weather. Who is Here Today? Story, teachers choice. Introduce Letter Z: Show the children the Letter Z poster (page 28). Trace over the letter with your fingers. Ask the children to do the same. Trace the letter Z in the air or use personal wipe-off boards. Make a letter Z basket that includes several items that start with the letter Z. Enunciate the Z sound when identifying the items. Ask children to repeat or name the items in the basket. Ask the children what other items could be put in the basket. Play I Spy Something that Starts with the Letter Z. Activity: Guessing Game. Guess all the words that can begin with the Z sound. Say Zzzzzz when they hear a Z word: Green, tiger, zoo, jaguar, safari, zipper, table, chair, zesty, zany, foot, dog, zero, crown, zebra Rhyme: Three Little Zebras (by Jean Warren) Three little zebras went out to play One of the zebras galloped away. Two little zebras out at play, Another zebra galloped away. One little zebra out at play. Finally, that zebra galloped away. Zero zebras out at play. Now all the zebras are far away. Activity: Zoo animals. Write down all the animals that the children can think of that they might see in a zoo. Then, read out the names of each animal, 1 by 1, while the children act and sound out that animal. Example, the lion can roar and shake its mane. The snake can hiss and slither across the floor. Craft: Z letter card. Print out template (page 38). Add zig zags to the letter Z. Sensory/Skills Practice: Z is for zipper board. Buy 3 small zippers from craft store. Use heavy glue to adhere to board in Z formation. Children practice zippers and Z shape by unzipping the zippers. Worksheet: Z is for zebra (page 39) Homeschool option: Zoo field trip. Buy notebook and label 26 pages. At the top of each page write down a letter of the alphabet, 1 for 26 pages. Encourage your child to draw and/ or write the names of the animals seen at the zoo in his or her own Zoo Journal on the pages for that letter, i.e., the tiger will be on the T page, etc. Take pictures and print out at home and paste to the pages.
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Craft: Zig Zag scissors. The children can use zig zag scissors to cut paper, then decorate the paper or cut strips to glue to another sheet of paper. Worksheet: Color review worksheet (page 41)
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Movement: Musical Spots. Cut out large spot shapes from colored paper. Laminate them and cut them out. Place them on the floor. Play music and have the children walk around the room. When the music stops, each child needs to find an spot to stand on. You may play this a variety of different ways. More spots than children, take away no spots or children. This is great for the younger ones. One spot per child to begin, take away one spot each time, but children may share spots, until all children are on one spot at the end. Movement: Spot Hop. Use the large spots again. Place them on the floor. Have the children hop from one spot to the next. Circle time activity: Pass the Spot. Played like hot potato... have the children sit in a circle and pass cut out paper spot around the circle when music is playing, when the music stops the child holding the spot sits in the middle or the "spot pot" until the music stops again and the next child replaces the first. When the child is in the middle, ask what color spot he/she has. Then, change out colors for each round to further practice colors. Activity/Snack: Spotted animal snacks. Provide fruit loops in a bowl for each child. Provide a picture of an animal for each child. Ask the children to put green spots (fruit loops) on the animal. Eat the spots. Then ask the children to put blue spots (fruit loops) on the animal. Eat the spots. Continue all the colors of the fruit loops. Printable: Put Me in the Zoo printable (page 42). After reading thru the book Put Me in the Zoo, children can decide what color spots they would like. They can be all one color or several colors. Craft: Draw a self portrait, including body. Use bingo dots, circle stickers, foam circles, or make spots all over just like in the book.
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Seonsory table: Add plastic zoo animals to your sand table. Dramatic Play: Add plastic/plush zoo animals to block area. Children can build a zoo. Dramatic Play Idea. Supply the children with costumes or masks of animals commonly found in a zoo. Craft extensionthere are many, many paper plate animal mask ideas on the Internetso easy and so cutemake them and use for this activity. Cooking Friday: Zucchini Meat Loaf Muffins
1 pound lean ground turkey 1 c bread crumbs (I used Italian seasoned) 1/4 c milk 1 medium zucchini grated 1 small onion finely chopped (I used food processor) 1 cup cooked smashed carrots pinch of sea salt Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients, spray muffin tins well with cooking spray and divide into muffin tins. Cook 30-35 minutes.
Sensory: Shaving cream letters. Cover table with disposable tablecloth from dollar store or cover with cling wrap. Bring out letter cards, number cards, and shape cards already learned (A-Z, numbers 1-10, shapes, etc). Drop large portions of shaving cream for each child. Encourage the children to spread the shaving cream and then to use their fingers to make the letters, numbers, shapes, and names. After practicing their letters, encourage free play design. Craft: Zoo Animal Giraffe Z craft: Have children cut out a yellow or orange "Z". Then have the children glue on brown paper for the spots and add two clothes pins for the legs.
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Science: Consider rockets from hobby shop to illustrate rockets in action. Science activity: Diet Coke and Mint Mentos fizz. For complete instructions, visit: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/original-mentos-diet-coke-geyser
Craft: Toilet paper roll rocket ship. Many variations. But basically wrap cardboard roll in aluminum foil. Decorate. Take paper circle, cut slit half-way thru diameter and then roll/fold to make cone top of rocket.
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Tongue Twisters: 1. Betty Botter. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said "this butter's bitter! So she bought some better butter, and put the better butter in her bitter batter, And made her bitter batter better! 2. Purple Paper People. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People Movement: Bubble Wrap Fun. Option 1: Provide each child with one 12 inch square of bubble wrap. Add active music. Direct children to jump on the square, jump off, jump to the side of the square, jump to the other side of the square, jump over the square, hop on one foot on the square, feet together and apart on the square, etc. Option 2: Have children arrange squares around in the room into the shape of a large circle. Play active music. Each child stands on 1 square. Direct them to walk forwards to the next square, then backwards, then a double hop, etc. It is fun as the children try not to crash into the child in front or behind them. Option 3: Use squares of bubble wrap & tape to floor in hopscotch pattern. Play hopscotch. Cooking: Astronaut Food. What's so hard about eating in space? The main problem with eating and drinking in space is that there is no gravity. If you let go of a piece of food in a space craft, it will drift around, not fall to the floor. Water won't stay in a cup, it will float out and hang in the air. Food crumbs and drops of water could float around the spacecraft, make a mess or even damage the the space craft itself. The first space missions only lasted for a few minutes, so of course there was no need for the crews to eat, but as missions became longer, astronauts had to be fed. Special ways of packaging and eating foods had to be invented for space meals. Scientists spend lots of time working on foods for space travel, to make sure astronauts stay fit, happy and healthy, so they can be at their best while they are in space. Options: Eat Astronaut Food. Freeze dried ice cream, or at places like Target, they sell Freeze dried fruit (strawberries, peaches, bananas, apple slices). Try them. Do the kids like them? Compare to fresh versions, which do they like better? Craft: Purple Paper People. Use purple paper to trace outlines of 2 people figures. Or paint white paper purple and trace and cute outlines of people figures. Paste onto white or black paper. Caption with Purple Paper People.
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Printables: Visit PreschoolPalace.org for alphabet tracer pages or any other ABC printables that you feel may benefit your review of the alphabet with your children.
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Circle time activity: Hot Potato. Use real potato or any item. 1. Gather children in a circle, sitting cross-legged. Explain the rules. 2. Have children name some things that are hot. Hand someone the potato, encouraging him or her to pretend that it is HOT and to catch and throw it as quickly as they can. 3. Call, Go! and play some music on an instrument or recording device that can be paused easily. Children begin to toss the potato around the circle, to the player next to them. 4. Stop the music! At this point, whichever child is holding the potato is "out." Throwing it after the music stops does not count. 5. Continue starting and stopping the music until all but two are "out." Last player to NOT be holding the potato when the music stops wins. 6. Repeat game. Then have children gather in circle for next game. Circle time activity: Hot and Cold Hide a teddy bear in the room when children are not looking and play the hot and cold game with hints to encourage children to find the hiding teddy bear. Cooking: Mama Bear Porridge Ingredients
3 cups water 1 cup powdered milk 1 1/2 cups rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 eggs 4 teaspoons butter 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons honey In a large saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Combine the powdered milk, oats and cinnamon; quickly stir into the boiling water. Return the mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the mixture is the desired thickness. Remove from heat and mix in the raisins and vanilla. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. The hot porridge will cook the eggs completely. Divide the porridge between 4 bowls. Top each one with a teaspoon of butter, 1/4 cup of milk , and drizzle with honey.
Craft: Beading station. Provide ABC beads, other beads, cord. Encourage children to bead an entire ABC chain. If that is too difficult. Make an ABC line with beads glued onto a board. Children can match up the letter beads to the board. Make name necklaces too.
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Sequencing. Grow a flower! Write the number of the sentence that goes with each picture.
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Trace the letter Y. Draw a line to connect the Y to the pictures that start with the letter Y. Color the pictures.
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My favorite game to play with my mom is________________. My moms favorite food is_______________________________. My moms favorite thing to do is_________________________. I love my mom because ________________________________.
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The zebra lost its stripes! Draw stripes on the zebra that lost its stripes.
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