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Distance Learning
For Miss Tracie’s Class
Maria Montessori School
| Monday, 3/30 | Tuesday, 3/31 | Wednesday, 4/1 | Thursday, 4/2 | Friday, 4/3 |
BALANCED LITERACY | | | | Go online to https://www.storylineonline.net/ Listen to the book Hey, That’s My Monster. Retell the story to an adult.. | Go online to https://www.storylineonline.net/ Listen to the book Hey, That’s My Monster. Imagine your own monster. Draw a picture and/or write about your monster. |
MATH | | | | Coins Have child work on naming coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter). Once the child knows the names of the coins (consistently can name the coins at random), work on learning the value of each coin. | Coin Sorting Put coins in center of table. Have child sort coins into containers.Reinforce coin names |
ENRICHMENT | | | | Please see Mr. Proffit’s Schedule | Please see Ms. Loomis’s Schedule |
| Monday, 4/6 | Tuesday, 4/7 | Wednesday, 4/8 | Thursday, 4/9 | Friday, 4/10 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /t/ and /m/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Observing in Nature Explore in your backyard or park. Walk around and enjoy your outdoor place. Notice any areas that might feel good to make your Sit Spot. This spot will be your place to sit each time you visit, observing and exploring. When you return, talk about the things you observed. | Journaling about Nature Sit quietly for 10 minutes. What do you See? Close your eyes. What do you hear? What do you feel? After 10 minutes, draw and write about it in your journal or fold a blank paper into four sections to make a 4 box job. In one box, write what you saw, in another what you felt, in another what you smelled, in another what heard. You can do one sense a day for 4 days, or all in one day. | Go to https://www.storylineonline.net/library/?search=elves%2520and%2520the%2520shoemaker Listen to the story. Draw a picture and/or write about how you could be a secret helper in your house. How would you help? | |
MATH | Non-standard units of measurement-choose something that you have multiples of: blocks of equal size, paper clips, feet (footsteps), dried spaghetti noodles, silverware Have child measure objects, length of room, width of table, etc. using non-standard units of measurement. (ex. The living room is 21 footsteps long. The hallway is 6 spaghetti noodles wide. The pencil is 5 paper clips long). | Measuring length/width/height with a measuring instrument:Ruler, yardstick, and/or tape measure Have your child measure various items around the house. Show them how they must have the beginning of the measuring instrument at the beginning of the object they are trying to measure. Show them how to look at the numerals to read the measuring instrument. | Measuring liquids with measuring cups/measuring spoons Measuring cups and measuring spoons, water, glass jars, milk jugs, other containers, sponge, bucket, dishtowel Let your child experiment with measuring liquids. They can do this activity in an empty bathtub or sink to catch spills or have them clean up spills with a sponge, bucket, and towel. | Count as high as you can with your child. Count to 100 and beyond.. | |
ENRICHMENT | Please see Ms. Lyon’s Art Schedule | Please see Mrs. Loomis’s Music Schedule | Please see Ms. Lyon’s Art Schedule | Please see Mr. Proffit’s PE Schedule | Please see Mrs. Loomis’s Music Schedule |
| Monday, 4/13 | Tuesday, 4/14 | Wednesday, 4/15 | Thursday, 4/16 | Friday, 4/17 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /b/ and /f/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Land/Water/Air Walk Go on a walk outside, and notice your surroundings. Think about the Land/Water/Air work in our classroom, and talk about examples of things or creatures you see that travel on Land or Water or Air. | Journaling about Nature Go on a walk outside, and notice your surroundings.Go home and fold a piece of paper into 3 sections. Label each section with L/W/A, and write or draw about what you saw, putting the items in the correct space. | Listen to Library Lion Talk about who the characters are and discuss the setting of the story. | Listen to Library Lion Draw and/or write about the problem and the solution in the story. |
MATH | Get four pieces of paper. Parent draw a circle, square, triangle, and rectangle, one on each paper. Have child name each shape. Discuss attributes of shapes: How many sides? How many corners? Is the shape flat( 2D) or solid (3D)? Are the edges straight or curved? | Get four pieces of paper. Have child draw a circle, square, triangle, and rectangle, one on each paper. Label the shapes. Have child search for shapes in the home and bring shapes to each paper to sort the shapes. Have child document what they found with pictures or words. | Watch 3D Shape Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A Find a cylinder, a cube, a sphere, and a cone in your house. What do you notice about the shapes? What are the differences between the 2D (flat) shapes and 3D (solid) shapes? | Make four labels: cylinder, cube, sphere, and cone. Have child find as many of the 3D(solid) shapes that you can around your home and sort items under labels. | Make two labels: 2D flat shapes 3D solid shapes Have child find shapes around the house or outside and sort under flat or solid shapes. |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 4/20 | Tuesday, 4/21 | Wednesday, 4/22 | Thursday, 4/23 | Friday, 4/24 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /a/ and /h/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Listen to The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERqm70Ykbcw Describe the setting (place) was like at the beginning of the story when the Once-ler first arrived in Thneedville. Retell the story. What happened? Then what happened? How was the setting different in the end of the Once-ler’s story? How is the story of Thneedville similar to the story of our Earth? | Listen to How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbUS3jPjyrc Make a poster titled Help the Earth. Draw and write about some things that people can do to help take care of our Earth. | Listen to Our Earth-Keeping it Clean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VlL0GRNsE Talk with your family about some ideas that you and your family can do to help the Earth. | Listen to Our Earth-Keeping it Clean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VlL0GRNsE Make a list of things you and your family are going to do to help the Earth. (draw or write). |
MATH | Watch the Recycling for Kids video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ7y_qQYUA Make labels that say paper, glass, metal, plastic Put each label on an empty grocery bag or box. This week, work on sorting recyclables into their appropriate places. | Continue collecting paper, glass, metal, and plastic, sorting recyclables into their appropriate places. Count how many items are in each category. Record the quantity. | Gather your recyclables. Count how many items are in each category. Make a graph showing how many items you have in each area: paper, glass, metal, and plastic. | Look at the graph that you made yesterday. Which items do you have the most of? Which items do you have the least of? Do you have any categories that have the same amounts? How many items did you collect in all? Put all of the items in the recycling bin. | Practice counting by 1s. (1, 2, 3, 4…) to 100 or beyond. Practice counting by 10s. (10, 20, 30…) Practice counting by 5s. (5, 10, 15. 20. 25…) |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 4/27 | Tuesday, 4/28 | Wednesday, 4/29 | Thursday, 4/30 | Friday, 5/1 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /c/ and /g/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Listen to this non-fiction book. Seasons Fold a piece of paper into 4 sections. Draw and/or write about something that happens in each season of the year. | Listen to this book. A Book of Seasons Go outside and notice your surroundings. What season are you in right now? Play outside or go for a walk in your neighborhood or in a park. Come home and draw or write about what you like to do during his season. Label your paper with the name of the season. | Listen to this book. What Makes the Seasons Think of a question you have about the seasons. What changes when the seasons change? Why do the seasons change? What is happening to the planet to make the seasons change? | Write down your own question about the seasons. Listen to the story again. What Makes the Seasons Write or draw about the answer if you find it in the book. |
MATH | Counting On Get a deck of cards. Remove face cards. Aces are 1s. Flip a card over. Count on from that number (if you flip a 5, count, “5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Count at least 5 numbers forward. Flip another card and count on (If you flip a 3, count, “3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). Repeat activity with 10 cards or until your child loses interest. | Making Tens Get a deck of cards. Remove face cards. Aces are 1s. Lay out 20 cards on the table. Remove sets of cards that add up to 10 | . Making Tens Get a deck of cards. Remove face cards. Aces are 1s. Lay out 20 cards on the table. Remove sets of cards that add up to 10.
Write equations for your pairs. example : 2+8=10 3+7=10 4+6=10 Keep your equations for tomorrow’s math game. | Go Fish Making Tens Get a deck of cards. Remove face cards. Aces are 1s. Play go fish for pairs that make ten. (“I have a 2. Do you have an 8 to make 10?” “I have a 4. Do you have a 6 to make 10?”) | Practice writing as many numerals as you can in order. |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 5/4 | Tuesday, 5/5 | Wednesday, 5/6 | Thursday, 5/7 | Friday, 5/8 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /i/ and /r/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Listen to the book Let’s Look at Spring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLUqY-6yfk Talk about what happens in spring. | Listen to the book Let’s Look at Spring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLUqY-6yfk Write three sentences using the prompt In the spring________________________________________________________. | Go on a walk in your yard or around the block. Check off your observations. What did you see? What did you hear? What did you smell? Count the number of items you checked. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/451345193909398268/ | Listen to The Listening Walk by Paul Showers. Go on a listening walk with your family. When you get home, draw a picture and write about what you heard on your walk. |
MATH | Greater Than, Less Than, Equal to Get a deck of cards. Remove face cards. Shuffle and divide the remainder of the deck between you and your child. Each of you flip a card. Take turns saying, “4 is less than 5,” “5 is greater than 4” or if two numbers are equal, say, “7 is equal to 7.” Repeat with the rest of the deck. | Gather 10 items (toilet paper rolls, empty water bottles, aluminum cans, etc.) to use as “bowling pins.” Set up “pins,” use a ball to roll and knock down pins. Write number sentences to record. For instance if you knock down 7 pins (10-7=3), if you knock down 4 pins (10-4=6). | Place Value Get a deck of cards and remove face cards. If your child is working on 0-9 make one pile of cards face down. If you child is working on 10-99, make 2 piles of cards face down. If your child is working on 3 digit numerals, divide your cards into 3 piles face down. If your child is working on 4 digit numerals, divide your cards into 4 piles. Flip one card from each pile to compose a numeral (ex. 6 or 42 or 723 or 9354). Have child read the numeral and write it. | Write the following numerals on a piece of paper: 4572 53 301 6915 8174 236 7 81 3 17 Have child practice reading the numerals. Place Value: Have child Trace units (ones) number in green Trace tens in blue Trace hundreds in red Trace thousands in green | Join in while watching video Let’s Get Fit-Count to 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc Make flashcards from 0-100. Save flashcards for future use. |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 5/11 | Tuesday, 5/12 | Wednesday, 5/13 | Thursday, 5/14 | Friday, 5/15 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /l/ and /d/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Listen to My Five Senses by Aliki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FW2jQqweOg Make a list of each of the senses. What do you hear? What do you see? What do you feel? What do you smell? What can you taste? | Listen to the book I Can Smell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIv9vsWyR8o Gather items: Blindfold or something to cover eyes, different items with interesting scents (ex. Ground coffee, essential oils, fresh orange, cinnamon stick, peanut butter, etc.) Blindfold child. Hold first item near their nose and tell them to smell. Ask them to guess what the smell is. Think of words to describe what you smelled. | Listen to “Guess the Sound Game.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1m4h79JZso Play the first sound and pause the video. Have your child draw and write what he/she thinks is making the sound.Play the video to see if their prediction was correct. Repeat with all sounds. | Listen to the book I Can Taste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccD5JUyBP-8&t=10s Introduce your child to the different tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Sweet (honey or sugar water) Sour (lemon juice or vinegar) Salty (salt water) Bitter (coffee or unsweetened baker’s chocolate) Glass of water Let them taste a small amount (1/8 t) of the first liquid. Ask your child what it tastes like. Tell your child, “That taste is called sour.” “Can you think of some other things that taste sour?” Have child take a drink of water between tastes.. |
MATH | Five Senses Math Sit still outside, silently. Just notice things. Notice what senses you are using. What can you hear, smell, feel, see or taste (the air) ? Fold a piece of paper into four. Write hear, see, feel, smell. Tally how many things you hear, see, feel, and smell. | Bingo You and/or your child make a bingo card for everyone who wants to play. Use the #s your child is working on. (ex. 0-9, the teens, 10-99, #s greater than 100) Write the same #s on little papers. Turn the little papers upside down. Pick a #. Put a coin, cheerio, etc. on that square. The first to get a row across, down, or diagonal shouts bingo! | Count & Toss Get 4 containers (buckets,large bowls, waste baskets, boxes, etc). Clothespin a # to each one. Kids try to toss the correct # of balls -or wadded up paper- into each container. | Make It Game Get 4 containers (buckets, big bowls,waste baskets, boxes, etc). Clothespin a “make it” paper to each container. Ex.-”make it 10”, “make it 5”, “make it 8”,” make it 14”. Put some balls (or wadded up paper) into each container. The child looks inside and decides whether to add or subtract balls in order to make the container equal to the # on the card. Help the child think about and write the equation after each one. | Beat the Clock Get 4 containers (buckets, large bowls, waste baskets, boxes, etc). Clothespin a # on each one. The child has to run and put that many balls (wadded up papers) in each container to beat the clock-only carrying 2-3 at a time. |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 5/18 | Tuesday, 5/19 | Wednesday, 5/20 | Thursday, 5/21 | Friday, 5/22 |
BALANCED LITERACY | Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /s/ and /k/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Watch this time-lapse video of a germinating bean seed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77zPAtVTuI Draw or write about what you saw. Use words such as first, then, next, and finally in your writing. | Listen to the book Plants Feed Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REhRZACd9Es Discuss: Why are plants so important to people? Look in your kitchen. Find some of the food in your kitchen that comes from plants.Write down some of the plants that you like to eat. I like to eat ________. | Listen to How a Seed Grows by Helene Jordan Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAt0N7mh454 You will need: A seed (dried beans or lentils from the grocery store work if you soak them overnight) A little cup or a pot Soil Plant your seed. Take care of , and put it in a sunny spot. Look at it each day. Number each day on a paper, and write down when you see changes. | Listen to the SciShow Kids video: How Does a Seed Become a Plant? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFPyue5X3Q&feature=youtu.be Discuss how a seed becomes a plant. What does a seed need to grow? |
MATH | Addition Beat the Clock Get 4 containers (buckets, large bowls,waste baskets, boxes, etc). Clothespin an addition problem to each one. The child has to run and put that many balls (wadded up paper) into each container to beat the clock- only carrying 2-3 at a time. They can write the equations at the end of the game. | Subtraction Beat the Clock Get 4 containers (buckets, waste baskets, boxes,large bowls, etc). Clothespin a subtraction problem to each one. Start with that # of balls (wadded up paper) in each container. Ex. 7-2 = would have 7 balls in the container, 5-3= would have 5 balls in the container. The child has to remove the allotted balls for the problem and see how many are left-and run across the room to beat the clock! They can write the equations at the end of the game. | Addition with cards Get a deck of cards. Remove the face cards. Flip 2 cards over and add them. Write the problems. | Subtraction with cards Get a deck of cards. Remove the face cards. Flip 2 cards over and subtract them. Write the problems. | Addition Fun This game resembles rock, paper, scissors. Tap closed fist onto flat hand and count 1, 2, 3. On the count of three extend a random number of fingers on hand along with your partner. Count how many fingers there are all together. This could be extended by writing out the equations. *This is easily adaptable to other operations as your child is ready. |
ENRICHMENT |
| Monday, 5/25 | Tuesday, 5/26 | Wednesday, 5/27 | Thursday, 5/28 | Friday, 5/29 |
BALANCED LITERACY | HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! | *BE SURE TO SEE SLIDES THAT FOLLOW FOR SOME FUN SUMMER IDEAS AND RESOURCES! Provide slips of paper or post-its with the sounds /o/ and /p/ written on them. Have a scavenger hunt to find items in your home that contain these sounds. Kindergarteners, write a list of items you found for each sound. | Listen to the book Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor. Go outside and see if you can find your rock friend! You can draw your rock and even tell/write about where you found it. Why did you choose this rock over the others? (This may be your secret!) | Listen to the book If You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian. Go outside for a walk with your family. (A park or forest preserve would be a great place for this!) Hunt for the different kinds of rocks in the book. When you get home, draw the different kinds of rocks you found. Where did you find each one? | What do you know about bubbles? Create a list. What do you want to know about bubbles? Create a list. Listen to POP; A book about bubbles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xClsveOgzA Make some bubble solution using dish soap and a little water. Use a wand, cookie cutter or your hand, wet with solution. Blow gently and see what happens. How many bubbles can you blow? What happens when you blow slowly? Quickly? Experiment and talk about what works and what doesn’t work |
MATH | HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! | Gather 100 small objects(pennies, beans, Legos, paperclips, etc.). Count the objects into groups of 10. Practice counting by 10s. | There are four butterflies sitting on a flower. Two butterflies flew away How many butterflies are left? Draw a picture to solve the word problem. Write the problem: ___ - ____ = ____ Butterflies | Mom plants 4 seeds. Dad plants 2 seeds. How many seeds did they plant altogether? Draw a picture to solve the word problem. Write the problem: ____ + ____ = _____ seeds | Blow as many bubbles as you can and count each one as you pop it. Bubbles can be counted as they are blown and popped. Created addition and subtraction equations. |
ENRICHMENT | HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! |
Activities for Summer Fun
Maria Montessori Early Childhood
DEVELOPMENTAL AREA | ACTIVITY | RESOURCE |
LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL | 1.Read, Read, Read! | Be sure to continue reading at least 20 minutes/day! |
LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE MOTOR | 2. Encourage your child to write. Meet your child where they are with writing. Kindergartners can write stories, keep a journal, or create books. |