Monday

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Information For Families

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The Early Childhood Team has developed two formats for you to choose from..

If you are able, please send one or two photos of your child via email to your child’s teacher that can be shared. We’re sure all the children would love to see their friends’ faces!

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Format 1:A Daily Slideshow that will give your child exposure to familiar songs and activities they see and hear daily at school. This powerpoint is very child friendly, press Go and let them watch. Click the day of the week below and open into a web browser.

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Tuesday

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Thursday

Format 2 W/Bonus Ideas: This is a guide for parents, with links and additional activities provided if your family is wanting more or if you do not have access to streaming videos.

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The first slide in the series is an overview of the stories available to your child daily as well as a menu selection of activities to go along with the theme. The stories and activities can be done in any order that you choose! Each story is a link to a video reading by one of the teachers and each activity on the grid links to another slide that has the directions for adults and links.

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We would love to have each child do one story and one or two activities per day but we know that isn’t always going to happen. You need to choose what works for your family during this difficult time. THE most important thing is for everyone to stay healthy and happy!

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Cookie’s Week Mrs. Ozanne

The Hiccupotamus Mrs. Wolf

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Pete the Cat:I Love My White Shoes Mrs. Jones

Paper Chain Book Log

3D Shapes

Outdoor Painting

Move with the Learning Station

Group 1 Review

All Things EC - Classroom Favorites!

Thinking of Solutions

How we do Journals

Click Here for Story Extensions this week

Duck! Rabbit! Mrs. Nellis

Little Quack's Bedtime Mrs. Baron

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Literacy Activity

Paper Chain Book Log

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• Celebrate the number of books read at home by creating a Paper Chain Book Log!
• Using a strip of paper, record the title of the book, and the date the book was read.
• Then, make the first "link." All you need to do is tape, glue, or staple the far ends of the paper strip together into a ring.
• Add one additional link for every book read.
• Challenge yourself to see how many

books you can read!

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Math Activity

3D Shapes

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• Identifying 3D Shapes are the next natural progression in the steps of development
• There are tons of ways to work on this skill!
• When using legos or building blocks talk about the shapes you are using to build or the structures you are building
• While taking a walk, point out 3D shapes that occur within the environment
• Try a scavenger hunt! Have images of the shapes you are looking for and hunt though your home or environment for those shapes

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Movement Activities

Indoor movement activity choices from

The Learning Station

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Art / Fine Motor

Sidewalk Chalk Painting

Directions

1. In a mixing bowl, combine the water and cornstarch and stir until the cornstarch dissolves and it is smooth. It will be kind of runny.
2. Divide the mixture evenly into the small plastic cups. Use the food coloring to make a different color paint in each cup.
3. Use paint brushes to paint pictures on the sidewalk or driveway outside. The mixture is thinner and runnier than regular paint, but just paint your pictures like you would with any other paint. The paint dries quickly, and it will resemble sidewalk chalk. The colors are very bright once they dry! It washes off very easily with rain or the hose.

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Materials Needed:

2 cups cornstarch. 2 cups water Food coloring small plastic cups paintbrushes

Grab a basket or small bag and go on a rock hunt around your neighborhood!

When you return home, have your child use various paints to decorate their rocks.

When they are dry, place them in your garden or share with family.

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Jolly Phonics

Group 1 Review

Monday and Tuesday

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Teacher Led Motions Video Group 5

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Home Study Page Group 5

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Wednesday and Thursday

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Teacher Led Motions Video Group 6

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Home Study Page Group 6

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2nd STEP

Thinking of Solutions

Coming up with several solutions is an important part of solving problems. Additionally, coping with other people's mean or unsafe behavior is very difficult for young children and often prompts strong feelings. Learning to calm down and speak assertively in response is an important skill for children.

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Watch this video lesson. Also, check out this home link about thinking of solutions and this one about speak assertively.

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Writing

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• Display children’s writing in a special place. Hang your child’s work on the refrigerator, a bedroom door, or a cork board; tape it to a bathroom mirror or tile. You will be telling your child that her writing is important and worthy of being shared. She will want to write more and more.
• Write in front of your child and talk about it. Whether writing a shopping list, thank you note, or e-mail; completing an application; or ordering from a catalog, explain what you are doing.
• Create greeting cards for special occasions. Provide paper and crayons or markers so children can make cards and then "sign” their names when finished. Show them old cards with phrases like "Happy Birthday,” "I Love You,” and "Season’s Greetings” to copy on their cards.
• Create an "office” for your child. Gather different kinds of paper, envelopes, pencils and pens, crayons, stickers, and labels. Place them on a shelf near a desk or table or in a basket your child can carry to a comfortable place for writing. Add interesting and exciting items like address and date books, calendars, or an old computer keyboard.
• Put writing materials in several places around the house. Provide pencils, crayons, or markers in coffee cans or baskets, along with a basket of small unlined pads, notebooks, or clipboards with paper. Place these collections in the bathroom, kitchen, or living room. Be sure to remind your child to write on the paper and nowhere else.
• Take it outside! Let your child write or draw with chalk or old paintbrushes and water on sidewalks and fences. Fill a backpack with writing tools and paper to take in the car or while doing errands.
• Encourage all writing efforts. Make writing an everyday part of your children’s lives at home! Remember, those first scribbles are important—they are the first step in learning to write. Source: Adapted from the Message in a Backpack for J. Strasser & L.M. Koeppel, 2008, "Supporting Writing in Preschool," Teaching Young Children 1 (3): 10–12

Young children like to scribble, make marks that look like letters, and play with writing. Chances are, your child will experiment with writing long before he or she learns to read. Here are some ways to help your child learn about and practice writing.

IDEAS:

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Music

All Things EC - Classroom Favorites

Throughout the school year…

we use songs and music to both enrich learning related to our thematic unit, as well as provide repeated practice with concepts related to language, literacy, math, science, and social studies. This week, we are sharing some of our students’ favorite songs!

While all these songs have been featured during our units, we hope you and your family will enjoy revisiting them!

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Classroom Favorites link allthingsec.com.

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Story Extensions

Duck! Rabbit! story extensions

Which is it? Family Survey

Optical Illusion Fun

Fun with Shapes (Google Slide activities)

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Little Quack’s Bedtime Story - Mrs. Baron

5 Little Ducks- How Many activity (use pin knaw then click “play”)

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