PreK-2: Gina Stabile

Learning from home week of April 6th

Monday 
Greetings Pre K 2 Families, 

I hope you are all well and safe! We will now be using Seesaw starting Monday, April 6th. I sent you all a link of how to set up your child's account. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to continue to email me. If you can not get your child on seesaw please email me as well. You will also need to download seesaw class as well. Continue to stay safe and well. Ms. Stabile 

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Friday, April 3rd

Dramatic Play
Be an animal in the FARM! Have your child chose their favorite farm animal to become. Talk to them about the animal. How would the animal look or sound? What would they eat? Have them act them out. Have them try to dress up as the animal. Use whatever you have at home! Watch the video below with your child to get some ideas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgTgpqtwns

Math
Food and Plant Memory
Print the pictures below twice, and play a memory a game. If you do not have access to a printer you can have child illustrate the food/plant and they can create their very own memory game.

Science
Growing Races
Plant multiple seeds in separate containers. Ask children to predict which one will grow fastest. Use a chart to record their predictions. Invite children to monitor and compare the growth daily.

Art 
Flower name craft 

Your child will create a flower out of construction paper by cutting little squares to represent the letters in their name and then they will write the letters in the little squares. 

Block Play 
A Walk in the park! 
Have your child build a park with any blocks you may have at home.Have your child add plants they have made in their park. Watch the YouTube video below to share how to make flowers out of tissue or construction paper! 
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=tZOHZ1_N790

Literacy 
Flash Cards 
Have your child create flash cards using the vocabulary words. Either you or your child can print the word and then have them draw the picture witch represents the vocabulary word.

Book of the Day 
 

Flower Garden 
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=imTPofpRhVo

Music and Movement
https://youtu.be/yMeGv
S0x0kM




 

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Thursday, April 2nd 
Dramatic Play 
Let's go to the Farmers Market? 
After the children have harvested their fruits have them sell it! Have your child use whatever materials you may have at home(artificial fruit, real fruit or paper made fruit) and pretend to sell fruit. The children can sort the food by color or size. They can use baskets to display the fruit. With support they can label the fruit and put prices. This is a great way to practice their letters and numbers! See some examples below.

Use the link below for free fruit and vegetables labels for your farmers market!!
https://happyplaybox.com/product/printable-farmers-market/
Block Play 
Build a Farm!
Use blocks, legos or any materials you may have at home to create your farm. If you do not, have your child draw a few farm animals and cut them out. Then, add them to the farm they created!

Literacy 

Have your child make a flower for each letter of their name. Let them print the letters in the center of each flower. When the flowers are ready have your child arrange the letters to spell their name. You may adjust the game by using other words such as the weekly vocabulary words(see Monday'a literacy activity) 
Art
Parts of a flower craft 

Science 
Compare and Contrast:
Provide several types of seeds and invite your child to compare and contrast them. This can also be done with leaves, flowers or other plant parts. 
Math 
Seeds in a strawberry: Cut out several paper strawberries. Add a number to each one and ask your child to put the appropriate number of seeds on each strawberry. This can also be implemented with another type of fruit or by putting petals on a flower, leaves on a plant etc. Encourge your child to write their own numbers.
http://youtu.be/yjzjOqNKSvo
 

Book of the Day 
Ten Red Apples 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=rzR57dI-7FE
Music and Movement
Dance to your favorite song and put on a mini show for your family.

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Wednesday, April 1st 

Dramatic Play 
Go gardening!
Turn a space in your home into a garden. Add seeds, pretend fruit and vegetables, flowers, trees, etc, as well as tools such as gardening gloves, planting pots, trowels, hand hoes, watering cans, etc, whatever you have available. Invite your child to create labels for the garden. Children can pretend to plant and harvest in the garden. 


Block play 
If you are able to go, on a nature walk with your child and collect sticks, branches, rocks, or leaves. Use these materials and blocks to create a landscape. Use any blocks you have at home. 

Math 
Basket of Apples 
Create or illustrate two baskets of apples. One basket should have five and the other should have two more apples in it. Identify which has more or less. How many apples are in the second basket. 

Science 
Where Does This Plant Grow? Memory Match Game 
Supply pictures of variety of types of plants as well as pictures of the landscapes in which each type plant grows. Invite children to match the plant  to its habitat. For example, include a cactus and desert scene, seaweed scene, seaweed and an ocean scene, a palm tree and a beach scene. This can be used as a memory game. 
Art
Milk Carton Cap Flower 
Make a spring or summer flower out of caps from milk carton containers. 
This design will work well with any caps as long as they are all the same size. You could use bottle caps or the caps from juice containers. Even the lids from frozen juice cans would work. 
Materials:
7 milk carton caps
glue 
construction paper or card stock 
Optional: paint and paintbrushes 
Instructions: 
Optional: paint your caps. If your caps you have chosen are already colorful you can skip this step. 
Arrange your caps on paper before you glue them. This way your experiment with the colors and flipping some caps over. Flip the middle cap over to give the middle of your a different look then all the petals. 
Once you are happy with your arrangement glue all the caps to the construction paper or card stock.


Glue the remaining six caps and give it time to dry but you could use hot glue if you have adult supervision.
Literacy 
Plant Encyclopedia 
Create a plant encyclopedia with pictures and names of assortment of plants that may be familiar to the students. Children can draw and label pictures of plants that are near the places that they live or on their way to school, or they can focus on other plants they find interesting. 

Book of the day:
The Tiny Seed 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6wTeTcKA
Music and Movement
http://youtu.be/OxrUgwVbqoM
 

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Tuesday, March 31st 

Dramatic Play 
Create a tree!  
Use any kind of materials you may have at home to make any size tree you want. Then have your child explain what a tree is and explain the different parts of it? Ask them why it is an important plant? Explain that there are different types of trees. Some that give us fruit. Have them chose what kind of tree they want to create. Example; if they want to make an apple tree, have them add apples to their tree. 

Block Play 
Container Gardens
Use a shoebox or any other box you may have handy at your home for your child to use as a container for their garden. They can use the plants they created on Monday during the Build Plants activity to create a container garden. Children can choose the focus of the garden(herbs or succulents, for example) according to their interests. If desired, children can add a name label for their garden. They can also decorate their "garden shoebox" using paint, crayons and markers.

Math 
Seed Patterns 
Ask your child to illustrate seed patterns, or you can print the picture below and have your child make patterns using the images. Explain that a pattern is made up of a core unit that repeats.( for example, red, blue.... red, blue....red, blue) 


http://You.be/OoHClaFpwSw

Science
Plant Life Cycle Book 
Provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Ask children to sequence the pictures. Provide pictures or diagrams for children to refer to as they play and talk with them about each stage in the life cycle. 
The children can create a book about the life cycle of a plant. 

Art
Handprint Tulips 
Materials you will need for the tulip are
white paper(we use construction or computer paper) 
green finger paint and red finger pain(or pink, white or yellow) 
Instructions: 
Dip the forearm(from elbow to the wrist) in green finger paint. If you don't have a tray big enough to accommodate this, just paint the finger paint onto the forearm with a paintbrush.
Press the arm down 3 or 4 times into a sheet of white paper(construction paper works great!) to make the stems of the tulips. 
Now dip the hand(excluding the thumb) into red finger paint and stamp on top of the stems( holding the thumb up) to make the tulips flowers. 
Keep the fingers close together. 
You can add fingerpaints green stems, thumbprint green grass, thumbprint caterpillars and thumbprint butterflies.
See the fingerprints crafts section or ideas on how to make a variety. 

Literacy 
Author Study: Lois Ehlert
Discuss with your child that you are going to listen to different stories by the same author. Growing Vegetable Soup, Planting a Rainbow, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf) Encourage your child to explore the books and provide reactions to them. Which did they like best and why? What did they think about the books? What do they think about the illustrations? This activity can be spread throughout the day and week. 
Planting a Rainbow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuSqiFUypQ
Growing Vegtable Soup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTCSbPgZZgM
Eating the Alphabet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7BdF3F8f-o&t=6s
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0D21Hlyi8

Book of the Week: We Plant A Seed 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxI6Kiy7NPI

Monday, March 30th 
 
Dramatic play: 
Create a flower market! Have your child pretend play with the sources provided below. You can also use fake or real flowers you may have in your house. If you do not have either have the children draw some!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G0zyGUXkyHT5d4jmsGHJeJnHgY4Dc18S/view

Math:
Click on the link below to listen to, Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins. Cut out small apples from paper about the size of the apples in the book. Ask your child to use them as they read or retell this story. Count the apples in the story and create your very own apple tree. Write  the number of apples that are in your tree.
https://youtu.be/rzR57dI-7FE
Literacy: 

To expand language, introduce your child to thefocus vocabulary words for the week. Identify the words and use them in conversations with your child. This can be an ongoing activity throughout the unit.  Your child may also try printing some of the vocabulary words.  

Vocabulary:
botany, branch, bud, bulb, dirt, flower, food, fruit, grow, leaves, nutrients, petals, plant, pollen, rain, roots, seed, seedling, soil, sprinkler, sprout, stem, sunlight, trunk, vine, water, watering can

Science:
Observe Seeds:
Provide an assortment of seeds from fruits and vegetables the children are familiar with. Place them in specimen jars or small, sealable plastic bags. Invite children to observe and write or draw their observations. Talk with the children about the types of seeds and children’s experiences with the fruits and vegetables throughout the activity. As the plants grow, children can draw and write about the life cycle of the plants.

Block play:
Build Plants: Wrap blocks in green and brown paper (and other colors as desired) and have your children use them to create stems, tree trunks, soil etc. You can use paper, scissors and tape for children to use to create leaves, flowers etc. to add to their plants. Use the picture provided below to give the children some inspiration for their flower creation. As children create their plants talk with them about the parts of the plants and types of plants they are creating.

Art:
Coffee filter flowers
The children can create flowers by using coffee filters and construction paper

*Dandelion Seed Paper Craft
The dandelion is a color, cut and paste paper template craft with a twist.  Toothpicks and a torn up cotton ball become the dandelion seed fluffs!
The craft goes very well with the children's book The Dandelion Seed
Materials:
* paper,
* something to color with,
* scissors,
* glue,
* flat toothpicks,
* cotton ball
* Option:  instead of toothpicks and a cotton ball you could just q-tips -- though we found the flat toothpicks easiest to glue onto the paper

Book of the day:
Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qhb1Jpow4

Music/Movement:
https://youtu.be/MFmr_TZLpS0

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Friday 

Dramatic Play:
Wash Wash your hands!
Speak about the importance of hand washing!
Some important tips:  
Children need to know that you should wash your hands

 after being outdoors or getting your hands dirty
after using the bathroom
 after touching animals
 before and after touching food
 after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose. 
For a simple handwashing lesson, have your child:
Wash hands in warm water.
• Use soap and lather up for about 20 seconds. Get in between the fingers and under the nails. Wash the wrists, too.
• Rinse hands.
• Dry well with a clean towel.
• Hand washing to sing with your children as you practice!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHJW4r3elE&vl=en  

Block Play:
Finally add a light house . See picture and light on how to create one.https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/lighthouse-art-for-kids/

Literacy: 
Islands:
Search for images of aerial views of Manhattan, Long Island, Staten Island, Roosevelt Island and other local islands. Talk with children about the relationship between water and islands as well as the islands in the New York City area.  Have your child create their own island and create a short story about their island. 

Math: 
Shape and number review:
Draw all the shapes you could remember identity the shape, count and write the number of shapes you drew.
Can you make a fish using different shapes? Take a picture of your creation and send it to your teacher.
Math activities and reinforcement
https://youtu.be/dg0cQtVisLw https://youtu.be/EkS9ExsfKfc 

Science:
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/color-changing-carnations
http://www.science-sparks.com/colour-mixing-food-colouring-water/
Art: 
Ice Cube Painting:
Make colored ice cubes out of water and food coloring. Insert a Popsicle stick or tooth pick into the water as it freezes to create a handle for children to hold while painting. Children can then use the colored ice paint. Before they begin painting, ask them to predict how the paints will work and what will happen as they use them.

Music and movement: https://youtu.be/PXvh08Mnork https://youtu.be/j24_xH5uvdA

Book of the day  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uRe0w_RBw

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Thursday
Dramatic Play:
Let's go fishing!
Use the same laundry basket or any boat you created earlier in the week to "go fishing." Have your children create a fishing rod with any object that is long and skinny. You can take it a step further and make fish with either letters or numbers and have them go fishing for them. Have you child identify the letters or numbers as they catch them. See picture below for an example.

Block Play:
Add fish to your block ocean! 
See video to make paper fish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVCI08KrOO8

Science:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gFI3pMvoI

Literacy:
Have your child watch the video for Stone Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGs-euvPhw
Discuss what they would put in
their own stone soup, then supply paper for them to record their recipes.

Art:
https://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-science-experiment.html

Math:
Let’s review shapes Create a picture using different shapes for example make a house using a square and a triangle. Identify each shape
Math story and reinforcement
https://youtu.be/ NjSzfrn5AHk

Music and movement:
Dance to your favorite song
https://youtu.be/ Hl5dRW4E9hc

Book of the day;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApleQgO4jHw

Gary and Harry-
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 Wednesday 
Dramatic Play: 
Turn your child's room or your living room into a beach! 
You can speak to your child about sunscreen and its importance when it is very sunny out. Also, you can have a discussion about water safety.

Block play: 
Add a bridge to cross the ocean. Have your children use any blocks they may have at home and any cars they may have to cross the ocean. See video below for an example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c793Obll6AI

Math:
Go on a shape hunt in your house. What shapes did you find? Take a picture and send it to your teacher.
Math story and reinforcement
https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=AnoNb2OMQ6s
https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=GysjOAZzvz0

Literacy:
Writing sensory bag
How to make a writing sensory bag
* Large zip lock bag
* Shaving cream 
* Q-tip
* Examples of letters or words for your child to copy. 
There isn’t anything fancy when it comes to making one of these sensory writing bags. Obviously the size of the bag matters to how much shaving cream you use, Be sure to use enough to have it completely cover the surface of the bag.  Then remove the air and seal the ziplock bag completely. Your child can use a Q-tip to write letters or words.  You can also add food coloring to the shaving cream.

Music and movement
https://youtu.be/ fpD9kRyBn8o
Complete gross motor activity on gonoodle..com

Science:
Rain in a Bag
Materials needed:  ziplock baggies, soil, spoon, grass (pulled from outside), water, clear tape, masking tape, marker
Have the child tear a piece of masking tape off the roll and stick it on the baggie.  
The child then prints their name on the tape.
The child scoops a few spoonfuls of soil into the baggie.
They add a small handful of grass.
They pour one spoonful of water over the grass.
Place a straw in the bag.  (Most of the straw will be out of the baggie!)
Seal the bag around the straw.
Fill the bag with air by having the child (or you can do this part!) blow into the straw.
Pull the straw out of the baggie and seal all the way, keeping the air inside.
Tape the bag to a window that is sunny.
They should see condensation begin to form and eventually it will drip/roll down the baggie into the soil, causing "rain" to water the plant.

Art:
Ice Marble Painting
Materials needed:  shallow trays or box covers, white paper, cornstarch, water, food coloring, small water balloons and a hand pump (like a hand soap pumper).
Make several colors of water.  
Mix equal amounts of water and cornstarch.
Fill balloons with it and tie off.  (Use the hand pumper to get the solution into the balloons)
Freeze.
Once frozen, remove the balloons and let sit at room temp until they begin to melt.
Place white paper in the shallow trays or box covers.
Add a few Ice Marbles and let the children move the tray/box cover around to make the marble move around on the paper for a cool design.  NOTE:  If you use a LOT of food coloring, the colors will still come out a pastel color.
I morphed this and just froze water colored with lots of food coloring in the balloons and the colors were much more vibrant.

Book of the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uWxI0GOQdQ

All the water in the world
 

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Tuesday 

Dramatic play

Pretend play- Create your own Laundromat or laundry room!
Children can pretend play by washing doll clothes or their own clothes. See video below for some ideas. Children can also help you do laundry. :0) 

https://youtu.be/g1d2gsUUPgQ

Blocks

Add sand castles to surround the ocean, see link below for activity

https://www.crafts-for-all-seasons.com/sandcastle-craft.html

Math

Using bean, pasta or any object around the house, count write and illustrate to show the quantity.

Math story and reinforcement
https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=7e6SCpjTSxc
https://youtu.be/ B3mIG7ECzHQ

Literacy

Stuck in the Rain:
Have your child draw, dictate or write a narrative of a time they got caught in the rain or snow and how they felt about the experience.

Music and movement
Count how many you can do in one minute. Hop in place Jumping Jacks Push up
Complete gross motor activity on gonoodle..com

Science
Wave Bottles
Children use a funnel to pour a cup full of baby oil (or cooking oil) into a clear plastic bottle. They fill the bottle the rest of the way with water. We give the liquid a chance to settle, then add a few drops of blue food coloring. It’s fun to watch the blue as it drops through the oil and “explodes” into the water. Last, we add plastic “fish” (sequins), and make waves by turning the bottle sideways and rocking it gently.

Art
Glow Painting
I saw  this done once and it was beyond cool!  The teacher made a block of ice (she made several using small, clear bins that you store toys in!).
At the art table, she placed short, flat flashlights on the table, turned on, facing up to the ceiling.
She then place a clear bins over the flashlights.
She then placed a block of ice on each bin.
She provided the kids with paint brushes and cups of watered down paint that had salt mixed in.
She turned off the lights and let the kids paint!

Book of the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ddcXDMTfM

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Monday 

Art, Science, literacy and Fine Motor
Your child can create a diorama water scene using a shoebox or some  cardboard.  This activity could be done step by step each day and take the week to create.   I will give some examples but it can be as simple or elaborate as your child would like it to be.  Please use supplies you have in your home.  

When your child has finished, create a story.  Ask your child questions about their creation and print what they tell you so you can attach it to their project. 

Literacy: 
Letter Ice:
Give your child an ice cube and a piece of paper.  Encourage them to use the ice cube to print letters on the paper. Provide pictures of letters for them to reference as they work. Talk about the sounds that the letters make.

Story:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4XqZBPMnW6I.   

Math:

Set Set the table for a meal. Count the number of forks, knives, and spoons. Write the amount of objects that are on the table. Take a picture of the set table and send it to your teacher.

Math story reinforcement https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=oqTMKcJ9zjA
https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=jTNHHMVsq7I

Music / movement:
Choose a song and make up a dance. Perform the dance for your family. Teach them some of the moves.
https:// m.youtube.com/ watch? v=XqZsoesa55w

Blocks: 
Mamake the ocean! Use a blue blanket, towel or construction paper under your blocks to portray the ocean then add any block or ocean animals you may have. See example below

                      Dramatic play:
Make a sailboat! See pictures below for some examples

Have your child pretend they are going sailing.  

                                 Art 
                            Sponge boats 

 https://preschoolinspirations.com/rain-cloud-   suncatcher-craft/

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More home links you may do with your child 
http://www.schools.nyc.gov/learning/learn-at-home/early-childhood  

some additional resources you can do with your child 

The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! 
https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/

Play games and learn all about animals
https://switchzoo.com/

Play with fave show characters and learn too 
https://pbskids.org/

 Phonics skills
 https://www.starfall.com/h/

 Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss https://www.seussville.com/

300,000+ FREE printable worksheets from toddlers to teens https://www.123homeschool4me.com/home-school-free-printables/

Geography and animals
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Fave kids books read by famous people 
https://www.storylineonline.net/

Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc,
  https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/

Math and reading games 
https://www.abcya.com/

Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities  
https://www.highlightskids.com/

Math as a fun part of your daily family routine 
http://bedtimemath.org/

Digital learning content for preschool through high school https://www.curriki.org/

Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.  https://www.gonoodle.com/

hope everyone is safe and well. Remember if you have any