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Learning from home week of March 30

THIS WEEK'S THEME- PLANTS

~Friday~


*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




 

~Thursday~
 
*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.

 

~Wednesday~

*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
 

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

 

Week of March 30

Monday 

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

 

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