Farm Animals

On Monday, we learned about fruits and vegetables that are grown on the farm.  The farmer harvests these foods and sends them by truck to the store.  Farmers raise animals on the farm as well. The animals provide food for us.

Movement: Watch this video.  Some of the animals in this video are farm animals and some are not.  After dancing like animals, see if you can pick out which animals you would find on a farm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSA5PvcV0_k&t=97s

Story:  I've got two stories that I'd like you to read today.  The first is Down on the Farm by Merrily Kutner.  This is a book about animals and the sounds that they make.  It's fun to make the animals sounds!  What's your favorite animal sound?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usaNJILopQI
The second book that I'd like you to read is Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhiIywoy4Eg  This silly book about sheep is filled with rhyming words.  See if you can find rhyming words on each page.  Have your grown-up write them down for you.  Can you think of more words that will rhyme with those that you found in the story?

Math/Fine Motor:  Have you ever heard of counting sheep?   It is said that when you can't sleep, you should count sheep.  Not real sheep of course, but sheep that you imagine in your head.  You can play this sheep counting game.  You are going to need something that can be sheep such as cotton balls or marshmallows.  You will also need dice or a spinner, tongs, and a cup.  Put the sheep on the table.  Roll  the dice or spin the spinner.  Identify the number and count that many sheep into your cup.  You must use the tongs to pick up the sheep.  Take turns if you are playing with someone.  When your cup is full, it's time to count how many sheep are in the cup.  At preschool, we learned to count by 10's when we counted the stickers that we put on the 10 frame during Group Meeting.  You can put the sheep into groups of 10 to help you count more quickly.  How many sheep were in your cup?

Letter Learning:  The sight word for today is "is".   See if you can make some farm animal sentences using the word is.  The cow is _____.  The pig is_____.  The duck is______.  Ask your grown-up to write these sentences for you.  Circle the word "is".

Here's a few pictures.  Keep smiling everyone!

Farm to Table

Hello!  I hope that everyone had a chance to look at the Art Show pictures last week.  I received many wonderful comments on the pictures.   The pictures are still at the preschool.  We will be handing them out to you in a few weeks.

This week, we will be learning about where our food comes from.  Watch and move to this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNL6RwymoNg&t=14s 

Think about what you had for breakfast this morning.  Where did that food come from?  I'm sure some of you are thinking that the food came from the grocery story such as HyVee or Walmart, and you would be right.  Do you know who the food got to the grocery store?  Most of the food that we eat is brought to the store from a farm.  Today's book is about how food gets from the farm to your table.

Story:  The book that I would like you to listen to today is Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson.  Here is a link to the book.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TBfFOTNTmo  Have you ever been to a farm?  Perhaps some of you have relatives that live on a farm.   There are many kinds of farms that grow many types of food.  In order for us to stay healthy, we need to eat food from all of the different groups of foods.  Foods can be grouped into fruits and vegetables, proteins, grains, and dairy.

Sorting:  The foods that I would like you to work with today are fruits and vegetables.  These are foods grow in the ground or on plants.  Try to find pictures of fruits and vegetables in magazines, newspapers, advertisement fliers, or if you don't have any of these, your parents might be able find some on the computer.  Cut out these pictures (fine motor) and sort (cognitive skills) them into groups.  What ways can we sort them?  By color?  By shape?  By type?  Grown below the ground or above the ground?  How many groups did you make?

Alphabet Game:  This is a game that you can play with a grown-up or older brother or sister.  Name a letter of the alphabet and think of a fruit or vegetable that starts with that letter sound.  How many can you think of for each letter?  For example: A apple, asparagus, avocado, artichoke, etc.

Art:  Vegetable painting is something that we have done at preschool.  If you have the supplies (paint and paper), you could try this with the vegetables that you have at home.  Potatoes, carrots, peppers and celery make good stampers.  Cut them and dip them in paint.  If you have a bunch of celery, cut the bottom section off.  This is the part that you usually throw away.  Dip the whole thing into paint and stamp it on paper.  The print will look like a flower.

Sight words:   Parents, last week, I mentioned that at this time of year, I would begin to teach the children a few sight words.  I would do this to show them that all of the letters that we had learned could be put together to make words that they can read.  My sight word for today is "see".  Print it on paper and help your child think of sentences that you can write using this word.  I see the car.  I see the ball.

Here are the pictures that I received last week.  Thank you for sending them.  I miss everyone and love seeing the smiling faces!  I have submitted the t-shirt faces to Classical Graphics.  I was told it would take approximately 2 weeks for them to be finished.  I'll let you know as soon as they arrive!

Art Show

Welcome to the Kindergarten Readiness Art Show!  

We hope that you will enjoy all of the beautiful art work.

You are also welcome to check out the 2 Day Preschool art work at redeemerpreschool2d19-20.blogspot.com

Eric Carle

Happy Wednesday!  The weather is supposed to be warmer today.   Are you keeping track of the weather this week?  On Monday, it was sunny and then turned cloudy.  Tuesday was sunny but cool.  Today is supposed to be sunny but as I look out my window, it's cloudy now.  I'm keeping track.  Before I get into today's activities, I want to let you know that Mrs. Smith and I will be doing special blogs tomorrow.  Your parents will be receiving an email about it today! 

Gross Motor/Movement:  Today, we are going to do a lot of movement.  We are going to start with the song Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.  We've done this at school before.  This video is a little different, but it's fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSdeIhmv6v0

Story:  The book that I'd like you to read or listen to today is Head to Toe by Eric Carle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIx72g0UdA  I'd like you to just watch and listen to this book first.  Then go back and listen to it again and do all of the motions that are in the book.  I know you can do them!  After you are finished with the book, I'd like you to get a piece of paper and print the letter Tt on it.  T is the first letter in the word toe.  Now, find something that you can use to collect things in such as a basket or box.  Now walk around your house and see how many things you can find that start with the letter T sound.  If you've forgotten the sound, your parents can help you.  When you are finished, line up the items on the table and count them.  How many things did you find?  Try another letter.

Art/Fine Motor:  Look at the gorilla that is on the front of the book Head to Toe.  How do you think Eric Carle made the paint look like fur?  Eric Carle used something to pull through the paint to make lines that would look like fur.  You can try this by putting paint on paper and find something to pull across the paint such as a comb or a fork or maybe your fingers.  If you don't have paint, try this.  Take a piece of paper outside along with a box of crayons.  Lay the paper on the sidewalk.  Rub the crayons on the paper.  You may have to take the wrapper off of the crayons and use the side of the crayon.  Try putting the paper on a tree and rub with crayons.  What does the paper look like?

Letter Learning:  Last week, we completed the alphabet for the third time.  That means that you have written the alphabet three times.  If we were still at school, we would be starting to learn to read a few words that we can make with the letters that we know.  One of the words that we would have learned is the word "me".  Your parent can print this word on paper and you can try to print it too.  Now, see if you can find this word in a book that you have at home.

Here's a few pictures that I received this week.  I've included my cloud picture as well.  What do you think it looks like? I think the curves at the top look like two birds that are touching beaks together.