July 12-16, 2021 TEACHERS REBECCA AND NADIFA
UPDATES:
Head Start classes are continuing in the summer as regularly scheduled until the end of July/start of August when Teacher Rebecca will take some time off.
OPTION B classes with T. Rebecca:
NEXT Week 7/12-16: bring a ball/beanbag & a box or a basket to class every day. We will do moving exercises/games
Week 7/19-23: bring a tray of sand/dirt every day and a small Tupperware of water on Wed: we will feel, observe, and write our letters on our tray
Week 7/26-30: CLASS ONLY THURS & FRI 10:30-11 while T. Rebecca on vacation: I will do Home Visits on Thurs and Fri before and after class
Week 8/2-8/6: NO CLASS Mon-Wed/Teacher Rebecca on vacation
Thanks for sending us your absences from classes ahead of time if possible so we can start class and activities without lingering to wait for you.
At the Option B parent meeting, we talked about things we like to do in the summer: here is a link for free activities
-Get a free museum pass from Seattle Public library
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/arts-and-culture/museum-passed
Newsletter set to 7.5 hours of home learning a week.
Social Emotional
Breathing makes it better book:
SKILLS: conversation about feelings and vocabulary and practicing relaxation/self-regulation skills.
Language / Literacy
BOOK ONLINE:
Nature spy book video: watch this read aloud!
Watch teacher Rebecca finally read the story A Little House Of Your Own, which is a book she had when she was three!
WRITING PRACTICE: Have your children illustrate a favorite recipe with pictures and words or just letters for little kids. Are you making cupcakes for a party? They can draw the instructions before you begin! You will probably need oil, eggs, water. They can draw those ingredients and help you count the amounts!
Let’s build a rocket ship song: https://video.link/w/AJB3c
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Vocabulary/conversation practice
Art / Writing
Try drawing with crayons and painting over it with watercolor
First read a book:
Pete the cat and crayons: https://video.link/w/ladCb
SKILLS: motor skill of drawing, conversation skills, vocabulary PLUS # or letter recognition.
Math / Science
MATH: This week in class we rolled snakes to make the half circle sections of a lion’s hair/“mane”. You can help your child smash a circle, roll two dots for eyes, roll four small snakes for the nose, and 7-10 medium snakes for the half circles of the Lion’s hair
SCIENCE: do you see trees? How big are the trees by your house? Can you put your hand around it or both arms around it? For option B group science on Wednesday please go hug a tree and tell me how big and tall it is!
SKILLS: conversation, counting, observation and recalling details
Problem Solving
THINKING GAME: At the Option B parent meeting we talked a lot about thinking games. Thinking games can be fun things to do while you’re waiting, traveling, sitting around in a group…
-You can show your child a few different pictures and give them clues so they can guess which picture you’re showing them from a magazine or a book…
-You can show them three animals and hide one and see if they can tell you which one is missing?
-You can play concentration by cutting up a paper into rectangles and having your child draw colors, shapes, or number dots, or ABCs to match. Draw a big circles and your child can help you color ones to match yours. You draw a red one, they draw a red one! You make a letter a, they make a letter a. When you make five sets of cards you can start playing concentration:
- Turn over two cards at a time & if they match the person who turned them over gets to keep them! Then they can take another turn.
- If they don’t match turn them over and try and remember white is there. You can say the words aloud while you’re looking at them and then turn them over. “Red circle up, blue circle down“
- Choose two new cards and see if you can find more matches. In your next turn, do you remember where that other color might be?
SKILLS: describing things out loud & listening & taking turns, and recalling.
Movement / Play
Fun Backyard Games: https://www.prudentpennypincher.com/diy-backyard-games/
- Hang plastic buckets with handles or tin cans you tie string through on a pole/stick/branch. Can you get the balls in while the cans/buckets swing?
- Pool noodle game challenge: can you lift your legs high? http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2012/05/pool-noodle-backyard-obstacle-course.html
- Pool noodle or hula hoop obstacle course with tape: kind of like hop-scotch. Bring it to a party/the park! https://www.parents.com/fun/activities/outdoor/pool-noodle-backyard-games/#page=4
SKILLS: muscle practice & exercise and conversation and recall