Christmas Day Three - Olive the Other Reindeer

Reading
Preparation
Get book Olive, the Other Reindeer
Get a wand.  I use a craft stick with a star on the end.
Materials
Book
Wand
Teaching
1. Read book to your child.
2. Turn to a page in the book and use your wand to point out letters in the words, words in the sentence, spaces between words, punctuation at the end of the sentence.
3.Hand over the wand and have your child point out letters, words, spaces, punctuation, etc.

Phonics
Preparation
Book Olive, the Other Reindeer
Materials
Book
Marker or wand
Teaching
1. Show child page in the book.
Make it a game to find the following words: "the, of, is, and" (these are called high frequency words so we want to teach our children to memorize them)

2. Use the marker to circle the words, or the wand to point to the words.

Writing
Preparation
Using large dotted line paper (you can have a word doc copy of my paper I print out by emailing me at amyiswrite@gmail.com) write a capital "O" on the first line and a lower case "o" on the second line.
On the following lines write: l_ck, r_ck, d_g, f_g, h_g, h_p, m_p, d_t, h_t, p_t
Materials
Teaching

1. Teach child correct formation of letter "O" both upper-and lower case.

2. Have child write the letter "O" in the open space of each unfinished word to create a new word.

3.Read the new word created.

4. On a separate piece of paper write "I would help Santa by" and let child complete the sentence verbally.

5. Write what child said on paper, then have child illustrate the sentence.

Math
Preparation
Cut out 5 Christmas trees out of green paper.  Using Christmas stickers place 1-4 stickers on each tree. Write the number 5 on each tree.
Materials
Trees
Stickers
Teaching
1. Tell your child these trees don't have enough ornaments on them.  They each need 5 ornaments. 
2. Have your child add the remaining number of stickers to each tree to make 5 ornaments on the tree.

Exploration
Preparation
For exploration this week we are doing kind things for others. We visited and sang in a nursing home.


Art
Preparation
Prep materials
Materials
Brown piece of paper
white piece of paper
child safety scissors
markers
glue stick
Teaching

1. Trace, or have your child trace their foot on to the brown piece of paper.
2. Have your child trace their hands on to the white piece of paper.
3. Have your child cut out hand and foot prints.
4. Have your child glue hand prints to footprints to create a reindeer head and antlers.

5.Have child draw a nose and eyes to finish reindeer face.