Space -Day 1

Reading Core Standard Reading # 4, 5, 6
Preparation
Write the following words on 3x5 cards or strips of paper:
Galaxy, milky way, planet, constellations, Solar System, universe, orbit, rotate, Earth
Materials
Stars, Stars, Stars by Bob Barner
Me and My Place in Space by Joan Sweeney
Words

Teaching
1. Read the books, point to the words that you have written on the paper strips.
2. After reading ask your child what each of the words means.
3. Define the words together.  You can review what the book said about the words if you need to.
4.  Hold up each word, and have your child define it.

Phonics Core Standard Phonics 2b
Preparation
Use same word strips from last activity
Divide a piece of paper into 4 sections.  Number each section 1-4.
Materials
Strips used in Reading activity

Teaching
1. Segment each word into their syllables ("ga-la-xy").
2. Count the syllables in the word ("ga-la-xy" - three syllables)
3. Place the word in the corresponding column on your segmented paper (galaxy goes under 3 because it has 3 syllables)

4. Cover all but the first syllable in the word.  Sound it out together ("ga")
5. Repeat for other syllables.("la," "ksy")
6.  Blend syllables together (Galaxy)
7.  Repeat for remaining words.

Writing Core Standard 1.a.
Preparation
Materials
Computer

Teaching
1. As you read books this week keep an ABC book of words that you learned about space.
2. Help your child type words into computer to form an ABC book.
3.  Have your child find pictures on Internet, or print out pages and have your child draw pictures for each letter.
**You'll be working on this book a little each day, don't try to finish in one day, in fact it may take other sessions through out the day to complete the book.**

Our ABC List:

A- Astronomer
B - Bright
C- Constellation
D - Distance
E- Earth
F - Far
G- Galaxy, gravity, Ganymede
H - Hot, huge
I - Io, iron
J - Jupiter
K - Kirkwood Gap (we needed help on this one!)
L - Light, life
M - Milky way, Mars, Mercury, Moon
N - Neptune
O - Orbit
P - Planet
Q - Quick
R - Rotate, rings
S - Solar System, sun, stars, Saturn
T - Titon, telescope
U - Universe, Uranus
V - Venus
W - Water
X - X Marks the spot (I know , we had to stretch it for X! What did you use?)
Y - Years
Z - Zero, Zenith

Math Core Standard - Operations and Algebraic Thinking 1, 3,5
Preparation
Cut out two sets of 8 circles out of paper and label them with the name of each planet and the number distance from the sun (Mercury - 1, Venus -2 , Earth -3, Mars - 4, etc)
Materials
Paper Planets
2 Dice
Teaching
1. Place one set of planets in front of each player (probably you and your child).
2.  Have someone roll the dice.  They use the roll to take a planet out of their solar system.  So, if they get a six and a five.  They can take planet six and five out of their solar system.  If they roll a one and a four they can take planets one and four out of their solar system or planet five out of their solar system.
3.  Take turns.
4.  If a player roll a number that they cannot use, it is the other player's turn.
5.  If all numbers are rolled except one, that player can roll both dice, one at a time to try to get the number one.
You can watch how we play here

Exploration
Preparation
Make a black mark on the ball
Materials
Small ball (size of a baseball)
Flashlight

Teaching
1.  Shine the flashlight on the ball.
2.  Point out the flashlight is the sun, the ball is earth.
3. Point the flashlight at the ball.
4. Half the ball will be in the light of the flashlight, half in dark.  This is like the day and the night.  Rotate the ball.
5. Show your child the spot going from the light (day) to the dark (night).

Three Little Pigs - Day 2

**We're starting with Art because we need the puppets for Reading**

Art

Preparation

Cut 6 elongated ovals out of pink paper

Cut 2 elongated oval out of gray or brown paper

Cut six triangles out of pink paper
Cut two triangles out of gray or brown paper
Put two ovals together, tape around the edges to create a finger puppet.  Repeat with remaining ovals until you have 3 pig finger puppets and 1 wolf finger puppet

Draw elongated ovals

Cut out

Tape two ovals together

Cut out small triangles

Materials
Finger puppets
Markers
Glue
Teaching
1. Have your child glue ears on each puppet.
2. Have your child draw a face on each puppet.  They can also draw other details such as clothes, etc depending on their interest. 

Reading
Reading Core Standard Key Ideas and Details 2
Preparation
Get puppets together
Materials
Three Little Pigs book (James Marshall has a good book)
Puppets
Teaching
1. Read The Three Little Pigs to your child.
2. Have your child retell the story using the puppets to retell the story.

Phonics Core Standard Phonological Awareness 2.e.
Preparation
on separate, small pieces of paper write the following "p," "i," "g," "r," "a," "s" "t," "h"
Materials
Papers with letters
Teaching
1. Place the letters "p" "i" "g" in front of your child.  Have your child sound out the word.
2.Say, "We are going to turn a pig into a hat!"

3. Have child sound our "pig" again.  Say, "Change a letter to make "rig."
4. Change a letter to make "rag."
5. Change a letter to make "sag."
6.  Change a letter to make "sat."
7. Change a letter to make "hat."

Writing Core Standard Text Types and Purposes 1
Preparation
Materials
Markers
Paper
Teaching
1. Have child draw their favorite pig house.
2.Have child write why this is their favorite pig house.

Math Core Standard - Counting & Cardinality: Count to tell the number of objects 4.a.,b.,5Compare Numbers 6
Preparation
Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper
Materials
Paper

Small items (chocolate chips, we used puffed corn)

Teaching

1. Have your child take two handfuls of the treat and place each handful on one side of the sheet of paper.

2. Have your child count and write the number of items on each side of the paper.

3. Ask, "Which side has more?" Which side has less?"

4. Do this a few times with your child to practice counting and comparing numbers.

Exploration

Preparation

Materials

Craft Sticks

Glue

Teaching

1. Build a stick house together with your child. Talk with them about how to make walls and a roof.

2. Use the glue and craft sticks to build the house.

Three Little Pigs - Day One

Reading Core Standard Key Ideas & Details 3 - Characters, setting, Major events; Craft & Structure 5 - Recognize common types of text & 6 - Author and illustrator and role of each
Preparation
Divide four pieces of paper into five sections each
On Top of first section write: Who, second section: Where/When third section: What, Fifth section: Why.
On first piece of paper write Pig One with a picture of Pig One

Second piece of paper write pig 2 with picture of pig 2
Third piece of paper write Pig 3, with picture of Pig 3
Fourth Piece of Paper write Wolf with picture of wolf
Materials
Book: Three Little Pigs, I used the books by James Marchall and Margot Zemach, but there are dozens to choose from
Divided sheets
Markers
Teaching
1. Read The Three Little Pigs. Before opening the book, point out the title, author and illustrator.  Tell your child this is a storybook.
Here is how I pointed out author, title, etc:

2. Fill out a  divided paper for each character.
3. Tell your child who the character is. Make sure to use proper terms (character)
4. Ask where the pig was (city, forest, etc). Have your child draw a picture or write a word describing where the story takes place
5. Ask when the story happened (night, spring, look at details in pictures for clues).  Have your child draw or write in the column to summarize when the story takes place.Say, "This is the setting; when and where the story happens is the setting."
6.  Ask What pig 1 did. Have child draw or write in the "What" column what Pig 1 did.
7.  Ask why Pig 1 did what he did.  Have child draw or write in last column why Pig one did what he did.
8.  Repeat for remaining characters. 
**Learning takes place on a spectrum from teacher directed (you telling, doing, child listening) to teacher-child (doing project together) to independent (Child doing learning all on his own).  You can do this project, and any lesson, for that matter, along this spectrum.  If you need to direct more, then you fill out the papers.  I set up this lesson as a teacher/child to be done together, but gauge your child's abilities and teach accordingly**

Phonics Core Standard Print Concepts, Common High Frequency words
Preparation
On computer write your own, very simple, short Three Little Pigs story, or use mine (email me amyiswrite@gmail.com)
Materials
Book
Highlighters ( I use light colored markers)

Teaching

1. Starting on page one, word one, say, "This is the first letter of the first word we are going to read.  We always start here,on the left side of the page when we read or write.  This letter makes a sound.  We put it together with the other letters next to it and it tells us a word! 
2. Have your child tell you the sound of each letter. Put the sounds together to form the word. Underline the word in green.  Read the word.
3. Say, "This space next to the word tells us the word is done." Color the space red.

4. Repeat for each word on the page.
5. Say, "We read a sentence!" Underline the sentence in green.
6. For the word "the" tell them "This is the word 'the.'  We use this word often, but it doesn't look the way it sounds, so we just memorize t-h-e is the." Highlight "the" in blue.
7. Repeat this for each sentence.

Writing Core Standard Text Types & Purposes 3
Preparation
Write dotted lines on the bottom of a blank sheet of paper. Write "My favorite part is..." followed by enough space for child to answer question.
Materials
Paper
Markers, crayons, etc
Teaching
1. Talk about story.  Share your favorite parts with each other.

2. Have child write his favorite part on the paper.

3.Have him illustrate it..

Math Core Standard - Counting and cardinality 2, 4.a., Operations and Algebraic Thinking 1&2
Preparation

Materials
stacking (not interlocking) blocks
Die (one dice)
Teaching
1. Person 1 rolls die, then stacks that number of blocks up on top of each other.
2. Person 2 rolls die, then stacks their blocks on top of blocks person one made.  Have person 2 count on to person one's blocks to find out how many blocks there are altogether.
3. Person 1 rolls die again.  This number indicates how many "puffs" this person has to blow the "piggie blocks" down.
4. Restack blocks (if necessary).  Have person 2 roll die and "puff."
5. The person who can blow down stack in allotted puffs win (which means both people can win).
**I had no trouble blowing down the stacks, but my son did, so we ended up throwing a small block at the stacks**

Exploration
Preparation

Materials
pipe cleaners
Teaching
1.Not having straw readily available, we used pipe cleanersto create our straw house. Talk with your child about how you might put the house together, how to walls, the roof, etc. 
2.  This doesn't have to be perfect.  It's an exercise in building and problem solving.

Art
Preparation
Circle cut out of pink paper for pig nose
two triangles cut out of pink paper for ears
Materials
Pink paint
paper plate
circle, triangles
glue
black marker

Teaching
1. Have child paint paper plate.
2. Have child glue nose and ears of plate.
3.Have child draw mouth.
4.  Have child draw eyes for pig.