Valentines - Day 1

Reading Core Standard Craft & Structures 6, 7, 10
Preparation
none
Materials
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
Teaching
1. On the cover of the book point out the author and illustrator.
2. Explain the job of the author (to write the words) and the illustrator (to draw pictures to show what the words are saying).
3. After reading each page, ask your child, "How does the illustrator show this?"
This is how I teach it (YouTube video).
Phonics Core Standard Phonics 3.c.
Preparation
In highlighter or marker write the following words on a piece of paper:
the, to and, is

Materials
Newspaper article
Highlighters or Light Markers in various colors

Teaching
1. Have your child take the marker in the corresponding color and highlight each "the" in the article. (In other words, you have written the word "the" in pink, so your child takes a pink marker and finds all "the"'s in the text and highlights them in the pink marker.
2. Repeat for the other words.
3. As your child looks for the words they may find others they missed, so keep all the markers handy.

Writing Core Standard Conventions of English 1.a.
Preparation
Create a race track in the form of the letter "V" on a piece of paper Write "Go" at beginning of letter and "stop" at the end

Materials

"V" track

Small toy car

Teaching
1. Have your child push the toy car along the "V" track, starting at go, and ending at "Stop."

2. Do not let your child go backward.  This is about practicing the letter formation of "V."
3. Let your child race different cars, different speeds, along the track.Math Core Standard - Comparing Numbers 6
Preparation
Create a chart with the different color hearts from a box of conversation hearts with a column for each color

Materials

Chart

Box of conversation hearts
Teaching
1. Have child open box of hearts and arrange hearts in their columns.
2. Ask which column has more or less than the other columns.  Ask which column has the most, which has the least.
3. Ask, "How many hearts from this column would you have to eat to have equal hearts with that column?"
4. Eat some hearts
Watch me teach this here
Art
Preparation
Materials

Paper

Scissors

Glue
Markers

Stickers
Teaching
1. Teach your child how to cut hearts from paper.
2. Have your child create a Valentine for someone they love.
3. Have them decorate it.  You can have them write "I Love You" because seeing "I love you" in child writing is the best Valentine present  ever.

4. Your child can create as many Valentines as he would like.  For my son that was one Valentine.  For my daughter who joined us that was several.

Space - Day 3

Reading Core Standard Range of Reading 7
Preparation
Materials
Cat in the Hat: There's No Place Like Space by Tish Rabe
Teaching
1. Before reading each page to your child have them be a detective and look for clues in the illustration to guess what the words say.
2.   Praise your child when they correctly guess the text using illustration clues.
Phonics Core Standard Rhyming words
Preparation

Materials

Teaching
1. Say a space word and have your child come up with a word that rhymes with it.  Let your child give you a space word to rhyme.  Laugh at your silly rhymes.

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 3
Preparation
I have boxes of small items that I use for teaching this: stamps, beads, fake leaves, fake flowers, colored blocks, etc.
Materials
Small items
Teaching
1. Tell your child to make the number 5 (or chose a smaller number if 5 is too large) with the items.
2.Ask them to explain each time they create the number 5. For example, "I made three bunny stamps and two giraffe stamps." or "I have five blue beads" or "I have one circle and four rectangles."
3. Write their creation as an equation.  Example:
"I made three bunny stamps and two giraffe stamps."  Write 3+2= 5.
Say, "Just like words  say a story.  These numbers tell us what you made." Go through step by step how you created the equation.  ("You stamped three bunnies, so I wrote this three.  This '+' means you added more.  This two says you added the two giraffes."

Art
Preparation
Materials
Large sheet of paper
Water colors
Paintbrushes
Black tempera paint

Teaching
1. Have your child paint their own planet using the water colors.
2.Have your child create the space around the planet using the black tempera paint.
** My son wanted half his planet to be in daylight, half at night so he only painted half of his paper black

Space - Day 2

Sad News  - I can not find any of the pictures I took from this day.  I'm so sorry! I have the video from our Math, though.

Reading Core Standard Reading 8
Preparation
Create a solar system on a large piece of paper labeling the sun and each of the 8 planets. Leave room on or next to each planet to record information learned.
Materials
Solar system paper
Pen
The Planets  by Gail Gibbons
Teaching
1.  Read the book The Planets by Gail Gibbons.
2.After reading return to the book and look at each page.  Have your child tell you one or more things he learned about that planet.  Record what he learned on or in the planet.

Phonics Core Standard Phonemic Awareness 2.d.,e.
Preparation
Write the word "Planet" on a piece of paper. Cut into individual letters.
Materials
Cut up word
Teaching
1. Have your child use the letters from the word "Planets" to create the following words in order.
2. at, pat, sat, set, pet, let, net, ten, pen, pan, tan, tap, lap, sap, nap
3. When you teach this say, "Make the word "at."
4. "Add a letter to make "Pat."
5."Change a letter to make "sat." Etc.

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:


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 4
Preparation
Materials
Deck of cards, jacks, quenns, and kings removed

Teaching
1. Shuffle cards and deal 5 cards to each player.
2. Players go through their cards to see if they can put two cards together  to make ten (4+6, 5+5, etc)
3.  Players ask each other for cards to make ten (Example: If a player has a seven they ask the other player for a three)
4.  If other player doesn't have card asked for then player will "go fish" for another card.
5.  When player has two cards that equal ten they have a match and get to keep it.
6.  Player with most matches wins.
Watch how we play here


Art
Preparation
Materials
Black paper
Glue stick
Glitter
Circles cut out of colored paper
Ellipses cut out of colored paper, with center cut out (these become rings for the plantets)

Teaching
1. Have child rub glue stick all over paper.
2.  Have child sprinkle glitter all over paper.
3.  Have child arrange plantes all over paper.
Voila!  A solar system!

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.

Jan Brett Day Three - Gingerbread Baby

Reading

Preparation

Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. 

Go to Jan Brett website and size, print out and tape the following animals to craft sticks: dog, pig, goat, cat,  gingerbread baby,(These are printable as big masks, so I copy, size in a word document to smaller, then print) gingerbread house.  Draw a mom and dad and tape them to craft sticks

Materials
Teaching
1. Read book to child
2. Using puppets (characters on craft sticks) have child retell the story of the gingerbread a baby.

Writing
Preparation

On large dotted paper write capital "G" on first line, lower case "g" on second line. On subsequent lines write: ag, et, ig, ill, ot, um, ut

Materials

Paper

Pen or pencil

Teaching

1.Teach child proper formation of capital- and lower case "G."

2. Have child add "g" to each rime ("ag," "et," etc)

 to create new word.
3.Have child read each new word as they create it.

Phonics
Preparation
Write the following: cat, dog, goat, pig, fox, milk, cheese, baby, mother, father, Martha, cookbook, Matti, candy, gingerbread, Madeline, peppermint. Cut out each word
Divide a piece of paper into thirds.  At top of first column write "1," second column :2,: third column "3"
Materials
words
Columned paper

glue stick

Teaching

1. Clap out the syllables in each word with your child.

2. Have child glue the word in the column with number representing the syllables in word (cat, dog, etc go under column labeled one, and so on)

3. See if your child can clap out syllables on their own.

Math

Preparation

Get materials together

Materials

60 plastic bricks (Lego's, etc)

Die (one dice)

Teaching
1. Each person rolls the die and takes that many plastic blocks, linking them together.
2. When you have a stick of 10 blocks, start creating a new stick.
3.The winner is the person who has three sticks of ten, or 30 blocks.

Exploration
Preparation
Get ingredients to make a gingerbread cookie
Write steps to making cookie on pieces of paper with a picture (see example below)

Materials
Ingredients to make a gingerbread cookie
Teaching
1. With your child make a gingerbread man.  (We made an extra large gingerbread baby)
2. Make connections to the book as you measure, mix, pour and bake without peeking!


Art
Preparation
Make icing, gather together small candies, etc.
Materials
gingerbread cookie
icing
candies, etc
Teaching
1. Decorate your gingerbread baby with your child!

My Allergy free Gingerbread Cookie recipe
Sift together:
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup single grain oatmeal (baby food oatmeal)
1/2 cup single grain rice cereal (baby food)
3/4 tsp xanthan gum
2 TBSP Potato starch
1tsp Ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp salt
In a separate bowl cream together:
6 TBSP shortening
6 TBSP brown sugar
4 TBSP Molasses
2 TBSP applesauce
1 TBSP Water
1 1/2 tsp Egg replacer

1.  Mix dry ingredients into wet.
2.  Line cookie pan with tin foil. Put dough on baking sheet.
3. Cover dough with wax paper and roll out.
4.   Carefully cut out cookies, pulling away excess dough.   DO NOT TRY TO LIFT COOKIES!!
5.  Bake 350 for 10-12 minutes.
6.  Cool and decorate!
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda

**This week we are using books by the same author/illustrator, Jan Brett, and will begin each day with reading the book**

Don't forget to do your Daily 4

1.Alphabet

2.  Numbers to 100

3. Child Reading

4. Read to your child at least 5 books (Gingerbread Baby counts as one!)

Jan Brett Day Two - The Hat

Reading
Preparation
Get the book The Hat by Jan Brett
Create a mini book - make 2 mini books, gluing the covers together to create a longer mini book.
On each page of the book write _______ has a hat.
Print out animals from the Jan Brett website,size to fit mini book, print, and cut out
Materials
Mini Book
animals
markers or crayons
pen

Teaching
1. Read the book The Hat to child.
2. Read mini book to child. Have them choose an animal, paste it to the page. Write animal in the blank.
3. Have child draw a hat on animal.
4. Have child read the book to you, to a sibling,to a stuffed animal, etc.
5.Keep with other mini books, in an easily accessible place for your child.

Phonics
Preparation
Make a small poster with two boxes on it.  Label the top box "Words" and the lower box "Jail"
Draw bars on the "jail"
on a sticky note write "at"
On separate sticky notes write all consonants, and the following "fl," "st," "pl," "th," "tr," "ch," "cr," "dr," "br," "sp"
Materials
Poster
sticky notes
Teaching
1. Put a consonant or onset ("st,"etc) in front of "at."
2. Have your child sound out the word.

3.If it makes an actual word, put it in the word box. If it doesn't make a word put it in "jail."


Writing
Preparation
Using large dotted line paper write a capital "H" on first line and a lower case "h" on second line. On other lines write the following rimes: ad, ag, am, at, en, id, ill, ip, op, ot, ub, ug, um, ut 
Materials
paper
pen or pencil
Teaching
1. Teach child how to properly form capital- and lower case H
2. Have child add an "H" to each rime and sound out new word they created

Math
Preparation
Remove face cards from a deck of cards
Materials
deck of cards
Teaching
1. Play War with child.
2.Shuffle and divide deck between the two of you.
3. Turn over top card at same time as child.
4.Whoever has highest card wins both cards.  If there is a tie go again, winner takes all four (or six, etc) cards.
5.Winner of game is person with most cards.


Art
Preparation
Cut out hat shape from construction paper
Materials
Hat cut from paper
markers, crayons, etc
glue, glitter
stickers, etc
Teaching
1. Have child decorate hat

**This week we are using books by the same author/illustrator, Jan Brett, and will begin each day with reading the book**

Don't forget to do your Daily 4

1.Alphabet

2.  Numbers to 100

3. Child Reading

4. Read to your child at least 5 books (The Mitten counts as one!)

Jan Brett - Day 1 The Mitten

**This week we are using books by the same author/illustrator, Jan Brett, and will begin each day with reading the book**

Don't forget to do your Daily 4

1.Alphabet

2.  Numbers to 100

3. Child Reading

4. Read to your child at least 5 books (The Mitten counts as one!)

Reading

Preparation

Get Book The Mitten by Jan Brett

Materials

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Teaching

1.  You are going to go on a "Picture Walk." A picture walk is when you look at the pictures in a book and make predictions about what is happening in the book, what may happen next, etc. Here is a video of how I took a picture walk with my son.

2.  Now read the book together.

Phonics

Preparation

Pictures of the mitten and the animals in the mitten (mole, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, fox, bear, mouse) - these can be found at Jan Brett's website.
Make two copies of mitten, tape together around the edges.
Cut out animals

Materials

* Mitten

* Animals

Teaching

1.  You are going to give rhymes for the different animals.  When you give the rhyme your child needs to find the animals that goes with that rhyme.

2.  Say, "Look in the hole you might find a ______ (mole). Child finds mole in group of animal and puts it in the mitten.

3.  Make it a habit to look for the ______ (rabbit).  Child finds rabbit in group of animals and puts it in the mitten.
4.  Say, "Do you like tickles?  Find the animal with _____ (prickles - hedgehog). Child finds hedgehog in group of animals and puts it in the mitten.
5. Say, "A bird is a fowl, can you find the ____(owl). Child finds the owl and puts it in the mitten.
6.  Say, "It is dark and it is light, find the animal that's black and _____ (white - badger). Child finds badger and puts it in the mitten.
7.  Say, "Loon in a big brown box, you may find a little ___ (fox). Child finds fox and puts it in the mitten.

8. Say, "Use a brush to brush your hair, then you can find the ____ (bear)." Child finds bear and puts it in the mitten.
9. Say, "Look outside or in the house, then you can find the ____ (mouse)." Child finds mouse and puts it in the mitten.

Writing

Preparation

 Using dotted line paper (for a copy of dotted line paper I've made email me @ amyiswrite@gmail.com) write a capital "M" on the top line, a lower case 'm' on second line, then creating a space foe the letter "m" write the following on the remainder of page: -ad, -an, -ap, -at, -en, -et, -ill, -ink, -it, -ock, -op, -uck

Materials

"M" page created above

Marker

Teaching

1. Teach your child how to form upper and lower case letter "M." For how I teach this watch video for upper case "M" and lower case "m."

2. Read "-ad." Have your child add the "m" and sound out the word "mad."

3.  Repeat for each group of letters creating the words man, map, etc..

Math

Preparation

Use the same mitten and animals you used for phonics.  On four small pieces of paper write the numbers 5, 12, 23, 36

Materials

Mitten

Animals

Small pieces of paper

Teaching

1.  Put the small pieces of paper in the mitten.

2.  Have your child pull out one of the small pieces of paper.

3.  Using the animals count on to the number.  For example, if your number is "5" say "Five," then add the bear and say "Six," add the rabbit and say "seven." Continue with the rest of the animals.

**Counting on to various numbers is an educational standard for kindergarten, so you may need to help your child at first.**

Exploration

Preparation

Get yarn

Materials

Yarn

Teaching

1.  You will teach your child to finger crochet a bracelet.  If you aren't sure how to finger crochet watch my video here (my blog is cursed that videos don't play here).

Art

Preparation

Cut 2 mitten shapes out of a piece of construction paper. Using a hole punch, punch holes around the mitten.

Tape the end of a piece of yarn. Tie the untaped piece of yarn to the mitten.

Materials

Mitten cut out

Yarn

Markers, glue, glitter, etc

Yarn

Teaching

1.  Have your child "sew" the two mittens together through the cut out holes using the taped yarn. 

2.  When child is done, tie the yarn off and allow child to decorate the mitten..