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How's everyone doing on Day 36 of no preschool?! I can't believe we haven't seen each other for over a month. This is so much worse than the summer because there's no date for the end.
EVERYONE
2s: The Number 4 and Insects
1. Watch this super, upbeat song about the number 4 from StoryBots: StoryBots Number 4
2. Let's decorate a number 4.
From our website, you'll need to print out the Number 4 cutout. If you have it, card stock is great.
In your bag, you'll find insect stickers. Have your child peel the stickers off themselves and apply them to the number 4. Stickers are GREAT for fine motor practice!
3. Let's talk about insects.
Do you have the book Bug Hunt by Tom Story?
If not, your child can watch this catchy, repetitive story read to them. Bug Hunt by Tom Story
3s: Insects
1. Book Reading
Watch the reading of The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle: The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle
Have your child retell the story.
2. Make your own Clumsy Click Beetle!
You'll need the blue oval from your bag, the clothespin, and two sticker eyes. Mom or Dad will need a glue gun.
Color your beetle, if you like. Put the eyes on your beetle.
Have Mom or Dad use the glue gun to attach your beetle to the clothespin. Glue it in the same direction as your beetle, putting the open end of the clip as close to the end of the beetle as you can.
After you read the book and made your beetle, you can have the children try and help the click beetle get back onto an upright position. Lay them on their backs and press on the end of the clothespin, release and see what happens. Your beetle will do somersaults providing endless entertainment!
3. From our website, print out the Insect Puzzles. If you have card stock, that will work best.
Look at the insects with your child and help them name each one.
Cut the puzzles apart but keep each puzzles pieces together. Give your child the pieces to one insect and let them put the puzzle back together.
Once they've done each of the insects, give your child two or three of the puzzles mixed together and see if they can sort the pieces and then put each insect back together again.
4s: Letter Y and Insects
1. Letter Y Page
In your bag, you'll find a bunch of yarn. You'll need glue and some paper.
Think about what you might want to make a picture of today. Instead of using a marker or crayon to make your lines, you're going to use the yarn!
I made a big letter Y and filled it in like a rainbow. What will you make?
2. Let's learn some more about insects some more after what we saw yesterday.
You can watch this nonfiction video about insects - All About Insects: All About Insects
3. Ladybug, Where Are You?
Mom and Dad, did you know that positional words are actually a math skill?
In your bag, you'll find the flip book Ladybug, Where Are You and a strip of ladybug stickers. If you did not pick up your bag, you can print the book out from our website.
Read each page with your child. When you read, emphasize the positional word. 'I'm in the beehive.' Have your child place the sticker in the appropriate place on the page.
Have your child go back through the book and tell you again where the ladybug is on the page.
4. Make your own ladybug!
In your bag you'll find an oval drawn on black paper, a black rectangle, part of an oval with a line on red paper, a pipe cleaner, black spots, a brad, and eyes.
First, you'll need scissors. Cut out the black oval on the silver line. Cut out the 'wings' on the red paper. Cut up the center of the wings so that you have two. Use the black rectangle to cut six legs. Now you've got all you parts.
Glue the six legs onto the black oval. Turn it over.
Have Mom or Dad poke a hole on the dot on each of the wings and on the silver dot on the black oval.
Now use the brad and push it through both wings and then the black oval. Flatten it on the back. It should look a bit like a ladybug.
Use the black dots to make spots on your wings. Add eyes and staple the antenna to the head.
5. Watch the reading of Eric Carle's The Very Grouchy Ladybug: The Very Grouchy Ladybug
Will the ladybug you made be grouchy or happy? How else might your ladybug feel?
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