Thursday April 30

Hope everyone has been having fun with this week's activities so far! Check out what we have for today!

1. Dinosaur Train Online Games (Math Concepts)

Pinecone Pass- Concept of Length Activities

https://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/games/pineconepass.html

Dino Drink- Concept of Size Activities

https://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/games/hydrationstation.html

2. Harry’s Bucket of Dinosaurs- (Book Related Math Extension)

(1:1 correspondence, Part/Part/Whole Concept)

On Tuesday, you might have watched the reading of the book Harry’s Bucket of Dinosaurs.  In this story, Harry creates a collection of dinosaurs that he keeps in a bucket.  Have your child create a collection of small toys or objects (ie: legos, pennies, crayons, etc). Have your child count the collection. Now encourage them to break the collection up into 2 groups. Use 2 buckets or a mat to help them create two sets.  Have them count each of the new groups(parts) and use comparative language to challenge them.  

(“Which group has more? Which group has less? Are the groups equal?”)

You can print out the visual below to help or use buckets or containers at home.

 

3. Dinosaur Letter Hunt (ELA)

This dinosaur has the letters we have learned from Letterland on it.  

Show you child this dinosaur and say a letter, sound or a name of an object for the letter depending on your child’s level (“Find W”, “Find/w/”, or “Find the letter that you hear in the beginning of the word water.”). Have your child point to the letter.

Or

Print out the dinosaur below.  Say a letter, sound or a name of an object for the letter depending on your child’s level (“Find W”, “Find/w/”, or “Find the letter that you hear in the beginning of the word water.”).  Have your child color the circle with the letter. 

**You can also give your child a hint. The letter is on the dinosaur's tail or the letter is on the dinosaur’s foot.  

Wednesday April 29 Stories

Social Distancing Book Online: 
Time to Come In Bear
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA_SsZFYw0w&feature=emb_logo
- This is a sweet and simple story about why we need to stay home and how we could spend our time.  

Dancing Dinos at the Beach

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LN9wUYPwi8 

Story Comprehension Questions:

- What “page” were the dinosaurs on?

- What did the dinosaurs put in their pails?

- What did the dinosaurs ride on?

- What did the dinos drink?

- Who was having fun in the sun?

- Who fell overboard?

- Where did the dinos dig?

- Where did the dinos sit while they drank lemonade? (tricky one)

- When did the story take happen?

BONUS QUESTION: What letter did the dinos make while they were swimming?

BONUS QUESTION: How many dinos were skiing?

Journal Prompt Idea:

1) What would you do with a dinosaur at the beach?

2) Draw a picture of 2 rhyming words.

- Grab some paper and some crayons

- Draw a picture to answer one of the journal prompts

- Tell a family member some words to write about your picture or try writing some of your own words!

Tuesday April 28

We know our Busy Bee friends are missing their trips to Letterland and missing the "letter of the week." Miss Lisa from the Cub Cadets and myself would like to continue taking weekly trips to Letterland to give everyone a preview of what letters we will continue to learn about when we get back to school. 

The letter of the week this week is X.

Letter: X

Letterlander: Max Fix-It

Handwriting Without Tears Letter Formation: "Big line diagonal slide down, frog jump, big line diagonal slide down the other way”

Video #1:

***Introducing  (courtesy of Miss Lisa): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC75STL-ySE&feature=youtu.be

Extension Activity: Look around your house and try to find things that end with the sound /x/!

Video #2

***How to write the letter X: (courtesy of Miss Courtney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS73aQ84Zmk 

Extension activity: Rainbow write the letter W using 4-6 different colors!

Don't forget, if you're really proud of the work you've done, send along pictures and we'll share them with your friends! Have fun!

Monday BECC Weekly Activities (May 27)

Burlington Early Childhood Center Extended School Activity Suggestions

Click on the link below to see the activities for the week:

It's Dinosaur Week!!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vg_gDIMjJ35IkfXh10m-hLA73bRWROYNxvxivBB8j_8/edit

Friday April 24

Today you should have received an email for Deborah for Ms. T's Social/Emotional Activities.

Movement Activity of the Day:

If your a Kid (Earth Day Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZK5pntyNg&list=PLvsrSF4vVNlGshppUPz0WMWEc8cCMmZEK&index=6&t=0s

Thursday April 23- Math and ELA Activities

Thursday Activities

1. Math-Patterns

Print or create pictures at home to build patterns with your child. 

(For example, earth/tree/earth/tree/earth/tree  or earth/recycle bin/tree/earth/recycle bin/tree)

2. Recycling Letters Game Literacy

-Find 26 small scrap pieces of paper

-Have your child write the uppercase letters they know or write the letters of the alphabet for them

-Have your child say the letter/sound/or something that begins with the letter.

-Have your child squish the paper into a ball using 1 or 2 hands and then toss it into a recycling bin. 

BONUS ART ACTIVITY:

If you’re feeling extra creative today, use items from your recycling bin to create your own “recycling robot.” He can be flat on paper or upright like a real robot. Either way, we’d love to see pictures of what you created!

 

Wednesday April 22- Happy Earth Day

Burlington Early Childhood Center Extended School Activity Suggestions

Click on the link below to see the activities for the week:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Abu34Dq7Jy3yn1nWD2u3dlKBEWgvSi21GK_oTMyw3BI/edit

Wednesday:

Read Aloud with Miss Lauren: A Tree is Nice 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCZFlrMG1xM

Story Comprehension Questions:

What happens to trees in the fall?

What can you do with leaves in the fall?

What is something you can do with a tree? (lots of answers from the story)

Who laid in the shade when it was hot?

Who took a nap in the shade under the tree?

When do leaves fall off the trees? (put on your thinking caps for this one!)

Journal Prompt Ideas:

1) What would you do if you had a GIANT tree in your backyard?

2) What is something you can do to help keep the earth clean and healthy?

- Grab some paper and some crayons

- Draw a picture to answer the journal prompt

- Tell a family member some words to write about your picture or try writing some of your own words!

Friday April 17

Today you should have received an email for Deborah for Ms. T's Social/Emotional Activities.





Movement- All I Need Eat Is Pizza Song

Activity:

This week in the BECC weekly activities, your child will hear the story The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza.  This is a fun song to sing and dance to related to pizza.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl5dRW4E9hc

Thursday April 16 Activities (Fairy Tale Week)

Hope everyone has been having fun with this week's activities so far! Check out what we have for today!

1. Science- Big Bad Wolf Blowing Activity

Activity: 

In the fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed and blew the little pigs house in.  Now it’s your turn to be the Big Bad Wolf. Find 5-10 objects from around the house with your child. Make a chart like the one below or make a space to sort the objects into 2 categories. (Yes, the object moves when I blow it? No, the object does not move when I blow it?) Make observations with your child.  Which object moved the fastest? Why do you think something did not move? Have fun.  

2. ELA- Story Sequencing: Three Little Pigs (“kind version” from Tuesday)

Option 1: Print, cut, sequence, color

• Print out the story sequencing cards
• Have your child cut out the 4 pictures
• Sequence the 4 pictures to put the story in order
• Color the pictures

Option 2: Verbal sequence

• Look at the picture sequencing cards
• Have your child verbally narrate the story sequence using the words “first,” “then,” “next,” and “last” to retell the story
• Then, have your child draw a picture of his/her favorite part of the story.
  
  
  

Read Aloud Wednesday (April 15)

Read Aloud with Miss Katelin: Llama Llama Red Pajama

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWajtgGdxTc

Story Comprehension Questions:

- Who wore red pajamas?

- Who got a phone call?

- What did Mama Llama give Baby Llama before bed? (answer: kisses)

- Where did Mama wash the dishes?

- Where did Llama sleep?

- When did the story happen? (...think about what time of day you go to bed...)

Bonus Questions:

- How did Llama feel when he was alone?

- How did Mama Llama feel when Baby Llama was yelling?

Journal Prompt Idea:

Think of a time when you were scared. What scared you? What did you do to feel better? Who helped you?

- Grab some paper and some crayons

- Draw a picture to show your "scared story"

- Tell a family member some words to write about your picture or try writing some of your own words!

Tuesday April 14 (Letterland Post)

Tuesday:

We know our Cub Cadet friends are missing their trips to Letterland and missing the "letter of the week." Miss Courtney and myself would like to continue taking weekly trips to Letterland to give everyone a preview of what letters we will continue to learn about when we get back to school. 

The letter of the week this week is W.  (But don't worry, we will learn about W once we are back to school, so if you don't get to any of the W activities this week, there will be plenty of opportunity to learn about the letter W once we are all back together!) We will be creating and posting videos for everyone to watch!

Letter: W

Letterlander: Walter Walrus

Handwriting Without Tears Letter Formation: "Big line diagonal slide down, big line diagonal slide up, big line diagonal slide down, big line diagonal slide back up.”

Video #1:

***Introducing Walter Walrus (courtesy of Miss Lisa): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wcy33IdZrA&feature=youtu.be

Extension Activity: Look around your house and try to find things that start with the letter W!

Video #2

***How to write the letter W: (courtesy of Miss Courtney)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lqR7U_VV3o&disable_polymer=true

Extension activity: Rainbow write the letter W using 4-6 different colors!

Don't forget, if you're really proud of the work you've done, send along pictures and we'll share them with your friends! Have fun!

Weekly Activities (Fairy Tales Theme) April 13-17

Burlington Early Childhood Center Extended School Activity Suggestions

Click on the link below to see the activities for the week:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17p9dOmbqx7BwqX9mLtcu-O0APGQ11tHf0ehFkSsao3k/edit?ts=5e80ea65

Noisy Nick in the Night

Watch the story of Noisy Nick in the Night book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRvu9BffwR8&feature=youtu.be

Thursday Activities (April 9)

Hope everyone has been having fun with this week's activities so far! Check out what we have for today!

1. Math: Subitize Review

Our class has previously learned the skill of subitizing.  Subitizing is recognizing how many objects are in a set without counting the objects.  For example, if I hold up 3 fingers for a student they will automatically say 3.  

Watch these videos and sing the songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyz_OycV4A&list=PLvsrSF4vVNlEsWm6AlfigTJT5zbMsOVpz&index=4&t=135s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSlA-u_ABmU

Activity:

Find 5 objects that are the same around your house.  Ask your child to hide their eyes. Cover a set of up to the number 5. objects with a blanket or bowl. Tell your child to open their eyes.  Reveal the objects and ask your child to subitize the set. You can give them a few seconds to recognize how many or as much time as they need. Then have your child take the role as the hider and you can subitize.  They love having a turn to be the teacher. Have fun!!

2. Science- Making a Spring Journal

Watch this video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6iB5B3Lz9I

Activity: 

It’s spring! Go outside with a grownup and find a sign of spring in your backyard or neighborhood.  Either draw the picture of what you see or have your grownup take a picture of it. Send me your signs of spring so I can post them for your friends to see. In my yard I have yellow flowers called daffodils starting to grow.  What signs of spring do you see?

3. Mindfulness-Spring Guided Meditation

Flower Power 

(Cosmic Kids Yoga is a great resource for preschool yoga)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsG4ZqHVDE