Backyard Unit Day 2

 Our Theme: Math and Life Skills Day!

• Ribsy by Beverley Cleary
• Bible Reading Genesis 3-4 (Egermier's Children's Story Book)
• One Small Square p. 10-11 (Core Curriculum)
• Read about Anteater on p. 95 of DK Animal encyclopedia 
•  Secrets Of  the Garden Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (Core Curriculum)

Other books to enjoy together...
If All the Animals Came Inside by Eric Pinder
McDuff Comes Home by Rosemary Wells
Poems to Read to the Very Young by Eloise Wilkin
Check out your local library, there are so many sweet animal stories!

Investigation Activity

• Draw from One Small Square pages activity
• Look underneath and down low in your square can you find evidence of anyone living here? 

 Preschool/Kindergarten Literacy Activity 

• Our letter A (HOD finger play)
•  Number 1 (YouTube playlist **previewed, but adult supervision recommended**) 
• With our Math theme we played Memory with dominos.  
• StarFall "A" on the tablet, the toddlers had fun taking turns tapping the A.

Arts and Crafts
Coloring pages...Sesame Street ands farm animals, simple.

Elementary
Continued working on animal categories.

Back Yard Unit Day1

Okay here we go...Day 1
Our Theme: Literature Day!

• Reading: 1 Chapter of Ribsy
• Genesis 1&2 ( Egermier's p. 11)
• One Small Square p. 3-9 

Other Books to enjoy together:

• My Garden by Keven Henkes
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury
• Poems to Read to the Very Young by Eloise Wilken

Investigation Activity:
We headed outside and each picked ours square looking high, low, inside, and underneath for signs of life. We found spiders, beetles, worms, ants, we carefully pulled up some soil to observe inside our glass jar.

Pre-School/Kindergarten Literacy Activity
Our Letter of the week is "A" and our Number is "1"

•  read about Albatrosses on page 91 of our DK Animal Encylopedia
•  HOD finger Play for letter "A"
• Fine Motor Activity (Painters Tape Letter A to floor, have children decorate A's with Pom Poms, legos, or blocks while listening to Bible Story)
• Letter 1 Activity (I had children find "1" thing to show and tell me about)

Arts and Crafts
Preschool: 

•  *Have little ones decorate the Letter "A" while watching  The Letter A youtube PLAYLIST

 (my other playlists are very much a work in progress. *Also please note: youtube is not a child-friendly place. I previewed all the videos in my playlist to be sure they were safe and appropriate. Even so, **Careful supervision is recommended**)
 Elementary:

• Fill in Notebooking Animal Profile page for one animal we found that morning
• Begin decorating divider pages (if children enjoy that sort of thing, my kids live for "art" and drawing!)