Letter K

Social Studies: King Tut (we saw a play on this last week) we're just going to talk a little more about him.

Crafts:

Make a Kings crown! Using construction paper, scissors, glue, pom-poms, sequins, ribbons, any other decorations.

Decorate paper kites. Cut a diamond out of construction paper, add stickers, and decorate with markers/crayons. Add a yarn tail. "Fly" your kites around the room.

Keys--trace an old key onto paper. Add glue and glitter to the outline. Draw a picture of what you think this key might go to!

Print out a Kangaroo and a joey, cut out a construction paper pouch. Glue the pouch on the kangaroo, and put the joey in the pouch.

Use squares to make a castle for the king. Use q-tips to paint on glue, and sprinkle with sand.

Cut out a basic Kitten head shape and glue on whiskers ripped from black paper (rip out the number of whiskers that matches the number you are working on). Count as you are gluing.

Fine Motor:
Puzzles
Play-Doh--rolling it out into snakes
Tracing a Kite shape.

Sensory:
Sand

Science:
Kangaroo's! Discuss how Kangaroo's carry their babies around in pouches and how Kangaroo's are different from other mammals.


Gross Motor Skills:
Kicking a ball
Hop like kangaroo's!
Make our bodies into K's and try to balance!

Math:
Counting: Make a counting book
Using construction paper, fold in half write the numeral on each half a sheet. Add one sticker to the one sheet. And so forth, depending on how many your child knows.

Make index cards with the numberals on them, add stickers to them. Have the child cover each sticker with a bean and count how many there are.

Shape: (still working on square)
Explore the shape of a square, using the square puzzle piece.
Trace a square.
Find squares in the home.

Nursery Rhyme/Song:
Three Little Kittens

Music:
This is a project we did a couple years ago and my big kids still like them. Now, gloves are on sale REALLY cheap in my area as it is the beginning of spring. So, now is a great time to make these....and it goes along with the nursery rhyme this week. You need gloves, buttons and either a needle and thread, or hot glue. Take the gloves, and add a button (large ones work best) to each fingertip using the needle and thread or simply hot glue them on. When they are dried/done, you slide your hands in the gloves, and tap your fingers together to make beautiful music. You can also tap them ON things to see how they sound different when tapped against different circumstances. I will be making 2 more pairs of these today as we don't have enough. :-)

Kitten Song (I'll make felt kittens to go along with this)
Five little kittens napping by the door
one woke up and then there were four;
Four little kittens napping next to me
one woke up and then there were three;
Three little kittens napping next to you
one woke up and then there were two;
Two little kittens napping in the sun
one woke up and then there was one;
One little kitten napping on a shelf
he(she) woke up and was all by himself!!!!!

Oh, I'm a Kangaroo!
(sung to the tune of the Farmer in the Dell)
Oh I'm a Kangaroo
I live at the zoo
I like to hop around a lot
How bout you??

Oh I'm a Kangaroo
I live at the zoo
I carry my baby in a pouch,
How bout you??


Snack:
Kabobs (fruit/cheese kabobs)

Toddler Time:
Life Skills: I'm sure there will be more rearranging.
Art: Coloring with triangle crayons.
Color: Bean bag pass, talking about the color of the beanbags (I may use the foam blocks again, unless I can find my beanbags!)
Vocabulary buidling: I have a set of vocab cards that is ever growing. I use them for classification with the preschooler, but for the toddler we just look at the pictures and talk about what the object is, what color/shape, etc. ; Comparisons: bigger/smaller, wet/dry
Fine Motor: Stacking blocks
Song: Row Row Row your boat!
Spanish: Listen to our spanish songs CD
Outside play: Watch things blowing in the wind (we've been having windy weather lately), pinwheels!
Sign Language: Thank You.
Gross Motor: Kicking and Hopping (like a Kangaroo)




Materials Needed:
construction paper
black paper
cat head outline
small stickers (for adding to the counting book, and index cards activity)
large beans
index cards
scissors
glue
glue stick
crayons
markers
bean bags
pom-poms
sequins
ribbons
any other decorations for the crown you have lying around