K4 Week 5: K for Kites

New Concepts:

Theme: Five Senses (Part 1)

ABC's: Letter K

Color: Purple

Nursery Rhyme: "Three Little Kittens"

Theme Activities:

1. Read a book about the five senses.

   

2. My Five Senses Person

Draw a picture of large stick figure without eyes, ears, mouth, nose, or hands. Prompt child to think about the features the person is missing and what life would be like if we did not have that feature. Discuss the purpose of each feature (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching) and how we use each to learn about our world.

3. Five Senses Book- Cover

Begin a “Five Senses Book.” On the cover, create a “lift-the-flap” booklet to show which body parts perform each of the senses.

4. Five Senses Book- Sense of Touch

Create Page 1 of your “Five Senses Book.” Caption the page “My hands help me touch things to feel them.” Paint the child’s hand and have him put his handprints on the page. Talk about how the paint feels on his hands.

5. Sense of Touch Activity

Feely Bags: Fill paper bags with a variety of different textured items. (Some examples: cotton balls, sandpaper, cold cooked spaghetti, Jello, rocks, mashed bananas, ice cubes, popcorn, dried leaves) Have the child feel inside each bag without looking. Ask them to first describe what they feel, using lots of descriptive words, such as bumpy, soft, mushy, or rough. Then guess what the item may be based solely on how it feels with their hand.

6. Five Senses Book- Sense of Sight

Create Page 2 of your “Five Senses Book.” Caption the page “My eyes help me to see the world around me.” Use wiggly eyes or eyeball stickers to decorate the page.

7. Sense of Sight Activity

“What’s Missing?” Game—Place 8-10 items on a tray and have the child memorize what they are. Then, take away one item. See if the child can figure out which item is missing.

8. If I Couldn't See...

Talk about how we use our eyes to see and what things would be like if we couldn’t see. Go on a “sighted” walk with eyes open and then a “non-sighted” walk with a blindfold (use a partner). Discuss the difficulties you faced while blindfolded and how there are blind people who face these struggles every day. Show child an example of Braille.

9. Five Senses Worksheets

ABC & Handwriting Activities:

1. Learn a new nursery rhyme:

Three Little Kittens ("kittens" starts with a "k"!) Printable Poster & Coloring Page

2. Pocket Rhymes Game

Using a pocket chart or just the table, play this Pocket Rhymes Game to practice more rhyming.

3. Letter K Introduction

Review Letter B, C & D. Add Letter K. Use Foam Letter Builders to build the letter. Show a collection of several items that begin with K. Show a collection of items beginning with K: kite, kitten, keys, ketchup, kiwi, etc. (Don't worry if they have a hard time distinguishing between C & K at this point!)

Print the Letter K Words from Raising Rock Stars to add to your collection of cards. Practice sorting the words by their first letter sound, or show a word and have child call out what letter it starts with.

4. Read a book about Kites:

This week we use the KITE to talk about both the letter "K" and the diamond shape! So first read a book about kites, show a real-life kite or a paper cut out, and talk about it's shape, what it does, and the letter kite starts with! 

 

5. Make a kite craft.

Using the Letter K Template, instead of cutting out "K Words" & pasting them, this week, cut out diamond-shaped kites for the child to color or decorate & paste onto the K's, to remind him that "kite" begins with "K". Add to your Alphabet Notebook.

6. Extra Letter K Activities

Letter K Coloring Page

Color the K's on the Kite (Part 1)

Put together the Letter K Words 2-Part Puzzles from the Learning the Alphabet K Pack

7. Write the Letter K

Practice tracing the Letter K. (Part 2)

Math Activities:

1. Diamond Introduction:

Review Circle, Triangle & Rectangle. Show the Diamond Flashcard. Point out how the diamond is similar to a square in that it has 4 equal sides. Use the Diamond Shape Viewer to go around the room and find objects shaped like diamonds.

I'm a Diamond 

(to the tune of "Clementine")

I'm a diamond, I'm a diamond,
I'm as pretty as can be.
I have four sides and four corners,
And some kites look just like me.

You can turn me onto one side,
And I may not look the same,
But I always am a diamond,
Diamond always is my name.

2. Diamond Coloring Page

Add to your Shapes Notebook.

3. Review the color PURPLE. 

If you have color flashcards, review blue and brown. Add purple. Go on a "purple" hunt around the room. Find objects that are purple on this worksheet.

4. Color-by-Size K's & Kites (Part 4)

5. Kite Color Matching Game

Practice matching colors by adding bows to these colored kites.

Independent Activities:

Dot Marker Pages:

Dot Marker Shapes

Find the Letter K's & Dot the K's

 

Pattern Blocks:

Show child how to cover some printed patterns with your pattern blocks, just like a puzzle.

Alphabet Pattern Block Printables (B, C, D & K)

Kite Pattern Block Mat

Butterfly & Caterpillar Pattern Block Mats

Materials Needed:

- half-sheets of plain white paper for Five Senses Booklet

- fingerpaint

- googly eyes

- variety of different textured items, each in their own paper bag: cotton balls, sandpaper, cold cooked spaghetti, Jello, rocks, mashed bananas, ice cubes, popcorn, dried leaves

- blindfold

- Pocket Chart

- 3 or 4 colors of construction paper

- glue

- Diamond Shape Viewer

- Dot Markers

- one piece of yarn each: yellow, pink, orange, black, green, blue, red

- Flashcards: triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, letter B, letter C, letter D, letter K, blue, brown, purple

- Pattern Blocks