K4 Week 6: Q for Queens

New Concepts:

Theme: Five Senses (Part 2)
ABC's: Letter Q
Math: Crescent Shape; AB Patterns
Nursery Rhyme: "Jack Be Nimble"

Theme Activities:

Be sure you have already completed Part 1 of the Five Senses activities in Week 5 (K for Kites).

Then, continue with these remaining senses:

1. Listening Walk:

Read this book about hearing:

Go on your own “Listening Walk”, either indoors or outdoors. A blindfold can be used to make it easier to focus on sounds. Talk about the sounds you hear along the way. At the end, draw pictures of some of the things you heard and try to re-create their sounds.

2. Sense of Hearing Activity

“Mystery Cans”- Fill small containers (film canisters, Play-Doh cans, or oatmeal tins) with various items. Have the child shake the container to guess what is inside based solely on the sound it makes. (Examples: birdseed, beans, marshmallows, rice, pennies, rocks) You could also fill 2 containers with the same object and have the child guess which 2 are matches.

3. Five Senses Book: Sense of Hearing

Create Page 3 of your Five Senses Book. Caption the page “My ears help me hear sounds.” Use the pictures from this “Name That Sound” Game or pictures from magazines that illustrate objects that make a distinct sound.

4. Read some more books about the five senses.

    

5. Sense of Smell Activity

Using various small film canisters, baby food jars, or other containers, do the “It Smells Like…” Activity and have the child guess what item is in the canister based solely on its smell.

6. Five Senses Book: Sense of Smell 

Create Page 4 of your Five Senses Book. Caption the page “My nose helps me smell things.” Paint and decorate a coffee filter flower. When it is dry spray it with perfume.

7. Sense of Taste Activity

Learn about the different taste buds with this Taste Areas activity. Some food ideas: cocoa powder (bitter), chips (salty), lemons (sour), candy bar (sweet).

8. Five Senses Book: Sense of Taste

Create page 5 of your Five Senses Book. Cut pictures from magazines or a grocery store flyer of foods that you think taste good. Caption the page “My tongue helps me taste things and choose what to eat.”

9. Review the Five Senses

Play the Five Senses sorting game to review all five senses.

ABC & Handwriting Activities:

1. Learn a new nursery rhyme:

"Jack be nimble" Printable Poster & Coloring Page

2. Clip-A-Rhyme Cards:

Practice rhyming words with the "Clip-a-Rhyme" Cards on Page 16 & 17 of Part 1 of This Reading Mama's Rhyme Time Pack. Laminate & cut the strips apart. Remind child what "rhyming" words are and how they sound the same at the end of the word. Show child how to clip a clothespin onto the picture of the word in each row that rhymes with the picture in the first box.

3. Letter Q Introduction:

Review Letter C, D & K. Add the letter Q. Use Foam Letter Builders to build the letter. Show a collection of several items that begin with Q: quilt, quarter, queen...

Print the Letter Q 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. Letter Q Words

Using the Letter Q Template (scroll down to bottom), help your child cut out pictures of words that begin with Q from the Learning the Alphabet: Letter Q Pack and paste them onto the Q's. Talk about each word, emphasizing the "Qu" sound at the beginning. Add to your Alphabet Notebook.

5. Read a book about queens.

       

6. Make a Q for Queen Craft

Use gems, sequins & glitter to decorate a crown for your letter Q. Add to your ABC Notebook.

7. More Letter Q Activities

Q for Queen Coloring Page (Part 4)

Letter Q Words Coloring Page

8. Write letter Q

Practice tracing the letter Q with the "Getting Ready for Q" Page & "Q" Tracing Page at Raising Rock Stars Preschool.

Math Activities:

1. Crescent Introduction

Review Diamond, Oval & Rectangle. Show Crescent Flashcard. Point out how it is similar to a moon shape. Color the Crescent Coloring Page & add to your Shapes Notebook. (That's the end of the Shapes Notebook! Close it out and have a shape celebration!)

Crescent Shape Trace & Color Worksheet

2. Introduce AB Patterns

Use math blocks to demonstrate an AB pattern with 2 colors (red, blue, red, blue, etc.). Have child copy your pattern with her own blocks. Then, have her add blocks to continue the pattern. Show again with other objects, like teddy bear counters, or pattern blocks.
Here are some cute Pattern Cards to help match.




3. Queens & Kings Patterns

Use the Queens, Kings, Castles & Dragons in Part 1 of the Medieval Pack to practice making patterns. Lay out a few sets and have child choose which picture would complete the pattern. Let her make some patterns for you to finish!





4. Shape Cut & Paste Queen Crown




5. Pattern Necklace
Use Fruit Loops or another colored circle-shaped cereal to make patterns on a piece of yarn. Make it into a necklace.

Materials Needed:

- small containers (film canisters, Play-Doh cans, or oatmeal tins) filled with noisy items, such as: birdseed, beans, marshmallows, rice, pennies, rocks
- small film canisters w/ pinholes in the top, filled with various scented items (use cotton balls for the liquid scents): onions, vinegar, cinnamon, rubbing alcohol, perfume, peanut butter, coffee grounds, lemon oil, peppermint extract
- variety of food samples in small paper cups for blind taste test: cocoa powder (bitter), chips (salty), lemons (sour), candy bar (sweet)
- blindfold
- grocery store flyer or magazines with pictures of food
- clothespins
- construction paper
- gems, sequins, and/ or glitter to decorate a crown
- Unifix cubes/ math blocks
- teddy bear counters
- Fruit Loops or other multi- colored round cereal
- yarn