K4 Week 8: L for Leaves

New Concepts:

Theme: Fall
ABC's: Letter L
Math: Introducing #2; Calendar Skills

Calendar Time Notebook:

This week we will begin using a Calendar Time Notebook. Each day as you start school work, you will work with your child to learn basic calendar skills. The Notebook also serves as a tool to review numbers, letters, and shapes you have already learned. It may help to have a large wall calendar handy when doing Calendar Time together, so you can have another visual aid.


For the Calendar Notebook:
You will need a regular 1/2" or 1" 3-ring binder and some sheet protectors. Put each page into a sheet protector and provide child with a dry-erase marker so that the pages can be used all week long for extra practice and review. You will have to work on the Calendar portion together, but the number and letter pages could be done independently.



- Calendar Notebook Cover
- Trace & Color Printable Calendar (color the correct square each day)
- Page 2 only of this Daily Calendar Notebook (weather, day of the week, etc.)
- #1 & #2 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- #1 & #2 Coloring Page w/ Tracing
- Letters Q, K & A Color & Tracing
- Four Seasons Coloring Page

Theme Activities:

1. Review the seasons.

Go back over the activities you did last week, asking child to recall each of the seasons.

Here is a fun video about the seasons:

2. Learn the Days of the Week

Begin to work on memorizing the Days of the Week. Show them on the calendar. Talk about what you do each day of the week.
Here is a fun song. Sing it often!

3. Read a book about Fall.

         


4. Color a picture about fall.
Choose one of these pictures to color while you talk about the different things you may see in the season of Fall, what the weather is like, and what you might wear.

5. Go on a Fall Scavenger Hunt.

Give your child a clipboard with this Scavenger Hunt printed out. Help her to find each of the items on the list as you go on a nature hike outdoors. Collect a few small natural items, such as leaves or pine needles in a small bag as you go. (You will need some for crafts later!)

6. Make a leaf person.

ABC & Handwriting Activities

1. Letter L Introduction

Review letters K, Q, and A. Show letter "L" Flashcard. Build with Foam Letter Builders. Go on a hunt around the room to find words that begin with L (lamp, Lego, legs, lips, lunch, log).

Color the Letter L Words Coloring Page

2. Letter L Words

Cut out the Letter L Words Cards from the Raising Rock Stars Preschool Pack. Add these to your collection of Word Cards. Every so often, mix them up with one or two other letters and have child sort the words by their beginning sound.

3. L is for Leaves Craft

Use the Letter L Template-- help child to glue leaves (real or cut-outs) all over. Add to your Alphabet Notebook. 

4. Write the letter L.

Practice writing letter L with chalk on the chalkboard, or in shaving cream on the table. Help child draw the lines that form "L" in "Getting Ready for L" and then practice tracing the letter L.

More practice writing letter L (Part 1).

6. Review Letters

Pull out flashcards for the letters, numbers & shapes you've learned so far. Place them on the table and have a teddy bear counter jump to each one as you call it out.

Math Activities

1. Introduce #2.
Review #1. Show this #2 Poster with a fun rhyme to help learn how to write the number. Go over the rhyme several times. Display the poster for review. Find things in the room that come in pairs.



Cover this #2 Template with 2 stickers or 2 leaf-cut outs. Add to your Numbers Book.

Color the #2 Coloring Page

2. Leaf Patterns

Use the pattern cards & templates here-- have the child copy the patterns as they see them in the templates.

3. More Fall Math Review Activities

#2 Shape Tracing (Part 3)

"Find the Same" Worksheets - Part 2- pg. 7-10

"Color Sorting" -- Part 2- pg. 23-25 (or you could just use real leaves for this activity!)

Leaf Color-by-Size-- Part 4- pg. 22

4. Practice writing #2.

Part 2 of the Rompin' & Roarin' #1 Pack has some practice with writing the number one.

Here is some more practice writing #1.

5. Puzzles for Review

Put together some puzzles with numbers & with letter L Words.

("1 to 15 Four-Part Puzzles" -- page 2 only)

L Words Two-Part Puzzles

Independent Activities:

Play-Doh Fun

Make your own fall-scented Play-Doh with this recipe.

#1 & #2 Play-Doh Mat

Alphabet Play-Doh Mats

Fall Leaf Color Q-Tip Painting

See instructions & free printable to paint with Q-tips here.

Materials Needed:

- 1" 3-ring binder

- several sheet protectors

- dry erase markers

- clipboard 

- collection of fall leaves

- googly eyes

- flashcards

- fall-scented Play-Doh

- Q-tips

- paint

- Flashcards: Letters A, B, C, D, K, Q & L, Numbers 1 & 2, Colors: Blue, brown, purple, red; Shapes: Square, Circle, Triangle, Rectangle, Oval, Diamond, Crescent