K4 Week 11: M for Monsters

New Concepts:

Theme: Healthy Eating
ABC's: Letter M
Math: Introducing #5; Matching # Sets 1-5
Color: Gray

Calendar Time Notebook:

See full instructions for creating your Calendar Time Notebook in Week 8. Continue to color one square each day on your calendar. Fill in the weather, day of the week, etc. Practice memorizing the days of the week. This week begin to work on memorizing your phone number. Also add in a daily weather graph, using your new graphing skills!

Continue these pages (you will already have them from last week):
- Trace & Color Printable Calendar (color the correct square each day)
- Page 2 only of this Daily Calendar Notebook (weather, day of the week, etc.)
- Letters L, P & X Color & Tracing
- #3 & #4 Page from Tot Time Notebook

Add these pages this week:
- Letter M Color & Tracing
- #5 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- "Learning My Phone #" Printable
- "What is the Weather Like Today?" Graph

Theme Activities:

1. Learn about taking care of your teeth.

Review the Healthy Habits you talked about last week. Another thing we need to do to stay healthy is take care of our teeth. Practice pretending you're a dentist. Talk about the things we do to keep our teeth healthy.

    

Print this Tooth Template and have your child "practice" brushing her teeth by painting the tooth white with an old toothbrush. (This blog post also has a fun Dentist coloring page.)





2. Make an apple teeth snack.





3. Read some books about healthy eating.
Eating healthy is another way we take care of our bodies.

          



4. Talk about the food groups.



Color this picture of the foods that belong in each group.

Cut out pictures of food from grocery store flyers and sort them in large circles on the floor, or on separate pieces of paper, based on which food group they belong to.


5. Talk about each type of food.

Here is a set of worksheets that has pictures of food for each food group. Help your child learn sorting by going through each page.




6. Eat healthy all week!

Track your child's food habits with this Five Food Groups tracking chart. Just color the foods each day as they eat a food from each food group on the chart.

ABC & Handwriting Activities:

1. Introduce Letter M.
- Review Letters P & X. Show letter "M" Flashcard.
- Use Foam Letter Builders to build letter M.
- Color the Letter M Words Coloring Page
- Cut out the Letter M Word Cards from Raising Rock Stars Preschool and add to your collection of word cards for sorting beginning sounds.


2. Read a book about monsters and/ or Halloween.

          


3. M is for Monster Craft
Be creative and make your own monsters out of the Letter M Template. Add to your Alphabet Notebook!


  

4. More Letter M Activities

Uppercase/ Lowercase "M" Sorting (Tot Pack)

Letter M Word 2-Part Puzzles




Letter M "ABC-Find-It!" Cards
Cut out the M Words Image Cards and hide them in a bucket of rice or other sensory bin. Have child fish them out using tongs or tweezers and match them to the Poster.




5. Write letter M.
Practice writing the letter M with this M for Monster Writing Page. (Part 4)

Math Activities:

1. #5 Introduction
- Review #3 & #4. Show #5 Poster with Rhyme.
- Add 5 stickers to the #5 Template. Add to your Numbers Book.
- Color the #5 Coloring Page.




2. Match Numbers with a Set of Pictures
Use flashcards for #'s 1-5. Set them out on the ground. Have child use teddy bear counters or some other manipulative to count out the correct number of items they need to make that number.
Then, get some more practice by drawing lines to match on this worksheet:
"Matching Number & Picture 1-20"


3. Monster Math
Get some more practice matching numbers with picture sets with this Monster-themed activity. Glue the correct number of googly eyes onto the "Happy Monster Monster Eyes 123".




4. Review the color GRAY.
- Review previous colors we have covered.
- Go on a hunt for things in the room that are gray.
- Color this picture of Things That Are Gray.


5. More Math Review Activities

Monster Roll & Graph

Monster Size Sorting





Shape Monster Crafts
Use different colored cut-out shapes to create your own monsters.




Monster Patterns & Monster Color-by-Size (Part 2)

Materials Needed:

- old toothbrush
- white paint
- apples, marshmallows & peanut butter for tooth snack
- grocery store flyers or magazines with pictures of food
- googly eyes (a lot of them!)
- various colors of construction paper
- rice or beans sensory bin
- flashcards for #'s 1-5