K4 Week 12: V for Vegetables

New Concepts:

Theme: Healthy Eating, Part 2

ABC's: Letter V

Math: Sequencing/ Ordinal Numbers

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. Don't forget your daily weather graph. Continue memorizing your phone number. 

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 P, X & M Color & Tracing
- #4 & #5 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- "Learning My Phone #" Printable
- "What is the Weather Like Today?" Graph

Add these pages this week:
- Letter V Color & Tracing

Theme Activities:

1. Read a book about fruits & vegetables.
Last week we learned all about the food groups. This week we will focus on just fruits & vegetables-- sorting, recognizing & naming them.
         

2. Go to the grocery store.

Use a trip to the grocery store to learn about fruits & vegetables.
First look at all the fruits & vegetables. Name them together. Talk about their color & shape.
Find the smallest vegetables & the largest.
Try a new fruit and a new vegetable.
Make a graph of fruits & vegetables you like and those you don't like.
Use some more ideas from The Measured Mom here.


3. Sort fruits & vegetables.

Here are some amazing full-color cards with pictures of fruits & vegetables. Laminate them, cut them out, and help child sort them into fruits vs. vegetables. Talk about the name of each.
Print two sets & play a matching game.


4. Make vegetable soup.
This blog has a great lesson and recipe that includes counting while you make vegetable soup together.

ABC & Handwriting Activities

1. Nursery Rhyme Coloring
Time to learn another new nursery rhyme! This week read & memorize "The Muffin Man."
Here is a coloring page to go along.



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


3. V for Vegetable Craft
Cut out pictures of vegetables from a grocery store flyer or a magazine & glue them onto the letter V Template.




4. Practice beginning sounds.
Instead of just using word cards to practice beginning sounds, try real objects, like this example.
Have child match letter magnets to each fruit or vegetable, based on its beginning sound. Use these:
apple, banana, cucumber or carrot, lemon, pepper, corn, peach, mango.




5. More Letter V Activities

Cut & Paste Letter V Words onto the Letter V Template.



Color the letter V's. (Part 3)




6. Write letter V.
Practice writing letter V with 3Dinosaurs' "V" Pack (Part 2).

Or use this V for Vegetable Writing Practice.

Math Activities:

1. Introduce ordinal numbers.
Use teddy bear counters to learn ordinal position. Using one of each color (up to 5 or 6), pretend the bears are in line to ride a ride at the carnival. One at a time, have the child place them in “line,” using the words “first,” “second,” “third,” and “fourth” (or “last”). Mix them up and place them back in line, then ask the child which is 2^nd, which is 3^rd, and so on. 

Have races with toy cars on a ramp or hill. Use these Medals to award winners. 


2. Vegetable Math Game
Do this activity after you have gone to the grocery store for real vegetables. Give your child a number card (#'s 1-6) and have them "shop" for that number of veggies at your pretend store. Once they have purchased them, have them name the vegetables and tell why they like them. Practice sorting the veggies and comparing them based on size, color, etc.




3. Create a vegetable rainbow.
Review colors with this easy craft.

Materials Needed:

- a variety of real fruits & vegetables
- pictures of fruits & vegetables from grocery store flyer, seed packets, or magazines
- letter magnets
- teddy bear counters
- large number flashcards 1-5