K4 Week 14: Christmas Week 1

Christmas School Week 1 Activities:

This is Week 1 of 3 of Christmas School! During the month of December, we will not introduce any new concepts, other than new numbers. The majority of the activities will be review and practice. Each day will feature a different "symbol" of Christmas, along with one craft or family fun activity, books to read, a few math and a few language arts activities. You don't have to do these in any particular order. Choose the topics you want to do! Christmas should be a time to spend making memories as a family, not worrying about learning specific new things. Learn through play and fun this month! 

Calendar Time Activities:

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 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 T, V & M Color & Tracing
- #5 & #6 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- "Learning My Phone #" Printable
- "What is the Weather Like Today?" Graph

Add these pages this week:
- #7 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- Christmas Calendar Pages for December


#7 Introduction
- Review #5 & #6. Show #7 Poster with Rhyme.
- Add 7 stickers to the #7 Template. Add to your Numbers Book.
- Color the #7 Coloring Page.

Day 1: Christmas Trees

Family Fun: Cut down & bring home your own family Christmas tree & decorate it together!

Books:

   


Craft:

Christmas Tree Cards






Math:

Roll a Christmas Tree




Christmas Tree Size Sorting


Language:

T for Tree Tracing Page

Day 2: Wreaths/ Decorations

Books:

    

Craft:

Handprint Wreath Craft

Math:

Wreath Size Sorting

Language:

This is not really a Christmas activity, but something you can work on for review all month. Just print out the Mats for the letters we've already covered:

Consonant Sound Sorting Mats

Day 3: Christmas Lights & Ornaments

Books:

  


Craft:
Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree Ornament





Math:

Christmas Lights Roll & Graph

Christmas Lights Patterns

Christmas Ornament Shape Matching



Ornament Number Cards





Language:

Letter Matching Game




Christmas Ornament Coloring Pages

Day 4: Stockings

Books:

   



Craft:

Christmas Stocking Craft (with printable)




Math:

Stocking Color by Number (Part 2)

Christmas Coloring Counting Book




How Many Stockings by the Fireplace? Game

Language:

Christmas Pre-Writing Practice Cards

Cooking Lesson 6: Counting Calories

What is a Calorie? Calories are the energy within food. A calorie is the amount of energy it takes to heat up one gram of water. The average 8-year-old girl needs about 1,500 to 1,700 calories a day.

We are going to do a little practice with calories that requires you to use some math. Look at page 12 in your workbook. There is a list of foods and how many calories are in each food. Each yellow box lists the foods you are going to (pretend to) eat in one meal. Write down the number of calories in each food in the boxes and then add them up to find the total number of calories for each meal. This will give you an idea of how many calories you usually eat each day.

Do this worksheet now, then come back to this page.

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Page 13 is similar to page 12, but it shows foods that you probably eat all the time but may not even realize they are unhealthy. After you add up the calories in these foods, you will see why they are so unhealthy. All those calories can give you a lot of fat that is hard to burn off! Do this worksheet for your homework. 

Now we are going to learn something completely unrelated to calories, but it is something exciting! We are going to learn how to use a knife. There is a little video to watch below. When you are done watching it, we will practice cutting a potato like they do, then we are going to make a Chicken Salad sandwich. There is a recipe for the Chicken Salad, but I'm going to show you how to add or change things in a recipe to make it closer to how you like it!

To print ahead of time:

pg. 12- Morning Math- Calorie Count

pg. 13- High Calorie- Low Nutrition Meals

Chicken Salad Recipe

Cooking Lesson 5: A Balanced Diet

So far we have learned how to be safe in the kitchen, and we have learned about a few of the tools and equipment we use to cook. Now, we are going to start learning a little about preparing a healthy meal. Part of being healthy means eating a "balanced diet."

A diet is the usual food and drinks a person consumes (or eats).

A balanced diet means eating the right types of food in the right amounts so that the body gets the nutrients it needs.

There are 7 nutrients in a balanced diet: 

1. carbohydrates (foods like bread, pasta/ noodles & rice)-- These are needed for growth & repair of different body functions

2. proteins (foods like meat, nuts, fish & eggs)-- These help keep your bowels working properly 

3. fats-- yes, some are good for you! Foods like butter, cheese, and oils can help you store energy.

4. vitamins- fruits, vegetables, milk, meat-- many different foods have vitamins we need to make our cells work properly

There are lots of different types of vitamins within this category.
If you look on page 11 in your Workbook, you will see a page that 
tells about some of these types of vitamins, what they do for your body and where you can find them. Look there now, then come back and finish reading. There's no quiz or anything-- I just want you to know!


5. minerals, which are found in food from plants, are also needed for energy to make cell membranes

6. water-- can also give you energy!

7. fiber (found in whole wheat grains/ breads & oatmeal)- makes body chemicals


Here is a little video that shows what you were just reading about:

Now we are going to get in the kitchen. Today we will learn how to prepare a good breakfast, with scrambled eggs, toast & sausage. The sausage is already cooked, but we will heat it up. There's no recipe to follow for this because it's really easy, but I will show you how to do it.

To print ahead of time:
"Eating Your ABC's..."

K4 Week 13: T for Thanksgiving

New Concepts:

Theme: Thanksgiving
ABC's: Letter T
Math: #6; Most vs. Fewest

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 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 X, M & V 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 T Color & Tracing
- #6 Page from Tot Time Notebook
- "1 to 20 Tracing Pages" (#1-5 only)
- Shape Tracing

Theme Activities:

1. Read a book about the first Thanksgiving.

           


2. Thanksgiving Timeline

Help child color & cut out pictures of the first Thanksgiving. Put them in order as you tell the story.
(Scroll to "Thanksgiving Party" and click on "First Thanksgiving")


3. Make pilgrim & Indian hats.

Pilgrim Hat w/ Template



Native American Headband





4. Read a book about being thankful.

     


5. Make a Thankful Box.
Make this Thankful Box craft. Have everyone in the family write down (or draw a picture of) things they are thankful for. Share them at Thanksgiving dinner.




6. Make a Thanksgiving Dinner "Wish List"
Allow child to cut out pictures from grocery store flyers of what he/ she would like to eat at Thanksgiving dinner. (Remind them of the type of things the Pilgrims might have eaten at the first Thanksgiving.) Glue the pictures onto a paper plate. (Idea here)

ABC's & Handwriting Activities:

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


2. Read a book about turkeys.

    


3. Sing the 5 Little Turkeys Poem.
Talk about the rhyming words.




4. T is for Turkey Craft
As an added touch, you could ask the child to tell you some things he/ she is thankful for and write them on each of the feathers.





5. More Letter T Activities:

Uppercase/ Lowercase T for Turkey Sorting Game




"Find the Letter T's" & "Dot the T's" (Part 3)





6. Write letter T.
Practice tracing letter T's. (Part 2)

T for Turkey Writing Practice

Math Activities:

1. #6 Introduction
- Review #4 & #5. Show #6 Poster with Rhyme.
- Add 6 stickers to the #6 Template. Add to your Numbers Book.
- Color the #6 Coloring Page.



2. Learn to play Dominoes.
Introduce Dominoes (a set that goes up to Double 6’s is fine). Play a simple matching game, lining up the Dominoes end to end with matching numbers.

Play the Domino Parking Lot game.

3. Learn to play with Dice.

Learn and practice how to roll a die with this Counting and Block Building game.

Then, play this Thanksgiving Dice Game, where you will build your own pilgrim and Indian.

4. Learn about most vs. fewest.
Now that you've learned about dice, have child roll a dice and build a tower of LEGOs or Unifix cubes with that number of blocks. Then, roll it again and build another tower. Build a third tower. Show him/ her how to compare, using words like "most," "least," or "fewest" blocks.

Do the "Roll & Count Thanksgiving" Activity in Part 5.
Talk about which row has the most and which row has the fewest.

5. Extra Math Review Activities:


Thanksgiving Number Cards (1-6)
#1- Separate the cards, hide them around the room & have child call out each number as she finds it.
#2- Have child put the cards in order from lowest to highest.
#3- Remove one number from the sequence & have child guess which number you took away.
#4- Put the correct number of Cheerios or some other manipulative onto each card.




Turkey Feather Patterns




Turkey Size Sorting (Preschool Pack)



Thanksgiving Color-by-Number (Part 4)

Independent Activities:

Thanksgiving Dot Marker Pages




Thanksgiving Pattern Block Mats

Materials Needed:

- various colors of construction paper for Pilgrim & Indian hats
- stapler
- old shoe box
- glitter glue/ paint
- paper plate
- pictures of food from grocery store flyer
- dice
- set of Double 6 Dominoes
- pattern blocks
- Dot Markers