Week 36 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: Other seeds fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown (Mark 4:8).

First Sound Identification

 Jenni clipped a clothespin to the correct beginning letter sound.

First Letter

 

 Jenni determined the missing letter and wrote it in the space.

Picture to Word Matching

 Jenni matched each picture to its name.

Growth of a Bulb Sequencing

 Jenni placed the cards in order to show how a flower grows from a bulb.

Rhyming Words

 Jenni matched the rhyming words: seeds/weeds; soil/boil; pots/dots; hose/nose; rake/cake; rain/cane.

Subtraction

Subtraction printable found here

 Addition

 Addition printables found here

Measurement

 Jenni cut each strip of construction paper into two parts (that were not equal), compared the length of the pieces and glued them onto the appropriate side of the chart.

Telling Time

 Jenni reviewed time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour. My favorite is when she reads the clocks in our house telling me that it's past Joshua's nap time or bed time. Funny because they typically go to sleep at the same time.

Counting Money

 Jenni reviewed pennies, dimes and nickels. She also practiced "buying" grocery items with dimes to $1.00 and nickels to $0.25.

My sweet eager learner during her last week of Pre-K :)

Week 35 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it... And there was evening, and there was morning - the fifth day (Genesis 1:21, 23)

The Story About Ping (Five in a Row)
Social Studies: Geography - China

 Coloring the flag of China
 

Coloring a picture of a little boy watching boats sail on the Yangtze River

 The Story About Ping takes place along the banks of China's Yangtze river. Longer than any other river in the world except the Nile and the Amazon, the Yangtze is nearly four thousand miles long.

Writing

Jenni determined the first sound in each word and then wrote the letter.

Printable found here

Rhyming Word Match

Printable found here

Art: Duck Paper Plate Craft

 Tutorial found here

Math: Counting Skills

Jenni counted Ping's family including his mother, father, two sisters, three brothers, eleven aunts, seven uncles and forty-two cousins, making sure to not leave out Ping.

 Jenni did a few different addition problems using her counting bears as ducks. She counted how many ducks were in Ping's family, how many of his family were marching up over the bridge (mother, father and aunts), and how many of his family were left in the water (uncles and cousins).

Math: Tangrams

 Duck

 Boat

Swan

I found the tangram templates here but the templates were not sized properly so Jenni put the tangrams together on the table (rather than on top of the outline).

Science: Animal Kingdom

 In The Story About Ping Jenni was introduced to the animal kingdom by learning about ducks.

Duck Classification printable found here

Science: Buoyancy

Jenni making her predictions of which items she thought would sink or float

In the story, a little boy was swimming with a barrel attached to his back. Both the wood and the air inside the barrel helped the boy float, much like a life jacket helps Jenni in the pool. Jenni learned that both air and wood are lighter and less dense than water. We found a few things that could sink or float in a tub of water. Jenni enjoyed making predictions and then testing to see if she was right.

Printable found here

Food: Lemonade and Brownies

We drank lemonade for the yellow colored river and made brownies and worms for the mud on the banks and the worms in the mud. We had to get creative. :)

Other Math Activities

 Dominoes - identifying and matching equivalent sets, identifying doubles

 Copying geoboard designs

 Hundreds chart - counting by 1's and 10's to 100

Measuring length using nonstandard units

Using the balance to compare weight

 Ordinal position - 1st - 5th

 Counting by 5's to 50

 Jenni writing the date

Week 34 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky." ...And there was evening and there was morning - the fifth day (Genesis 1:20, 23).

Night of the Moonjellies (Five in a Row)
Social Studies: Geography - New England

New England states printable found here
The book was set in a New England town by the sea.The six states that make up New England: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Social Studies: Introduction to Running a Small Business

In the story Night of the Moonjellies, a seven-year-old boy helps out his relatives in their small family-owned restaurant business. We discussed qualities that would be important in running a small restaurant (keeping a clean establishment, being cheerful, working hard, etc.). We also discussed different activities the owners would have to deal with (purchasing food and supplies, hiring help, etc.). I asked Jenni to think about a type of business she might like to run. She wasn't quite so sure about running a restaurant but she did think it could be neat to own a flower shop. :)

Social Studies: Responsibility

Responsibility printable found here

The seven-year-old boy is responsible for filling the catsup, mustard, and relish containers, refilling the straw and napkin holders, cleaning up the yard, stacking the hamburgers between pieces of wax paper, cranking open the umbrellas, and a few other tasks at the family's restaurant. Jenni thought of a few of her responsibilities at home like cleaning her bedroom, picking up toys, helping Joshua pick up his bedroom, helping clean the bathrooms, setting the dinner table, washing off the table after meals, etc. Both Mark and Jenni do their jobs carefully and cheerfully.

Social Studies: Life Near the Sea

Life Near the Sea printable found here

In Jenni's "Life Near the Sea" flap book she answered several questions - what can you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch at the sea.

Language: Contrast

We re-read the portion of the story where the customers are crowding and the radios are blaring, horns beeping, etc. Then we re-read the description of the thousands of moonjellies stretched along the sea in every direction, as Mark and his grandmother stand on the deck and watch the shimmering sea. The scenarios are opposite of each other: one frenzied and one more peaceful. We discussed the contrast in color, words, and feelings of the story. Jenni appreciated the peacefulness of the ocean the most.

Punctuation-Italics

The names of ships and boats are underlined in handwriting and set in italics in printed type. Jenni noticed the fisherman in the story that transports the moonjelly to its home has a boat named the Periwinkle.

Vocabulary

We added a few words to our vocabulary file box. On the front of the card is the word and definition. On the back is the word in a sentence from the story.

Make a List: Food

We saw how many of the food items that were mentioned in Night of the Moonjellies that J could remember. She made a list and drew pictures next to a few of the words that she felt comfortable drawing by herself.

Writing

"Under the Sea" printable found here

Rhyming Word Match

Rhyming printable found here

Art: Medium - Pastels

 Jenni first drew and colored the boat.

 She enjoyed experimenting with the different shades of pastels and layering the colors in the ocean.

Jenni was excited to work with oil pastels for this activity. After she finished the water she drew white circles for the jellyfish lighting up the ocean.

Art: Warm Palette

Jenni learned that yellows, oranges, and reds symbolize warmth and artists use these colors to help us see and virtually feel the heat.

Color by Number

 

Starfish printable found here

Math: Learning About Money

Jenni reviewed money. She counted the coins and matched the coins to the amount written.

Science: Moonjellyfish

 Moonjellies are the most common jellyfish. They are disk-shaped, white or bluish marine animals, and are found along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Sea jellies are boneless, brainless and heartless, and are made almost entirely of water. We discussed that animals that live in water, need water to survive. Animals that live in salt water need salt water, and animals that live in fresh water need fresh water to live.

Science: Biome - Aquatic

 Jenni learned that a biome is the distinctive group of plants and animals that live in a particular geographic region defined by climate. In this story we saw or read about: star fish, see gulls, jellyfish, clams, and lobsters. We drew and colored a picture of life by the sea and included some of the animals, plants, and birds that might be there.

Dinner: Cheeseburger, French Fries and Orange Soda (and Finding Nemo!)

Mar-Gra's was a seaside hot dog stand that served many yummy foods, including burgers, fries and orange sodas. We enjoyed eating our dinner and watching a bit of Finding Nemo.

Snack: Chocolate Milkshakes and Popcorn

 Mar-Gra's also served chocolate shakes and brought out the popcorn machine at nighttime.