School Day #91
Good morning, Kindergarten students and parents! Welcome to Week 5 of online Trinity School classes. Keep up the great work!
Enjoy Day #91 of school!
- Morning Prayer – 10 minutes
Materials
- Morning Prayer booklet
- Psalm 4 sheet
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness lyric sheet
To start Morning Prayer, just press play on the audio bar below. We invite you to participate alongside your child.
- Motor Lab Stretches – 5 minutes
Materials
- Soft ball that child can roll using one hand (tennis ball, small plastic basketball, etc)
Key Activity: Do 3 Supermans with your child.
Motor Lab Activity: Today we will do a new activity called Finger Ball Roll. This activity helps the child experience full body tactile stimulation.
Have your child sit on the floor with their legs spread apart. Using a soft ball, have them place the ball near their right foot with their right hand.
With control, have them roll the ball using only their fingers over their leg, up the side of their body, over their shoulder, then their head, and then down the opposite side of their body toward the opposite side of their body toward their opposite foot.
Have them change hands and use the same rolling pattern to return to the starting foot.
Review the 4 Key Activity stretches here if you need a refresher.
- Calendar and Weather Activities – 10 minutes
Materials
- Calendar Packet
Review the calendar OR weather portion with your child. OR, if they are interested, complete the whole thing! Experiment with what activities and what timing work best for your family.
- Phonics – 15 minutes
Materials
- Capital letter W craft sheet
- Crayons
- Small pieces of yarn
- Glue
Click the video below and watch along with your child.
Work on the capital W craft sheet with your child! We will be collecting this sheet on Friday.
- Math – 15 minutes
Materials
- Abacus
- Worksheet 19
- Pencil
Click the video below and watch along with your child.
Prompt your child to work on the first 4 problems on Worksheet 19. If they want to finish it, they can OR you can save it for a warm-up before tomorrow’s math game!
- Music – Folk Songs – 5 – 10 minutes
Dance and sing along to the chorus and the first two verses of This Land Is Your Land. You can read the lyrics here.
Folk Song Tip: Listen to either Home on the Range or Alligator Hedgehog or both during snack or after lunch!
- Free Play – 30 minutes
- Handwriting – 10 minutes
Materials
- Letter V Sheet and 2 Cardstock pieces
- Letter V Script
- Optional: Play-dough, spaghetti noodles, shaving cream, etc.
Please set up your child’s letter V sheet and cardstock pieces like this:
Once you are set up, click the video and watch along with your child.
Spend the next 5 minutes of the lesson practicing writing the letter V with your child using their finger. They will enjoy writing on soft, squishy or hard surfaces or even your back! You can also use play-dough, spaghetti noodles or shaving cream to practice writing the letter V.
- Doing Words – 5 minutes
Materials
- Tan lined strip of paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
Complete another Doing Words exercise with your child. See this video for a demonstration by Erica and Zenie.
- Recitation – Poem – 5 – 10 minutes
Ask your child if they remember the name of the poem they started last week. Prompt them to say the first stanza, starting with “Bright stars, light stars…”
Then read the second stanza to them, prompting them to listen for more rhyming words (red & bed).
Read them the second stanza again and see if they can fill in some of the words for you! (Example: Yellow stars, ____stars.) Review an old poem and then move on to the next lesson.
Poetry Tip: Revisit Jump or Jiggle and The Little Turtle if you have extra time. Make sure you ask your child to recite them on their own!
- Nature Study – 15 minutes
Materials
- Nature Study page from materials packet
- Pencil for writing the date and the name of the specimen
- Water colors, colored pencils, crayons or charcoal
This week, review your child’s drawing with them and label at least three features that they notice. Use arrows! See the picture below for examples:
We will be collecting this drawing on Friday at materials pick-up and pasting it into their school Nature Journal.
- Literature – 15 minutes
Ask your child what they remember about the “expotition” to the North Pole!
Then listen along as Mrs. Resendez continues reading from The Adventures of Winnie-The-Pooh, Chapter 8: In Which Christopher Robin Leads An Expotition to the North Pole.
Keep up the good work, Trinity School families! It is so fun to review the worksheets and art that you are returning to school each Friday. Our portfolios are looking better and better.
As always, reading with your child in the evenings is a great way to grow their mental word bank and fluency, and they may want to show their Everything Math Card Deck to a parent or sibling after dinner!
If you find yourselves with more free time, please refer to our Additional Resources page for some great websites to explore.
See you tomorrow for School Day #92.