Weekly Theme  (Start Monday, continue with the theme all week)

This week's theme is the SUN.  ~Sun Pictures/Printouts~

The vocabulary word is ray - a beam of light.

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

The Sun: Our Nearest Star by Franklyn M. Branley
What Can You Do in the Sun? by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven
Sun Up, Sun Down by Gail Gibbons
The Sun is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch

Poems that support the theme:

The Sun Shines Down
by Katrina Lybbert

The sun shines down on me,
On flowers, grass, and a bumblebee.

The sun shines down on you,
On trees, birds, and lakes so blue.

The sun shines down on everyone,
How happy we are to play in the sun!

Songs that support the theme:

One Light, One Sun  (Raffi)
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

Songs on the Kididdle's Site:

Mister Sun
The Sunshine
Can You Be a Sunbeam?

Gross Motor Skills Activity:  (Monday)

Play outside in the sun.  If Monday is not sunny, wait till another day of the week.  Talk about how the sun makes it warm and nice to be outside.

Fine Motor Skills Activity:  (Friday)

Paint a yellow sun!  You could paint the circle and then let your child paint the rays with finger paint.
 

Shape/Color  (Tuesday)

This week you will teach the color yellow.

• Introduce the color by coloring in the star (previous week's shape) on your learning poster with a yellow crayon.
• Put on a yellow article of clothing.
• Point out objects around your home of the color yellow.
• Add the color to a meal by choosing a yellow food, or using a plate, cup, or utensil of the color yellow.
• Let your child color in a coloring book or on a printout using a yellow crayon.

The letter this week is the letter H.

• Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter H to color.  ~Letter Printouts~
• Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter H using her finger.  You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.
• Point out the letter H in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
• Post the letter H on your learning poster.

The number this week is the number 8.

• Show your child 8 objects to count, or eat 8 crackers, 8 cheerios, etc.
• Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 8 and put on your learning poster.
• Add 8 stickers to your counting book.
• Show your matching index cards for the number 8 to your child.
• Draw 8 stars on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
• Walk around your home counting 8 of many different objects.

The nursery rhyme this week is Hickory Dickory Dock.  Recite often!

Hickory, dickory, dock!
The mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.