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

This week's theme is SHEEP.  ~Sheep Coloring Page~

The vocabulary word is wool - the curly, soft, hair-like covering of a sheep.

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

The Lamb and the Butterfly by Arnold Sundgaard
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn About Wool by Teri Sloat
Sheep Don't Count Sheep by Margaret Wise Brown
Little Baa by Kim Lewis
Emma's Lamb by Kim Lewis
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw

Poems that support the theme:

Woolly Lambs
by Katrina Lybbert

Lambs,
White, woolly,
Frolicking, wobbling, bumping,
I love to count when going to sleep,
Sheep.
 

Songs that support the theme:

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Little Bo Peep
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Gross Motor Skills Activity:  (Monday)

Play hide and go seek.  Pretend you are Little Bo Peep looking for her sheep.

Fine Motor Skills Activity:  (Friday)

Glue cotton balls on a picture of a sheep.

Play "Pin the Tail on the Lamb."
 

Shape/Color  (Tuesday)

This week you will teach the shape of a heart.

• Collect 3 - 5 everyday objects in the shape of a heart... ie: jewellry, cookie cutter, toys, trinket box, make one out of felt, etc... to share with your child and discuss.
• Walk through your home looking for hearts. (Or look in a magazine.)
• Cut hearts out of playdough or cookie dough... bake the cookies!
• Put a drawing of a heart on your learning poster.

The letter this week is the letter Q.

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

The number this week is the number 17.

• Show your child 17 objects to count, or eat 17 raisins, 17 cheerios, etc.
• Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 17 and put on your learning poster.
• Add 17 stickers to your counting book.
• Show your matching index cards for the number 17 to your child.
• Draw 17 hearts on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
• Walk around your home counting 17 of many different objects.

The nursery rhyme this week is Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.  Recite often!

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.