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

This week's theme is BOATS.  ~Boat Coloring Pages~

The vocabulary word is sail - the piece of cloth attached to a sailboat, that allows the boat to move when it catches the wind.

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

Boats by Byron Barton
Ferryboat Ride! by Anne Rockwell
Scuffy the Tugboat: And His Adventures Down the River by Gertrude Crampton
Row Row Row Your Boat by Iza Trapani (Illustrator)
Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky
Harbor by Donald Crews
This Boat by Paul Collicutt
Boat Book by Gail Gibbons
The Little Sailboat by Lois Lensky
Boats by Shana Corey

Poems that support the theme:

"My Bed is a Boat"
"My Ship and I"
both by Robert Louis Stevenson (From A Child's Garden of Verses)

Songs that support the theme:

Row Row Row Your Boat

Sailing, Sailing

A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea
(Author Unknown)
A sailor went to sea sea sea,
To see what he could see see see,
But all that he could see see see,
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea!

Gross Motor Skills Activity:  (Monday)

~Sail boats in your bathtub.

~Create a boat out of boxes or pillows or blankets in a room with space.  Then with makeshift oars, pretend to row a boat.

Fine Motor Skills Activity:  (Friday)

Paint a sea (wavy blue water on the bottom of a sheet of paper).  Glue a sailboat on the paper after the paint dries.  The boat can be made from construction paper.  Then use a piece of cloth (triangle shape) to glue on for the sail.
 

Shape/Color  (Tuesday)

This week you will teach the shape of a triangle.

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

The letter this week is the letter S.

• Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter S to color.  ~Letter Printouts~
• Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter S 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 S in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
• Post the letter S on your learning poster.

The number this week is the number 19.

• Show your child 19 objects to count, or eat 19 raisins, 19 cheerios, etc.
• Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 19 and put on your learning poster.
• Add 19 stickers to your counting book.
• Show your matching index cards for the number 19 to your child.
• Draw 19 triangles on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
• Walk around your home counting 19 of many different objects.

The nursery rhyme this week is Rub-a-Dub-Dub.  Recite often!

Rub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a tub;
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick-maker;
And all of them off to sea.