Language Arts

The sound this week is the consonant blend /nt/ as found at the end of print.
Emphasize the /nt/ sound often throughout the day.  Have your child repeat the sound with you.

Put up your sound wall poster.

The main theme for the week is:  Printing

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints by Diana Pomeroy
Breaking into Print: Before and After the Invention of the Printing Press by Stephen Krensky
Gutenberg's Gift by Nancy Willard
The Usborne Book of Printing by Ray Gibson
Gutenberg by Leonard Everett Fisher
The Story of Writing and Printing by Anita Ganeri
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press by Bruce Koscielniak
Get set...Go! Printing by Ruth Thomson
Make Prints! by Kim Solga
Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book by Ed Emberley
Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book by Ed Emberley

Poems that support the theme:

"Potato Prints"
adapted by Katrina Lybbert

One potato print, two potato prints, three potato prints, four;
Five potato prints, six potato prints, seven potato prints, more!

Songs that support the theme:

Printing, Painting Day
by Katrina Lybbert

(Sung to the tune: Here we go round the Mulberry Bush)

This is the way we paint and print,
Paint and print, paint and print;
This is the way we paint and print,
This printing, painting day.

I love to see my fingerprints,
fingerprints, fingerprints;
I love to see my fingerprints,
This printing, painting day.

I show my painting to my aunt,
To my aunt, to my aunt;
I show my painting to my aunt,
This printing, painting day.

This is the way we paint and print,
Paint and print, paint and print;
This is the way we paint and print,
This printing, painting day.
 

Handwriting Assignments:

Day 1:  Practice writing the letter "n" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 2:  Practice writing the letter "t" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 3:  Practice writing the consonant blend "nt" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 4:  Practice writing the word "print" one or two times.

Day 5:  Practice writing any of the other theme words one or two times.
 

Activities and/or Art Projects

Fingerpaint Leaf Prints

In some of the books listed above there are many ideas for making prints.

You could try potato printing, fingerprinting (with finger paint), and so on.

Printing --- in other words --- handwriting, can be practiced in a variety of ways.  Try using felt markers, stamp pads with alphabet rubber stamps, painting and so on.

Take a field trip to a newspaper printing plant.
 

Other Theme Words and Ideas

Other theme words - ant, aunt, plant, mint, went, sent, cent, count, elephant, tent, hunt, consonant, paint

Books to read aloud that support the other theme words or the consonant blend /nt/:

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes
The Ant and the Elephant by Bill Peet
Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent by Bill Peet
Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno

Poems that support the other theme words or the consonant blend /nt/:

"For Want of a Nail - Rebus Rhymes"
"The Ants Go Marching" - Rebus Rhymes

Songs that support the other theme words or the consonant blend /nt/:

"The Ants Go Marching"
"Go Tell Aunt Rhody"
"The Elephant Goes"
"The Horse Went Around"
"Let's Plant a Garden"