Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Bible story

We do this once a week during the week end!


Book of Genesis: Chapter 1(Children's Version)In the beginning...
In the beginning there was no earth or sky or sea or animals. And then God spoke in the darkness: “Let there be light!” And right away there was light, scattering the darkness and showing the infinite space. “That’s good!” said God. “From now on, when it’s dark it will be ‘night” and when it’s light, it will be ‘day’.”
The evening came and the night passed and then the light returned. That was the first day.
On the second day, God made the earth and over it He carefully hung a vast blue sky. He stood back and admired His creation. “That’s good too!” said God and the second day was over.
The next morning God looked around and thought, “the earth needs to be a bit more organized.” So, He put all the water in one place and all the dry land in another. When He had finished that, God made plants to cover the land. Dandelions and daffodils appeared. All sorts of trees and grasses began to grow. “It’s looking great”, said God and that was the end of the third day.
On the fourth day, God looked around and though, “the daylight still needs a bit more work and the night is just too dark.” So, He made the sun to light the sky during the day and the moon and stars to add a bit of sparkle to the night. He hung them in the sky and stepped back to look at his work. “This is coming along very well,” said God.
The next day, God turned his attention to the water he had collected in the oceans. “I want these waters teeming with life!” As soon as He said it, it was so. In no time, there were millions of small fish darting through the shallow water and huge fish swimming in the ocean. God made birds, too. He sent them soaring through the air. “Ahh, that IS good!, “said God. The dusk fell over the water and the sky grew dark and that was the end of the fifth day.
On the sixth day, God added creatures to the land. He made lions and tigers and bears. He made rabbits and sheep and cows. He added everything from ants to zebras to the land. But He still felt something was missing. So God added Mankind to enjoy and take care of all that He had created. God looked around and was happy with all He had made.
After six days, the whole universe was completed. On the seventh day God had a nice long rest and enjoyed looking at all He had made.
Coloring pages
http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday1.gif http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday2.gif
http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday3.gif http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday4.gif http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday5.gif http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday6.gif http://www.coloring.ws/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.coloring.ws/bible/youngday7.gif


Worksheets



Song
Creation Song(recite or sing to the tune of I'm a Little Teapot)
God made day and God made night,He split the darkness from the light.God made you and God made me,And God made the animals A thru Z.
God made the seas and the dry land too,He made the flowers and the sky so blue.God made you and God made me,And God made the animals A thru Z.
God made the stars shining way up high,He made the birds and put them in the sky.God made you and God made me,And God made the animals A thru Z.
God made the sun and God made the moon,He made the ants and the silly baboon.God made you and God made me,And God made the animals A thru Z.

'B' Week

'B' WEEK

Baby
WHAT WE DID


ACTIVITIES: Sharon had fun playing with Bubbles.


BODY: We picked our Backs as the body part for B week. We did some simple exercises stretching our backs and then Mommy gave Sharon a Back rub.


CRAFTS:
Photo frame: We glued baby photos in one of the frames put a recent picture next to her baby picture to compare.
Made baby foot prints: METHOD:Have the child make a fist. Apply paint to the side of their fist closest to the pinky finger. Have them press their fist to a piece of paper. That will make the main part of the foot. Now using their index finger dipped in paint, make the five small toes.

Collage: We cut out pictures of babies from magazines. Asked Sharon to describe what the baby was doing, what it looks like and made up a story about the baby. I wrote what Sharon said about the picture and read it back. We circled the word ‘baby’.
Memory Handprint:
What You Need:
1 Cup Flour
1 Cup Salt
Water
Food Coloring (optional)
What You Do:
Mix flour and salt, add enough water to get a firm clay-like mixture. Remove 1/2 cup of dough and press it into a circular shape on a lightly greased cookie sheet. It should be large enough for a child's hand or foot to fit onto with the fingers or toes spread out. Push child's hand or foot firmly into dough. Let dough dry for several weeks or put in oven at 225 degrees for 2 to 4 hours, depending on the thickness of the dough.
Coloring pages:
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/coloringpages/coloringviewer/coloringviewer.php?file=Baby
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/babies/viewer.php?file=Rattle.jpg Rattle: Sharon made a Rattle for Jason she put some paper clips, beads in an old cold medicine bottle and decorated it.
Made the B template so that she can learn the alphabet

LANGUAGE: Talked to her about the letter Bb. Told her that ‘Baby’ starts with the letter B. Then I made her spell the word ‘Baby’ that I had hung up.
Read her a nice story about Baby.
Finger and Pencil Tracing
Got a book from library and read a nice story for her about being a big sister.
Showed this story to Sharon
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/activities/babystory.asp?themeid=7

MUSIC / SMALL MUSCLE:
Listened to you tube song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQfNfJSRajA

SCIENCE /LARGE MUSCLE:
GAME
Had her crawl like a baby.

SCIENCE:
We talked about diapers and their use. I explained that the "fluffy stuff" helps absorb the liquid. I took apart a new disposable diaper and let the children feel "fluff". I then put some of the stuff in a tall drinking glass or vase, about 1/3 full compressing it down. I slowly poured water into the glass, adding about 1 cup. I then slowly turned the glass over asking "Where did all the water go?" Gave it to her so she could feel it.
Baby Sensory
Brought in baby oil, baby lotion and baby powder. Let Sharon apply it for baby.


FOOD: Go bananas


ACTIVITY WORKSHEETS

Alphabet recognition
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/abc/abc-recog.asp

The Alphabet Matching Game
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/abc/match/t_match.asp?t=print&p=theme/winter/winter.asp&l=a&f=basic
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/abc/match/t_match.asp?t=print&p=theme/winter/winter.asp&l=b&f=basic

Hidden Letter Worksheets
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/b-color1.htm

Beginning Consonant Sounds
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/b.gif

Dynamic Lines Worksheets:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/pre-print/pre-print-horizontal.htm

Colors Recognition Practice, Single Color Worksheets
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-green1.htm

Shapes Recognition Practice
Showed this before giving the worksheet
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/activities/shapesonstory.asp
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/shapes-mixed4.htm

'A' Week

Each week we have a special "letter of the week". During the week, we make crafts that feature the letter of the week and practice the upper and lower cases of the letter.

'A week'

WHAT WE DID
ACTIVITIES:
During 'A week', I took Sharon to the Amusement park. Last week end was anyways her bday, she celebrated it at the amusement park.
- Found things that started with the letter A and explained it to her at the park.




BODY: this is for her to exercise and move around.... we chose Arms as the body part for 'A week'. We did some simple exercises with our arms and worked on telling which our right arm was and which our left arm was. She had a lot of fun.

CRAFTS: Sharon painted the Alligator pic and I cut it out so that she could stick it in her alphabet book that we are making. She also made the
A-a template to help reinforce the letter shapes. She stuck the A stickers on the sheet for craft work.


LANGUAGE: Talked to her about the letter Aa. Told her that Alligator starts with the letter A. Then made her spell the word Alligator that I had hung up.
Read her a nice story about Alligator from the following web site:
http://www.storyplace.org/PRESCHOOL/activities/clydesmile.asp?themeid=5

MUSIC / SMALL MUSCLE: Sang the song 5 little monkies sitting in the tree teasing the Alligator c-a-n-'-t catch me. Learnt it from the following website
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QO2gN9NLc2I

SCIENCE /LARGE MUSCLE: Talked about how Alligators have short legs and crawl with their bellies on the ground. Talked about how strong their tail is. We also crawled like the alligators and we had loads of fun catching each other crawling on our bellies hehehe....
SCIENCE: Made shadow pictures on the wall with our hands of an alligators mouth.
FOOD: During "Aa week" I gave her some apple juice, animal crackers, apples.

ACTIVITY WORKSHEETS


Beginning Short Vowel Sounds
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/a.htm

Middle Short Vowels
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/a2.htm

Dynamic Lines Worksheets:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/t.asp?prek-linetrace.htm

Colors Recognition Practice,Single Color Worksheets
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-green1.htm

Scissor Skills,Cut and Paste - Match the Seasons
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons1.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons2.htm

Shapes Recognition Practice
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/shapes-circles.htm

Math Readiness and Number Recognition
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/math-readiness/math-sizes1.htm




Apple

BODY: this is for her to exercise and move around.... we chose Arms as the body part for 'A week'. We did some simple exercises with our arms and worked on telling which our right arm was and which our left arm was. She had a lot of fun.

CRAFTS: -Sharon colored the printed apple picture and I cut it out for her. Sharon then stuck them all together.we cut apples and dipped in paint and printed them on white sheets and stuck the seeds on them.

- Fingerprint Apple Tree
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/fingerprint_appletree.htm

-make apples with dough made at home
What You Need:
One-cup cold water
One-cup salt
Two-teaspoon vegetable oil
Three cups flour
Two tablespoons cornstarch
Tempera paint or food coloring (adjust amount for color desired)

What You Do:
Mix the water, salt, oil and paint together. Gradually work in the flour and cornstarch until you get the consistency of bread dough.

- Created an apple with her palm.
- Had Sharon paint the backsides of two paper plates red. After they dried, we stapled them together and attached green leaves. Then we put in some beans and finished stapling it. They make great apple shakers that we then used when we sang our apple songs!
LANGUAGE: Talked to her about the letter Aa. Told her that Apple starts with the letter A. Then made her spell the word 'Apple' that I had hung up.
Finger and Pencil Tracing:
Find the letter A's: Had Sharon find all the letter A's in upper and lower case on the page using the poster.
http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_clowna.htm
Read her a nice story related to apple.
Little Red House Fable
Once there was a little boy who came to visit his grandparents in a Norway. Well, the small child gets bored as their is not a lot of excitement in Norway. The boy asks his grandma what he can do. She said to go out in the town and find a round, red house that has no doors, no windows and has a star inside The little boy ponders the idea but can not figure out what he is supposed to find. She decides to go ask farmer John from next door, as he seems fairly smart. She ask farmer Scott but he can't figure it out but he has an ideal. He says, See that apple tree in my front yard, go sit under it and think lots of great ideas have come under an apple tree. So the little boy goes, sits under the tree and is about to fall asleep when out of no where a huge puff of wind comes. The tree began to sway and an apple fell out of the tree landing right next to the boy.
The boy picks up the apple looks at it, and suddenly it hits him; An apple is round, red, has not windows, no doors, but wait is there a star inside. He runs to his Grandpa and asks him to cut the apple in half and sure enough, there is a star insider the apple (at this point cut an apple in half and show the star)

MUSIC / SMALL MUSCLE:
Listened to you tube song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f-BBMXvUbnc

Sang the song
Falling Apples
(To the Tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down")
See The Apples Falling Down (Use Arm Motions, Raise hands in air)Falling down, Falling DownSee The Apples Falling DownDown To The GroundPick The Apples And Throw Them UpThrow Them Up, Throw Them UpPick The Apples And Throw Them UpUp To The Sky


SCIENCE /LARGE MUSCLE:
GAME
Bobbing For Apples(We played this game)
Put apples in a large bucket and let your kids try to get them out with their mouths. (Tip: Use real small apples or apple slices for smaller children because their mouths can not pick up a full size apple)

SCIENCE:
-Told her that Apple is a fruit. Told her that bananas, grapes and pears are all fruits.
-Also taught her how an apple grows from a seed to a tree to a fruit and then back.
Videos and pics that help illustrate the growth of an apple tree.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBCijsqxwzY&feature=related apple tree video

Colouring pages
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/apples/viewer.php?file=AppleHalfWholeEatenMy.jpg

http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/apples/viewer.php?file=upick.jpg

--Guess My Seeds
After talking about the growth of an apple tree from seed to tree to apple and back to seed show the kids an apple and let them guess the number of seeds in it. Then carefully cut open the apple and find out how many there really are.
FOOD: During "Aa week" gave her some apple juice, animal crackers, apples.

ACTIVITY WORKSHEETS

Beginning Short Vowel Sounds
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/a.htm

Middle Short Vowels
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/a2.htm

Dynamic Lines Worksheets:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/pre-print/pre-print-horizontal.htm

Colors Recognition Practice,2 Colors Worksheets
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-blue1.htm

Scissor Skills,Cut and Paste - Match the Seasons
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons1.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons2.htm

Shapes Recognition Practice
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/shapes/shapes-triangles1.htm

Math Readiness and Number Recognition
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/math-readiness/math-sizes3.htm