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All About ME
Make each child a “Book About ME” with family photos and magazine pictures of favorite things. Encourage family members to read the book with their child.
Draw and Write Together: City Sounds
Create a number chart with children by using the illustrations and text from City Lullaby. Include the numbers, the noise makers, and the descriptive sound words.
Draw and Write Together: Favorite Sounds
Have children draw a picture that shows the object that makes their favorite sound. Have them complete sentence frames to identify the sound.
Draw and Write Together: It’s a Whatchamacallit
Have children generate rhyme words as they dictate or write to complete the poem “It’s a Whatchamacallit.”
Draw and Write Together: Retell The Three Little Javelinas
Have children use puppets to retell the story.
Draw and Write Together: Sound Book
Have children collectively make a number book of sounds modeled on the book City Lullaby. Keep the book in the Writing Center for children to view.
Draw and Write Together: Sources of Sounds
Review the “Sounds We Hear” chart with children. Encourage children to share what they have learned about sound. Record any new ideas on the chart.
Draw and Write Together: Updating Our Science Notebooks
Have children draw a picture in their science notebooks and dictate an entry to go with the picture.
Draw and Write Together: We Did It!
Ask children to think of something they were afraid to do the first time. Have children draw a picture of them doing the task.
Favorite Sounds
Have children draw pictures about their favorite sounds. Ask questions about their drawings and write what they tell you under their picture.
Living Under Water
Help your child learn about animals that live in or around water by looking at pictures and imagining life under water.
Loud and Quiet Book
Have children make their own books about things that are loud and things that are quiet. Children will share their book with the class on Day 5.
Make Your Mark
Have babies explore different materials with their hands, feet, fingers, and toes to help them exercise their pre-writing muscles.
My Important People Tree
Create a family and friend tree to help your child recognize the most important people in her life.
Plants Here and There
Point out different environments plants grow in when you are out and about—such as in the park, by a pond, or in the woods.
Watch It Grow
Plant seeds with your child. Let him be responsible for watering them to help him learn what plants need to live and grow.