Y is for Yee-haw!

Wear Cowboy hats today!

Song: Ten Little Cowgirls

Letter Y Activities
-Y handwriting page
-Form Y with your body
-introduce sound Y makes (yo-yo, yogurt, yes, year, yay, yarn, yeehaw, yellow)
-Y Echo Expressions (do these things and the girls echo it)- yodel, yawn, yeehaw, yell, [b]Y[u] cheer, "yummy", yuck, yipee!, yay, yes, yahoo!

Yee-haw Cowgirl Activities
-Wear cowgirl hats, gallop & Lasso the letter Y and numbers (numbers/letters drawn with chalk on sidealk, then "throw" yarn circle)
-Read Cowgirl story Hip Hip Hurray for Annie McRae by Brad Wilcox  . Talk about choosing to be happy. (Attitude)
-TEXAS or WESTERN words- go over words/pictures
-Cowboy letter matchup

Bandana Lunch (lunchables inside bandanas) & Yogurt smoothies

X Marks the Spot

Circle Time

• Music: Sing songs while playing the xylophone
• Story: Look for the letter X
• Circle the X's worksheet 
• Practice writing X's on the waterdoodle

Activites

• Letter X body tracing with sidewalk chalk
• Make our own newspaper "EXTRA! EXTRA" read all about it
• Forecast
• What news from home?
• Comics
• Upcoming events
• Crossword puzzle/Tic-tac-toe
• Pictures
• Follow the treasure map (X marks the spot) Practice following a map and counting steps
• Alphabet Review: Put together alphabet train puzzle and practice the sounds the letter make

Lunch:

A picnic will be the treasure that they find at the end of the treasure hunt.

http://www.teachpreschool.org/2012/06/a-year-long-study-of-the-alphabet/

W is for Water

Letter W Activities-"Whisper, Whisper, Wh, wh. wh" to practice sound.
-W Sound Practice- pull out w objects from bag. (watch, water, window, watermelon, weather, whale, walrus, wood)
-Letter W (whale) Handwriting Practice Page

Water Activities
-Show globe or picture of earth- point out oceans of water!
-What do you do with water? (might say/suggest swim, bathe, drink, sprinklers, make food, fish swim, beach, fountains, clean clothes, brush teeth, plants need to grow)
-Water Exploration: Sink or Float Activity (in tub of water, drop things in to see if they sink or float,
very simplified versions of these 1st grade lesson plans 1, 2)
-Paint with Water (craft brush, water, construction paper or on sidewalk)
-Watermelon Counting w/ chocolate chips
-Ocean in a bottle
-Free Water Play- measuring cups, funnels, bowls
-Whales- watch part of video of Sea World Shamu Show

Lunch: Waffles

V is for Vanilla Icecream

Paper Bag Vests Take a paper bag, and cut a straight line in the middle of the front from the top to the bottom. The bottom of the bag will be the top of the vest. Cut out the neck and holes for your childs arms. Let your child decorate, and wear.


Pretend to be a Veterinarian Provide your children with stuffed dogs, play stethoscopes, and bandages for the children to play with.


Create a video Have the children create a video, they can sing their favorite songs or act out their favorite books. Then invite the parents to come in to view the video.

Vacuum Have the children pretend to vacuum the floor. You can add a toy vacuum or a old dustbuster or bissel to the dramatic play area. 

Lunch:
Sandwiches
Veggie Tray Serve a variety of different veggies with your favorite dip, or a variety of different dips. 
Make Vanilla Ice Cream Ingredients for two servings:
1/2 c milk (white or chocolate)
1 T. sugar
1/4 t vanilla
Place all ingredients into a pint-sized Freezer baggie and seal. In a gallon size Freezer baggie fill 1/2 way with ice and add 6 T. of rock salt on top of ice Place pint size baggie inside gallon size baggie and seal tight! Have the children shake the bags. It will become a solid in about 4 minutes.

Volcano Fun Place a small paper cup in a pie tin. Use playdough or clay around the cup to form a volcano. Place a tablespoon of baking soda in the cup, then let the children take turns adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the volcano. 

Practice Writing Letter V http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/phonics/K4A_ZHandwriting.pdf

Valentines in July Make Valentines to give to family and friends

U is for Umbrella

1. Circle TimeQ&A, Calendar & Counting, Alphabet with new letter
Song: It's Raining, It's Pouring

2. U Activities
-Use fingers to trace dry erase letter U's already written on board
-U handwriting page
-Words: up, umbrella, under, underwear, upside down, uncle

3. Umbrella Activities
-Umbrella Craft
-"Don't Get Wet!" Girls use umbrellas while spray rain with hose
-Read book Umbrella by Jan Brett under umbrellas
-Cutting practice page

-Umbrella Snack /or part of lunch


4. Other U Activities
- Eat lunch UNDER the table
-Listen to The Little Mermaid story, an Under the Sea tale

T is for Transportation

Circle time

• Watch Sesame Street "I'm the letter T" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4J_7jfck7Y
•  Sing "transportation" songs (Wheels on the bus, Choo choo choo, Row row row your boat)
• Act out transportation (airplane, train, etc) using "This is the story 'bout Kate/Katie" song
• Practice writing T's  http://twistynoodle.com/t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-13-worksheet/

Activities

• Decorate paper boats http://www.laits.utexas.edu/hebrew/personal/toolbox/acm/boat/boat.html
• Make shape Trains: Talk about different shapes, number of sides, angles, etc
• "Car" wash - Use ride-on toys as cars, drive on the sidewalk through the sprinklers, wash with sponges and buckets

Lunch

• Toasted cheese Triangles

S is for Shapes

Circle Time

1. Letter S Activities
-Make S with playdough
-Trace S with finger, handwriting S worksheet
- Letter Recognition: "I Spy" (Go searching for letter S)

2. Shapes Activities
-Do Shape puzzles
-Teach Shapes (circle, oval, square, rectangle, star, triangle, hexagon, diamond/rhombus)
-Shape Sort - put like shapes in same piles (example pic with construction paper)
-Pattern Block pictures
-Shapes computer games on pbs.org

3. Other S Activities
-Sandwiches in shapes for lunch
-Sing songs
-run in the Sprinkler

R is for Rainbow

Circle Time

Song:
If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops...
If all the snowflakes were cupcakes and milkshakes...
If all the sunbeams were jellybeans and icecreams..

Rain maker hand game


Letter R Writing Worksheet
http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/r4.htm

Rock Collection

• Collect rocks from the park
• Clean and paint rocks
• Choose a special rock to be a Prayer Rock

Lunch
Rainbow Plate: Stawberries, Carrots, Banana, Edamame, Blueberries, Grapes
Meatballs and Pasta


Paper Rectangle Rainbow

Q is for Quiet

1. Letter Q
-Watch a few Sesame Street videos on Q from this list on bottom of website (Q Tutu and Queen Quagmire, Q Quickie)
-handwriting page with Quiet poem (from here-more letters)
-Quick, quiet, queen, quetzel, quail, question


2. Q Activities
-Quiet & Loud Sort using these cards
-What times are we quiet? (baby sleeping, church, listening, reading a book, watch movie, playing hide & go seek)
-Q tip Art
-Quarter counting and quarter rubbing
-Quilt- make a quilt with cut paper. practice using glue)  or Q quilt

3. Meal
-Quesadillas

P is for Princess Party

Circle Time:

• Princess Story
• Practice Printing P's http://www.kidslearningstation.com/alphabet/traceable-alphabet-letter-p.htm
• What do princesses do at a party?

Party Time:

1. Dance the Polka
2. Pedicures- Paint those Piggies!
3. Put together Puzzles
4. Paint Pictures http://funschool.kaboose.com/images/printables/princesses_coloring_01.pdf
5. Eat Pizza, Purple Punch (grape juice), Peaches and Popsicles

Take home:

•  Presents (Purple Pops)

O is for Olympics

Opening
-Q&A, Calendar, Song: Open Shut

O Activities
-letter O looks like/sounds like  page
-make O bracelet with O shaped beads (pony beads)
-O handwriting page w letter search (circle O's)
-write O's with chalk
-Read Cheerios Counting Book and eat cheerios
-Opposites (high-low, tall-short, big-small, open-shut, fast-slow, loud-quiet, old-young, few-many, back-front, up-down). Act them out.

Olympic Games Activities
-Olympic Flag Coloring page,
-Do Olympic outside activities like running, long jump, "swimming", gymnastics & give them medal to wear after
-Look at Olympic website

M is for Magnets

Circle Time

• Get to Know You Question, Calendar

Letter M

• Find M on alphabet chart
• Form capital M with sticks
• Form lowercase m with yarn
• Writing practice- M page, MOM
• M & K sort- sort pictures, which things start with M or K?

Magnet Activities

• Magnet exploration with magnets, paperclips, washers, non-metallic items. Use clear plastic box lids and move washers (with stickers on them) on the top by moving magnets underneath.
• Match the animal magnets (animals printed & cut from magnetic page) on the board
• magnetic fishing (use stick, string with magnet on end. Go fishing for fish with paperclips on them) Have fish with numbers or letters on them to practice number or letter recognition.

Other M Activities

• Eat Macaroni for lunch
• Glue Macaroni on letter M
• Dance to MUSIC
• Memory or Matching Game
• More magnet play
• Mail a letter in the Mailbox
• Do puzzle with Animal Mom & Baby matches

L is for Languages

Morning Meeting Time:

• How do you feel? Can you show how you feel without using any words? Try different body language to show different emotions. (Use feelings worksheets)
• Let's do it in Spanish. Talk about feelings in Spanish.
• Discuss how people in different parts of the world speak different languages to communicate.
• Show map and point to different regions and say "hello" in the different languages
• Explain that some people don't speak, but use signs to communicate. Watch a signingtime youtube clip.

Table Time:

• Letter "Ll" practice worksheet.
• Finger Puppet Language activity.
• Learn the Spanish word and Sign Language for Lion, Bear, Turtle, Rat, Elephant, Bird, Frog, Rabbit

Activity:

• Finger puppet gloves.

K is for Katie & Kate

Letter K Activities

• Find K on alphabet chart
• trace Rainbow K
• trace K in their names

All About Me Book

• Make book using photos I took & printed earlier of girls. Then add pages, each with something about them. Used $1 photo albums from Walmart.

-write name
-measure height
-measure weight
-color your own picture
-favorite color
-favorite foods
-I can count to 12
-I am a child of God (how to:coloring page using photo)
-I have a family
-I am 2 years old.
-Activities I like to do
-I live in Texas.

I is for Insect

Morning Mtg

• Bean Bag Q&A, Calendar, Song- Ants Go Marching

Letter I Activities

• find I on alphabet chart
• make letter I with popscicle sticks
• trace letter i on tracing page

Insect Activities

• An Insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs & attenaes. (Use first 4 pages from this book. Have these 4 cards on 4 craft sticks in grass for kids to find)
•  Look at photo examples of insects from variety of library books.
• Sort pictures of insects/not insect pictures
• make pattern block insects (bee, dragonfly, butterfly)
• ART: egg carton insects (egg carton & pipe cleaners)
• Snack: Buttefly snack bag
• Go outside to find insects

H is for Habitat

Circle Time

• What is a Habitat? What is your habitat? Match different Animals to their Homes.
• Look at Animal Habitats online http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature
• Story time

Table Activities

• Paint Birdhouses

Outside Activities

• Picnic at the Park
• Observe Animal Habitats

Other "H" Activities

• Hopscotch
• Play House

G is for Garden

1. Circle Time

• Beanbag Question, "What is your favorite color?"
• Calendar
• Mary Mary Quite Contrary Nursery Rhyme

2. Letter G

• Trace G on paper, then on "green goo"
• eat grapes & goldfish
• Letter Gg Page to glue & glitter
• G recognition- color all the Gs a gold

3. Garden Activities

• Pattern Block flowers- make flowers with pattern blocks (1, 2)
• grow grass in a cup or plant seeds
• read Planting a Rainbow
• A garden is...  A garden needs....
• take a walk and look for gardens
• Paint garden suncatchers

F is for Frog

Morning Meeting/Circle Time

• Today's Letter - Ff
• Let's check the weather. Dress paper dolls accordingly.
• Sing: Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Letter "F" Scavenger Hunt (Fence, Flowers, Fork, Fairy, Farm)

Table Activities

• Trace the letter F
• Frog Life Cycle

Lunch

• Make Letter "F" Pancakes

Other Activities

• Musical "Lilypads"
• Frisbee

E is for Egg

1. Morning Meeting

• Beanbag Question- "What do you like to play outside/inside?"
• Calendar- month, days & today
• Song- "Fun To Do"

2. Letter Lesson

• E looks like- E writing trace E with finger
• E sounds like - egg, elephant, envelope & Easter, eagle, ear
• E recognition- match capital and lowercase Ee on egg shapes
• prewriting page from Over the Big Moon pkt, pg 3

3.Egg Activities

• Math: sequencing, order egg shapes smallest to largest (pg 10)
• Play: Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme & Humpty Dumpty finger puppets for fingerplay
• Music: slow, medium, fast rhythms with egg shakers (beans, rice, flour inside)
• Art: Color egg book (pg 30-33)
• Bubbles with Easter Egg bubble wand

D is for Duck

Morning Meeting/Circle Time:

• Introduce the letter "D"
• Story: Little Quack by Lauren Thompson
• five little ducks song

Table Activities:

• Drawing worksheets
• Decorate letter "D" like a duck with feathers and yellow dots
• Make fingerprint ducks

Snack:

• Make Cornflake and Marshmallow Duck Egg Nests

Lunch

• Sandwiches shaped with Duck cookie cutter

Activities:

• Feed the ducks at the park
• Play with Rubber Ducks in wading pool
• Duck, Duck, Goose
• Dance: move like a duck, dog, dinosaur, donkey, etc.

 

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C is for Cupcake

1. Morning Mtg/Circle Time:

• Bean Bag Get-to-know-you question "What is your favorite cupcake flavor?"
• Calendar (intro- this is calendar, month is..., days of week are..., today is...)
• Song: "Fun To Do"

2. Letter Lesson:

• Introduce Letter C- shape & sound
• Letter recognition activity: "Letter Pick Up" Scatter paper letters on floor (lots of letter C plus a few others) and have the girls go find all of the letter C's and bring them back.
• Writing activity: "Rainbow Letter" Trace large letter C with each rainbow color
• C Page. Glue pictures of C things on page.

3. Book/Activity

• Read: Either If You Give a Cat a Cupcake or Pinkalicious
• Felt Cupcakes- (Colors & Counting Practice) Let them play first, then prompt them to make specific cupcakes by changing cupcake & frosting colors, counting sprinkles. (ie: Make a pink cupcake. Add blue frosting. Add 2 sprinkles.)

4. Left/Right Practice

• Sing Hokey Pokey with right & left hands. Possibly add a scarf or ribbon to hold in right hand.

B is for Body

1. Morning Meeting/Circle Time

• Introduce today’s letter: Bb
• Weather: Bright? Blustery? Blowing? Beautiful? (Dress paper dolls accordingly)
• Body starts with the letter B.
• Story:
• Sing: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

2. Table Work

• Butterfly Worksheet
• Phonics Worksheet
• Itsy Bitsy Letter B Book

3. Left and Right Activities

• Finger paint: Left hand one color, Right hand another color (Same with feet)
• Hokey Pokey: Put a colored sticker or mark on each child's hand to designate left and right. Play the Hokey Pokey encouraging proper use of left and right. Consider simply saying the color the first few times. Play several times throughout the week.

4. Blue Balloons

• Try to keep the balloons from touching the floor. Try hitting it with different body parts (head, knee, elbow, feet, etc.)