Fall food

AUTUMN BUTTER -

Ingredients:

* 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
* 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
* 1/4 cup whipping cream
* 1 cup butter, softened

Directions:
Mix all ingredients until well blended. Spread onto your favorite muffins, quick bread, sweet crackers, or drop a dollop onto morning pancakes.

CINNAMON BUTTER -

Ingredients:

* 2 sticks butter
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Serve over sweet bread, muffins, or morning waffles. Store tightly covered in the refrigerator.


Winnie the Pooh's Honey Pot Balls
Ingredients:
1/2 c. Peanut butter
1/2 c. Dry milk
1 T. Honey
2 T. crushed nuts

Directions:
Mix in bowl the first 3 ingredients. Mix well. Divide dough into 6 pieces. Mold each piece into a ball, sprinkle with the crushed nuts.

First Day of Autumn

Objectives:
Students will see the natural beauty in a fall leaf as they use non-traditional methods of creating leaf patterns.
What You Need:

* Construction paper
* Red, green, yellow and orange paint
* Paint brush for each color
* Safety scissors
What You Do:

1. Cover table with news print.
2. Have supplies ready and in individual trays, with paint brushes for each color.
3. Also have a sink or soapy water bucket and paper towel close at hand for clean up.
4. Have students paint one hand using each color, until the entire hand is covered.
5. Press hand on colored or white previously cut paper.
6. This technique will make some beautiful fall leaf shapes.
7. Once dried, have the students cut out their hand prints.
8. Use them to border a chalk board, or design a large "word" tree and change it through the seasons.


Objectives:
Children will learn about design in nature.
What You Need:

* Paper
* Different types of leaves
* Paint or crayons

What You Do:

1. Put the paper flat on the table and then put the leaf under the paper.
2. After you've done that, use the crayon to shade the print of the leaf on the paper.
3. If you are using paint, you put the leaf in the paint and then print in on the paper.

Angel Day

A simple way for younger children to make an angel decoration.
What You Need:

* White poster paper. (or other heavy paper)
* Scissors
* White glue.
* Magic markers.
* Cotton balls.
* Yarn or cording - gold is best.
* Glitter.

What You Do:

1. Cut one large and two smaller triangles from the poster paper.

2. Cut out a head and two hand shapes.

3. Glue the pieces together (see diagram).

4. Using the magic markers and glitter, decorate your angel.

5. Glue or tie some cording or string to the angel so it can hang as a decoration.

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Watermelon Day

What You Need:

* Red Construction Paper
* Black or Brown Paint
* Q-tips®
* Green Paint
* Real Watermelon Slice

What You Do:

1. First students draw a large triangle on a piece of red 9X13 construction paper.

2. Using a Q-tip®, they can dip into the brown or black paint and place dots onto the red paper. These dots represent the seeds.

3. Students then take a rind from a slice of watermelon (of course they have to eat the watermelon first!) and dip one side into the green paint.

4. They can then place the painted rind onto one side of the triangle - making a print.

5. Students can then cut out their "watermelon slice".





What a fun addition to your summertime picnic or party. These watermelon cookies are easy and fun and the kids will enjoy helping as well!
Ingredients:

* 3 3/4 cups all purpose flour
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 cup butter or margarine, softened (not melted!)
* 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 tsp vanilla extract
* 6 drops red food coloring
* 1 cup miniature semi sweet morsels

Directions:
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium sized bowl. Set aside.

Beat butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and red food coloring in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy. Gradually add flour mixture and stir with wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for two hours.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out circles with a cookie cutter or other round object, such as a glass or round plastic container. Place circles on ungreased cookie sheet. With a butter knife, carefully slice circle in half and separate by at least 1/2 inch to allow for expansion during baking. Gently press miniature semi sweet morsels into each semicircle.

Bake for 6-8 minutes, checking after 6 minutes. Cookies will be done when edges are lightly browned. Do not allow cookies to get too brown. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes. Remove from cookies sheets to aluminum foil on a flat surface and allow to cool completely.
Glaze

* 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
* 2 tbsp water
* 15-20 drops green food coloring

In a small bowl mix together all ingredients to form a glaze. You may add drops of water to thin glaze if it is too thick.

To decorate the cookies, roll the round end of the cookie in the glaze, allow excess to drip off into bowl. Place cookies back on foil until glaze dries. Eat!

baby/toddler

# empty water bottle, put in some coins, close very tightly, and voilà -- a brand-new rattle. (Just don't leave her alone with it!)

# Create instant bathtime fun: Hand over your turkey baster as a squirt toy; add plastic funnels for scoop-and-pour games.

# Shake, rattle, and roll. Fill a few small plastic bottles half full of water and put the caps on tightly. While you check e-mail, let your child shake 'em up -- she'll love all the splashing.

# Go for color: Give your child a medicine dropper and an ice-cube tray filled with water. Add food coloring. Let him squeeze, squirt, and mix!

# A good high-chair activity while you're cooking: Take an empty tissue box, throw in a few small objects -- a washcloth, a leaf, a toy car -- and let your child reach in and feel them. Then dump them out and put in a few different things.

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# Start a pickup game: Put crayons or markers in a small pile. Kids can try to remove one at a time without disturbing the others.

# Jazz up coloring: Print out Keith Haring's imaginative artwork

# Boost ABC fun: Print out adorable alphabet coloring pages

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# Decorate balloons. Rub one until it has a static charge. Supply your child with pieces of tissue or string to put on it, and let him see what else sticks. (Just be sure to watch him.)

# Sew fun! Punch holes in an egg carton with a pen, tape on a string of yarn, and let your child thread it through the openings.

# Stay cool with ice hockey. Tip over a small wastebasket in your driveway, toss some ice cubes on the ground, and use broomsticks to see who can score the most before the ice melts

# Leaf-peep from home. Gather fall leaves from your yard, put a piece of double-sided tape on each, and let your kid stick them on the windows.

# Start a nature scrapbook. Grab a small photo album or notebook where your child can store finds like leaves and feathers.

# Grab cookie cutters and...
- Use them for stencils
- Turn melon into stars
- Cut play dough into cool shapes.

# Stamp it. Give your child things from around the house -- blocks, a wire strainer, doll's feet -- to make impressions on play dough.

# Celebrate Easter: Lay a basket on its side, line up some plastic eggs, hand your child a broom, and play huevos hockey.

# Do 3-D painting. Save up the foam blocks from your packages for your child to paint. Kids love the odd shapes.

# Make a splash! Show your child how to soak up water from one bowl with a sponge and squeeze it into another -- silly fun in the kitchen or the backyard.

# Create a love map. Draw a big heart on paper, and ask your child what's in her heart. Jot down what she says for a great Father's Day gift.

# Toss a ball in running water -- from the hose, in a shallow stream, in the ocean. Show your child how to use a small net or strainer to catch it, then throw it back and start again!

# Make a perfect valentine stamp. Slice an apple in half, then cut a "V" shape at the bottom of one of the pieces. Have your child paint the flat surface red and stamp it onto cards.

# A quick hide-and-seek game: Stick rows of Post-it notes on a piece of paper, put a sticker under one, and let your child guess where the sticker is. Then hide another!

# Declare your floors "hot lava." Your child can move around the house only by hopping on "islands" (paper taped to the floor).

# Liven up a springtime walk. Give your child a colorful lightweight scarf to hold out of the stroller and fly like a streamer in the wind.

# Make pizza cookies. Give your child lumps of cold pizza dough so she can flatten them with a potato masher. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top, bake, and serve.

# Play mix and match. Give him a few empty plastic bottles or jars and their caps, and let him figure out which go together (just keep an eye on him)

# Have a race: Use chalk to draw a curvy course on your sidewalk for an instant trike path.

# Play laundry basketball. While you sort, hand your kids rolled-up socks and an empty trash can, and promise a kiss for every "point" they make.

# Make "movies." Create a flip book

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# Launch far-out fun. Let your child play Shuttle Tac Toe, Space Bounce, and other games at NASA Kids' Club

# Keep car trips fun:
- How high can your kids count before the next traffic light?
- Decide who'll listen for the words "new" and "old" on the radio. Whoever counts ten of her word first wins!

# Test her memory. While you do laundry, log your child on to Playkidsgames.com -- she'll have a blast clicking on lights on the turtle's shell as they come up.

# Get in the St. Paddy's Day spirit: Cover a piece of shamrock-shaped cardboard with double-sided tape. Have your child stick on green paper, leaves, and other stuff.

# Print out a Dr. Seuss game from Seussville.com

# Kick off a buggy summer! Your child can design a cool virtual insect with wings and antennae at Build-a-Bug

# Engage in fowl play. Turn an orange into a turkey: Use toothpicks to attach a cherry tomato head, raisin eyes, a baby-carrot beak, and lettuce feathers.

Rainy Day Monet

Create a "tie-dye" craft. Do the first part indoors: Grab some coffee filters and have the kids color them with markers (not washable ones), and lay them on a cookie sheet. Then put them outside in the rain and watch the colors run. Bring them inside, and after they dry, the kids can make flowers: Pinch each filter in the middle and twist, then wrap a green pipe cleaner around to make a stem.

Take your kids on a "rescue the worms" walk. (You don't have to touch 'em!) Stroll around the neighborhood and let your kids pick them up off the sidewalk and toss them back into the grass. When you're home, go to Yucky.discovery.com and search for cool info on earthworms.

Do a rainy-day Monet. Head outside with some sidewalk chalk. When it's wet, it works almost like paint!

Have a splash. Take a bunch of bath toys outdoors -- boats, buckets, cups -- and play in a puddle, or find a "stream" at the edge of the street (if you live on a safe one) and race a boat against a lightweight ball.

Make a rain catcher. If you just want to stay inside, have your child decorate a two-liter soda bottle, and measure and mark half-inches with a Sharpie. Then you cut off the top and put it outside a window where you can see it from inside. Set some fun goals: "When it gets to half an inch, we'll play a board game. When it gets to an inch, we'll make cookies..." etc.!

Ice Cream Day

Who says it has to be summertime to enjoy ice cream? Not your kids, that's for sure! Everyone loves ice cream, and what better way to beat the cold weather blues than with some cold treats?

Gather your kids around, get out the ingredients and have some fun. Don't forget to pull out all your favorite toppings. You can use anything from sprinkles to crushed candy bars to cookies.

Fresh fruit is an excellent topper for a fresh bowl of homemade vanilla ice cream. Try bananas or strawberries sliced and thrown on top. Or add them to the blender with a splash of milk for a fabulous shake.

Anything is possible. Have fun with it! Let the kids help pick the toppings and make it a fun day for everyone!
Ingredients:

* 1 cup sugar
* 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 1/2 cups milk
* 3 eggs
* 2 cups heavy or whipping cream
* 5 teaspooons vanilla extract

Directions:
In heavy, 3-quart saucepan with spoon, combine sugar, flour, and salt. In medium bowl with hand beater or wire wisk, beat eggs and milk and eggs together until well blended; stir into sugar mixture until smooth. Cook for about 15 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and coats the spoon, being sure that the custard does not boil or it will curdle; allow to cool (at room temperature).

Stir in 2 cups heavy or whipping cream and 5 teaspoons vanilla extract.

Freeze until desired consistency is reached.

Macaroni Day

BUTTERFLY ART

What You Need:

* card-stock paper
* smallest shell noodles
* curly noodles
* medium shell noodles
* bow-tie pasta
* glue

What You Do:
The children will learn about butterflies with this lesson.
The smallest noodle is the egg of the caterpillar.
The curly noodle is the caterpillar.
The medium shell noodle is the cocoon and the bow-tie pasta is the butterfly.

Carribbean Day

Drums are an important part of life and ceremony in many cultures. Here is a simple method for you and your students to create a fun sounding drum as you celebrate the cultures of the world.

What You Need:

* An empty coffee can with a plastic lid (small, large, whatever you have).
* Construction paper, glue & scissors.
* Paint or markers.
* Paintbrushes & water.
* Dowels or sticks from trees in the park.
* String, leather, feathers, beads ... any bits of scrap material you might have.

What You Do:

1. You have two options here. Either paint the coffee can with paint or cover the can with construction paper. Leave the plastic lid on the coffee can ... this will be your drum head.
2. If you cover the coffee can with construction paper, you can paint or draw designs and creatures on the coffee can. Have a look at pictures of different kinds of drums and the images found on them. (Try covering the can with aluminum foil for a neat effect.)
3. After the paint is dry, you can glue all sorts of wonderful things to your drum.
4. Using wooden dowels or simply wooden sticks, drum away on your new coffee can drum.

Holidays of June

1. Barefoot Day /Say Something Nice Day
   
2. 
   
3. Running Day
4. Donut Day
5. Trails Day
6. Drive-in Movie Day /Headache Week /Superman Week
   
7. 
   
8. World Ocean Day
9. 
   
10. Iced Tea Day
11. Corn-on-the-cob Day
12. Raggedy Ann & Andy Day
13. Ride the Wind Day / Carpenter Ant’s Week
14. Army Day /Flag Day
15. Citizenship Day
16. Nature Photography Day /Fudge Day /
17. Root Beer Day
18. 
    
19. Juneteenth/Juggling Day
20. Father’s Day/Eagle Day / Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
21. Skateboarder’s Day/Summer Solstice/Handshake Day/
22. 
    
23. 
    
24. Celebrate the Senses Day / Fairy Day/ Bomb Pop Day/
25. Take your Dog to Work Day
26. 
    
27. Marriage Day /Fish are Friends not Food
28. Take our Child to Work Day

• Sun Cancer Awareness Month
• Great Outdoors Month
• Dairy Month
• Safety Month
• Skyscraper Month
• Kids in Sports Month
  

Memorial Day

Children will color the flag using red and blue crayons appropriately.

Measurement Day

When teaching measurement to young children provide lots of opportunities for the students to order objects by size. Use everyday activities and real objects to help children understand measurement concepts.

The terms non-standard and standard are often used when describing prescribed learning outcomes for measurement.

Measuring with non-standard units means measuring things with blocks, pencils, hands, feet, etc. As long as the items used to measure with are all the same size, e.g. identical blocks or brand new pencils, they are suitable to use.

Circus Day

Children will gain experience in handling a brush and paint and by repeating simple shapes, students will create pattern. Students will demonstrate awareness of emotion by creating "sad" and "happy" faces.

# back construction paper
# White crayon
# Colored glitter

On the black paper students will draw circles (to eventually become happy/sad faces of clowns) using a white crayon.
Once the face is complete the child will add details using glue, finally finishing by sprinkling glitter.

Relative's Day

Child will be read "The Day the Relative's Came", discussing the story and members of the family.
Child will create a 'family tree' using photographs.

Bake Chocolate Cookies Day

* 3/4 cup butter flavored shortening
* 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
* 2 tbsp milk
* 1 tbsp vanilla
* 1 egg
* 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
* 1 tsp salt
* 3/4 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips


Directions:
Heat oven to 375. Combine butter flavored shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with mixer at medium speed until well blended. Beat egg into creamed mixture.

Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix into creamed mixture just until blended. Stir in chocolate chips and pecan pieces.

Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake one baking sheet at a time for 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies, or 11 to 3 minutes for crisp cookies.

* Gift Ideas
Use these treats as gifts! Using plastic wrap, place 2-3 treats in the center and gather the ends at the top. Finish it by securing each bundle with a ribbon. Line a cookie tin with tissue paper, flare out the edges for a decorative look. Then carefully place the goodies into the cookie tins, fold the edges of the tissue paper carefully over the top of the treats and secure with cookie tin lid. Adorn the top with a colorful bow.

Dance Like a Chicken Day

1. Anyone who's not chicken, stand in a circle facing each other.
2. When the music starts, hold your hands out in front of you and open and close them like a chicken beak four times.
3. Put your thumbs in your armpits and flap your wings four times.
4. Place your arms and hands like the tail feathers of a chicken and wiggle down to the floor four times.
5. Clap four times.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 four times.
7. After the fourth time take the hands of the people on either side of you and everyone move in a circle.
8. When you get dizzy, switch directions.
9. Repeat until the end of the music or until you fall on the floor.

Flower Month

In conjunction with other activities, children will explore flowers.

Activity ONE -
Children will create "Muffin Flowers".
Using:
# Construction paper
# Muffin tray cup liners
# Glue
# Markers, crayons or paint
Children draw or paint flower stems and leaves on their paper. Students then glue muffin cups in the center of the flower for a 3-D effect.



Activity TWO -
Creating Tissue paper carnations -
1. First you take about 5 to 6 pieces of tissue paper squares, depending on the thickness of your desired depth of the flower.
2. Stack all sheets together one on top of the other.
3. Begin folding your paper back and forth like an accordion or a fan.
4. When complete secure in the middle with a rubber band or twist tie.
5. Now its time to peel up each sheet one at a time. Work from side to side, left to right.
6. Bring all sheets to the middle until your done.
7. If you want the flowers smaller cut the sheets down by length.
8. To make different shapes clip off the tips, only a trim. (triangle, points, wavy, square, etc..)

It's Duckling Month

Children will understand the mother-child relationship transcends the human "world", and be able to pair animal mothers and babies.

Holidays of May

1. Tuba Day /Lei Day /Mother Goose Day /Space Day
2. Ukulele Day /Laughter Day /Bread Pudding Week /Be Kind to Animals
3. World Press Day
4. Teacher Day/ Chickens Day
5. Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo /Grump-out Day
6. No Housework Day /No Diet Day / Nurses Day
7. No Pants Day
8. No Socks Day /Mini Golf Day /Train Day
9. Mother’s Day /Police Week /Reading is Fun Week
10. Windmill Day
11. 
    
12. Nutty Fudge Day
13. Frog Jumping Day
14. Chicken Dance Day
15. Family Day
    
16. Sea Monkey Day / Backyard-games Week
17. Relative’s Day
18. 
    
19. 
    
20. Weights & Measures Day
21. Bike Day
22. Maritime Day
23. Taffy Day /Turtle Day /Safe boating Week
24. Brother’s Day/Morse Code Day
25. Cookie Monster’s Day /Geek Day
26. Missing Children’s Day
27. 
    
28. 
    
29. Peacekeeper’s Day
30. 
    
31. Memorial Day

• Clean Air Month
• Family Wellness Month
• Vision Month
• Barbeque Month
  
• Egg Month
• Personal History month
• Tennis Month
  

Holidays of April

• Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Frog month
• Jazz Appreciation Month
• Garden Month
• Kite Month
• Poetry Month
• Soy Month

1. Holy Thursday/All Fool’s Day /Fun Day /Poetry Day
2. Good Friday /Children’s Book Day
3. Pony Express Day
4. Easter /Golden Rule Week /Ocean Week
5. 
   
6. 
   
7. Day of Hope
8. D.A.R.E. Day
9. 
   
10. Sibling Day
11. Barbershop Quartet Day /Karaoke Week
12. Licorice Day
13. Thomas Jefferson Day
14. Lawyer’s Day
15. 
    
16. High Five Day/ Pajama Day
17. Blah Day
18. Trivia Day /National Park Week/Coin week
19. 
    
20. 
    
21. Kindergarten Day
22. Earth Day
23. Jelly Bean Day
24. Talk Like Shakespeare Day
25. Arbor Day/Astronomy Day /Smell Day
26. Pie week /Playground safety week
27. Morse Code Day
28. 
    
29. Dance Day
30. Honesty Day

Hoildays of March

1. Pig Day
2. Namesake Day
3. Read Across America Day
4. National Anthem Day /Grammar Day
5. Day of Prayer
6. Newspaper Week
7. 
   
8. 
   
9. Barbie Day
   
10. Mario Day
11. Dream Day / Johnny Appleseed
12. Girl Scout Day
13. Donald Duck Day/Ear Muffs Day
14. Potato Chip Day /Wildlife Week
15. Napping Day
16. Truth Day
17. Saint Patrick’s Day
18. Incredible kid Day
19. 
    
20. Jump Day /Spring Equinox
21. End to Discrimination Day /Folk Tales/Fables Week
22. Forever Young Day /Goof-Off Day
23. Puppy Day
    
24. Chocolate-covered-raisins Day
25. Pecan Day
26. 
    
27. Country Music Day
28. Palm Sunday
29. 
    
30. Doctor Day
    

• Red Cross Month
• Music Education Month
• Craft Month
• Nutrition Month
• Vision Month
  

Week TWO

	Religion/Family Life	Mathematics	Reading/Vocabulary	Phonics/Handwriting	Science/Social Studies	Music/Art/Movement	Social Activity
M O N D A Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date. NUMBER 8	SW: Review and retell story about a “the True Story of the Three Little Pigs”	SW: Review initial “a”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “a” words. Write “a”’s.	SW: Identify pictures of a pig, sounds a pig makes, pigs home and pig food.	SW: identify objects that are RED and SQUARE. Create a pig face using paper cut-outs and glue.	Newspaper week
T U E S D A Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date.	SW: Review and retell story about a “Name Jar”, identify self by name and immediate family members.	SW: Review initial “j”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “j” words. Write “j”’s.	SW: Share toys appropriately, using words such as “please” and “thank-you”.	SW: Dance and sing along with familiar songs	Namesake Day Play-date
W E D N E S D A Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date.	SW: Review and retell story of choice.	SW: Review initial “o”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “o” words. Write “o”’s.	SW: Identify a United States Map, naming the state, city and street of residence.	SW: engage in outdoor physical activity.	Read Across America Day
T H U R S DA Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date.	SW: Review and retell story about the “National Anthem”.	SW: Review initial “n”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “n” words. Write “n”’s	SW: Identify pictures of a United States Monuments, Memorials and Symbols.	SW: Listen to the “Star Spangled Banner”	Grammar/ National Anthem Day Play with Ian, Samantha, Trevor and Chase
F R I D A Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices and discuss Bibles story and identify times to pray.	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date.	SW: Review and retell story a Bible Story of Choice.	SW: Review initial “b”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “b” words. Write “b”’s	SW: Introduce prayer before meals, at start of day and end of day.	SW: engage in free play with play-doh and cookie cutters.	Day of Prayer
S A T U R D A Y	SW: Discuss smart/good choices and identify times to pray.	SW: count to 20 using pictures and numbers. Complete Calendar, identifying todays date.	SW: Review and retell story “O’Rourke”.	SW: Review initial “m”, capital, lowercase, and the sounds made by the letter. Create a list of “m” words. Write “m”’s	SW: understand music as a form of communication, expression and fun! Create a musical instrument with a can and elastics.	SW: Dance and sing along with familiar songs and guitar play!	Music Month
S U N D A Y	SW: review good choices, and prayer.	SW: review numbers to 20, identifying each on a calendar as well as in print and be able to group objects by a given number.	SW: Review and retell story a of Choice.	SW: Review lettes in “JONATHAN”, attempting to write it successfully.	SW: Identify the traditional Sunday as a day or rest and relaxation.	SW: engage in family games “Ants in Pants” “Hi-HO Cheerio” and “Barrel of Monkeys”.	Family activity of choice…. Day of review…

Science

Science - Stage 1 Books
Air is all Around You
Animals in Winter
Baby Whales Drink Milk
Big Tracks, Little Tracks
Bugs Are Insects
Dinosaurs Big & Small
Ducks Don't Get Wet
Fireflies in the Night
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
From Seed to Pumpkin
From Tadpole to Frog
How a Seed Grows
How Animal Babies Stay Safe
How Many Teeth?
My Five Senses
My Pet Hamster
A Nest Full of Eggs
POP! A Book About Bubbles
Sleep is For Everyone
Snow is Falling
Sounds All Around
Starfish
A Tree is a Plant
What Color is Camouflage?
What Lives in a Shell?
What Makes a Shadow?
What's Alive?
What's it Like to be a Fish?
Where Are the Night Animals?
Where Do Chicks Come From?
Stage 2 Books
Ant Cities
Archaeologists Dig for Clues
Be a Friend to Trees
Chirping Crickets
Day Light, Night Light
Dolphin Talk
Down Comes the Rain
A Drop of Blood
Earthquakes
Energy Makes Things Happen
Feel the Wind
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll
Floating in Space
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean
Germs Make Me Sick
Hear Your Heart
How Do Apples Grow?
How Do Birds Find Their Way?
How Mountains Are Made
The International Space Station
Let's Go Rock Collecting
Look Out for Turtles
Milk From Cow to Carton
Mission to Mars
My Visit to the Dinosaurs
Oil Spill!
Penguin Chick
The Planets in Our Solar System
Spinning Spiders
Sponges are Skeletons
The Sun, Our Nearest Star
Sunshine Makes the Seasons
Switch On, Switch Off
Tornado Alert
Volcanoes
What Happens to a Hamburger?
What is the World Made Of?
What Makes a Magnet?
What Makes Day & Night?
What the Moon is Like
What Will the Weather Be?
Where Does the Garbage Go?
Who Eats What?
Why do Leaves Change Color?
Why Frogs are Wet
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup & Yawn
Wiggling Worms at Work
You're Aboard Spaceship Earth
Your Skin & Mine
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats

Vocabulary & Associated Text

Lesson 1: Sight Words – Basic - (the, to, a, I, you, said, for, look, is, little, was, not, my, me, big, come, where, away, here, help, find, funny, go, we, and)
Lesson 2: Story 1 - Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Lesson 3: Story 2 - Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss
Lesson 4: Story 3 - We Look (Read with Dick and Jane)
Lesson 5: Sight Words – Colors (blue, yellow, white, gray, green, black, red, orange, brown, purple, gold, pink, silver)
Lesson 6: Story 4 - Rain by Robert Kalan
Lesson 7: Story 5 - Freight Train by Donald Crews
Lesson 8: Story 6 - I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Lesson 9: Story 7 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
Lesson 10: Sight Words – Numbers (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, hundred, thousand, million)
Lesson 11: Story 8 - How Many Fish? by Caron Lee Cohen
Lesson 12: Story 9 - Bears on Wheels by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Lesson 13: Story 10 - Ten Apples Up on Top! by Theo. LeSieg
Lesson 14: Sight Words – Prepositions (across, around, over, through, under, in, out, down, between, on, by, from, at)
Lesson 15: Story 11 - Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
Lesson 16: Story 12 - Bears in the Night by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Lesson 17: Story 13 - Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
Lesson 18: Sight Words – Opposites (left, right, morning, night, wet, dry, old, new, high, low, front, back, slow, quick, his, her, loose, tight, heavy, light, hot, cold, clean, dirty, few, many, hard, easy, awake, asleep, early, late)
Lesson 19: Story 14 - The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Lesson 20: Story 15 - Old Hat, New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Lesson 21: Story 16 - Piggies by Audrey & Don Wood
Lesson 22: Story 17 - Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman
Lesson 23: Sight Words – Animals (duck, kitten, cricket, donkey, mouse, owl, butterfly, chicken, bird, horse, geese, rooster, monkey, puppy, spider, goat, sheep, mother, father, sister, brother)
Lesson 24: Story 18 - Biscuit Finds a Friend by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Lesson 25: Story 19 - Quick, Quack, Quick! by Marsha Arnold
Lesson 26: Story 20 - Biscuit Wants to Play by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Lesson 27: Story 21 - Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Lesson 28: Story 22 - The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Lesson 29: Story 23 - Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins
Lesson 30: Sight Words – Time (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, week, month, year, hour, minute, bedtime, hand, clock)
Lesson 31: Story 24 - Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Lesson 32: Story 25 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Lesson 33: Story 26 - Sunshine, Moonshine by Jennifer Armstrong
Lesson 34: Story 27 - Milk and Cookies by Frank Asch
Lesson 35: Story 28 - Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
Lesson 36: Story 29 - Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Lesson 37: Story 30 - Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale retold by Margaret Read MacDonald
Lesson 38 - Story 31 - Bumpety Bump! by Pat Hutchins
Lesson 39 - Scripture Story 1 - The Lord's Prayer - Matthew 6:9-13
Lesson 40 - Scripture Story 2 - The Wise Man and the Foolish Man - Matthew 7:24-27

Phonics

Week 1: Sound /ck/ and the theme - clocks.
Week 2: Sound /ee/ and the theme - trees.
Week 3: Sound /sh/ and the theme - shells.
Week 4: Sound /ow/ and the theme - flowers.
Week 5: Sound /st/ and the theme - stamps.
Week 6: Sound /nd/ and the theme - band (music).
Week 7: Sound /fr/ and the theme - frogs.
Week 8: Sound /nt/ and the theme - printing.
Week 9: Sound /ay/ and the theme - days (of the week).
Week 10: Sound /ir/ and the theme - birds.
Week 11: Sound /c/ (soft) and the theme - circus.
Week 12: Sound /g/ (soft) the theme - giant.
Week 13: Sound /ff/ and the theme - giraffe.
Week 14: Sound /oo/ (long) and the theme - kangaroos.
Week 15: Sound /th/ and the theme - thunder.
Week 16: Sound /oy/ and the theme - toys.
Week 17: Sound /ph/ and the theme - telephone.
Week 18: Sound /aw/ and the theme - strawberries.
Week 19: Sound /oo/ (short) and the theme - books.
Week 20: Sound /ch/ and the theme - cheese.
Week 21: Sound /ar/ and the theme - farmer.
Week 22: Sound /wh/ and the theme - whales.
Week 23: Sound /ui/ and the theme - fruit.
Week 24: Sound /ng/ and the theme - singing.
Week 25: Sound /igh/ and the theme - light.
Week 26: Sound /ss/ and the theme - chess.
Week 27: Sound /oa/ and the theme - boats.
Week 28: Sound /ll/ and the theme - bells.
Week 29: Sound /ea/ and the theme - bread.
Week 30: Sound /wr/ and the theme - wrench (tools).
Week 31: Sound /dge/ and the theme - bridges.
Week 32: Sound /tch/ and the theme - matching.
Week 33: Sound /kn/ and the theme - knights.
Week 34: Sound /zz/ and the theme - jazz.
Week 35: Sound /rh/ and the theme - rhinocerous.
Week 36: Sound /sc/ and the theme - science.