Red Unit: Language Arts


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Listen to the red song.

Spell R-E-D red out loud.

Have someone read this ladybug poem to you.

Five Little Ladybugs
Five little ladybugs sitting in a tree,

The first one said, “I’m glad I’m me.”

The second one said, “I feel great too,”

The third one said, “How about you?”

The fourth one said, “It’s time to fly away,”

The fifth one said, “We’ll talk another day.”

-Rita Galloway

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Have someone read you this poem. Have you heard it before? Say it a few times and see if you can remember it. When you can remember a poem, it’s called memorizing a poem. Can you memorize it? What else do you have memorized?
Roses are Red
Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Sugar is sweet,

and so are you!

Spell your name out loud.

Spell the word RED out loud.

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Write upper case I in your Red Book.

Listen to the story “I Wanna Iguana”. Summarize the story.

Spell your name out loud.

Spell the word RED out loud.

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Write lower case i in your Red Book.

Spell your name out loud.

Spell the color RED out loud.

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Listen to the story “Gingerbread Baby”. Summarize the story. What happened in the beginning, the middle, and the end?

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Write upper case J in your Red Book.

J is for Jump.

One animal that jumps is a rabbit. Listen to this story about some rabbits. Summarize the story.

Practice your alphabet with this game.

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Write lower case j in your Red Book.

J is for juggle.

Practice your alphabet with these slider puzzles.

Spell RED out loud.

Listen to the story “The Bubble Factory”. Summarize the story. What shape are bubbles?

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Spell your name out loud.

Say your alphabet out loud.

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Look at the alphabet. Point to each letter, and make the letter sound out loud.

Play this game with upper and lower case letter.

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Look at the alphabet. Point to each letter, and make the letter sound out loud.

Play this game with beginning sounds.

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Write capitol K in your Red Book.

Look at the alphabet. Point to each letter, and make the letter sound out loud.

Match upper-case and lower-case letters on the fridge.

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Write lower case k in your Red Book.

Match the upper-case and lower-case letters.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Look at the alphabet. Point to each letter, and make the letter sound out loud.

Listen to this story.

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Look at the alphabet. Point to each letter, and make the letter sound out loud.

Listen to the story “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. Summarize the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=olO73t4kf9E

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Write capitol L in your Red Book.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Write lower case l in your Red Book.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Play this alphabet game. Play it with letter sounds.

Listen to this story, summarize it.

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Play this alphabet game.

Listen to this story, summarize it.

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Write upper case M in your Red Book.

Play this alphabet game. Play it with letter names.

Listen to this story. Summarize it.

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Write lower case m in your Red Book.

Listen to this story. Summarize it.

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Listen to this story and summarize it.

Say your ABCs out loud.

Spell your name out loud.

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Write upper case O in your Red Book.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

Play the 5 piece slider puzzle.

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Write lower case o in your Red Book.

Play this alphabet game.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Play the 5 piece slider puzzle.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Play this alphabet game.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Write upper case P in your Red Book.

Play this alphabet game.
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Write lower case p in your Red Book.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Play this alphabet game. Play it with letter sounds.

Listen to this story and summarize it.

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Review Day 1

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Review Day 2

 

Yellow Unit: Social Studies, Art, Computer Skills

Day 31
Our theme of the day is friendship. Watch this story about the The Lion and the Mouse. How are they friends? Friends do nice things for each other, what do the two friends in the story do to be nice to each other?

Read some things that other Kindergarteners came up with that a good friend does. Can you add anything to the list? What is something that a good friend has done for you? What have you done for a friend?

In your Yellow Book draw something fun that you and one of your friends do together. Why is your friend a good friend?

Day 32

Draw a picture of your family in your Yellow Book.

Day 33

Today we are learning about community. Read what community means.

Listen to the song about the people in your neighborhood.

Draw a map of your neighborhood in your Yellow Book. (Example)

Build a neighborhood.

Day 34

Do you have a pet? If you do, draw it in your Yellow Book. If you don’t draw what kind of pet your would like if you could have one.

Day 35

In your Yellow Book draw a picture of yourself doing one of your favorite things. What do you love about yourself? What makes you special?

Fill out the all about me chart in your Yellow Book.

Day 36

Build a house.

In your Yellow Book have an adult write down your home address and phone number. It’s important to know these things. Practice writing them. Work on memorizing them. If you are ever in an emergency situation and you have to call an emergency number, you will have to know this information so that community helpers can come and take care of the emergency. Ask an adult what the emergency number is to call in your area (example, 911) and when you should call this number. Watch this video about what to do during an emergency, and what an emergency is.

Watch this video about different types of homes from all around the world. What kind of home do you live in?

Day 37
Field trip day 1- community safety and firehouse tour.

Today we are talking about fire safety.

Have an adult read you this fire safety page. Pay close attention, this is very important.

Play this fire safety game to test what you remember about fire safety.

What is the fire safety plan in your home? Ask an adult to show you smoke detectors in your home. How many are there? Have a fire drill with the people in your home. It’s important to be prepared. You don’t have to be scared of emergencies if you are prepared and know what to do! Have an adult write your fire safety plan in your Yellow Book.

Watch this video about a Day in the Life of a Firefighter.

Have someone read you this article about the history of why Dalmatians are known as fire dogs.

Day 38

Day 38.
Field trip day 2- community safety.

This is a traffic light in the USA. Is this what the traffic lights look like in your community? If not, have an adult find you a picture of a traffic light from your community. This is what the colors of the traffic light mean.

Signal Light

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Color this page with the correct colors for traffic lights. Be sure that the color matches the traffic instruction. Color the traffic light in your Yellow Book.

Play the stoplight game.

This is a stop sign. These are the rules of what a stop sign is and what the stop sign means.

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Color the stop sign in your Yellow Book.

Count the sides on the shape of a stop sign. How many sides are there? This shape is called an octagon. There are also eight legs on an octopus. What is the sound that is in the words octagon, and octopus? Think through what you counted, what do you think “oct” means?

Watch this video about road safety.

Day 39

Do the weather/clothes matching activity in your Yellow Book.

Day 40

-Break Day-

Day 41

Art:

Foxes live in dens; it’s like a little cave that they dig. This is the outside of a den. They sleep in the den like this. In your Yellow Book draw a den under the tree. Put things in the den that a fox would like. Act out the story with these fox puppets. Make the story about foxes digging a den. Tell someone the story. Anything can happen in the story that you would like, it’s your creation!

 

Computers:

Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 42

-break day-

 

Day 43

Art: Make a forest.

Computers: Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 44

-break day-

 

Day 45

Social studies: Have you ever received a gift? What is the best gift you’ve ever received? Have you ever given anyone a gift?

Computers: Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 46

Social studies: Watch this video of Mr. Rogers meeting some penguins.

 

Day 47

Art: Listen to this song. It’s called “Skating”. How does this song make you feel? This is a great song to dance to. You can dance with the song if you would like! The main instrument in this song is a piano. This is what a piano looks like.

 

Computers: Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 48

-break day-

 

Day 49

-break day-

 

Day 50

Social studies: Read this article about animal friends.

 

Computers: Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 51

-break day-

 

Day 52

Social Studies: Have someone read you this blog about Hawaii. What are some words in the blog post that you had never heard before?

 

Day 53

Social Studies: In different weather we have to wear different clothes. Play this game to choose the right clothing for the weather outside.

 

Day 54

-break day-

 

Day 55

Computers: Practice you typing with this cup stacking game.

 

Day 56

Art: What are the animals that were in the story about Cosmo? Draw the animals in your Yellow Book.

 

Social Studies: Here is a picture of a houseboat. What would you think about living on a houseboat? How would it be different than the home you live in now?

 

Day 57

-break day-

 

Day 58

-break day-

 

Day 59 and Day 60

Review Days

 

Yellow Unit Science

Day 31

Watch this cute video about unlikely animal friends. There are some animals in this video that you will be surprised can be friends. Anyone can be friends if they try to be nice to one another!

Day 32
Animals have families too. Here are some pictures of animal families. Count how many animals are in each picture.

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Day 33
-Break from Science-

Day 34

Have you ever heard of dog shows? They are a competition where people show off their dogs and compare them to other dogs. The dogs are trained to be very obedient and follow directions. They are judged on how they look and how they act. There are shows like this for all kinds of pets including guinea pigs! Watch this video about a show guinea pig. Summarize the video.

Day 35

Make a face that looks like you! Describe what you look like out loud.

Day 36

Watch this video about the building of a straw bale house.

Day 37

-Field Trip Day 1-

Day 38

-Field Trip Day 2-

Day 39

Today we are talking about weather.

Listen to the weather song.

Explore what different weather does with this game.

What’s the weather like outside right now?

Day 40

Listen to the temperature song.

In this weather simulator put the humidity bar up to the top, and slowly adjust the temperature up and down. What happens when the temperature is high? What happens when the temperature is low?

Listen to this song with different temperature words. What were some that you hadn’t heard before?

Day 41

 

Watch this fox video. Describe what the fox is doing.

 

This is a picture of a kit. A kit is a baby fox.

 

Day 42

Play the Migration Adventure Game.

 

Day 43

Today you will be learning about forests. Here is a picture of a forest.

Watch this video about forests. Summarize what you learned about forests and the animals that live there.

Play this animal forest game.

 

Day 44

Watch this video about Pygmy Goats that people keep as pets. Describe what the goats eat, where do they live, what do they like to do?

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Day 45

 

Day 46

Watch this video about baby penguins. What colors are penguins? Where do they live?

 

Day 47

Watch this ice skating video and do the experiments at the bottom of the page.

 

Day 48

Here is a picture with different types of horses. Which is your favorite?

Here is a video about horses.

 

Day 49

This animal is a hamster. Hamster starts with an H.

Play this hamster puzzle game.

 

Day 50

Count the lions. Which is the mommy, and which is the daddy?

 

Day 51

Today we will be talking about ice, and animals that live on the ice. A very icy place in the world is called the Arctic.

This is a picture of the Arctic.

Here are some animals that live in the Arctic.

Here is another picture of Arctic animals with their names. Count the animals in the picture. Choose three animals to draw and copy their names under your picture.

Play the Artic Animal memory game.

Explore the Arctic in this game.

Watch this video about the difference between the desert and the Arctic.

 

Day 52

-BREAK DAY-

 

Day 53

For two days we will be learning about weather. Have you been watching the weather since we last talked about it? Do you remember what the weather is like most days where you live? Look outside; what is the weather like today? Look for “What is the weather like?” in your Yellow Book. Draw the weather, and write the kind of letter it is under your drawing. Do this for Day 1. You will draw the weather for Day 2 tomorrow. Here is a picture with different types of weather, and weather words.

Watch this video about weather.

Go to your local weather channel website and see what the forecast is for tomorrow. A forecast is the best guess that weather people have, using science, to guess what the weather will be like in the future. Sometimes they are right about the weather, sometimes they are wrong. Check to see what they think the weather will be tomorrow- and tomorrow you will see if they are right!

 

Day 54

Was the weather man right about what the weather is like where you live today? Draw the kind of weather it is outside today in your Yellow Book under Day 2. Here is a picture with different types of weather, and weather words. Play the Weather Transformer game.

 

Here is a drawing of what happens to trees during the different seasons. Here is a picture of the same tree during different seasons.

Guess the seasons in this video.

 

Day 55

Look at this food pyramid. This is the food pyramid of what rabbits eat in the wild, and what rabbits eat when they are pets. Do you see what is different?

 

Day 56

Here is a picture of different kinds of manatees like in the Cosmo story. What kind of manatee looked the most like the manatee in the story?

 

Day 57

This is a picture of a bird’s nest. Birds work very hard to build a nest to lay their eggs in. How many eggs are in this bird’s nest?

Here are different types of bird’s eggs. Which do you like the best? Which two eggs do you think are the most different? After looking at this picture, what kind of bird laid the eggs in the bird nest picture?

Here is a video of someone who left some special material for hummingbirds to build a nest. Look at how the hummingbird nest looks different that the other nests we have seen. What is different about it?

This is a video of a different kind of nest. It is a robin nest. Watch the baby robins hatch, and grow. They start out pink, and then they get their feathers. When they are big enough they fly away from the nest.

 

Day 58

-BREAK DAY-

 

Day 59 and Day 60

Review Days

Yellow Unit Math

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Day 31

Color to number 10 with the color yellow.

Practice writing the number 11 in your Yellow Book.

Day 32
Practice writing the number 12 in your Yellow Book

How many members are in this family?

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(Counting animals in the Science section)

Day 33

Explore things that are the color yellow with these flash cards.

Practice writing the number 13 in your Yellow Book.

Connect the dots by counting to 10.

Day 34

Practice writing the number 14 in your Yellow Book.

Count the fish in the fish tank.

Sort the animals in the animal shelter.

Day 35

Practice writing the number 15 in your Yellow Book.

Color in the numbers to 15. Use your favorite color.

Day 36

Construct the tangram of the house. Look for the picture of the house in the top right of the game screen.

Day 37

-Field Trip Day 1-
Counting

Day 38

-Field Trip Day 2-
Counting

Day 39

Count to 20.

Day 40

Look up the temperature where you live today. Write down the temperature on the thermometer and fill it in with red to where the temperature is (the thermometer is in your Yellow Book). Have an adult help show you where the temperature is today.

Day 41

Count to 10 out loud.

Day 42

Count the feathers.

Practice counting by connecting the dots 1-10.

Day 43

Count the forest animals.

Draw ten trees in your Yellow Book.

Day 44

Goats are very good climbers. Count the goats on the tree.

Color and count out loud numbers 1-15.

Day 45

Count the gifts. Count these gifts, as well.

Play this matching game called, “Present Time”.

Day 46

Practice writing 1-10 in your Yellow Book.

What shapes make these penguins?

Count the penguins.

Count to twenty with the silly penguins.

Day 47

Watch this video and count the skaters.

Do the ice skate counting activity in your Yellow Book.

Count to 20 out loud, and then count to 20 in this game.

Day 48

Count the horses.

Play this memory game.

Count out loud from 1-15.

Day 49

Go through this pattern lesson and answer all the questions.

Play this puzzle game.

Day 50

Play this matching game.

Day 51

Here is another picture of Arctic animals with their names. Count the animals in the picture.

Count the ice cubes.

Day 52

Play this pattern game.

Count the sea turtles.

Day 53

Count the raindrops.

Day 54

-BREAK-

Day 55

Practice writing the number 16 in your Yellow Book.

Look at this picture. Count the bunnies, then count the birds.

Day 56

Practice writing number 17 in your Yellow Book.

Play this counting game.

Day 57

Practice writing the number 18 in your Yellow Book.

Count the different types of bird’s eggs.

Day 58

Practice writing the number 19 in your Yellow Book.

Splat 1-20 with a yellow splat. Then, you can count to 20 using whatever color you want.

Day 59 and Day 60

Review Days

Yellow Unit Language Arts


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Day 31

Write your name on the front cover of your Yellow Book, and draw a picture on the cover.

Listen to the story, “The Rainbow Fish”. At the beginning of the story was the Rainbow Fish a good friend or a bad friend? Why? By the end of the story did the rainbow fish change?

Day 32
Listen to the YELLOW SONG. Can you spell yellow now?

Listen to the story, “I Was So Mad”. How was the little critter acting around his family? What should he do differently?

Day 33

Practice your yellow song to learn to spell yellow.

People have different jobs in communities. One person that you might see a lot is delivery men and women. They bring packages to your door and letters to your mail box. Here is a story book about the Speedy Delivery Man.

Listen to this letter sound song.

Day 34

How do you spell yellow?

Name all the things in this picture that are yellow.

Day 35

Today we are talking about the things that make you special, and the things that make other people special too.

Listen to the story, “Chrysanthemum”. What was special and different about the little mouse? What hurt her feelings at school? How did she feel at the end of the book?

Listen to this silly reading of, “The Story of Ferdinand”. Summarize the story. What made Ferdinand special?

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Listen to this letter sound song.

Day 36

Listen to the story, “The Little House”. Summarize the story.

Listen to this letter sound song.

Day 37

-Field Trip Day 1-
Reading articles, watching documentaries.

Day 38
-Field Trip Day 2-
Listen to this letter sound song.

Day 39

Listen to this story called, “Snowflake Bentley”. What did he do with snowflakes? Here are some of his snowflake pictures.

Day 40

Listen to this song with different temperature words. What were some that you hadn’t heard before?

Listen to the story, “Mr. Gloomingdale’s Downpour”. Summarize.

Letter song.

Day 41

Do the F activity.

Write upper case F in your Yellow Book.

Listen to this letter sound song.

Day 42

Do the F activity.

Write lower case f in your Yellow Book.

Listen to this poem called, “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson.

Listen to this book called “Feather For Lunch”. Summarize the book.

Day 43

Go through these forest flash cards.

Day 44

Do the G activity.

Write upper case G in your Yellow Book.

Listen to the story, “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Summarize the story.

Day 45

Do the G activity.

Write lower case g in your Yellow Book.

Day 46

Listen to the letter sound song.

Day 47

-break-

Day 48

Do the H activity.

Write upper case H in your Yellow Book.

Day 49

Do the H activity.

Write lower case h in your Yellow Book.

Read this poem about hamsters.

Listen to the letter sound song.

Day 50

Listen to “Library Lion” and summarize the story.

Day 51

Do the I activity.

Write upper case I in your Yellow Book.

Day 52

Do the I activity.

Write lower case I in your Yellow Book.

Listen to the letter sound song. Practice your letter sounds.

Day 53

Listen to the story, “James and the Rain”. What did James do to get ready for the rain?

Day 54

Today we will be talking about seasons. What season is it today where you live? Listen to this book about seasons.

Day 55

Listen to the letter sound song. Practice your letter sounds.

Listen to the story about Peter Rabbit. What did Peter do that was naughty? What did Peter do after that? What did Mother Rabbit do? Draw a picture about the Peter Rabbit story. Use the picture to summarize the story. Does the picture help you summarize the story?

Day 56

Listen to the story, “Cosmo the Boat Cat”. Draw a picture about Cosmo, and use it to summarize your story.

Day 57

-break-

Day 58

Watch this video. It is a book with very few words. Watch what is happening in the picture, and you make up the words to explain what is going on. Go to your Yellow Book and make your own story without words. Fill up all of the squares. Make a plan before you start drawing. What is the beginning? What is the middle? What is the end? Show your story to someone. Do they understand it without the words?

Listen to the letter sound song. Practice your letter sounds.

Day 59 and Day 60

Review Days

 

 

Day 59

Day 59.

Practice writing the number 20 in your Yellow Book.

Today is a review! What is the weather like outside today? Watch this video again to remind you of the different kinds of weather.

In your Yellow Book Practice Writing 1-20.
In Your Yellow Book Practice writing letters Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, and Ii. Practice writing and saying your address. Practice writing and saying your telephone number.
Practice the number that you call in an emergency, and when you should call this number.

Listen to the letter sound song. Practice your letter sounds.

Splat 1-20 with a yellow splat.

Day 58

Day 58.

Practice writing the number 19 in your Yellow Book.

Watch this video. It is a book with very few words. Watch what is happening in the picture, and you make up the words to explain what is going on. Go to your Yellow Book and make your own story without words. Fill up all of the squares. Make a plan before you start drawing. What is the beginning? What is the middle? What is the end? Show your story to someone. Do they understand it without the words?

Listen to the letter sound song. Practice your letter sounds.

Splat 1-20 with a yellow splat. Then, you can count to 20 using whatever color you want.

Day 57

Day 57.

Practice writing the number 18 in your Yellow Book.

This is a picture of a bird’s nest. Birds work very hard to build a nest to lay their eggs in. How many eggs are in this bird’s nest?

Here are different types of bird’s eggs. Which do you like the best? Which two eggs do you think are the most different? After looking at this picture, what kind of bird laid the eggs in the bird nest picture?

Count the different types of bird’s eggs.

Here is a video of someone who left some special material for hummingbirds to build a nest. Look at how the hummingbird nest looks different that the other nests we have seen. What is different about it?

This is a video of a different kind of nest. It is a robin nest. Watch the baby robins hatch, and grow. They start out pink, and then they get their feathers. When they are big enough they fly away from the nest.

Day 56

Day 56.

Practice writing the number 17 in your Yellow Book.

Listen to the story, “Cosmo the Boat Cat”. Draw a picture about Cosmo, and use it to summarize your story.

What are the animals that were in the story about Cosmo? Draw the animals in your Yellow Book.

Here is a picture of a houseboat. What would you think about living on a houseboat? How would it be different than the home you live in now?

Here is a picture of different kinds of manatees like in the Cosmo story. What kind of manatee looked the most like the manatee in the story?

Play this counting game.