Activity Vitamins
Listening to children’s ideas, writing down their descriptions of events, and retelling stories documents thinking and establishes them as storytellers.
Lines in Shapes – Up and Down, Right and Left: Filling Shapes and “Metal Insets” or Stencils Area: ELA: Fine Motor Skill: Practicing the lines and strokes used in handwriting....
Essential Practice: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Children will listen to and identify initial sounds Teachers will play targeted phoneme sorting games with small groups and individual children Children love to...
Here is the Literacy Vitamin for the week. ELA Monthly Pacing Guide: December/January. Domain: Phonemic Awareness Children will: Listen for and play with sounds, particularly initial sounds. Teachers will: Play games...
Greetings Everyone! Here is the Math Vitamin for the Week. (Building Blocks, Weeks 17: Patterning, Core Units of Patterns, and Counting) The Building Blocks curriculum invites children to discover and...
Happy Warmer Weather! Here is the Math Vitamin for the Week. Storytelling – Story Acting to add and subtract small quantities (Building Blocks, Weeks 24-26: Counting to and back from...
Places Scenes is a great activity for inviting children to integrate and apply their math knowledge.
As spring arrives and we turn to study growth, change, and transformation, the science experiences we offer lend themselves to discussions of sequencing over time.
Building Blocks, Week 3: Counting verbally and with objects, “Count and Move”
With warmer weather ahead, it is a great time of year to plan some outdoor activities with your children.
Working with children’s names is a highly motivating way to introduce children to letter naming and letter sound recognition.
When children are conscious of words around them, they gain knowledge to communicate effectively and learn about ew concepts