Baby Runs This Place: Letter J Week- Ideas

Ok, so I'm going to try something new from now on. I don't know how well this is going to go because I do stink and updating this thing, but since having my cleaning schedule posted and easily visible, I've noticed that I am much more vigilant about following it. So I'm going to take that idea and start applying that idea to the preschool things we do.

First of all, the things I go with Kayla for her preschool stuff are generally from this site:
http://letteroftheweek.com/preschool_age_3.html

I like the way it's set up for her, and really works for us here. She did the preparatory curriculum before this and learned so much. We've honestly been doing this curriculum for a while now, seeing as we're on letter J already, and she's also doing very well and picking up on the letter sounds well. She's even starting to write most of the letters.

But I do sort of branch off from that particular website and take things from other places, sometimes I make them up as I go. So instead of spending each day searching online for what I'm looking for, I'm hoping to maybe just spend one day- probably Sunday?- collecting everything I need for each day so that I can just come back to one place (here) and have it all ready for the day. The links I'll need for things, the ideas for projects, the plans for places to go, etc. Sounds like a good idea, right? Right.

So anyway, here's my first, very belated attempt to collect a bunch of sources in one place.

The Letter J Week http://letteroftheweek.com/letterJ.html

January 9th 2012- January 13th 2012
Holidays- None!
Season- Winter

Monday

Language Arts (30 minutes)
Music (15 minutes)
Bible Story/Character Lesson (15 minutes)

Tuesday

Language Arts & Music (30 minutes)
Math (15 minutes)
Bible Story/Character Lesson (15 minutes)

Wednesday

Language Arts, Music & Math (30 minutes)
Science (20 minutes)
Bible Story/Character Lesson (10 minutes)

Thursday

Language Arts, Music & Math (30 minutes)
Social Studies (15 minutes)
Art Project (15 - 30 minutes)

Friday

Language Arts, Music & Math (30 minutes)
Sports/Games/Activities (20 minutes +)
Review Lesson (10 minutes)

Any Day!

Snacks
Field Trips

Language Arts-
*Letter Board- Introduce new letter, upper and lower case, and talk about the pictures on the board.
Pictures for the letter board-

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*Theme Words- jam, jungle, jump, joy, juggle, jeep, juice, jelly

*Make index cards of words and show them to her at meal times.

* Poetry and Books-

Poetry and Rhymes:
J's the Jumping Jay-Walker by Phyllis McGinley(Old & New)
The Little Jumping Girls by Kate Greenaway(Old & New)
The Jellyfish by Susan Peters(1001)
Jenny the Juvenile Juggler by Dennis Lee(Icecream Store)
Shake-'N'-Bake a Jelly by Dennis Lee(Icecream Store)

Books to read aloud:
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Bumper to Bumper: A Traffic Jam by Jakki Wood
The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Orange Juice by Betsey Chessen & Pamela Chanko

* My J Won't Jump (Sesame Street)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4H3Dvy7l8&feature=related
*Jump Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB6vcZ9gghM&feature=related

* Letter J tracer Pages- http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/trace10.htm

*Letter J Simple Template- http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/simple-j.htm

*J Coloring Pages- http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/mjposter.htm

*J Coloring page- http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/alphabet-j-coloring-page/

*Jack be Nimble coloring page- http://www.tlsbooks.com/mothergoosejack.pdf

Music-
*Songs- Jack and Jill- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzX_k3ZWvXo
-John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKfpOp38qc
-The J Song (Sesame Street) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCkaVmcWO8

Character Trait-
*Joyful

Science-
Discuss the animals, plants, minerals, etc. listed below that start with J.
Enter pictures of them into our Nature Book.
Watch videos about them.
Do art projects about them.
If they are local animals, try to find them on a Nature walk, or go to the Zoo.

Pictures for Nature Book-