J week: Monday and Tuesday

MONDAY

Connor was excited, as he usually is on Mondays, to click on a new letter at Starfall. I don't let him do the letters we haven't done yet. He can click on any of the past letters and review them, but I want it to be exciting each week when we get to click on a new letter and see what words and activities start with that letter. We read a story about a joey (baby kangaroo) and actually learned a lot. I can't believe those mothers carry their babies around until they're almost the same size as the mother!

TUESDAY


Today we read a story called Bumper to Bumper: A Traffic Jam by Jakki Wood. Then we made our very own traffic jam. Connor was SO excited to do this. I had told him in the morning that that's what we'd be doing for preschool and he could hardley wait to make a traffic jam. He was running and jumping and sayin, "I love making traffic jams!" In the picture of him with his traffic jam, he's signing the letter J.

J week: Plans

Here are the plans for J week:

word cards: juice, jungle, joy, juggle, jump.
poem:

J’s the Jumping Jay-Walker
by Phyllis McGinley

J’s the jumping Jay-walker
A sort of human jeep.
He crosses where the lights are red.
Before he looks, he’ll leap!
Then many a wheel
Begins to squeal,
And many a brake to slam.
He turns your knees to jelly
And the traffic into jam.

Monday: joey. A joey is a baby kangaroo. Learn about how a joey lives. What are other animal babies called?

Tuesday traffic jam. Read a book about a traffic jam, talk about what it is, and make one with his cars on his road map.

Wednesday (scriptures/Gospel): Joseph & the Coat of Many Colors. I'll tell him this story and we'll listen to some of the music from the musical.

Thursday (movement): juggle & jump. Movement to music.

Friday (art project): jelly fish. We'll make a jelly fish from crepe paper and a paper plate.

Other J words that might come up or spark ideas for activities: jungle, joy, juice, jelly beans, Jack & Jill, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.