Dear Parents,

Ms. Joerres, Mrs. Macke and myself, the LCC Day School 2-year old teaching team, have been working on some ideas of things you can do at home with your child.  We will be offering up ideas that would closely match our schedule at school.  You of course, can use them in any order that works for you. 

We will try to touch on 4 or 5 basic areas of our day, using our curriculum themes.  We will try to include, a video each week that will relate to our theme, movement/songs, books and a craft.  We will also send you our “snack time” blessing that you can use when serving snack at home.

For the next two weeks we will be learning about things on the farm. We are sending you a link for a really cute trip to a farm.  This video is geared for young children.  We will send you some ideas of things to do at home relating to crafts and movement/singing.

You can help to create a "play space" by locating all the farm related items you may have at home.  Stuffed animals, blocks for fencing, etc You can get creative, ask the girls to help you.

Please know that I miss seeing all of you guys!  Please tell Elle, Emma, Koral, Leighton, Pearl, Riley, Sofia and Vail hello for me!!!


9:00 - 9:10  Story Time

Theme Video - Take a Trip to The Animal Farm

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2ZX0PF-jI

Story –  Read The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown

             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3weQRcJLdQU

9:10 - 9:45  Outdoor/Gross Motor (Full body movement)

Walk like a duck, forward and backwards.  You can be inside or outside.  Take big steps or small step depending on if you are a baby duck or daddy duck.  How about, walk like a goose?  Use your imagination and think about the animals that you saw in the video.

9:45 - 10:00 Wash Hands/Say Blessing/Snack

God Our Father(Tune: Frere Jacques)

God our Father, God our Father
Once again, once again.
Thank you for our blessings, thank you for our blessings.
A a men, A a men

Today's snack blessing is?

10:00 - 11:00 Free Play - A time to build social/emotional skills and problem solving. I find that when I put a few ques in place, that the children will take off using their imaginations.  This is where your farm animal props will come into play.  Get out all of the animals, do they have a place to live? Can you build a barn? How about a pen? What will they eat?  (Tear up paper for hay and oats)

11:00 - 11:15 Music and Movement

Sing - Old Mac Donald Had a Farm.  (For fun, you can change it up.  Ask them what else could be on the farm, A tiger?)

                                         
Baa Baa Black Sheep (This one is fun to add in different colors.  Hold up a color as you sing to see if they can identify the color.  Show them pink and sing, Baa Baa pink sheep.  Be silly!)

11:15 - 11:30 Art – Print with half of an Easter egg to make circles.  If you have some paint at home, give them a small amount in a flat pan or dish.  Open up a plastic Easter egg and let them make prints.  Talk about the color they are using and the shape they are making.

If you need to buy paint, you can make every other color by mixing a variation of the three primary colors, red, blue and yellow.  Red and blue makes purple, red and yellow makes orange, blue and yellow makes green, All of them mixed together makes brown!!!

These are just a few ideas, more to come.  Just relax and have fun!!!