Monday, April 10th - Friday, April 14th

Tulips or daisies? Roses or sunflowers? It’s hard to choose when they’re all so unique!

Join us this week in Sensory Art as we learn about the different parts of a flower – from the petals and the stem all the way down to the roots, we’ll cover it all!

What to expect in class:

  • Discuss the different parts of a flower, including petal, stamen, carpel, and stigma.

  • Observe the element color through a variety of multisensory art projects.

  • Create projects using watercolor paints, colored tissue paper, dyed Epsom salt and more.

  • Exercise fine motor skills by grasping and pinching various items during the creation of art projects.

What rhymes with bunny? FUNNY!

Easter celebrations may be over, but the bunnies are still hanging around at Little Land! With that being said, we’re calling all funny bunnies to join us for an upbeat Music Exploration class this week!

We can’t wait to see you there!

What to expect in class:

  • Focusing on steady beat, high and low pitch, vocal development, memory and patterns.

  • Work on call and response, tempo: slow, fast, rest and accelerando, spatial awareness, singing the scale, folk/fairytale songs.

There is a lot of pressure on our kids when we send them to school for the first time. They’re expected to sit still, follow instructions, participate in group activities, communicate their wants and needs... all at the age of five or six.  This can feel intimidating, especially to a child who hasn’t experienced a classroom setting before; and as their parent, we want to do everything we can to ease the feeling of overwhelm and make the transition into school as seamless as possible.  

Keep scrolling to see what we’re up to in Little Learners this week!

See below for more information on what’s happening in week TWELVE of Little Learners!

Welcome To Week TWELVE Of Little Learners!

We are so happy you’re here!

This week in Little Learners, your child will cover the following lessons and objectives for each section of the schedule.  

Daily Activites:

  1. Circle Time

At Circle Time, your child will:  

  • Orient themselves by establishing they are on their ninth lesson out of fifteen lessons.   Identify the classroom jobs, choose a job and receive a special job badge for the day from the following: Schedule Checker, Marker Master, Line Leader, Paper Pusher, Tray Taker, Card Keeper. 

  • Choose a job and receive a special job badge for the day from the following: Schedule Checker, Marker Master, Line Leader, Paper Pusher, Tray Taker, Card Keeper .

  • Review the class agreements as a group: “We are caring, we are peaceful, and we are respectful to ourselves and others.” 

  • Lastly, practice an active listening and breathing exercise to get their body and minds ready to learn and do their best with their class agreements.   

3. ABC’s

  Through this lesson, your child will:  

  • Practice handwriting - they will continue with letters from the combination-lined letter group for handwriting practice - letters R and K. 

  • Practice building the letters with wax sticks, tracing the letters with Little Learners Letter Writing Cards, and tracing or copying the letters on Brightlines handwriting paper.  

    Complete a practical application activity for each letter:

  • Letter R- Your child will practice a 5-step reflex integration sequence to promote functional motor development, sequential memory, and articulation.  

  • Letter K- Your child will practice executive processing and fine motor development while crafting a kite. 

    Practice reading and phonetics: Your child will practice sounding out 3-letter CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words for each letter - next, they will explore sounds that relate to each letter.  

  • R is for RAM. “What does a ram say? ‘Baaaah!’ What does letter R say? R-, R-. R is for Ram.” 

  • K is for KID. “What does a Kid (baby sheep) say? ‘Baaah!’ What does letter K say? K-, K-. K is for Kid.” 

2. Emotional Elements

Through this lesson, your child will: 

  • Explore Controls to understand how to reach the response needed for self-regulation for the Water Element. 

  • Learn how to use their personal posters to choose appropriate self-regulation strategies for Water (low frequency) emotions.  

4. Gym!

  • Your child will be invited to play team building or turn-taking activities to support executive processing development with: seek-and-find manipulatives, turn-taking with swings and slides, monkeys jumping on the bed on the bounce innertube, obstacle course building, stack and crash with blocks and mini-slides, building structures with large building blocks, or animal walks with phonetic practice

5. 123’s

Through this lesson, your child will:

  • Follow along with an interactive story book while using counting chips and number lines to practice starting from 10 and subtracting by 1’s to make 0.  

  • Practice shape recognition and visual-motor skills with a gross-motor obstacle course. 

6. Gym, again!

  • Your child will conclude their class by adding a purple circle sticker to their Name Cards to mark the twelfth completed Little Learners class. Your child will finish their class in the gym, where parents can pick them up or stay to play!

Work Together At Home:

  • Practice identifying personal, effective self-regulation strategies for feeling sad or hurt.  

  • Practice flying a kite while processing the sensation of air.  

  • Explore movements on hands and knees during play to improve postural controls for sitting in the classroom.  

  • Practice forming letters R and K on a handwriting line.  

Reflection Questions:

  • What Control can you use to “fill up” when you feel sleepy? 

  • What do you call a baby sheep? What do you call a daddy sheep? 

  • Which element do you need to fly your kite? Air (or wind) 

  • Can you show me how to paint a rainbow on the ground with your fingers and toes?