Outside Day
Enjoying and using the outdoors
Instructions
- Plan a day (or part of a day) to spend outside
- Do as many normal activities outside as possible - read a book, eat a picnic, wash toys and bikes, draw with sidewalk chalk, take a walk, blow bubbles, etc.
- If possible, plan an outdoor event for a later date - play date at the park, zoo field trip, go to pool or beach, window shop in town’s stores, use a ball field to kick or throw balls, etc. Place date on the calendar.
- Watch a sunrise (upper edge of the sun appears in the East) and a sunset (sun disappears below the horizon in the West)
- Notice when you are outside where the sun is in the sky during the day, how the wind blows, what animals are seen, etc.
- Mark on a calendar the days you have played/walked outside- try to make this a weekly or daily event!
Simplify
Chat about how you feel when you are outside. Are you excited, warm, full of energy, etc?
Extend
Check the sunrise and notice where the sun appears in the sky. Is it between two trees, next to a building, etc? In a few months, check the sunrise again - did it come up in the same place between the two trees or next to a building? Chat about how the earth moves and that is why the sunrise is in a different spot.
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
Tell me how you would like to spend an entire day outside.
When you wake up in the morning to when you go to bed at night, does the time go quickly or slowly, and why?
Materials
- outdoor environment
- clear day to observe sunrise and sunset
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Review
- Color - Green
- Number - Five, 5
- Alphabet Letters - G, Y
- Senses - Review
- Character Trait - Confidence
- Target Words - Stop, Go, Slow, More
Monthly Proverb
Hasidic- The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others
Did You Know?
"Advances in cognitive science make it clear that very young children are capable of much more academically than was previously imagined." The Albert Shanker Institute
Books to Read
"Sheep In A Shop"
by Nancy Shaw (Activity 7) (audiobook option)
"I Don't Want To Be A Frog"
by Dev Petty (Activity 8)
"Popcorn"
by Frank Asch (Activity 16)
"Sheep in A Shop". VIDEO
by Nancy Shaw (Activity 7)
"I Don't Want To Be A Frog". VIDEO
by Dev Petty (Activity 8)
"Popcorn". VIDEO
by Frank Asch (Activity 16)
Music Playlist
"I Believe in You"
by Divo and Celine Dion Album IL Divo/Ancora (Vocal Classical) (Activity 18)
"She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain"
by Barbershop Quartets (Activity 19)
"What’s Your Name"
by Mike Soloway Album Hungry for Manners (Childrens) (Activity 1)
"What's Your Name" VIDEO
by Mike Soloway (Activity 1)
"She'' Be Comin Round the Mountain" VIDEO
by Learning Station (Activity 19)
"I Believe In You" VIDEO
by Divo and Celine Dion (Activity 18)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
Red says STOP
(Activity 14 Month 6)
Red says STOP
Green says GO
Yellow says WAIT
You better go SLOW
5 Little Ducks Went Out to Play
(Activity 26 Month 6)
Five little ducks Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
But only four little ducks came back.
Four little ducks Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
But only three little ducks came back.
Three little ducks Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
But only two little ducks came back.
Two little ducks Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
But only one little duck came back.
One little duck Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
But none of the five little ducks came back.
Sad Mother Duck Went out one day
Over the hill and far away
The sad Mother Duck said
"QUACK QUACK QUACK."
And all of the five little ducks came back.