Sample Month
Month 1
Activities in Month 1 include developing fine motor skills in multiple fun activities including, peeling hard boiled eggs, using scissors and drawing. Check out the color yellow, how to identify and create a "square" shape and the letters A and E, along with so much more. Have fun!
Home Supplies
Kitchen Supplies
Additional Materials
Play these songs often throughout the month, download or check the library for albums
Select one poem for child to memorize this month and recite it at bedtime plus one song/fingerplay to learn. Here are two examples:
My NAME Song
(Activity 25 Month 1 - Sung to tune of BINGO)
There was a family had a child
and Carly (insert child's name) was her name.
C - A - R - L - Y C - A - R - L - Y C - A - R - L - Y (spell child's name)
And Carly (insert child's name) was her name
Kind To Others
(Activity 13 Month 1 - Fingerplay)
5 little children
Standing in a row ( hold up 5 fingers)
They are kind to others
Everywhere they go. (walk hand in front of body)
I am one of the children (point to self)
Standing in a row (hold up 5 fingers)
I'll be kind to others (point to self)
Wherever I go. (walk hand in front of body)
(This fingerplay works as a reminder to a child to be kind in any situation- without saying a word. Just walk hand in front of body to silently signal a child to remember to be kind or use actual sign language for the word kind.)
Swedish - The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
These are the highlighted educational skills this month. Focus on incorporating them into your everyday lives along with the program activities.
Children who are not ready for kindergarten often have trouble succeeding in school. Those who do poorly in school are more likely to need to repeat classes, need special education, drop out of school, become teen parents, and get into trouble with the law. As adults, drop-outs have trouble making a living wage, and are at risk of poverty and homelessness
From Plan for the Washington Early Learning System – Draft 12/1/09 (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2005; Isaacs, 2008).
Each month has a variety of books to read together. Each of the books is available to read for free on YouTube by clicking Read/Listen. Also, your public library may have these books www.publiclibraries.com or purchase the books at your local bookstore or online. Some months have books that are also available and identified as audiobooks and can be purchased at iTunes, audible.com, or other sites.
Reading List
The Mitten
by Jan Brett
(Activity 22)
Little Blue and Little Yellow
by Leo Lionni
(Activity 8)
Read/Listen Little Blue and Little Yellow
(Activity 12)
Teaching the color blue and practicng finger dexterity
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