March Week 1: Healthy Exercise

Phoneme: /h/

Transition song: Wake Up! Daily Routines by Dream English Kids

Vocabulary and Concepts: animals, animal sounds, body parts, following directions, stretch, fold, straight, down, top, draw, left, right, same, middle

Materials: Laminated Letter H, book, Pandora's Spa Radio

Preliteracy: Draw the Letter H:

Start at the top and draw straight down

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Go to the right and draw the same

Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey

Now to the middle, draw left to right

Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee

You can draw the letter H

Just like me.

(Note:  It just hit me that I should be going over colors for every letter as well.  We started that last month since the letter D was on purple paper.)

Discussion:  We're learning how to be healthy this month.  Our first week is about healthy, strong bodies.  We exercise to make our bodies strong.  This week we're reading a book called "You Are A Lion and Other Fun Yoga Poses.  The book as directions to follow in order to pose like the animals. Then we get to make the animal sounds.

Book: You Are A Lion And Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo  (Check out the illustrations in this and other Taeeun Yoo books.  They are absolutely charming!)

While we practice yoga poses, we also listened to Miss Carrie's computer while she played spa music on Pandora.  We practiced using soft voices and making soft animal sounds.

The children really enjoyed moving their bodies.  We're excited to go outside this week and exercise our bodies by running all over the playground.  The children are very happy that the weather is nice enough to play outside!