Vocabulary an Basic Concepts: Up/down, front/back big/little, over/under, curve/straight, draw, house, street, neighborhood, trees, mailbox, dog, school, store, neighborhood helpers, What questions, Where questions, present progressive -ing, plural -s, past tense -ed, environmental print such as fast food or grocery store signs, shapes.
Transition Song: Colors by The Learning Station.
This week, Miss Carrie showed us a picture of her house on the Apple TV. It looked like a rectangle with a triangle on top. Then she used Google Maps to show us a picture of her street. It looked like she took the picture from an airplane in the sky. She showed us our school and the door we go in if we came in cars, and the door we came in if we came on the bus. She showed streets and stores.
Then Miss Carrie rolled out a BIG piece of paper. It covered the whole rug. We were going to draw our own map. We drew our house and street. We talked about places near our house. Miss Carrie has a McDonalds near her house so she drew a McDonalds sign. Some of us drew trampolines and swings. We drew trees and streets. We drew curved lines and straight lines. We talked about what was near our house.
(Drawing while laying on your tummy promotes trunk support and is recommended by our district physical therapists. We had to keep reminding children to get on their tummies.)
DO THIS AT HOME: pull our paper and get on the floor. You could make a map of the room, your house, your back yard, or your neighborhood. Talk about your drawings. If the house ends up being on fire or has a dragon on top, that is okay (apparently, my house caught fire from a dragon on top of it), just go with it. Talk about colors, straight lines, curved lines, and shapes.
