Revised curriculum

Here is my revised curriculum for next week. You can compare it to the original plans that i am using for this first week. I tweeked it a bit to have a better fit for things that i know my girls' love and also found most the stuff around the house!

Brightly Beaming Steps to Reading Program Preparatory Curriculum by Katrina Lybbert (edited by me)
Lesson 2
This week's theme is BUGS. Bugs Picture/Printout
The vocabulary word is butterfly – a bug with antennae, a slender body, and large, marked wings. Butterfly Picture/Printout
Activity page 1 Activity Page 2 Activity Page 3
Materials needed for the week:
Playdoh, Q-tips, paint, stickers, magazines, tissue paper & ribbon.
Books to read aloud that support the theme:
How Many Bugs in a box? David A. CarterGood Night, Sweet Butterflies by Melanie Gerth Snappy Little Bugs The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Poems that support the theme:
Caterpillar
Little fuzzy caterpillarIn your warm cocoonThe cold winter’s over and you’ll be hatching soonThen you’ll spread your wings
On a warm summer’s dayAnd wave is all goodbyAs you fly, fly away.
Songs that support the theme: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Gross Motor Skills Activity: (Monday)
Go over learning board – theme, vocab, shape/color, letter, number.
Read Poem/rhyme.
Do a bug walk, hop like a grasshopper, fly like a butterfly.
Color letter B and cut out. Color number 2 cut out, place both on learning collage.
Color activity page.

Make butterfly and bug playdoh cookies.
Let the girls’ choose which book to read.
Sing song
Letter (Tuesday)
The letter this week is the letter B.
Go over learning board – theme, vocab, shape/color, letter, number.
Recite poem/rhyme.
Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter B.
Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter B with Q-Tip painting, place on learning collage.
Point out the letter B around the playroom.
Place b stickers on learning collage.
Color activity page.
Find bugs & butterflies from magazines, cut out and place on learning collage.
Choose a book to read.
Sing song.
Shape/Color (Wednesday)
This week you will teach the color white.
Go over learning board – theme, vocab, shape/color, letter, number.
Recite poem/rhyme.
Introduce the color by coloring on your learning poster with white paint
Point out white clothing.
Point out objects around your home of the color white.
Let your child color letter B & number 2, place on learning collage.
Find white things in the fridge.
Play with white playdoh.
Choose book to read.
Sing song.
Number (Thursday)
The number this week is the number 2.
Go over learning board – theme, vocab, shape/color, letter, number.
Read poem/ rhyme.
Show your child 2 objects to count, or eat 2 crackers, 2 cheerios, etc.
Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 2 and put on your learning collage.
Add 2 stickers to your learning collage.
Draw 2 squares on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
Walk around your home counting 2 of many different objects.
Choose a book to read.
Sing song.
Fine Motor Skills Activity: (Friday)
Go over learning board – theme, vocab, shape/color, letter, number.
Read poem/ rhyme.
Color activity page.
Make butterflies, use tissue paper for wings, q-tips for body. When dry place on learning collage.
Put together activity pages in order and bind into rhyme book.