It has rained a tremendous amount over the last 3 weeks where we live! And then there’s also the old saying: “April showers bring May flowers.” So we did a few rain activities together. I meant to post this last week, but forgot…
Day 1:
Read aloud Rain by Robert Kalan (illustrated by Donald Crews). I would classify this book on an early to mid-Kindergarten reading level. ALuv then read it to us (with a little help from me).
Just a note: The book now resides on our white Ikea shelf in the playroom, which helps to remind me to ask him to re-read it a few more times. Once he has it down independently, I’ll put the book in his ALuv Can Read bin (below).
Read & sang the nursery rhyme Rain on the Green Grass, which I had posted on my kitchen wall. I picked this rhyme because our sight words for these two weeks are and & not. The poem also reviews other Word Wall words (on, the, & me).
We patted our knees to make the rain sound as we sang it in a little song together.
If you’ll notice, I have green grass underlined. We looked out our windows and took turns changing those lyrics as we sang the song again. These were some of our other lyrics…Rain on the black road, blue swing, red flowers, green trees, and blue van (NJoy’s favorite…we sang that one each time it was his turn!!).
Writing/Coloring Time: NJoy colored some pictures with the rain theme from DLTK. His favorite thing about the rain are the “rainbrellas”–why do we call them umbrellas?!? I like NJoy’s word choice much better! 🙂
While NJoy colored, I started ALuv on writing and illustrating his own Rain book. I drew some lined paper (see below) for him to use for the book. On the first 2 pages, I had already written Rain on the and he had to finish the sentence using a color word and an object on which it could rain. (For example: Rain on the red locomotive). Once his sentence was complete, he had to draw and color the pictures. He did these two pages on Day 1 and then we stopped for the day.
For the paper we used on day 1, click here: Rain on the…
Day 2:
Read aloud The Napping House by Audrey Wood. While reading Rain on Day 1, I was reminded of this book. It’s one of my mom’s favorite books and has become one of mine, too. I also have the big book, but couldn’t find it in the attic; which needs a serious organizational overhaul–any volunteers?!? 🙂
Re-read Rain (we shared the reading)
Sang Rain on the Green Grass like Day 1, except we added some spice by singing it fast and slow, while patting our legs fast and slow.
Writing & Coloring: NJoy colored again (the boy loves to color!) while ALuv finished his Rain book.
On the next 3 pages, ALuv had to write the entire sentence and the draw pictures to go with them. Here’s the paper he used for that: blank writing paper.
On the last page, he spelled the word RAINBOW with rainbow stickers from Target’s $1 bin.
We took 11×14 construction paper and covered & stapled the book together once he was finished. It now resides in his ALuv Can Read Bin.
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~Becky
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