Week of March 23-26, 2015 Healthy Fun

Week of March 23-26, 2015

Theme: Healthy Fun

Focus Question: Why is exercise important?

Letter of the Week: N

Dear Family,

getting preschoolers to move is never a problem! This week children will learn why their movements and exercise they undertake on a daily basis is so important to their health. They will review the names of their body parts and they will also learn to do some exercises that strengthen their bodies and keep them flexible. The lessons this week will also involve reading about and discussing winter and summer sports.

Learning Together

• Choose and listen to some favorite songs with your child. Then, together, dance along to the music.
• With your child, choose a time every morning or afternoon to do bending and stretching exercises together.
• Play the game "Match Me" with your child. Perform exercises, such as jumping jacks, toe-touches, or marching in place, and then have your child try to replicate the exercise that your performed.

Activities

• The children will play a movement game where they choose a movement card and then roll the dice to find out how many times they will  perform the movement.
• The children will make a sentence strip book about how they can move their bodies.
• We will follow directions to make a healthy snack using measuring cups and counting.
• We will work together to develop a list of sports activities or exercise that we like to participate in and ways in which we are moving our body when we participate in them.
• We are going to play a body part game where the children get to construct a monster by putting on given body parts and rolling a dice to find out how many of those body parts they should put on, those monsters could get pretty crazy. 
• On Thursday we will have Super Hero Day. The children can dress as their favorite Super Hero. We will talk about how we are Super Heroes who are in charge of keeping our bodies super healthy and strong. For homework this week on a blank piece of paper please help your child identify their favorite super hero and why they are their favorite super hero and then let your child draw a picture of their favorite super hero. We will share Our Favorite Super Hero papers on Thursday. 
• We will practice our names using magnetic and wikki sticks to practice our names. For our older students we will practice first and last names.

Upcoming Events

• We currently do not have anyone signed up for the Letter N snack of the week, if anyone is interested please let me know. If you do not hear back from please know that I have found someone who will be bringing the snack.
• March 26-Show and Share Letter N
• March 26-Super Hero Day-Dress as your favorite superhero