Creative Minds

Kid’s Corner

{Week 2: Language}

Theme: Snow Days          Color: White

Note: Please visit the link Kid’s Corner to learn how easy it is to complete our lessons with your child! Our Kid’s Corner lessons are guaranteed to have you and your child learning together, growing together, and having fun together.  Enjoy!

Daily Opener:  

1. Prayer {Say a prayer with your child}
2. Calendar {Click on the link to learn how to use the calendar}.
3. ABC / 123 Song {Sing the ABC’s with your child & sing numbers 1-10 with your child}.

Activity:  Wintery Day {Lesson by Annie}

Description:  Children will create a "Wintery Day" scene, while learning descriptive words by writing and saying the different items that make up the picture.

Materials:

-Markers/Crayons

-Construction Paper {Green, Brown, White, Blue, Black, Yellow}

-Scissors

-5 Word Strips out of white computer paper

-A piece of white computer paper for portrait

-Glue

-White Rice {optional}

Directions:

-Using construction paper and markers/crayons, draw and cut out the following images: Tree {Recommend putting snow on it}, House {Snow on the roof}, Clouds, Snowman, and a sled.
- On the plain piece of computer paper, write at the top with a blue marker, “A Wintery Day.”

- Cut out five word strips out of computer paper.
- One by one with your child, glue on images voicing what each image is, then writing the name of the image on the word strip, together you will be creating with your child a “wintery day” portrait.
- Once all the images are glued on the paper and all the words are written out, continue to draw details on your picture to complete the “wintery day” scene.
***Optional, using white rice or confetti, glue on tops of images to create fallen snow {for example, on the roof or sled}.
- Hang picture and word strips on the wall/refrigerator for your child to see and learn for the days to come.

Learning Opportunity:
-Repeat and point to the words throughout the week, so child becomes familiar with the thematic words.
-Introduce adjectives, have child come up with new words to describe each “wintery word.” For example, “Tree” becomes “Tall Tree.” 

*For younger children, parents come up with adjective for each word, while sharing it with your child.

- Describe the different seasons, and types of weathers each season brings.-

Read Aloud:  

Winter Time is For Me {By Mahfooz Ali}

Winter time is full of light,

Winter time is big and bright,

Winter time is full of fun,

Winter time has lots of sun,

Winter time is full of fruits,

Winter time is time to be free,

That’s why winter time is for me. 

Daily Craft: Activity Jar {Click on the link to learn about using the activity jar} Recommended participating in the Activity Jar on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Congratulations: You and your child finished the lesson for the day! What did you think about the lesson today, and what did your child learn?  We’d love to hear your thoughts!           

*Stallone Tested and Approved: {We are so lucky to have Stallone, Annie’s son, test out all of our lessons that we create for you.  We want the lessons to be enjoyable for children, so after each lesson we will post how Stallone did with the lesson in italics under the title, Stallone Tested and Approved}:

First off, can I just say Creative Minds Curriculum does work 100%! I am a proud parent who has seen a phenomenal growth in my child's coordination, knowledge, and speech, over the past few months with Creative Minds.  During the start of today's lesson, my son immediately was naming and telling me the letters involved in the thematic pictures. It makes me so proud to see him succeed!  It makes all the hard work worth my while!

Materials 

Mommy's artistic drawings 

Stallone excited to see the pictures and the words coming together

Getting ready to make our "Wintery Day" portrait

Stallone's masterpiece...with the help of Mommy

Close up!