Rocks and “R”-Day One
9:30 – Gathering - Make racecar steering wheels, help students.
9:40 – Circle Time
9:30 – Gathering - Make racecar steering wheels, help students.
9:40 – Circle Time
Song: Wheels on the Bus
Home/School Poster. Count who is here.
What Day is Today? Get Calendar
Read Aloud: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
9:50 – Literacy Activity- Red Racecar
Materials and Preparation:
Picture of a Red Racecar
Racecar steering wheels (paper plate or paper circle) – 1 for each student
A racecar road made with tape on the floor, or drawn on the garage floor.
Hold up a red racecar or picture of a red racecar and say, “Who would like to ride in a red racecar? Today we’re getting ready for a road race! What sound do you hear that is the same in road, red, and racecar? The letter Rr says the /r/ sound in words like race and red. We need to listen for words beginning with /r/ as we get our red racecars ready.”
Have students pretend to get ready for the road race by echoing what you do and say:
o Remember to put gas in the car
o Reach for your seatbelt
o Turn off the radio
Give each student a racecar wheel. Say, “Rev the engine,” (make a sound using /r/ like a car engine). “Ready, set, ride!” Sing The Racecar Wheels song, making up actions for each verse, as you ride around the racecar road.
Song:
The Racecar Wheels (sung to the tune of The Wheels on the Bus
The racecar wheels go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The racecar wheels go round and round
All through the race.
The racecar roof is red, red, red,
Red, red, red, red, red, red.
The racecar roof is red, red, red
All through the race.
The racecar brakes go rrr rrr rrr,
Rrr rrr rrr, rrr rrr rrr.
The racecar brakes go rrr rrr rrr
All through the race.
The racecar motor goes roar, roar, roar,
Roar, roar, roar, roar, roar, roar.
The racecar motor goes roar, roar, roar
All through the race.
The racecar ride is rough, rough, rough,
Rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough
The racecar ride is rough, rough, rough
All through the race.
Review (Read and/or Write About) the Playful Experience:
-Have the song written out on paper. Have the children identify the letter R’s and circle or underline them.
-Have students write the letter Rr (capital and lowercase) all around their racecar wheel.
10:05 – Math
Go search for rocks. Do I just have rocks, or do I get the kids to go out and get them? Allow children to pick up rocks and bring them back to the house. Make sure that there are plenty of similar ones for the activities you will do later. Put them all in a pile in the middle of the room. Count the Rocks.
What a Mess!
Wow, these rocks are a mess. Do you think that we can sort them so that the ones that look the same are in the same spot? Make circles for them to put them on. While they are sorting, discuss the characteristics of the rocks. Sort them by color, size, shape, texture, etc. Discuss with the students how they feel, which ones are their favorites, what colors they are. Why do you think these are rough or smooth? What can we do with these? How do you think they were formed?
10:20 – Break/Snack
Rice Krispie Treats Cut cheese into squares
Transition and gathering back up…
Geologist, geologist, where's your rock??
Choose child (geologist) to sit in chair in center of circle with eyes closed (no fair peeking). Put rock under chair, and have another child sneak up and retrieve it. Child puts rock behind their back, then all children sit with hands in their lap and geologist must guess who got their rock.
10:40 Science
Rock Box
Have a box with a hole cut in the end. Fill it with some of the rocks. Have the kids reach in and feel the rocks, and describe it without seeing it. They can talk about size, texture, shape.
Then only put one rock in and have the children pick a rock from the pile of rocks that matches the one in the box.
Have them look at rocks through magnifying glasses and talk about what they observe. If you want you can put them in water and see what happens.
11:05 Choosing Time
- Make Rock Critters/Sculptures
Join the stones (coal pieces) together with small bits of cotton soaked in white glue or hot glue. Use small buttons, etc. for eyes, ears, etc. or paint them on.
- Rock Box and classifying rocks
- Pretend to be Racecars
11:25
Clean up, Gather to sing and read until picked up
Read Books, Sing Racecar Wheels
Rocks and “R”-Day Two
9:30 Gathering
9:30 Gathering
9:40 – Circle Time
Song: Little Bunny FuFu?
Home/School Poster. Count who is here.
What Day is Today? Get Calendar
Read Aloud: What to read?
9:50 – Literacy Activity –
9:50 – Literacy Activity –
Materials and Preparation:
Pictures of a red rooster—more than 1 per student
2 tubs, 1 labeled rabbits and 1 labeled raccoons
Red award ribbons (optional)
Capital and lowercase letter Rrs
Hold up a picture of a red rooster and say, “This is a red rooster. We’re going to play a game where we pretend there are lots of red roosters trapped on a red roof. Rabbits and raccoons will rescue the red roosters. Rabbit, raccoon, and rooster all begin with the letter Rr. They begin with the /r/ sound. Some of you will be a raccoon and some of you will be a rabbit and you will race to rescue the red roosters.”
Divide the students into two groups: the rabbits and the raccoons.
Put the rooster pictures at one end of the room and two tubs at the other end of the room.
Form two lines next to the two tubs: rabbits and raccoons.
Have one member of each team run to rescue a rooster and bring it back to their tub labeled rabbit or raccoon. At the same time have the rest of each team cheer on their team member by chanting, “Rabbits!” or “Raccoons!”
Repeat until all of the red roosters have been rescued.
Count together the red roosters in each team’s tub, by saying, “One red rooster, two red roosters …”
Reward the rabbits and the raccoons with red ribbons for rescuing the red roosters.
Ways to Emphasize and Repeat the Target Throughout the Activity:
Comment on Actions and Objects
The red roosters on the roof need rabbits and raccoons to rescue them.
The reward for rescuing red roosters is a red ribbon.
Offer Choices and Turns
Do you want to be a rabbit or a raccoon?
It’s your turn to run and rescue a red rooster!
Ask Questions
How did those red roosters get on that roof?
Who will rescue the most red roosters; the rabbits or the raccoons?
Make Playful Statements
Can you hear the red roosters? Rock-a-roodle-roo!
Wow! The rabbits rescued 16 red roosters!
Acknowledge Students’ Responses
Raccoons and rabbits can run really fast!
Yes, the rabbits and raccoons are racing to rescue the red roosters.
Request Actions
Ready, set, race!
Run to rescue a red rooster!
Review (Read and/or Write About) the Playful Experience:
Show students the capital and lowercase letter Rr and have them tell you its name and sound it makes.
Have students practice writing the letter Rr in the air, on their hand, or on a whiteboard.
10:05 – Math – Robbie the Rectangle
10:20 – Break/Snack –
Snack
Transition, getting back together…
BODY: LETTER R GAME
REACH, RUB, RUN, ROLL
This is a fun and active game for young children. You'll need a fair amount of space for the running and rolling part. It's sort of a cross between Simon Says and Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes. For very young children, have the leader simply shout out the commands Reach Rub Run and Roll in order.
REACH, RUB, RUN, ROLL
This is a fun and active game for young children. You'll need a fair amount of space for the running and rolling part. It's sort of a cross between Simon Says and Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes. For very young children, have the leader simply shout out the commands Reach Rub Run and Roll in order.
When the leader says REACH, the kids stand on their tip toes and reach as high as they can.
When the leader says RUB, the kids rub their tummies like they just ate something yummy.
When the leader says RUN, the kids run around the room.
When the leader says ROLL, the kids drop to the ground and roll around on the floor.
then start again at REACH
As an alternative (and for older kids), you can add a random element (don't say the words in order) or you can add a competitive element (instead of Simon Says, do "Rory says" or "Rachel says") - if the children change their activity when Rachel didn't say, they're out.
Also use row, rake, rope. And nouns like, rabbits, roosters, reindeers, robots, etc.
10:40 – Science/Social Studies
10:40 – Science/Social Studies
Take out the rocks from yesterday and have a brief discussion about them. Which do you think are the heaviest? What would happen if I dropped them in water? Show what happens when you drop rocks in water. See if Kim’s rocks float? If I throw them, will they all do the same distance? Why do some go farther then others?
Have the children try to tell by first looking and then by feeling which rock will be the heaviest and which one will be the lightest. Follow up this activity by asking if the rock they thought would be the heaviest was in fact the heaviest. Also, is the biggest rock always the heaviest? You can also add a section to this unit on smooth and rough rocks. Put rocks on scales and experiment.
11:05 – Choosing Time
- Color R books or big R, Little R pictures Make an Itsy book about R. Discuss the pictures while they color. Colored pencils, crayons, markers, print out books.
- Play with rocks on the scales
- Make R’s with Rice
Print the template and color in the R r. Point out to the child which is the capital R and which is the lowercase.
OPTIONAL: To food color rice, add a healthy amount of food coloring to two 1 tsp of rubbing alcohol in a ziploc bag.
- Pour in about 3/4 cup of UNCOOKED rice.
- Close the bag
- Shake well (like shake and bake)
- Pour onto a piece of wax paper or tinfoil to dry (put it in a cookie sheet so it doesn't accidentally get knocked on the floor)
- Making the colored rice is messy and food color doesn't come out of clothes well... the shaking part can be done by kids, but the rest should be done by an adult.
- I like using food coloring PASTE instead of drops as I find the color is richer, but drops work too.
- Let dry (about 1/2 a day -- less if you spread them out well in a warm airy place) -- once again, I never listen to my own advice... our rice had about 5 minutes to dry before we used it... we just made sure to have a damp rag to wash off our hands.
- On a separate piece of paper, let the kids spread a thick layer of glue all around the edge in a 1 to 2 inch border using popsicle sticks, old toothbrushes or old paintbrushes to spread the glue. OR have them spread the glue in the center of the letters.
- Red construction paper is great here (Red starts with R) It also looks wonderful with white rice if you don't want the hassle of dying it...
- OR die the rice red (it will likely look a bit pink) and glue on white paper.
OR die the rice a number of different colors and once they're dry mix them together to make a Rainbow frame.
- Pour on the rice
- Let the kids press the rice into the glue with their fingers (it's nice to let them deal with TEXTURE during craft projects).
- I often ask the girls to describe/compare different textures as we craft (printer paper is softer than construction paper, glue is sticky, rice is bumpy and cold, etc)
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