Language Arts

The sound this week is the blend - /ck/ at the end of clock.
Emphasize the /ck/ sound often through the day.  Have your child repeat the sound with you.

Put up your sound wall poster.

The main theme for the week is:  Clocks

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

Clocks and More Clocks by Pat Hutchins
The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Aylesworth
Clocks and How They Go by Gail Gibbons
My Grandmother's Clock by Geraldine McCaughrean
Tick-Tock by Eileen Browne
The Clock by Trent Duffy
Time by Brenda Walpole
The Greenwich Guide to Measuring Time by Graham Dolan
Telling the Time by Rupert Matthews
My First Book of Time by Claire Llewellyn

Poems that support the theme:

"Hickory Dickory Dock"

Songs that support the theme:

"My Grandfather's Clock"

Handwriting Assignments:

Day 1:  Practice writing the letter "c" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 2:  Practice writing the letter "k" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 3:  Practice writing the blend "ck" on one line of handwriting paper.

Day 4:  Practice writing the word "clock" one or two times.

Day 5:  Practice writing any of the other theme words one or two times.
 

Activities and/or Art Projects

Practice telling the time.  You could use the clock printouts at donnayoung.org.

Build a sundial.

Make a paper plate clock.

Choose an experiment or activity from the book:  Clocks by Bernie Zubrowski.

Coloring Pages or Crafts for Hickory Dickory Dock

Other Theme Words and Ideas

Other theme words - truck, duck, block, dock, knock, back, black, trick, lock, brick, chick, stick, rock, pick, sick, kick

Books to read aloud that support the other theme words or the blend /ck/:

Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans

Poems that support the other theme words or the blend /ck/:

"Lucy Locket"
"The Click Clacker Machine" by Donna Lagg Pape (from 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury)

Songs that support the other theme words or the blend /ck/:

"Miss Mary Mack"
"Six Little Ducks"