Weekend homework Jan 4

This week, you'll be receiving a board game that you can play with your student.  You can use anything as a place marker, even your finger.  You can flip a coin to see how many spaces to move ahead-- heads is one, tails is two, for example.  When you land on a square say aloud what you see in the picture (it's also labeled).

Also, this week, I will be sending home the first unit from the Cheeky Monkey book, Cheeky's Town.  This Unit introduced Cheeky, Rory and the other characters of the book.  Cheeky is a monkey.  Rory is a lion.  Tom and Ellie are a boy and a girl.  During this unit, we learned to say hello, good morning and goodbye.  We also learned to answer the question, What’s Your Name?  We learned the color blue.  We also learned some words about the body—fingers, nose, tummy, toes, eyes, ears, mouth.  We learned to count to 3 too!  We also learned big and small.  We learned to sing and move along with these videos on Youtube.  Big and Small Song  And Big and Small Song   

You can watch the videos with your student.  Also, you can look through the unit with them and see what they remember from each picture.  They should be able to identify the characters and the vocabulary.  You can also listen to songs from the unit on your home CD with your student.

I will send home the other units we have completed in the coming weeks.

In class this week, we’re working on Unit 4 in Cheeky, called Good Morning.  We know dog, cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck, fish, and mouse.  If you know the song, you can practice singing Old MacDonald with your students.  We are also working on learning clean and dirty.  We are learning to play Red Light Green Light.  Red means stop, Yellow means slow, Green means go!  We learned up and down this week.  We sang along with this song Up and Down Song Also, we are still practicing emotions.  We are working on answering the question “How are you” with “I’m happy” (or sad, angry, surprised, scared, sleepy, hot, cold).  We’re also learning a new song, called Open, Shut.  Here are the lyrics...

Open, shut them

Open, shut them

Give a little clap

Open, shut them

Open, shut them

Pat them on your lap

Creep them

Creep them

Creep them

Creep them

Right up to your chin

Open up your little mouth

But do not put them in!