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Family Night |
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What is Family Night?
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Most schools that receive
Title 1 funding are now required to have 2-3 events per school
year that provide educational opportunities for parents and
students after school. These events are required to
focus on the core subjects of math, science, or literacy.
The ideas below pertain to our Literacy Night activities, or
"Pre-K Rhyme Time". Please note that the original
idea for "Kindergarten Rhyme Time" comes from Michelle at
Hubbard's Cupboard, some of the ideas below have been
adapted from her website. |
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Pre-K families participated in four hands on activity stations
focusing on nursery rhymes that we learned in class, our fifth
station featured free family photos.
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Time Frame: One hour. We had five stations and
we budgeted 10 minutes per station which included wait time. |
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See
details about each activity below. |
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#1
Humpty Dumpty |
#2
Twinkle Twinkle |
#3
Little Miss Muffet |
#4
Eensy Weensy Spider |
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#5 Free Family Pictures |
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click on thumbnails to enlarge pictures |
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Click on the
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#1 Humpty Dumpty~ |
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Materials Needed: plastic Easter eggs, stickers, Sharpie
markers, wax paper, yellow balls of playdough, one project
display board, rebus pictures, Humpty Dumpty poster or words to
display. |
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Directions: Instruct the students to use the rebus
directions to complete the activity. Have each child decorate
the outside of the plastic Easter egg with facial features using
round stickers and Sharpie markers. Next, have the
children crumple up small squares of wax paper and place inside
the egg to represent the egg white. Finally, have the
students place a small yellow ball of playdough inside the egg
to represent the yolk. Students can then act out the rhyme
using the plastic egg. |
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Click on the
thumbnail to enlarge picture |
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#2 Twinkle Twinkle~ |
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Materials Needed: tongue depressors, liquid glue, paint
brushes, gold or silver glitter, die-cut stars, one project
display board, rebus pictures, Twinkle Twinkle poster or words
to display. |
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Directions: Instruct the students to use the rebus
directions to complete the activity. Have each child paint the
end of a tongue depressor with liquid glue, then attach a
die-cut star to the end of the stick. Next, paint the star
with glue and shake glitter over the star. Students can
recite the rhyme for parents using the star as a prop.
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Click on the
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#3
Little
Miss Muffet~ |
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Materials Needed: oatmeal, sugar, cinnamon, plastic spoons,
cups, one project display board, rebus pictures, Little Miss
Muffet poster or words to display |
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Directions: Instruct the students to use the rebus
directions to complete the activity. Have each child take a cup
of oatmeal and add one spoonful of sugar, stir, and sprinkle
cinnamon. Students can then taste the oatmeal and recite
the rhyme for parents using the oatmeal as a prop for "curds and
whey". (*note* I know curds and whey are nothing
like oatmeal but kids won't eat real curds and whey!) |
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Click on the
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#4
Eensy
Weensy Spider~ |
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Materials Needed: Ritz crackers, peanut butter, plastic
knives, pretzel sticks, raisins, napkins or small plates, one
project display board, rebus pictures, Eensy Weensy Spider
poster or words to display |
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Directions: Instruct the students to use the rebus
directions to complete the activity. Have each child take 2
crackers and spread peanut butter on them. Next, have
students add 4 pretzel legs and put the second cracker on top of
the first to make a sandwich. Finally, add a little peanut
butter on the top of the sandwich and add 2 raisin eyes.
Students can then recite the rhyme for parents and taste the
spider. |
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This is a sample of
the finished spider, click on thumbnail to enlarge picture |
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#5
Family Pictures~ |
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Materials Needed: Digital camera, backdrop, computer to
upload pictures |
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Directions: You can create a cute Nursery Rhyme themed
backdrop on butcher paper or use one you already have; we have a
nice mural painted on the wall of our cafeteria so we chose to
use that instead of making our own backdrop. Also, if you
have a stage with curtains you could take the pictures in front
of the closed curtains, they also make a nice backdrop.
Families posed for our volunteer photographer (my husband) and
then on the weekend we uploaded the photos and optimized them in
Photoshop. We used a one hour on-line processing service,
there are many to choose from (CVS, Target etc).
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Research shows that low-income families do not have many
pictures of their children individually or together as a family
so we decided that having Free Family Photos would provide a
valuable service and also act as an attraction to get families
to attend. |
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Rebus pictures: Some teachers used Microsoft
clip-art, others drew by hand, and others used digital photos to
create their rebus pictures. |
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