Spring Training Week

     

     Good afternoon friends! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely spring feeling week as we were able to do here. I took advantage of the warmer sunnier weather by lots of outdoor active play for my guy. Until I upload my photos off my phone I realized I did not have much space for photos of all the fun things we did together.
     For fun, since most sports athletes in different sports are all experiencing some sort of training camps that I would do something similarly themed for us. Exercise is incredibly important for everyone, but especially growing kids. It is good to get them started on a good track. At this age exercising with mom and dad is super fun for kids and it is important we give them good examples of leading fun and active lifestyles for life.
     We also focused on the letter Zz and color purple.

Monday: Intro Uppercase Z/Intro Purple/ Stretching and Warm-up
Books
My xyz Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Look Again Look Again Sports Picture Puzzles by Matt Bruning
Seeing Purple All Around Us by Sarah L. Scheutte

Songs
Zippity Doo-Dah (from Disney)
Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
The Purple People Eater

Activities
Intro Uppercase Z and Zz vocab words from picture dictionary

Do a Zumba dance party work out

Intro color purple. Use blue and red paint and let the child mix them up while painting to see them make purple

Intro the importance of keeping our bodies phusically fit and how some people use fitness for not only health, but as jobs too...how sports are hard work but can be fun too.

Intro and practice the concept of stretching and warming up before doing a sport or exercises.

Tuesday: Intro Walking vs. Jogging vs.
 Running 
Books
Give It A Try, Zoe by Sarah Albee
Bread and Jam for Frances by (because the jam in the story is purple)

Songs
Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! We're going to the Moon!
Cha Cha Slide song
Walk, jog, run song
Tune of are you sleepin
Walking walking
Walking walking
Jog jog jog
Jog jog jog
Running running running
Running running running
Now I stop
Now I stop

Activities
Review Z vocab words from my picture dictionary

Take a posterboard and make zig zag track lines for toy cars to follow....tape down zig zag duct tape lines for a child to follow

Play with purple water in the kitchen sink using blue and red food coloring

Go outside and play follow the leader to show the difference between walking, jogging, and running.

Wednesday: Intro Lowercase z, Throwing/Kicking/Shooting  Balls
Books
Zig zag the Sound of ZAlice K. Flanagan
Clifford's Spprts Day by Norman Bridwell
Purple by Sharon Gordan

Songs
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Zebra song
tune of I'm A Little Teapot
I'm a little zebra white and black
big bushy mane all down my back
I like to gallop, run, and play
Out in the African desert all day.

Momma's Taking Us to the Zoo Tomorrow by Raffi

Activities
Intro lowercase Z coloring page. Review Zz vocab words with picture dictionary

Zebra painting activitiy. Take a blank zebra and let child paint black stripes on it.

Pom pom sorting. Sort put all purple pom poms. Make purple zig zag lines with them.

Go outside and see how far your child can throw different sized balls. Find out which size can go the farthest vs shortest distance... experiment to see how well your child can kick different sized balls and measure which one goes farthex and shortest distance. Than compare the ones that were thrown vs. kicked. Practice shooting hoops together...

Thursday: ZOO FIELD TRIP DAY

Friday: Zz Vocab Review Day/High and Long Jump and Obstacle Course Day
Books
Zoe's Sheep by Rose Bursik
You're A Sports Pro! by Karen Bryant-Mole
Zoo by Anthony Brown

Songs
Knees Up Mother Brown by Raffi
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions by Queen
The Zipper Song
(Mary had a little lamb)
Zipper starts with the letter z
Letter z, letter z
Zipper starts with the letter z
Zzzzz

Activities:
Zz vocab review coloring page

Practice our zipper zipping skills

Play with purple play dough

Measure how high your child can jump as well as how far.
Make up your own obstacle course in your backyard using whatever you can find that is fun, challenging, and most importantly safe.

What fun ways can you think to help make body movement and exercise fun? What about other activities to enjoy for the letter Zz and color purple? Please share in a comment.