This week we will continue with our Gingerbread Unit. The children are enjoying the different versions we have read. Our family party is this Friday at 10:30. The children have been practicing the songs we will be performing. You are more than welcome to video tape the performance and/or take pictures of the show.

Books:
The Gingerbread Girl
The Gingerbread Baby
Stop That Pickle
The stinky Cheese Man

Choice Time:
Arts-n-crafts - decorating gingerbread houses and snowflakes
Puzzles and Manipulatives- Shaving Cream
Block Area- IPADS
Rug-Candyland, Don't Break the Ice, floor puzzles
Dramatic Play: Housecorner
Sensory Table -Moon Sand

SLWP:
The Gingerbreads Are Here
7 Gingerbread Cookies in the Bakery Shop
Gingerbread
Going to Kentucky
The Freeze Song

Small Group Activities:
Gingerbread Math Book
Gingerbread Mazes
Gingerbread positional Book
Gingerbread listening activity

School will be closed from December 24-January 1. See everyone on January 2.

Books:

The Gingerbread Man Karen Schmidt

The Gingerbread Boy Paul Galdone

 

SLWP:

Do You Know the Gingerbread Man?

7 Gingerbread Cookies in the Bakery Shop

The Gingerbreads are here, the gingerbreads are there

Gingerbread

 

Small Group Activities:

Lacing and painting gingerbread houses

Sequencing gingerbread from largest to smallest

Decorating gingerbread for a bulletin board

Gingerbread alphabet match

 

Choice Time:

Arts n crafts table: gingerbread puppets

Sensory table: moon sand

Puzzles and Manipulatives; playdough with gingerbread cookie cutters

Dramatic Play: bakery shop

Books: theme related

Rug: IPads and puzzles

This week we will wrap up our Friendship Unit.

Books:

 Matthew and Tilly

Hooray a Piñata

Pumpkin Soup

Small Group Activities:

Piñata Puzzle – The children will put puzzle pieces together to create a piñata

Making a Piñata – The class will make two Piñatas.

Rhyming Book – The children will create a book with rhymes

Alphabet Book – The children will use Bingo Markers to trace letters

Choice Time:

Block Area: Grocery Store

Puzzle and Manipulatives:  Play dough and/or puzzles

Art Area: Crayon resists pictures

Dramatic Play: house

Rug: IPADS and/or board games

Writing Center: Making Grocery Lists/writing letters

Books: Themed related

SLWP:

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

The More We Get Together

Clap Your Hands

Come on and Join In to the Game

Going to Kentucky

Friendly Frogs pictures

Friendship Week 3

Stories:

Matthew and Tilly

Dandelion

A Letter to Amy

Hooray for Piñata

Choice Time:

Art Area: Painting with Primary colors

Puzzles and Manipulatives: Board Games (Balloon Lagoon, Candy Land, Don’t Break the Ice)

Sensory Table: Flour and Baby Oil Mixture

Block Area: Setting up a Grocery Store

Rug Area: Floor Puzzles and Building Manipulatives

Dramatic Play: House corner

Writing Center: Making grocery Lists

SLWP:

Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?

Who’s Missing?

Chiming in with Rhyming Words

Bingo

ABC’s

Come on in and Join the Game

 

Small Group Activities:

Following directions Activity

Painting a Pinata

Sorting Money

1:1 Correspondence Math Book

 

Theme :Friendship

Small Group Activities:
Friendship Pictures- The children will decorate stationary and draw a picture for one of their friends.
Alphabet Bingo - The children will work on identify uppercase letters.
Alphabet Letter Tiles and Puzzles: Using Storybook word cards the children will place letter tiles on the corresponding letters. They will also assemble fruit and vegetable puzzles
Board Games: The children will work in small groups and play board games. They will be working on turn taking and following directions.

Books:
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)
A Letter to Amy

HUSH

Choice Time:
Block Area - blocks and beanie babies
Sensory Table - washing dishes
Dramatic Play - inviting friends over to play and house corner
Book Area - exploring books
Art Area - making paper pizzas, fruit-loop necklaces
Puzzles/Manipulatives - making pizza dough, making and playing with playdough
Writing Center - writing on stationary
Rug Area - IPADS

SLWP:
SONGS: If You're Happy; Eentsy, Weentsy Spider; Five Green and Speckled Frogs;Five Little Ducks;Down by the Bay;Come On and Join to the Game; Head and Shoulders

POEMS:Five Juicy Apples; Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, Ten Little Fingers

LITERACY SKILLS: Chiming in with Rhymes; Compound Words, Beginning Sounds

REMINDER: NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
BOOKS NEED TO BE RETURNED ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7.

Unit 2, Week 1 FRIENDSHIP

THEME: Friendship

In unit 2, children will be talking about friendship, how to be a good friend, and ways to resolve conflict with friends. Through the Story Time books, children will hear about the importance of being who you are, helping friends, enjoying special times together, and getting along. In addition to listening to stories, children will learn to identify rhyming words and beginning letters and sounds in words, as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also participate in a variety of music, poetry, math, science, and art activities.

Theme Concepts:
* A friend is someone we like and want to spend time with. Friends like to do things together. They enjoy each other's company.
*We can have more than one good friend, and we might like to do some things with one friend and other things with other friends.
*Friends usually share with and help one another.
*Friends may have arguments and get mad at one another. Usually, friends work out their problems and     continue to be friends.
*We can make new friends and also keep old friends.

Story Time Books:                                   Predictable Book:                                 Information Books:
Dandelion                                                      Golden Bear                                         Road Builders
Hooray, A Pinata                                            HUSH!
A Letter to Amy
Matthew and Tilly
The Little Red Hen

Week 3

Books:
Whistle for Willie
Noisy Nora
Corduroy

Small Groups:
Exploring Can Sounds - children will try and guess which objects are in each can by using their sense of hearing.
Marble Play - children will work in a small group to create a marble maze.
Making Paper Airplanes - children will make a paper airplane and have a chance to see how far it goes.
Matching Paint Chips - children will play a memory game with paint chips

Choice Time:
Book Area - exploring books
Art Table - painting with marbles
Dramatic Play - reading aloud to babies
Writing Center - Story related word cards
Rug - dollhouses
Puzzles and Manipulatives - puzzles, alphabet game

SLWP:
Bingo
Wheels on the Bus
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Clap Your Hands
I'm a Little Teapot
Down By the Bay
Five Little Ducks
Introducing Ryhming Words

Unit 1, Week 2: Family

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 8


Books:
Noisy Nora
Peter's Chair
My Family Tree
Time For Bed

Small Group:
Math: Continue practicing 1:1 correspondence
Science: Making paper fans
Book Browsing: Exploring books
Language: Name matching and matching paint chips

Choice Time:
Art Area: Making Musical Instruments and Painting with Primary Colors
Blocks: Playing with Family Figures
Puzzles and Manipulatives: Exploring Letters and Playdough
Dramatic Play: Taking Care of Babies
Writing Center: Using Name Cards

SLWP:
Bingo
Down By The Bay
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Stand Up
Hands
Pizza Song
Banana Song
Introducing Beginning Sounds

Unit 1 Overview

Theme: Family

 

In Unit 1, the children will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another. Through the Story Time books, children will hear about a boy who helps his family take care of his baby sister, a boy who realizes how much he has grown when a new baby arrives, a girl who behaves badly when she wants attention, and a lonely stuffed bear who finds a new friend.  Besides listening to stories, children will begin to recognize initial sounds in words and identify rhyming words as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also be participating in a variety of music, poetry, mathematics, science, and art activities during Center Time and in Small Groups.

 

Theme Concepts:

• Family members have role names: mother, father, sister and brother.
• Some family members live together; some live on other places but are still family members.
• Grown-ups in a family take care of the children. Younger children need more care. Older children can take care of younger siblings.
• Sometimes grown-ups in a family don’t like things that children do and tell them to stop or be quiet.
• Families do things together that are fun.
• Children sometimes get angry at parents.

 

Story Time:

Oonga Boonga

Peter’s Chair

 

Songs, Letters and Word Play (SLWP):

If You’re Happy and You Know It

Eentsy Weensty Spider

Ten Little Fingers

Stand Up

If Your Name Starts With_____, Raise Your Hand

 

Small Group:

Storytelling through pictures and words: the children will tell a story about a picture

Alphabet Letter Matching: Children will match uppercase letters

Patterns: Children will extend an AB pattern

Watch Me Count: Children will work on 1:1 correspondence

Draw and Label Pictures of Family: Children will draw a picture of their family

 

Choice Time:

Book Area: Exploring Books

Art Area/Table: Making Paper Collages, Painting with Primary Colors

Blocks: Building with Blocks

Puzzles and Manipulatives: Constructing Puzzles, Sort Buttons

Dramatic Play: Playing House

Writing Center: Writing My Name and My Friends Names

Settling In

This past week and next week we will continue to get to know your Friendly Frog. The activities we are working on are intended to show us a little bit of information about what kind of learner your child is. Most of these activities will be kept by us as work samples or hung in our classroom.

 

Books:

Ten Red Apples

The Tub People

A My Name is…

Will I Have A Friend

I Like Me

Choice Time:

Red Table: Beads for necklaces

Yellow Table: Play dough

Block Area: Rescue Heroes

Rug: Don’t Break the Ice

Dramatic Play: House corner

Songs:

Going to Kentucky

Bananas Song

Alphabet Vacation

I Like Potatoes

 

Small Group:

Tissue paper leaf

Sorting apples by size

Draw a person

Writing different lines and shapes

 

Thank you if you already sent in the $10.00 contribution for supplies, if you haven’t, please send it in.

Just a reminder that our classroom is a peanut butter and nut free room.

First Week Of School

It was great seeing everyone at the open house yesterday. We are looking forward to an exciting school year. During the first few weeks of school we will be focusing on developing classroom expectations, routines, and getting to know each other. We will also be completing some basic skill assessments.

Books:
Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom
My Friend Bear
The Kissing Hand
The Tub People

Small Group Activities:
First Letters: The children will decorate the first letter in their name with different art mediums. The letters will be hung up at school.

Shape Sorting: The children will sort shapes and then glue them onto a piece of paper.

Frog Math Book: The children will work on 1:1 correspondence up to 5. They will use frog stickers to represent the number of frogs needed on each page.

Puzzle: The children will work on therir visual perceptual skills as they put a frog puzzle together.

Coloring Shapes: The children will color 4 different shapes using different colors.

Choice Time:
Red Table: making playdough
Yellow Table: arts-n-craft activities
Rug Area: building manipulatives (Legos, Lincoln Logs)
Block Area: wooden and cardboard blocks
Dramatic Play: housecorner
Sensory Table: sand
Book Corner: books
Writing Center: drawing pictures and writing letters

Songs:
I Have A Friend
ABC
Old McDonald Had A Farm
Wheels on the Bus

REMINDERS: Please don't send in snacks containing nuts and/or peanutbutter.