Week 4 of Color

Next week we will be finishing Unit 4.

Story:
Dear Juno
Dog's colorful Day
Cat's Colors
Elmer
Mouse Paint

Small Group:
Draw a person (mid-year assessment)
Rainbow Art Project - crunching tissue paper into small balls and placing them on the corresponding colored line. (two days)
Ice Cream Cones - Making 3 different ice creams so each one is different
Dog's Adventure - Giving dog a new spot and answering questions about the new spot.

SLWP:
Going to Kentucky
The Green Grass Grows All Around
Songs from Greg and Steve
Apples and Bananas
I'm A Little Teapot

Choice Time:
Art Table - curls and twirls and decorating ice cream cones
Rug - IPADS and Floor puzzles
Dramatic Play - housecorner
Writing Center - Writing letters to peers
Blocks - Straws and Connectors and blocks and animals
Manipulative Table- making green playdough and playing with it.

Unit 4 The World of Color

THEME:The World Of Color
In Unit 4, children learn about color. Color names, color mixing, stains, fading, camouflage, and color pattern are just a few topic covered. Through the Story Time books, children will hear about a dog that stains his white coat, a lion who paints pictures, a boy who gets special letters from his grandmother, and a rabbit who wants to buy a special shirt. In addition to listening to stories, children will increase their vocabulary and observe and explore color and patterns directly. They will continue to learn about letters and sounds,including rhyming words, and they will participate in music, poetry, mathematics, science and art activities.

Theme Concepts:

*Color is one thing that makes our world beautiful. both in nature and through art. Different colors and designs appeal to different people.
*Color can carry information.
*Paints and dyes are used to color other things and are mixed to make new colors.
*Different substances can cause stains of different colors.
*Sun and washing often bleach colors-make them fade.
* Color is an identifying feature of many natural things.

Books:
Max's Dragon Shirt
Dog's Colorful Day
Cat's Colors

Small Group Activities:
Math Sheet: Tracing numbers and working on 1:1
 Color Words: Matching color words and adding correct color dot
Patterns: Children will extend an AAB pattern
Dog's Shape Book: Children will place the correct shape on dog.

SLWP:
The Green Grass All Around
Down By the Bay
I'm a Little Snowman
Apples and Bananas
The Snowman
Hands

Choice Time:
Rug: IPADS, Puzzles, Games
Art Table: Making Valentine Hearts, Decorating Max's Shirt, Finger Painting
Blocks: Blocks and Animals
Writing Center: Writing Valentine's
Books: Exploring Books
Dramatic Play: House-corner
Manipulative Table: Playdough

week 4

This week we finished Unit 3.

Small Group Activities:
Decorating Mittens
Syllable Clapping with Unit Words
Snowman Math Book
Positional Book

Choice Time:
Rug: IPADS, Puzzles or building Manipulatives
Red Table: Making playdough, making creations with Model Magic
Dramatic Play: Dunkinn Donuts
Block Area: Board Games, Blocks and Animals
Yellow Table: Arts n Crafts Activities, making necklaces
Sensory Table: Melting Ice

SLWP:
Five Little Monkeys
ABC's
Going to Kentucky
Ryming Words

Books:
Reviwing all the unit books

Wind and Water - Week 3

Books:

• Rabbits and Raindrops 
• The Snowy Day 
• A Hat for Minerva Louise 

Small group activities: 

• Matching upper and lowercase snowflakes 
• Snowman/snowflake positional book 
• Sequencing pictures from The Snowy Day
• What can air move (hairdryer activities)
• Absorbency of Materials 

Songs/SWPL: 

• Itsy bitsy spider 
• Clap your hands 
• Five little ducks 
• The wheels on the bus 
• Apples and Bananas
• Open Shut them 

Choice time: 

• Building with blocks 
• Oobleck/Goop 
• Dunkin Donuts - dramatic play 
• Sculpting clay 
• Popsicle stick snowflakes 
• Painting with colors from Raindrops and Rabbits 

Week of Jan.2-3 and Jan.6-10

During the month of January the focus of our activities will be wind and water. This theme allows children explore wind and water using observations, experiments, and books to learn more about topics such as evaporation, weather, temperature, insulation, rain, and snow.

 

Books this week

·         Giberto and the Wind by Marie Hall

·         One Dark Night by Hazel Hutchins

·         Amy’s Letters

 

Small Groups this week

·         Shape Bingo Game

·         Decorating pinwheels and boxes and cutting them out

·         Picture Card memory game using words from unit 3 storybooks

·         Inflating balloons and observing their movement in wind

·         Predicting Which objects will move

Center Activities this week

·         Art: Painting with straws (moving paint on paper blowing into straws)

·         Easel: Painting with colors from the book Gilberto and the Wind (black, brown and and white paint)

·         Writing: blank books with crayons, colored pencils and markers

·         Sand and Water: water and student and teacher created sailboats

·         Library: Exploring books

·         Puzzles and Manipulatives: Matching uppercase alphabet arch letters

·         Dramatic Play: playing house, clothes line and clothes pins for dramatic play

·         Blocks: building with blocks

Songs, Word Play, Letters

·         Songs: Come On and Join in the Game; Clap Your Hands; Wheels on the Bus

·         Poems: Hands; Stand Up; My Big Balloon; Mix a Pancake; Five Little Owls in an Old Elm Tree

·         Literacy Skills: Naming sound game and rhyming word game

 

Please send in an extra pair of shoes/sneakers for your child to wear during the day.

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