Community Week 3

Books This Week:Doctor DeSoto
Harry and the Bucket of Dinosaurs
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Patridge

Small Groups For This Week:
1. Tool Math Game- We will be rolling a number cube to fill our tool board game boards. We will be discussing the types of tools that people in our communities use.
2. Art Shop- We will give each child pretend money. They will go to the "cub cadet art store" to buy supplies to create their our masterpiece.
3. Language- We will be creating a class book about the types of stores, town buildings, and places in Burlington.
1. Journal writing to discuss our favorite memories. It is related to our book about Wilfrid.
2. Community Helpers Bingo Game
3. Math- Remove One- We will be using playdough mat of a child's mouth. Then each child will put a number of teeth in the mouth using playdough. Then we will pretend to be dentists to 'remove one'. This introduces the concept of subtraction. We will reinforce the concept of number sentences.(ie. 6-1=5)
Centers
Art Table: making hats for community helpers
Blocks: Cars and houses on a community rug to get around town
Sensory Table:construction vehicles at a construction site.
Book Area: books about communities and community helpers
Easel:watercolors
Writing Table: creating your own postcards
Dramatic Play: Tools and Workshops. We will pretend to be carpenters as we use pretend tools. We will be hammering golf tees into foam boards. It is noisy but fun!
Puzzles and Manipulatives: puzzles about community

Handwriting
We will continuing a program called Handwriting Without Tears. It's focus is on letter formation and letter awareness. This program reinforces proper grasp and trying to strengthen fine motor muscles.

Preschool Manners
-When someone gives you something, look at them and say, Thank you.

Community week 2 Feb. 13-17

We have also been working on creating our houses on cereal boxes by looking at the pictures you have sent. Everyone is very proud and excited to share their pictures and recreate their house.

Books This Week:
Doctor DeSoto
A Pocket for Corduroy
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Patridge

Small Groups For This Week:
1.Math- We will be measuring various sizes of envelopes using non-standard units of measure(ex. blocks, unifix cubes, bears) We will then compare our results.
2. Language- We will be recall the events in the story A Pocket for Corduroy. Then we will cut and sequence pictures in the order of the story.
3.Art- We will look at the photos of our houses. Then the children will use a cereal box to try to make their house by decorating the box. When everyone is complete, the class will use their boxes to create a community of houses.
1.Circle Exploration and Hunt- We will discuss the attributes of circles and explore some items in our classroom that are circles. Then we will use our clipboards to go on a circle hunt in the halls of our school.  We will be keeping a tally of how many circles we can find.
2. Letter Matching- We will be matching lowercase letters to our unit vocabulary words using tiles.
3.Beginning Sound of words post office game- We will be sorting pretend letters to animals and sort the mail by the beginning sounds of each animal. For example we will put all of the mail for the horse and hippo together; then the mail for the goat and gorilla together.
Centers
Art Table: Painting globes for our community unit
Blocks: Cars and houses on a community rug to get around town
Sensory Table:brushing teeth (really using the bottom of soda bottles as pretend teeth and brushing them with tooth brushes)
Book Area: books about communities and community helpers
Easel:watercolors
Writing Table: creating your own stamps
Dramatic Play: Dentist Office-We will bring our pets to the dentist for check-ups. Some of the props will be a phone to make appointments, some clipboards to help the dentist write down notes, and some pretend dentist equipment
Puzzles and Manipulatives: puzzles about community

Handwriting
We will continuing a program called Handwriting Without Tears. It's focus is on letter formation and letter awareness. This program reinforces proper grasp and trying to strengthen fine motor muscles.
This week's activities:
-We will be starting to combine straight lines with curve lines to practice letters such as R, B, and D.

Preschool Manners
-When someone gives you something, look at them and say, Thank you.

Community Unit

Books This Week:

Good Bye Curtis
A Pocket for Corduroy

Small Groups For This Week:
1.Writing- We will be writing letters (shh...it is a surprise)
2. Math- We will using scales to weigh mail. We will be comparing different packages and envelopes using comparitive language such a more, less than, heavier, lighter, and equal.
3. I pads- We will be exploring letter sound apps
1.Math- We will be measuring various sizes of envelopes using non-standard units of measure(ex. blocks, unifix cubes, bears) We will then compare our results.
2. Language- We will be recall the events in the story A Pocket for Corduroy. Then we will cut and sequence pictures in the order of the story.
3.Art- We will look at the photos of our houses. Then the children will use a cereal box to try to make their house by decorating the box. When everyone is complete, the class will use their boxes to create a community of houses.
Centers
Art Table: Design a pocket for Corduroy
Block Area:Blocks and community blocks
Sensory Table:bubbles
Book Area: books about communities and community helpers
Easel:markers for writing
Writing Table: creating your own stamps
Dramatic Play: Post Office
Puzzles and Manipulatives: puzzles about community

Handwriting
We will continuing a program called Handwriting Without Tears. It's focus is on letter formation and letter awareness. This program reinforces proper grasp and trying to strenghten fine motor muscles.
This week's activities:
-We will continue to work on Big Curve Letters books.
-Using Frogs to make frog jump letters to review Big Line Letters
-Using Theraputty to strengthen small muscles for writing and cutting

Preschool Manners
We will continue to work on:
-When you want something form a teacher or friend and they are doing something say, "Excuse me" , take 2 deep breaths(this will help them learn appropriate waiting time), wait for a teacher or friend to look and say yes. Then say, "May I____________?" to get what you want.

Pajama Day in the Cub Cadet Room

Pajama Day was so much fun. We made pancakes for snack. Everyone loved watching them cook and tasting them. After we enjoyed a yummy snack. We took our stuffed animal friends on a Pajama Parade. We walked with the Friendly Frog class to the superintendent's office. We brought with us pancakes for Dr. Conti and Louise. We were lucky enough to see Dr. Conti. We had to leave Louise's pancakes. We hope they enjoy their breakfast.



It was fun to see the Friendly Frogs in their pajamas too.  

We hope Louise enjoys her surprise. 

Dr. Conti was very excited to see us.  He enjoyed seeing us in our pajamas. We hope he likes our pancakes.