Jello in the sensory table

Yesterday we made jello. We did not use our sense of taste but our sense of touch today in the sensory table. It was a favorite activity at choice time today. Ask your child about it. 

Five Senses April 28-May 2

Our Five Senses
Books This Week
Princess and the Pea
Stone Soup
Hero Cat


Let's Talk About It
-Senses that can supported by glasses, hearing aids, sign language
-What's missing
-Communicating with sounds(alarms, baby cry, dog barking)
-Sense of touch and texture


Small Groups 
1. Bear Tug of War- Using 1:1 correspondence each child will roll a cube and move a bear toward them from the middle spot. Another child will have the same turn until the bear gets to the end toward one of the children
2. 5 senses scavenger hunt-We will hunt for items that are red, noisy, soft, etc.  We will try to find 10 different adjectives using just our senses.
3. Princess and the Pea- Rhyming sorting activity.
Math- 1:1 correspondence for princess and the pea.  We will create a bed for the princess by coloring the correct number of peas for each mattress
1. We will create /p/'s for our classroom.  We will discuss words that begin with the sound /p/. We will relate this activity to the Princess and the Pea.  The princess only likes words that begin with /p/.  They will choose a word and draw a picture of it.  It will be added to a row of peas (/p/) in our classroom.
2. Phonemic Game- The chef only likes /P/'s (peas). There will be food pictures turned upside down. They will choose a card say the sound the food makes and sort if the chef wants the food or not.
3. Listening Bingo Game on the Touch It board.

Centers 
Rug Activity- Dinosaur Mountain/ Legos
Science-Observing Tadpoles
Art Table: Making Instruments
Blocks: blocks
Sensory Table:Gelatin
Book Area: books about senses
Writing Table: Unit Vocabulary Words
Dramatic Play: Stone Soup Kitchen
Puzzles and Manipulative: puzzles about senses

Songs, Word Play, and Songs
Compound Words
Bingo with the word QUEEN
Ending Sounds in our names

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 is in your way or has something you want, say "Excuse Me" to get their attention, then say"May I _____" to get what you want.

Five Senses Unit Week One and Two- April 7- 17

April Vacation begins April 18. School starts again on April 28
Our New Unit- Our Five Senses

Books This Week
On My Way to Buy Eggs
Seven Blind Mice
Hero Cat


Let's Talk About It
-How we find out about our senses?
-What body part is connected to each sense?
-How do our senses work together?
-Listening Walk reading


Small Groups For April 14--17 Week:
1. Sensory Exploration- We will blindfold the children and have them use their sense of hearing and touch to find an object.  They will have to follow directions by listening alone.
2. Math- Understanding ordinal position- In the story Seven Blind Mice, one mouse at a time tried to investigate a mystery object (ie. first, second, third...)We will recall the ordinal position of each mice in the story.
3. Mystery Bags- Children will need to use their sense of touch alone to discover what is in the "mystery bags".(uppercase letters will be in the bags, they will need to identify the letters by describing their lines: straight lines, diagonal lines, curvy lines)

Small Groups For April 28-May 2 Week:
1. Letter Awareness- Guess my rule? Each child will choose 3-4 letters that have something in common.  (ie, all have straight lines, all have curvy lines.....) Then the other children in the group will try to guess what the letters have in common.
2. Zingo Game- A sight bingo game
3.Hero Cat Puzzle- Cut and arranging numbers 1-10 to create the cover of our unit book
-Listening Bingo Game(Sounds we hear at home)
-Listening Walk- In the high school and/or outside.  We will walk then stop and listen for sounds we hear.  Then a teacher will write them down. When we get back to our classroom we will recall where we heard each sound.

Centers (Two weeks of centers are listed below)
Rug Activity- Dinosaur Mountain/ Legos
Science-Blubber Hand- We will create an insulated glove to understand why artic animals do not freeze in the cold icy artic ocean.
Art Table:Stained Glass creations
Blocks: blocks
Sensory Table:Oobleck (cornstarch and water)/Shaving Cream
Book Area: books about senses
Writing Table: Unit Vocabulary Words
Dramatic Play: Movie Theater (Using Ipad for the movie/ pretend popcorn/ drinks)/Pet Vet
Puzzles and Manipulative: puzzles about senses

Songs, Word Play, and Songs
Compound Words
Bingo with the word QUEEN
Ending Sounds in our names


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.
-Magic C letters/ Alphabet Arc Activities

Preschool Manners
-When someone is in your way or has something you want, say "Excuse Me" to get their attention, then say"May I _____" to get what you want.
-When I have something to say, I will use a just right voice.

Transportation Unit April 7-11

Books This Week:
How Will We Get To The Beach
The Boats on The River
Subway Sparrow

Discussion Topics/Questions This Week:
-How is transportation powered
-Wheel Size-Comparing different wheeled vehicles, rotation/coverage
-Super Submarine
-Mighty Machines video (We will watch a video about construction vehicles as part of a class reward)

Small Groups For This Week:
1. Boat Capacity- We will fill different boats with objects to see which boat can take the most cargo.  We will use tweezers/clothespins to fill our boats to promote fine motor too. 
2. How will we get to the beach story retelling- We will recall elements of our unit book.
3.Rocket ship Countdown- We will count backwards and forward to create a rocket ship strip.
1. Periscopes- We will be making periscopes to go along with our discussion of underwater transportation.
2.Parking Lot Game- We will use 1:1 correspondence to count then identify the corresponding number to fill up a parking lot.
3. Name Trains- We will color and cut trains to create a train with our names.

Centers
Rug Activity- roads
Science-Gears to explore
Art Table:painting underwater scenes
Blocks: building roads
Sensory Table: Sailboats races with straws
Book Area: books about transportation
Writing Table writing signs
Dramatic Play: Drive Thru restaurant
Puzzles and Manipulatives: puzzles about transportation


Songs, Word Play, and Language
-Bingo (with FRITZ)
-She'll be coming around the mountain
-How do you from A to B?

Handwriting and Letter Play Small groups
-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.
-Sounds we hear in letters activity
-We are working on letters with magic C. (G, C, D)
-Alphabet Arc Activities

Preschool Manners
-When an adult tells you to wait, say, 'Okay', and your waiting words.
- Our waiting words are "When you wait quietly, I get what I want".
- This life skill is promoting appropriating ways in waiting for attention or objects.