Weekly Question and Vocabulary Related to book:
Otis
How do machines help farmers?
(tractor, startle, parade, fancy, pond, soil)
Literacy Small Groups
What's Missing? How Does it End? We will learn about how words sound when the onset (beginning sound) is deleted from the word. We will sing a farm song where students need to guess the farm animal or item based on hearing just the rime (entire ending.) We will place a marker to on a picture mat to make our guess.
Lowercase Letters- We will be working on lowercase letters h and b this week. We will be using magnet boards, colored salt trays, chalk boards, or shaving cream to form these letters within our small group time. We will then expose the children to the Fundation lines. Fundations is the curriculum used in kindergarten. We will be exposing the students to the language (ie. sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line) when forming our letters.
Onset Rime Bingo- We will review segmenting words by onset & rime. Using things found on a farm, we will practice saying words by segmenting the beginning sound and entire ending. We will work on a new skill to take away the beginning sound and say only the ending of each word (deleting the onset) to cover a spot on our board.
Story Sequencing- After reading the story Otis, we will cut pictures from our unit book. We will then trace numbers on strips. Next we will place the pictures in order to retell the story. We will retell the story orally to recall the events from our book.
Handwriting/Letter Groups
-Handwriting Without Tears Program-Diving Letters books(h and b)
Math Small Groups
How Many Animals in the Barn? We will work on our counting and subitizing skills to fill our barn with animals. Using a dot dice, we will roll to determine how many animals to place in our barn using a 10 grid. We will discuss how many animals we have and how many more we need to fill our barn. After playing this game with counters, we will play our final round with dot stickers to make our own animals to take home.
Stuck in the Mud- We will use animals counters to recreate a scene from the Otis story. This time more than one animal will be stuck in the mud. Using our counters we will hide animals under a card and leave some showing. We will have to guess how many animals are stuck in the mud given out total number of animals. Using dot stickers, we will make our own number stories to share
Making Five- We will work to make combinations of 5. Using cube trains, we will start with a given number of cubes (0-4.) We will count on to find out how many more cubes we need to add to make 5 cubes in all. We will record our answers by coloring in the additional cubes on our sheets.
Centers
Art Table-Farm animal books continued
Block Area- farm animals
Sensory Table- Tractors Stuck in the Mud (making tracks in the mud)
Book Area- Exploring Books about community
Easel-Markers and paper
Writing Table-Farm Lists
Dramatic Play-Tools Shop
Math, Puzzles, and Manipulatives- sorting farm animals
Rug- Tracks and Vehicles
Science/Social Studies/Math Circle Concepts
-Caring for plants
-Reenact the book Otis
-Wheat from the farm
-How Many Scoops
Preschool Life Skills
- We will be focusing on our curriculum of Preschool Life Skills during this time to help us transition into our new classroom.
1. When I call your name, stop what you are doing, look at me, and say ,"Yes".
2. When I give you an instruction, do it "right away"
(Ask your child what do you do when your teacher tells you to do something. They should reply "I do it right away." You can reinforce this at home too. "Put your legos away and do it "right away""
3. When I give you instructions, do them "right away" (multi-step directions)
4. When something is too hard say "Help me please"
5. When you want something from a teacher or friend, say "Excuse Me" to get their attention
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