Books This Week
The Little Red Hen
Apple Farmer Annie
Concept Questions For This Week:
-How does food get from the farm to your house?
-What can Apples
-Seasons on the farm
-Scarecrows on the farm
Small Groups This Week:
-Letters in our name/letters not in our name apple trees- We will be creating apple trees using dot stickers (fine motor skill) to pull off and then adding them to trees. If the letters are not in our names they will have them fall out of the tree (ie. place them on the ground under the tree)
-Syllable Segmenting- We are beginning to segment sounds in words by clapping. For example, farm has 1 clap and carrot has 2 claps. We will practice this by staying word together that are related to the farm. Then we will cut and sort pictures on our papers.
-Following Directions Farm Activity- We will need to listen carefully to our teachers directions in order to complete our farm pictures. For example, put the pig between the barn and the pond. Positional concepts will also be reinforced.
How many in the barn- Reinforcing 1:1 correspondence and accurate counting, we will use farm animals to see how many animals are in the barn.
Journals- We will continue to write in our journals. We will first discuss in our groups who we like to play with. Then we will draw a picture of who we like to play with and try to write our friends name. We are reminding them that our pictures must match what our words say just like in books that we read together.
Fill the Cup Race- We will take turns rolling a number cube. After we roll the cube we will identify the number, then count that many small blocks. We will add the blocks to the group cup and keep adding blocks taking turns until we fill the cup.
Handwriting Activities
Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letters this week are Ee and Hh)
Letter Activity: We will learn what these uppercase and lowercase letters look like.
We will sort magnetic letters into groups of uppercase and lowercase groups for each letter.
We will hunt for them in our names and the names of our classmates.
We will use crayons to hunt for them on our papers.
Centers
Art Table:Making our farm animal books continued
Block Area:blocks and farm animals
Sensory Table: sorting pig tails(curled pipe cleaners) in mud(black beans)
Book Area: books about farms and growing
Easel: painting with primary colors
Writing Table: Farmer To Do Lists
Dramatic Play: Apple Pie Bakery
Puzzles and Manipulatives: farm related puzzles
Science Table: Gerbils from the Science Center(drawing pictures and making observations)
Preschool Life Skills
Every week we will be reinforcing previous skills and introducing new skills. Some weeks we will spend more time with a previous skill before moving to a new skill.
New Life Skill:
"When I give you an instructions, do them right away." (2-3 step directions)
Previous Life Skills:
"When a teacher calls your name, you stop, look at the speaker, and say "yes".
"When I give you an instruction, do it right away."
Social Thinking Curriculum
During the course of the school year, we will be using a series of 6 books.
Book 1: Thinking Thoughts and Feeling Feelings.
Concepts Include:
What is a thought?
Your brain is a thought maker
What is a feeling?
Your heart is a feelings keeper
A feeling is something that happens in your body
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