Harvest Week 2 (October 10-13)

BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11 AT 6:30

Harvest Unit (Week 2)

Books This Week:

The Little Red Hen

Otis

Concept Questions For This Week:

-Where does our food come from?

-How do machines help farmers?

-How food is prepared?

-What happens to wheat before we can eat it?

Small Groups This Week:

Memory Game- Using Little Red Hen vocabulary words, we will play a memory game.  

Chase the Farmer Sequence- We will be working on patterns in groups using farm animal manipulatives. Then we will cut and then glue farm animals on a strip to show a pattern.  At the end of the pattern, we will put a farmer which is inspired by our story Farmer Duck.  In the book, the animals chased the farmer off the farm for not helping the duck with the jobs on the farm.  

-Sorting Tools used on the farm and not on the farm.  After discussing the tools we will then sort the pictures on our papers.

-More and Less Gardens- Using math vocabulary, we will create 2 gardens.  Then we will count each garden and name the garden that has more and less.  

-Roll A Vegetable Graphing game- Using a cube with pictures of vegetables, we will each take turns rolling the cube and then recording the picture we rolled or our friend rolled.  At the end, we will discuss what vegetable we rolled the most, least, and if any were the same.  

-Journals- We will be drawing pictures in our journals and discussing our family with our peers at the small group by showing their friends their pictures.  

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

Sensory Table: Dirt and garden stakes

Art Table: Farm Books for each animal

Blocks: Creating Gardens with blocks

Book Area: books about farms and growing

Writing Table: Farmer To Do Lists

Dramatic Play: Hen House

Puzzles and Manipulatives: farm related puzzles

Science Table: Gerbils

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 instruction, do it right away."

Previous Life Skill: "When a teacher calls your name, you stop, look at the speaker, and say "yes".

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