December 4-8
Books This Week:
Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Girl
Concept For This Week:
-Patterns (Pattern in books and patterns in environment)
-Rhyming Pairs
Small Groups This Week:
-Rhyming Cookie Pairs- We will be labeling 2 cookies on a tray. Then they will identify if the words rhyme or not rhyme. We will then sort our cookie trays on our papers
-Secret Activity- We will be making something special for our winter celebration.
-Gingerbread Measuring- Using a gingerbread measuring stick, we will measure how long objects are using non-standard units of measure (ie. the block is 5 gingerbread long) A home activity will follow
-Gingerbread Turn Taking Game- We will take turns spinning a spinner and then record what the spinner lands on. We will observe which colors the spinner landed on the most, least, or equal.
Pattern or Not a Pattern Sorting- We will look at pictures and identify if they are a pattern or not a pattern. We will talk about what a pattern is. Then we will sort pictures.
Pattern Practice- We will be using unifix cubes to copy a pattern then extend the patterns using unifix cubes. Then we will record the color patterns on our papers.
Handwriting Activities
(Letters this week are Gg and Ss)
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
Centers
Art Table: making gingerbread men in trays
Block Area: blocks with gingerbread man
Sensory Table: role play of how the gingerbread man tried to get across the river (water, gingerbread man, fox, and other animals to watch)
Book Area: books about gingerbread
Independent Table: Write the room
Dramatic Play: Gingerbread Bread Bakery
Puzzles and Manipulatives: gingerbread man ten frames
December 11-15
December 15 Family Show
Books This Week:
Gingerbread Baby
Gingerbread Friends
Concept For This Week:
-Social thinking -Thinking with our eyes- Looking at unit books to reinforce this concept
-How can we solve a problem (related to gingerbread story)
Small Groups This Week:
-Gingerbread House Letter Matching- In groups we will cut and then match letters onto our houses (matching uppercase to lowercase or lowercase to lowercase)
-Gingerbread House matching- We will be cutting pictures of rhyming picture pairs. We will mix up our pictures. Then we will place the rhyming pairs in the house. We will put them in a baggie to take home. Practice finding the rhyming pairs at home with your child.
Gingerbread Shape House- We will color a blank house. We will be using shapes to create a gingerbread house. We will name a shape then roll a number cube. Then we will find the shapes from a field and count the correct number on the cube. We will use the shapes to decorate our houses. We will also stamp the number of each shape we used in our house.
-Gingerbread Man Problem Solving- We will be given objects to help the gingerbread man make a bridge to get over the river. (straws, pipe cleaners, and popsicle sticks) We will experiment using each material to build a bridge across a pail of water. We will talk about which materials worked the best and why. We will also talk about which material did not work well and why.
Handwriting Activities
Handwriting Books (Letters this week are Gg and Ss)
Centers
Art Table-Brown finger painting on gingerbread
Block Area:blocks to build gingerbread houses
Sensory Table: gingerbread “moon sand”
Book Area: books about gingerbread
Easel:gingerbread painting
Independent Table: Gingerbread Sequencing activity
Dramatic Play:Gingerbread Bakery continued
Puzzles and Manipulatives: Ipads
December 18-22
Books This Week:
Gingerbread Cowboy
Pancake Boy (Norwegian Tale with similar story elements of Gingerbread books to compare)
Other versions of Gingerbread to compare
Concept For This Week:
Why do animals live in hot places and cold places(preview to our snow unit)
Similarities and Differences we see in books
Small Groups This Week:
Pattern Fences- We will build a pattern fence for our gingerbread men. The patterns will be oriented vertically so we will be noticing the patterns in a different way.
Measuring Homework- In small groups, we will shape to our friends what we measured at home. We use language such as longer and shorter. Then after we practiced presenting in a small group we will choose one of the things we measured to share with the whole group. Gingerbread Sequencing- We will color and cut pictures from our story. Then we will place them in order and retell the story to our small group. Ask your child to retell the story at home to you.
Journals- We will be drawing and writing in our journals about our favorite gingerbread stories.
Handwriting Activities
Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letter this week are Jj)
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
Centers
Art Table:Cactus painting
Block Area:blocks
Sensory Table: sand and desert animals from our story
Book Area: books about gingerbread
Writing Table: desert scenes
Dramatic Play: desert and cowboy role play
Puzzles and Manipulatives: Ipads
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