Upcoming Classroom Happenings:
Our class will be distributing Valentine Cards on Feb. 14. I will be sending home a list and directions of how to prepare the cards. Your child can pick inexpensive cards at the store(no food please) or make homemade cards from home. More information will go home Monday of next week.
Week 1
Books This Week:
Good-Bye Curtis
A Pocket for Corduroy
Concepts This Week for Unit:
-My address
-What is a community
-Different communities children belong to
Small Groups For This Week:
-Writing- We will be creating a letter book by writing uppercase letters using proper HWT formations by matching the beginning sound of pictures on socks to create a “pair”. (This activity may take 2 small groups to complete)
-Math-Weighing- We will be using scales to weigh different packages. We will compare their weight first by estimating which is heavier by feeling it then we will use a scale to see which package is heavier and lighter. We will then put them in size order from the lightest to the heaviest.
-QR Code Reading Letter Activity- We will be scanning QR codes using Ipads to reveal an animal. We will listen to the beginning sound of the word and write the letter we hear from a HWT model
-Writing -We will be writing a journal entry about where we live. We will be reinforcing our addresses. Ask your child about their address. This is something we have been working on.
-Language- We will be sequencing pictures to retell the story of Corduroy
Handwriting Activities
Letter / Handwriting Small Groups (Letters this week are A and V)
Centers
Art Table: Designing pockets for Corduroy
Block Area: Building house for a community
Sensory Table: Water and bubbles (soap like in our book)
Book Area: books about community
Easel: open ended painting
Writing Table: homemade stamps
Dramatic Play: Laundromat
Puzzles and Manipulatives: tangrams and puzzles
Week 2
Books This Week:
A Pocket for Corduroy
Doctor DeSoto
Concepts This Week for Unit:
Community Workers that help us
Going to the Dentist
Pulley and simple machine exploration
Small Groups For This Week:
-Circle Attributes- We will discuss what a circle is. (ie. not corners, round,) We will objects then take about how they are circles. Then we will take clipboards and go on a circle hunt in the preschool.
-Letters to Animals- We will be writing stamps (writing beginning letters sounds) for animals. After we write our stamps we will sort our envelopes into mailboxes. This is to practice for our valentine cards
-Letter knowledge- We will match uppercase letters to their lowercase letters. Each mailbox will have an uppercase letter. Then they will cut and glue the correct lowercase letter envelope to go next to the correct mailbox.
-Tooth sorting- We will cut and sort teeth by size (related to our unit book Dr. Desoto)
Letter Activity: Focusing on Letters M and N
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: Painting our houses
Block Area: Blocks and community people (taking pictures to make a class book too)
Sensory Table: Brushing Teeth (bottom of soda bottles to look teeth and toothbrushes)
Book Area: books about community
Easel: open ended painting
Writing Table: markers
Dramatic Play: Chinese Takeout Shop( Happy Chinese New Year)
Puzzles and Manipulatives: simple machines(ramps, pulleys)
