Friday, September 27, 2019

Friends Unit - Week 2 Sept.30-Oct 4

Reminder: Back to School Night is October 3 at 6:30
Parents are invited to visit our classroom and learn more about your child's school day.  We look forward to seeing you!!

Unit Books
Corduroy
Read Aloud: Friends Share

Weekly Question and Vocabulary Related to book:
What is a friend?
(friend, play, laugh, admire, together, enormous)

Meet our Letterlander of the Week: 
Firefighter Fred


This week we will be doing the following letter activities in small groups: 
Sorting Uppercase and Lowercase: F and f
Fine motor activity to reinforce letter this week: Magnet Boards to create letters with magnet strips and magnet chalk to trace them
We will be reinforcing "alligator fingers" and "always start your letters at the top.
(How to make an F: " Start at the Top, Big Line Down, Frog Jump up, Little Line at the Top, Little Line in the Middle")

Small Group Letter Book: Decorating F to look like a firefighter

(Each week we will be adding a page to our letter book which will be staying at school until we complete all of our letters.  We are creating our own individual Letterlander books

Small Groups
-Corduroy Sequencing Story Pictures

-Is it a Letter Sorting- We will be talking about letters and why they are important.  They make our names, words in a book, signs all around us, etc.  We will then cut, sort, and glue letters into a chart.  We will also sort all of the symbols and numbers that are not letters. 

-Corduroy Lacing- We will color pictures of Corduroy from our unit book.   Then with help, we will put holes on him and lace a string around our bears.  We will then stuff the bears to create our own Corduroy bears.

-Train Words- We will be learning the phonemic skill of tapping words in a sentence.  Using a train, we will tap each part of a train for each word in a sentence stated aloud.  This reinforces 1:1 correspondence and listening skills for reading development later on.  These early skills need to be developed to have a strong phonemic awareness. 

-Button Five Frames- First we will use real buttons to place inside our five frames.  A teacher will tell a "math story" while students place each button on. (ie: "Cordoroy found 2 buttons, put 2 buttons in the 5 frame, Lisa found 3 more, How many do we have in the 5 five frame? Let's count") Then we will be color our own 5 buttons on our papers. Then we will cut out the buttons and put them into a 5 frame.

-10 fingers.  We will be reinforcing our concept of 5 frames by pointing out how our hands are like 5 frames.  Each hand has 5 fingers and all together we have 10 fingers.  We will trace and color our hands then put dot stickers on our hands to show the 2 sets of five. 

Centers
Art Table- Piggy Banks/ Corduroy Bear Project
Block Area- blocks and bears (building bed for Corduroy)
Sand Table- buttons
Book Area- Exploring Books about friends
Writing Table- crayons and paper
Dramatic Play- Shoe Store (related to Corduroy)
Math, Puzzles, and Manipulatives- Letter Puzzles
Rug-

Science/Social Studies Circle
- 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".
-Discussing how we sit and listen in a group (our community classroom)
2. When a teacher tells me to do something, "I do it right away."

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