Tuesday, October 30, 2012

PM Preschool and Enrichment Class Schedule

Monday, Math/Science Class: Nutrition

  • My Body
  • Junk Food vs. Healthy Food
  • Restaurant Play
  • What Did We Eat Today Survey
  • Placemats
Tuesday: Halloween Week
Letter: Ii
Book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
Art: Candy Corn Tear Art
Math: Bat/Spider Counting
Fine Motor: Ghost Outline Cutting Activity
Music: 5 Little Pumpkins Poem, I’m a Little Pumpkin

Wednesday, Literacy Class: Audrey Wood

Thursday: Halloween Week
Letter: Ii
Book: Boo to You! by Lois Elhert
Art: Puffy Paint Ghost
Math: Spider/Bat Pattern Blocks
Music Project: 5 Little Ghosts Song and Puppets

Friday, Math/Science Class: Nutrition
  • Food Faces
  • Class Soup
  • Pasta Counting
  • Why is Food Important? How Do We Feel When We Are Hungry?
  • Q-Tip Skeletons
FIVE LITTLE GHOSTS

Five little ghosts flying ‘cross the moor, (ghosts fly around)
One went home, that left four.

Four little ghosts dancing ‘round the tree, (puppets dance)
Another went home, that left three.

Three little ghosts over the houses flew, (puppets fly over our heads)
Another went home, that left two.

Two little ghosts, having lots of fun, (puppets dance and wiggle)
Another went home, that left one.

One little ghost, now all alone,
He got so lonely, he flew back home.

Jean Warren

Monday, October 29, 2012

2/3 Class Schedule: Halloween Week


Monday
Alphabet: Letter Ii
Literature: The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani
Art: Candy Corn Tissue Paper Craft
Math: Candy Corn Counting
Small Groups:Monster Puzzle
Music: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Letter Ii
Literature: Room on the Broom by Julie Donaldson
Art: Q-Tip Skeletons
Math: Candy Corn Counting
Small Groups: Monster Color Eye Sorting
Music: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
 
Wednesday
Alphabet: Letter Ii
Literature: Boo to You by Lois Ehlert
Art: Pretzel/Raisin Chocolate Edible Treats
Math: Spider Counting
Small Groups: Halloween Tracing
Music: I am a Pumpkin, Orange and Round (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
 
Thursday
Alphabet: Letter Ii
Literature: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly
Art: Texture Collage Ghosts
Math: Spider Counting
Small Groups: Monster Puzzle
Music: Pumpkins Are Growing (Tune: Are You Sleeping)

Friday
Alphabet: Letter Ii
Literature: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly
Art: Paper Plate Owls
Math: Spider Counting
Small Groups: Monster Color Eye Sorting
Music: Five Little Pumpkins

Sunday, October 28, 2012

SPIDERS AND BATS 10/29-11/2



SPIDERS AND BATS
The week of October 29-November 2nd
Letter of the week is H

Monday:
Literacy:  house with a focus on ou sound/  This is my cozy house.
Math:  Bugs in the spider web
Art: Spider web shapes with color glue
Science:  KWL/ Spiders  Observing and exploring spiders from our school, spider eggs and webs outside
Music:  Variations of the Itsy Bitsy Spider/parachuting spiders/Large spider web
Book:  The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Mary Ann Hobermann

Tuesday:
Literacy: hungry/  When I’m hungry I like to eat_____________.
Math:  Making spider web shapes using geoboards
Art:  Spider webs using yarn and noodles
Science: KWL / Observing and exploring real spiders, spider eggs, web designs outside
Music:  Itsy Bitsy Spider variations/parachuting baby spiders/large spider web
Book:  The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Wednesday:
Literacy: hand/My hand is ________inches long.
Math:  How Many Mosquitoes?  (Teaching about Hundreds)
Art:  Bats in a bat cave
Science:  KWL  Observing bats using books and props
Music:  buzzing mosquito  (marco polo game)
Book: Stellaluna
Thursday:
Literacy: -at word family/  This is my hat.
Math:   math center (pattern blocks, number recognition and counting)
Art/Music: Bat shakers
Science:  Echolocation and bat anatomy
Book: Bats by Gail Gibbons

Friday:
Literacy: help/ I like to help ________.
Math:  Geoboards and measuring arm span
Art:  bat mobile
Science:  Bats and Birds are different
Music: Going on a Bat Hunt
Books:  5 Little Bats         

3/4 Class Schedule: Halloween Week

Monday
Alphabet: Alphabet Game
Literature: Room on the Broom by Julie Donaldson
Art: Yarn Spider Web
Math: Pattern Blocks
Science: Spooky Touch and Feel Box
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Alphabet Game
Literature: Boo to You! by Lois Ehlert
Art: Yarn Spider Web
Math: Pattern Blocks
Science: Spooky Touch and Feel Box
 
Wednesday
Alphabet: Build a Letter
Literature: If You’re a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca Emberly
Art: Green Monster Painted Jar
Math: Halloween Dice Roll
Science: Spooky Touch and Feel Box
 
Thursday
Alphabet: I is for Ice Cream
Literature: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
Art: Texture Collage Ghost
Math: Spider Ring Counting Game
Science: Spooky Touch and Feel Box
 
Friday
Alphabet: I is for Ink
Literature: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly
Art: Glitter Glue Spider Webs
Math: Spider Ring Counting Game
Science: Spooky Touch and Feel Box
 

Monday, October 22, 2012

PM Preschool and Enrichment Class Schedule


Monday, Math/Science Class: Nutrition

  • Favorite Fruit/Vegetable Survey
  • Seven Fruit
  • Food Group Food Sort
  • Healthy Food Plate Collage
  • Painted Bread
  • Cooking: Fruit Salad

Tuesday: Pumpkins
Letter H: Hearts
Book: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever! by Elizabeth Bennett
Art: Contact Paper Pumpkins
Math: Measure circumference of pumpkin, counting seeds
Science: Floating Pumpkins
Music: I’m a Little Pumpkin, In My Garden (Songs listed on blog)

Wednesday, Literacy Class: Quick as a Cricket By: Don & Audrey Wood

  • Pipe Cleaner Antennae
  • Acting Out the Animals
  • Bug Scavenger Hunt
  • Play-dough Bugs
  • Coffee Filter Band-Aid Butterflies
  • Cooking Project: Bug Snacks


Thursday: Pumpkins
Letter H: House
Book: 16 Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree
Art: Pumpkin Art with Noodles
Math: Pumpkin math, measuring pumpkins with unifix cubes
Science: Planting Pumpkin Seeds
Music: I’m a Little Pumpkin, In My Garden (Songs listed on blog)

Friday, Math/Science Class: Nutrition

  • Nutrition Plate
  • Learning About Our Bodies
  • Fat Test
  • My Food Groups Food Book
  • Cooking: Vegetarian Dish

Sunday, October 21, 2012

2/3 Class Schedule: Pumpkins Week 2


Monday
Alphabet: Letter Hh
Literature: Pumpkin Day! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Art: Cereal Counting Pumpkin Patch
Math: Pumpkin Seed Counting
Small Groups: Pumpkin Lacing
Music: Pumpkins Are Growing (Tune: Are You Sleeping)
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Letter Hh
Literature: Fall Pumpkins by Martha E.H. Rustad
Art: Fine Motor Pumpkin
Math: Pumpkin Seed Counting
Small Groups: Pumpkin Lacing
Music: Did You Ever See a Pumpkin (Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie)
 
Wednesday
Alphabet: Letter Hh
Literature: The Biggest Pumpkin Ever! by Elizabeth Bennett
Art: Colored and Glittered Pasta Pumpkins
Math: Pumpkin Seed Counting
Small Groups: Pumpkin Playdough
Music: I am a Pumpkin, Orange and Round (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
 
Thursday
Alphabet: Letter Hh
Literature: Pumpkin Day! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Art: Stained Glass Pumpkins
Math: Counting Pumpkins
Small Groups: Pumpkin Playdough
Music: Pumpkins Are Growing (Tune: Are You Sleeping)

Friday
Alphabet: Letter Hh
Literature: Fall Pumpkins by Martha E.H. Rustad
Art: Five Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate Project
Math: Counting Pumpkins
Small Groups: Pumpkin Hammering
Music: Five Little Pumpkins

Pumpkins and Sunflowers



Pumpkins and Sunflowers
Letter of the Week is G

Monday:
Literacy: Two sounds g makes/  I am gentle with my ____________.
Math:  Pumpkin seed math   (number recognition)
Art: Sand Pumpkins reading color words
Science:  Soil
Music:  Musical bottles
Book: From Seed to Plant

Tuesday:
Literacy:  Two sounds g makes/  I giggle when ___________.
Math:  weighing and measuring pumpkins
Art: Pumpkin life cycle
Science: from seed to pumpkin
Music:  making drums
Book: Pumpkin Jack

Wednesday:
Literacy: I am great at ______________.
Math:  Pumpkin and Sunflower math centers (measuring pumpkins, sorting, number recognition)
Art:  Sunflower and Pumpkin painting
Science:  Sink float/ roasting seeds
Music:  Pumpkin songs
Book:  How a Seed Grows

Thursday:
Literacy: I like to __________with my grandparents.
Math:  Counting sunflower seeds using tweezers, measuring sunflowers
Art:  sunflower diagram
Science:  Plant roots and transporting nutrients
Music: Do You Know the Parts of Plants
Book:  The Tiny Seed

Friday:
Literacy:  One day a giant_______.
Math: How Many Seeds  (dice game)  number recognition, seed grouping
Art:  Sunflower painting
Science:  Examining a sunflower
Music:  Do You Know the Parts of the Plants
Book:  This is the Sunflower

Thursday, October 18, 2012

3/4 Schedule: Pumpkins Week 2

Monday
Alphabet: Letter Hh (H is for Heart)
Literature: Pumpkin Circle
Art: What’s Inside a Pumpkin?
Math: How Many Seeds? 
Science: Pumpkin Life Cycle
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Letter Hh (H is for Heart)
Literature: Pumpkin Circle
Art: What’s Inside a Pumpkin?
Math: How Many Seeds? 
Science: Pumpkin Life Cycle
 
Wednesday
Alphabet: Letter Hh (Build a Letter)
Literature: Seed, Sprout and Pumpkin Pie
Art: Pumpkin Stamping
Math: Measuring Pumpkins
Science: Planting Pumpkin Seeds
 
Thursday
Alphabet: Letter Hh (Alphabet Movement Game)
Literature: Pumpkin Jack
Art: Pumpkins on a Fence
Math: Weighing Pumpkins
Science: Planting Pumpkin Seeds
 
Friday
Alphabet: Letter Hh (Alphabet Movement Game)
Literature: Pumpkin Jack
Art: Pumpkins on a Fence
Math: Weighing Pumpkins
Science: Pumpkin Life Cycle

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Literacy Class Schedule

Wednesday, October 18th: Literacy Class

Book: Knuffle Bunny Free & Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems


  • Favorite Friend
  • Our Own Knuffle Bunny
  • Knuffle Bunny Hunt
  • Dress the Naked Mole Rat
  • Costume Play
  • Sharing Activity 

Monday, October 15, 2012

3/4 Schedule: Pumpkins Week 1

Monday
Alphabet: Letter Gg (Grass G’s)
Literature: It’s Pumpkin Time
Art: Cereal Pumpkin Shapes
Small Groups: Five Little Pumpkin Puppets
Science: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Letter Gg (Grass G’s)
Literature: I Know It’s Autumn
Art: Cereal Pumpkin Shapes
Small Groups: Five Little Pumpkin Puppets
Science: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
 
Wednesday
Pumpkin Tour Field Trip
 
Thursday
Alphabet: Letter Gg (Build-a-Letter)
Literature: The Scarecrow’s Hat
Art: Scarecrow Art
Small Groups: Touch and Feel Scarecrows
Science/Math: Pumpkin Investigation
                               
Friday
Alphabet: Letter Gg (Build-a-Letter)
Literature: The Little Scarecrow Boy
Art: Scarecrow Art
Small Groups: Touch and Feel Scarecrows
Science/Math: Pumpkin Investigation

2/3 Class Songs/Rhymes/Poems for Pumpkins Week 1

 Five Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate,
The first one said,
"Oh my, it's getting late."
The second one said,
"But we don't care."
The third one said,
"I see witches in the air."
The fourth one said,
"Let's run, and run, and run."
The fifth one said,
"Get ready for some fun."
Then whoosh went the wind,
and out went the lights,
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!

In My Garden
(Tune: The Muffin Man)


Do you know how pumpkins grow,

Pumpkins grow, pumpkins grow,

Do you know how pumpkins grow?

In my garden?

First I plant some pumpkin seeds,

some pumpkin seeds, some pumpkins seeds,

First I plant some pumpkin seeds

In my garden.

Then the vines and leaves will grow,

leaves will grow, leaves will grow,

Then the vines and leaves will grow,

In my garden.

Then the buds will turn to blossoms,

turn to blossoms, turn to blossoms,

Then the buds will turn to blossoms,

In my garden.

Then green pumpkins will grow,

will grow, will grow,

Then green pumpkins will grow,

In my garden.

At last the pumpkins turn to orange,

turn to orange, turn to orange,

At last the pumpkins turn to orange,

In my garden.

Now I'll have some jack-o-lanterns,

jack-o-lanterns, jack-o-lanterns,

Now I'll have some jack-o-lanterns,

In my garden.


I'm a Little Pumpkin
(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)


I'm a little pumpkin

Orange and round.

Here is my stem,

There is the ground.

When I get all cut up,
Don't you shout!
Just open me up
And scoop me out!





2/3 Class Schedule: Pumpkins Week 1


Monday
Alphabet: Letter Gg
Literature: Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino
Art: What's Inside a Pumpkin Craft
Math: Counting Pumpkins
Small Groups: Pumpkin Lacing
Music: Five Little Pumpkins
 
Tuesday
Alphabet: Letter Gg
Literature: Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree
Art: Pumpkin Seed Art
Math: Counting Pumpkins
Small Groups: Pumpkin Lacing
Music: Five Little Pumpkins
 
Wednesday
Pumpkin Tour Field Trip
 
Thursday
Alphabet: Letter Gg 
Literature: Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino
Art: Pumpkin Life Cycle
Math: Pumpkin Cereal Garden
Small Groups: Pumpkin Hammering
Music: In My Garden (Tune: The Muffin Man)

Friday
Alphabet: Letter Gg
Literature: Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree
Art: Edible Pumpkin Pretzels
Math: Pumpkin Cereal Garden
Small Groups: Pumpkin Hammering
Music: I'm a Little Pumpkin (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)