PM Preschool Schedule: Eric Carle

Week of June 3-7
Theme: Author - Eric Carle

Literature:
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Little Cloud by Eric Carle

Letter:
Review Curve Uppercase Letters
Letter Q
Letter R

Art/Science:
Hermit Crab Painting Craft
Little Cloud Cotton Ball Activity
Little Cloud Parfait

Math:
Number two (2)
Number three (3)
Shapes and Color Sort

Fine Motor:
Pre-writing Practice
Cutting Straight/Curve Lines

Music:
The Cloud
Tune: Bingo

Today the clouds are in the sky
And cloudy is the weather.
C L O U D Y C L O U D Y C L O U D Y
And cloudy is the weather.

3/4 Class Schedule: Eric Carle (Brown Bear Week)

Theme: Eric Carle (Brown Bear Week)

 
Literature:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Eric Carle
Paint Me A Star By Eric Carle
House for a Hermit Crab By Eric Carle
The Foolish Tortoise By Eric Carle
 
Alphabet:
Color Mystery (Beginning Sounds)
Find my Alphabet Buddy (Matching Upper and Lower Case Letters)
 
Fine Motor:
Brown Bear Glue Dots
Brown Bear Scissor Skills
Rainbow Writing Strokes
 
Art:
Brown Bear Color Book
Paint Me A Star
Hand Print Hermit Crab
Turtle Shell Prints
Paper Bowl Turtles 

Sensory:

Clean Mud
 
Math:
Animal ABC’s
Brown Bear Color Graph
Brown Bear Number Tracing
 
Movement:
Bear Crawls
 
Dramatic Play:
Camping
 
Music:
Bears are Sleeping
Tune: Frere Jaques
 
Bears are sleeping,
Bears are sleeping.
In a cave,
In a cave.
Wonder when they’ll wake up?
Wonder when they’ll wake up?
In the spring,
In the spring.

 

 

 

 

3/4 Schedule: Ocean

Theme: Ocean Week 3         

 
Literature:
I’m the Biggest Fish in the Ocean
From Pup to Shark
One Tiny Turtle
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
 
Alphabet:
Find my Letter Buddy (Matching Lower and Upper Case Letters)
Sea Animal Sort (Beginning Sounds)
 
Fine Motor:
“Don’t Cut the Pirate” (cutting practice)
Pinching Fish Water Play

Art:

Sand Paper/Oil Pastel Starfish
Rubber Glove Squid
Tissue Paper Fish
Liquid Water Color Jellyfish

Sensory:

Colored Sand
Pinching Fish Water Play
 

Math:

Measuring Sea Animals with Links
Sea Animal Patterns
Counting Sea Animals

Movement:
Pirate Planks
Follow the Leader

Science:

Sink or Float

Dramatic Play:

Pirate Treasure Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

Enrichment Classes Schedule: (5/28-5/31)

Monday, Math/Science Class:

• No School

Wednesday, Literacy Class: Today is Monday by Eric Carle

• Today is Monday Booklets
• Re-telling of the Story
• Food/Art Project
• Animal Collages
• Discussion/Questions About Today is Monday

Friday, Cooking Around the World: Mexico

• Cooking Project: Caldo De Res
• Mexico's Culture and Traditions (Continued)
• Learning About Proper Etiquette
• Cooking and Handling Foods Properly

PM Preschool Schedule: Shark Week

Week of May 28-31
Theme: Shark Week

Literature:
The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Will Grace
The Shark in the Dark by Peter Bently


Letter:
Review Curve Uppercase Letters
Letter J
Letter O

Art/Science:
Hanging Shark Craft
Pop up Shark
Clothespin Shark

Math:
Number Book Cover
Number One (1)

Fine Motor:
Pre-writing Practice
Cutting Straight/Curve Lines
My Itsy Bitsy Shark Book

Music:
Baby Shark Song

Oceans of Fun/lowercase h

Shore and Tide Animals
Lowercase h

Monday:
No School - Memorial Day 

Tuesday:
Science/Literacy: What are Shells? My favorite shell is...   -ell word family
Math: Sorting Shells
Art: Shell Picture Frames With Paint an Shells
Music: Five Little Seashells
Book: Shore Life 

Wednesday:
Literacy: One day a fighting conch...     -ight word family
Math: Counting, Sorting, and Grouping Conch
Art: Decorating a Fighting Conch Shell
Science: Observing Conch Shells
Music: Seashell
Book: There was an old Lady who Swallowed a Shell

Thursday:
Literacy: One day a hermit crab....    -ab word family
Math: How Many Reeds of Seagrass?
Art: Hermit Crab in a Shell
Science: What is a Crab? Observing a real crab.
Music: Five Crank Crabs
Book: Hermit Crab

Friday:
Literacy: These are things I can find on a beach...    -each word family
Math: How Long is one Minute? (using minute sand glasses)
Art: Beach Scene with Sand
Science: What is Sand? Observing Sand
Music: At the Beach
Book: The Sand Castle Contest

2/3 Class Schedule (5/28-5/31): Oceans Week 3

Theme: Oceans

Literature:

• Moving Day by Robert Kalan
• Seal Pup Grows Up by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• Toothwalkers by Jo Windsor
• Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
• Coastal Habitats by PAPP Intl.

Letter: Hh

• Hh is For Hearts
• Hh is For Hats
• Hh is For Hammer
• Hh is For Hand
• Hh is For Horse

Art:

• Hand-print Crabs
• Rainbow Seahorse
• Tissue Paper Sea Anemone
• Shell Prints
• Starfish Sand Craft

Math:

• Counting Starfishes
• How Many Shells Do You See? Game
• Sorting Sea Animals

Fine Motor:

• Pre-Cutting Practice: Humpty Dumpty Cut-Out Activity
• Glue Control: Gluing Together Humpty Dumpty
• Pre-Writing Practice: Tracing Patterns

Sensory:

• Ocean Themed Sensory Tub

Music:

• Slippery Fish: 

Slippery fish, slippery fish

swimming in the water

A slippery fish, a slippery fish

Gulp, gulp

OH NO! He's been eaten by a

Jellyfish, a jelly fish

swimming in the water

A jelly fish, a jelly fish

gulp, gulp

OH NO! He's been eaten by a

Tuna fish, a tuna fish

swimming in the water

A tuna fish, a tuna fish

gulp, gulp

OH NO! He's been eaten by a

Great White Shark, a great white shark

swimming in the water

A great white shark, a great white shark

gulp, gulp, gulp

OH NO! He's been eaten by an

Enormous Whale, an enormous whale

Spouting in the water

Enormous Whale, enormous whale

Gulp, gulp, BURP!

Excuse ME!

• Sticky, Sticky Starfish (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

Sticky sticky little starfish,
How I wonder what you are,
Beneath the sea so cool and blue
Can you see me as I see you?
Sticky sticky little starfish
Beneath the sea so cool and blue!

2/3 Class Schedule (5/20-5/24): Oceans Week 2

Theme: Oceans

Literature:

• The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark by Deborah Diesen
• At the Seaside by Heather Amery and Stephen Cartwright
• I'm a Shark by Bob Shea
• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni

Letter: Gg

• Gg is For Goldfish
• Gg is For Gold
• Gg is For Giraffe
• Gg is For Gray
• Gg is For Grapes

Art:

• Tissue Paper Jellyfishes
• Paper Plate Sharks
• 3-D Aquariums
• Finding Nemo Craft
• Playdough Sea Animals

Math:

• Counting Fishes
• Sorting Starfishes
• Counting Seashells

Fine Motor:

• Cutting Practice: Cutting Out Shapes
• Pre-Writing Practice: Tracing Patterns

Music:

Life of a Butterfly/lowercase g

Butterflies
Lowercase g

Monday:
Literacy: -ly Family, A butterfly can...
Art/Math: What is Symmetry? (shapes & paint)
Science: KWL Butterflies
Music: Dance With Scarves to Music
Book: Waiting for Wings


Tuesday:
Literacy: -ool Family, One Day a Butterfly...
Math: Butterfly Pattern Blocks
Art: Coffee Filter Butterflies
Science: Camouflaging
Music: The Little Caterpillar
Book: Clara Caterpillar


Wednesday:
Literacy: -eel Family, Color Butterfly Book
Math: Count the Circles (pattern activity)
Art/Science: Life cycle of a Butterfly
Music: Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly
Book: From Caterpillar to Butterfly


Thursday:
Literacy: -ess Family, Butterfly Book
Math: How Many Spots? (dice game)
Art: Stained Glass Butterfly Art
Science: Butterfly Anatomy, Review KWL
Music: I Wish I was a Little Butterfly
Book:The Butterfly Alphabet Book

Friday:
Fox Hollow Farm Field Trip @ 10am

3/4 Schedule: Ocean

Monday: jelly fish
· Fine Motor: Sea Aquarium
· Literature: Secret Seahorse
· Art: Jellyfish
· Math: counting jellyfish tentacles
 
Tuesday: fish
· Fine Motor: finger pinchers to catch fish
· Literature: Hooray for Fish
· Art: rainbow fish paper plate
· Math: counting “fish scales”
· Science: observing seashells and seashell sort

Wednesday: fish

· Fine Motor: stringing shells
· Literature: Beach Day
· Art: swimmy fish
· Math: counting fish/sorting fish by colors
· Literacy: fishing for letters
 
Thursday: fish
· Fine Motor: sea urchin
· Literature: Fish Eyes
· Art: finger painting water and fish art project
· Math/Science: sorting seashells based on sized
 

Friday: crab

· Fine Motor: sea creature play dough
· Literature: Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea
· Art: bowl crab
· Math: number recognition

 

PM Preschool Schedule: Marine Animals

Week of May 20-24
Theme: Marine Animals

Literature:
Moving Day by Robert Kalan
Secret Seahorse by Stella Blackstone

Letter:
Review Curve Uppercase Letters
Letter D
Letter G

Art/Science:
Handprint Crabs & Color Sand
Seahorse Craft

Math:
Oh, no! More Crabs! (Adding Game)
Number Recognition and Writing

Fine Motor:
Practice Cutting Straight/Curve Lines
Pre-writing Marine Words

Music:

Five Cranky Crabs

Five cranky crabs were digging on the shore.

One swam into a net and then there were four.

Four cranky crabs were floating in the sea.

One got tangled up in seaweed then there were three.

Three Cranky crabs were wondering what to do.

One dug a deep, deep hole. Then there were two.

Two cranky crabs were warming in the sun.

One got scooped up in a cup. Then there was one.

One cranky crab was smarter than his friends.

He hid between the jagged rocks.

That's how the story ends.

Bees, Beetles, and Ladybugs/lowercase f

Bees, Bumblebees, and Ladybugs

Lowercase f

Monday:

Literacy: -at Family, Literacy Station

Math: Math Centers (stampers, patterns, puzzles, shapes)

Art/Science: Bees Wax Candle

Music: Baby Bumblebee

Book: Bees and Their Hives

Tuesday:

Literacy: -et Family, Literacy Station

Math: Beetle Graph

Art: Clothespin Beetle

Science: Beetle Anatomy

Music: Beetles, Beetles, Beetles

Book: The Very Clumsy Click Beetle

Wednesday:

Literacy: -it Family, Literacy Station

Math: Ladybug Match

Art/Science: Ladybug Lifecycle

Music: Little Ladybug

Book: Nature's Friends Ladybugs

Thursday:

Literacy: -ut Family, Literacy Station

Math: How Many Spots? (addition)

Art: Colorful Ladybug

Science: Ladybug Anatomy

Music: Five Little Ladybugs

Book: Ladybugs

Friday: 

Literacy: -ot Family, Literacy Station

Math/Art: Ladybug Grass

Science: Observe Lady Bugs (KWL)

Music: Ladybug Ladybug

Book: Ladybug Girl and the bug Squad

Enrichment Classes Schedule: (5/13-5/17)

Monday, Math/Science Class: All About Our DNA

• What is DNA Experiment/Discussion
• Big Chromosomes (Dominant) and Little Chromosomes (Recessive)
• Compare and Contrast Hairlines
• Graphing Eye Color and Hair Color Experiment
• DNA Models with Toothpicks and Marshmallows

Wednesday, Literacy Class: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Wild Thing Puppets
• Monster Masks
• Max's Crown Craft
• Retelling of the Story
• Where the Wild Things Are Setting Activity

Friday, Cooking Around the World: Mexico

• Where is Mexico Game
• All About its Culture/Traditions
• What kinds of plants/food grow in Mexico Activity
• Cooking: Chicken Quesadilla

2/3 Class Schedule (5/13-5/17): Fish and Oceans

Theme: Fish and Oceans

Literature:

Letter: Ff

• Ff is For Fish
• Ff is For Frogs
• Ff is For Feathers
• Ff is For Fruit

Art:

• Hand-print Fishes
• Fish Bowl Art
• Underwater Foil Art
• Sequined Rainbow Fish
• Fruit Loops Octopus

Math:

• How Many Goldfishes Are There?
• Counting Fishes
• Sorting Sea Animals

Sensory:

• Water Tank

Fine Motor:

• Cutting Practice: Cutting Out Shapes
• Pre-Writing Practice: Tracing Patterns

Music:

• Slippery Fish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_k45_iyVG0
• Catch a Fish (Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Catch, catch, catch a fish,

Hook it on your line.

Reel it, reel it, reel it,

This one will be mine.

3/4 Class Schedule: Ocean

Theme: Ocean           
 
Literature:
I’m the Biggest Fish in the Ocean
Commotion in the Ocean
Clumsy Crab
Jump Fish Jump
 
Fine Motor:
“Don’t Cut the Fish” (cutting practice)
Pinching Fish

Art:

bubble wrap painting/ painting waves
saltwater painting
seashell painting/sand dollar
Jellyfish
 
Sensory:
Fishing Poles and Fish
 

Math:

How Many Fish Bubbles!
Practice Writing Numbers
How Many Game

Movement:

Ocean Movement Game
Jump Fish Jump

 

Music:

Five Cranky Crabs (Rhyme)

Five cranky crabs were digging on the shore.
One swam into a net and then there were four.
Four cranky crabs were floating in the sea.
One got tangled up in seaweed then there were three.
Three Cranky crabs were wondering what to do.
One dug a deep, deep hole. Then there were two.
Two cranky crabs were warming in the sun.
One got scooped up in a cup. Then there was one.
One cranky crab was smarter than his friends.
He hid between the jagged rocks.
That's how the story ends.

 

 

 

 

PM Preschool Schedule: Fish & Oceans

Week of May 13-17

Theme: Fish & Oceans

Literature:

The Pout-pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Letter:

Review Curve Uppercase Letters

Letter B

Letter C

Art/Science: 

Rainbow Fish Paint
Stained Glass Fish

Math:

How Many Fishes Around the Ocean?

Fishes Assortment

Fine Motor:
Cut out Different Fish Shapes
Pre-writing Fish Names

Music:

I'm A Little Fishy
Tune:  I'm a little tea pot

I'm a little fishy
watch me swim
Here is my tail
Here is my fin
When I want to have fun with my friends
I wiggle my tail an dive right in

Bees, Bumblebees and Wasps/lowercase e

Bees, Bumblebees and Wasps

Lowercase e

Monday

Literacy: -ee family  thumbprint bee story

Math/Art: Building bee nests with fiorelli pasta

Science: Examining real nests/KWL bees

Music: Baby Bumblebee with different tempos

Book: The Very Greedy Bee

Tuesday

Literacy: One day a bee….     –ea family

Math: How Many Bees in the Hive?  (addition)

Art: Paperbag bee nests

Science: Pollination using Cheetos

Music: Flight of the Bumblebee  and bee flying

Book: Honey Bee and the Robber

Wednesday

Literacy: A bee can…..   –eat family

Math: bee tangrams

Art: Painted bee with wax paper wings

Science: How bees fly?

Music: drawing to Flight of the Bumblebee

Book:  Bees and Wasps

Thursday

Literacy: write the room/ word families  -eet family

Math: Eggs in the nest  (subtraction)

Art/Music:  Fingerpainting to Flight of the Bumblebee

Science: Bee stings

Book:Honeymakers

Friday

Literacy: -ee family mini-book

Math: building with hexagons

Art/Science:  Exploring with beeswax and melting crayons

Music: Baby Bumblebee

Book: Bee Tree

2/3 Class Schedule (5/6/13-5/10/13): Bugs Week 2

Theme: Bugs

Literature:

• I Love Bugs! by Philemon Sturges
• Bob and Otto by Robert O. Bruel
• Bug Safari by Bob Barner
• BUZZ by Eileen Spinelli
• Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Letter: Ee

• Ee is For Elephant
• Ee is For Egg
• Ee is For Ears
• Ee is For Eyes
• Ee is For Envelope

Art:

• Bug Net Craft (Continued)
• Bug Jars
• Playdough Caterpillars
• Fingerprint Ladybugs
• Head, Thorax, and Abdomen Bee Craft

Math:

• Matching Butterfly Cards
• Counting Bugs
• Bug Patterns
• Bug Puzzles
• Sorting Bugs

Fine Motor:

• Cutting: Bug Cutting
• Pre-Writing Practice: Tracing Shapes with Bugs

Music:

• Shoo, Fly Don't Bother Me!

Shoo, fly don't bother me. Shoo, fly don't bother me. 

Shoo, fly don't bother me, I belong to somebody!

• I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee. Won't my mommy be so proud of me!

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee. Ouch! It stung me!

I'm squashing up the baby bumblebee. Won't my mommy be so proud of me!

I'm squashing up the baby bumblebee. Mmm... It looks like strawberry!

I'm licking up the baby bumblebee. Won't my mommy be so proud of me!

I'm licking up the baby bumblebee. Oh! No more bumblebee!

• Head, and Thorax, Abdomen, Abdomen (Tune: Head and Shoulders)

Head, and thorax, abdomen, abdomen.

Head, and thorax, abdomen, abdomen.

Antennae, wings, and six legs too.

Don't let this bug land on you,

Shoo, bug, shoo!

3/4 Class Schedule: Bugs!

Theme: Bugs!

Literature:
Hey Little Ant
The Very Lonely Firefly
Two Bad Ants
Bug Safari
I Love Bugs
 
Alphabet:
Guess My Letter
Window Tracing: Names
 
Fine Motor/Sensory:
“Don’t Cut the Bubble Bee ” (cutting practice)
Bugs in the Grass (with pincers)

 

Art:
Egg Carton Ants
Fireflies in a Jar
Honeycomb/Bees with Bubble Wrap
Ladybug Paper Plates
 
Math:
Insect Tangrams
Count the Dots on the Ladybug
How Many Ants?
 
Movement:
Insect Movement Game 

Music:

The Fuzzy Caterpillar
Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider
 
The fuzzy caterpillar
Curled up on a leaf,
Spun her little chrysalis
And then fell fast asleep.
While she was sleeping
She dreamed that she could fly,
And later when she woke up
She was a butterfly!
 

Caterpillar/Butterfly Scarf Dance

Tune: Wheels on the Bus
 
The caterpillars are wriggling around,
wriggling around,
wriggling around.
The caterpillars are wriggling around,
all around the ground.
 
The caterpillars are building a cocoon,
building a cocoon,
building a cocoon.
The caterpillars are building a cocoon
all around the ground.
 
The butterflies are flying around,
flying around,
flying around.
The butterflies are flying around,
all around the ground.

PM Preschool Schedule: Bugs

Week of May 6-10
Theme: Bugs

Literature:
Maybelle in the Soup by Katie Speck
Snug as a Bug by Michael Elsohon Ross
Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman

Letter:
Review Straight Uppercase Letters
Letter F
Letter H

Art/Science: 
Firefly in a Jar
Butterfly Effect

Math:
How Many Bugs in Your Soup?
Firefly Counting Book

Fine Motor: 
Cutting Different Lines
Pre-writing Bug Words (cont.)

Music:

Bugs
Tune: Frere Jacques

Big bugs, small bugs, big bugs, small bugs
See them crawl on the wall?
Creepy, creepy, crawling, never, never falling.
Bug, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs.