2/3 Class Schedule (11/4-11/8): Leaves

Theme: Leaves (Week 1)

Monday:

• Art: Stained Glass Leaves Craft
• Literature: Leaves by David Ezra
• Math: Leaf Counting Book
• Fine Motor: Cutting Up Leaves

Tuesday:

• Art: Leaf Printing/Rubbing
• Literature: Why Do Leaves Change Color? by Betsy Maestro
• Math: Leaf Counting Book
• Fine Motor: Cutting Up Leaves

Wednesday:

• Art: Crumpled Up Tissue Paper Leaves
• Literature: Look What I Did with a Leaf! by Morteza Sohi
• Math: Leaf Counting Book
• Fine Motor: Raking Up Leaves

Thursday:

• Art: Coffee Filter Autumn Leaves
• Literature: Fall Leaves Fall! by Zoe Hall
• Math: Leaf Counting Book
• Fine Motor: Raking Up Leaves

Friday:

• Art: Lion Leaf Masks
• Literature: There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves! by Lucille Colandro
• Math: Leaf Counting Book
• Fine Motor: Play-Dough with Leaf Cookie Cutters

This Week:

• Letter: Jj
• Sensory: Fall/Leaves Sensory Bin
• Movement: Catch Those Leaves!
• Songs/Rhymes:

1. Leaves:
   (sung to the tune of London Bridge)

All the leaves are falling down
Faling down, falling down.
All the leaves are falling down,
It is fall time.
They are yellow, red and brown,
Red and brown, red and brown.
They are yellow, red and brown.
It is fall time.
Take the leaves and crunch them up,
Crunch them up, crunch them up.
Take the leaves and crunch them up.
It is fall time. 

3/4 Class Schedule: Halloween Week

Monday:
· Literature: Were the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
· Art: Corn craft
· Math: Roll a Monster Game
 
Tuesday:
· Literature: There Was an Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
· Art: Witch
· Math: Many Eyed Monster
 
Wednesday: *Halloween Costume Dress Up
· Literature: Just Say Boo! By Susan Hood
· Art: Ghost Mobile
· Math: Halloween Number Identification
                    
Thursday: *Halloween Costume Dress Up
· Literature: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
· Art/Cooking: Hot Dog Mummy
· Math: Halloween Patterns
 
Friday:
· Literature: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
· Art: Black Cat
· Math: Many Eyed Monster
 
All Week
Alphabet: Letter Ii (Iguana puppet)
 
Fine Motor:
Halloween tracing and cutting activities

Sensory:
Plastic Pumpkin Pouring and Sorting Corn Sensory Bin
Sunflowers and Pumpkin Seeds
Googley-eye Play Dough
 
Movement:
Spooky Movement Game
Spider Web Toss

Enrichment Classes Schedule: (10/28-11/1)

ENRICHMENT         MONTH: October

YEAR: 2013

monday, Discovery Science CLASS (10/28/13)

TOPIC: Halloween Science

·          Halloween Slime Experiment

·          Static Dancing Ghost Experiment

·          Making Eyeballs Experiment

·          Haunted Screaming Cups

·          Bubbling Potions and Jars

tuesday, sports & Games (10/29/13)

TOPIC: Halloween

·          Runaway From the Ghost Game

·          Walking on a Spider Web

·          Pumpkin Bowling

·          Spider Web Toss Game

·          Pin the Eye on the Monster

wednesday, literacy (10/30/13)

TOPIC: One Monster After Another by Mercer Mayer

·          Monster Hand-print Art

·          Scarecrow Art

·          Matching Activity

·          QOD: Are you Afraid of Anything?

·          Halloween Cupcake Food Activity

thursday, discovery math (10/31/13)

TOPIC: Monster Math

·          How Many Monster Eyes Are There?

·          Sorting Pumpkins

·          Roll a Jack o’ Lantern Dice Game

·          Creating Our Own Monster Activity

·          Counting Spiders

friday, cooking around the world (11/1/13)

TOPIC: South America

·          South America’s History

·          Rainforest Animals Art Activity

·          Tropical Rainforest Biodiversity Craft

·          Cooking Project: Brazilian Pao de Queijo

2/3 Class Schedule (10/28-11/1): Halloween Week!

Theme: Halloween Week!

Monday:

• Art: Shredded Paper Candy-corns
• Literature: There's a Nightmare in my Closet by Mercer Mayer
• Math: Counting Spiders
• Fine Motor: Cutting Out Bats

Tuesday:

• Art: Paper Plate Ghosts
• Literature: There's an Alligator Under my Bed by Mercer Mayer
• Math: Counting Spiders
• Fine Motor: Cutting Out Bats

Wednesday:

• Art: Pom-Pom Bats/Spider Puppets
• Literature: There's Something in the Attic by Mercer Mayer
• Math: Candy-corn Counting
• Fine Motor: Pre-Writing Halloween Fun
• Halloween Party

Thursday:

• Art: Spider-Web Sand Craft
• Literature: The Thirteen Hours of Halloween by Dian Regan
• Math: How Many Bats are in the Cave? Game
• Fine Motor: Pre-Writing Halloween Fun
• Halloween Party

Friday:

• Art: Mummy Puppets
• Literature: There are Monsters Everywhere by Mercer Mayer
• Math: Candy-corn Counting
• Fine Motor: Pre-Writing Halloween Fun

This Week:

• Letter: Ii
• Sensory: Fall/Halloween Sensory Table
• Movement: Flashlight Tag
• Song(s)/Rhyme(s):

1. We're Not Afraid
   (Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star")
   
   Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats,
   We're not afraid of this or that.
   They are only make-believe,
   Funny costumes on Halloween.
   Ghosts and goblins, cats and bats,
   We're not afraid of this or that.

Pre-K Class Schedule: Monster/Spiders

Week of Oct. 28 – Nov. 1
Theme: Monsters/Spiders

Monday
Literacy: Lowercase i, journal writing
Music & Movement: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Math: Geoboards
Science/Art: Spider Anatomy
Book: Eensie Weensie Spider by Mary Ann and Westcott Hoberman

Tuesday
Literacy: Lowercase i, journal writing
Music & Movement: The Big Black Spider
Math: Spider Geometry (points, angles, polygon)
Science: Spider Observations
Art: Spider Web Catch
Book: Spiders by Gail Gibbons

Wednesday
Literacy: Lowercase i, journal writing
Music & Movement: Spider Dance
Math: Spider Probability
Science: Spider Web Silk

Art: Web Weaving
Book: Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin

Thursday
Literacy: Lowercase i, journal writing
Music & Movement: Horns & Fangs
Math: Geoboards
Science: Dry Ice (discussion)
Art: Monster Clay
Book: Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda

Friday
Literacy: Lowercase i, journal writing
Music & Movement: The Monsters are so Loud
Math/Art: 3D Monster Faces Probability
Science: Monster Slime
Book: My Momma Says There Aren’t Any Zombies, Ghost, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiend, Goblins, or Things by Judith Viorst