2/3 Class Schedule: Plants Continued

Theme: Plants Continued

 
Monday:
Literature: Growing Vegetable Soup
Art: Carrot Puppet

Math: Vegetable Number Sorting

Tuesday:

Literature: The Carrot Seed
Art: Making a Paper Carrot Man
Math: Counting Vegetables
 
Wednesday:
Literature: The Carrot Seed
Art: Growing Seeds in a Window Pot
Math: Counting Vegetables
 
Thursday:
Literature: What’s in the Garden?
Art: Growing Seeds in a Window Pot
Math: Vegetable Number Matching
 
Friday:
Literature: How do Vegetables Grow?
Art: Stamping Vegetables
Math: Vegetable Number Matching

 

All Week

Science:
Planting Vegetable Seeds

Sensory:

Scrubbing Vegetables 
 
Dramatic Play:
Paper Garden Mural
 
Fine Motor:
What’s Hiding in the Garden? (Cutting & Coloring Activity)
 
Song:Planting Time
Sung to: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Dig, dig, dig the earth
Then you plant your seeds
A gentle rain
And bright sunshine
Will help your flowers grow 

I'll Plant A Little Seed
Sung to: "I'm A Little Teapot"

I'll plant a little seed in the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the yellow sun, big and round.
Down comes the cool rain, soft and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow!

 

Prek and K / Week of March 30- April 3 Plants, letter y and creating with Shapes

Monday
Literacy:  write a card with the phrase I love you!
Math: drawing shapes with rulers and paper
Science/Art: Terrariums and water cycle
Music: plant a little seed

Tuesday
Literacy: A _____is yellow
Math: geoboards and Tangrams
Art: Shape Garden
Science: observing seeds
Music: plant a little seed

Wednesday
Literacy:  ______taste yucky!
Math: geoboards and Tangrams (make a flower)
Art: yarn flower outline
Science: observing plant parts
Music:  The Green Grass Grows

Thursday
Literacy : _____is yummy!
Math:  drawing shapes on geoboard paper
Art: giant sunflowers
Science: observing seeds
Music:  Green grass grows all around

Friday
Literacy: I yell at ______.
Math: geoboards and Tangrams (make an animal)
Art: seed art collage
Science: observing soil
Music: Green Grass Grows

3/4 Class Schedule: Plants

Mar 30- Apr 3
Monday
Where do plants grow?
Literature: From the Garden: A Counting Book about Growing Food by Michael Dahl
Art: Flower poster

Movement: Hop Scotch

Tuesday
Why are plants important? They help us grow!
Literature: Vegetable Soup by Jeanne Modesitt
Art: Vegetable soup
Movement: Soccer

Wednesday
What about trees?
Literature: Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson

Art: Tree Print

Movement:  Back-to-Back

Thursday 
Our Earth full of plants
Literature: Jo MacDonald Had a Garden By Mary Quattlebaum
Art: Planting seeds
Movement: Jump rope

Friday
Why we love plants
Literature: Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard 
Art: Cupcake Flowers 
Movement: Basketball

Writing Skill: Alphabet Review
Songs/ Finger Play:
Parts of Plants (Sung to: Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes)
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?
All kinds of plants that grow, grow, grow.
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?

The roots hold the plant in place, plant in place,
The stem move water up the plant, up the plant.
The roots store food and the stem feed the leaves.
Roots and steam give food to the plant.

The leaves soak up the sun, soak up sun.
The flower grows into fruit, into fruit.
The sun helps the plant and the fruit has tiny seeds.
The sun helps the plant to grow, grow, grow.

Pre-k/k. Class march 23-27. plants, welcome spring and the letter W

Plants, welcome spring and the Letter w

Monday
Literacy/Art: The Tiny Seed storyboard
Math:  How Much is 20/seed sort and count
Art: arm/hand sunflower
Science: What is a seed?
Music: The Green Grass Grows all Around
Book:  The Tiny Seed

Tuesday
Literacy: I won a.....
Math: counting to 10 with seeds
Art: life Cycle of a plant
Science: How does a seed grow?
Music: The Green Grass Grows all Around
Book: How a Seed Grows

Wednesday
Literacy: Water is good for......
Math: How Many feet up the beanstalk?
Art: Beanstalk to cloud seed
Science: What happens after a seed sprouts?
Music: The Green Grass Grows all Around/  I’m a Little Seed
Book:  Jack and the Beanstalk

Thursday
Literacy: When I wake up I
Math: Vegetable survey/graphing
Art: Root vegetable art/ cooking vegetable souo
Science:  When a plant blooms.
Music: Green Grass Grows all Around
Book: Growing Vegetable Soup

Friday
Literacy: I can do ___________well.
Math: favorite flower survey
Art: carrot in a bag
Science: how do plant roots work
Music: Plant a little Seed
Book:  The Carrot Seed

2/3 Schedule: Spring & Plants

Theme: Spring & Plants

Literature:
The Carrot Seed
Who’s in the Garden
What’s This? A Seed Story
The Gigantic Turnip
Grandpa’s Garden

Fine Motor:

“Don’t Cut the Flower” (cutting practice) 
What is hiding in the grass?
Clothespin Flower Transfer

Art:
Life Cycle of a Plant
My Flower
Carrots in Dirt
Sponge Flowers
Easel Seed Starters

Sensory:
Seed Sensory Bin

Science:
What do plants need to grow?
Foods that are seeds, roots, stems or flowers

Math:
Number dot to dot

Match the size of a flower
Garden Tools Number Matching

Movement:
Musical Number Mat Game

Music:

Planting Time

Sung to: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Dig, dig, dig the earth
Then you plant your seeds
A gentle rain
And bright sunshine
Will help your flowers grow 

I'll Plant A Little Seed

Sung to: "I'm A Little Teapot"

I'll plant a little seed in the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the yellow sun, big and round.
Down comes the cool rain, soft and slow.
Up comes the little seed, grow, grow, grow!

 

 

3/4 Class Schedule: Spring & Plants

Mar 23-27
Monday
What are plants?
Literature: And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano
Art: Leaf rubbings

Movement: Hop Scotch

Tuesday
How do seeds grow? Life cycle of a seed
Literature: The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Art: Life cycle of a seed
Movement: Back-to-Back

Wednesday
What's in the dirt to help plants grow? WORMS!
Literature: Wiggle & Waggle by Caroline Arnold
Art: Wiggle & Waggle Worm painting
Movement:  Catch the Butterflies

Thursday 
Parts of the plants
Literature: Plant Parts Smarts: Science Adventures with Charlie the Origami Bee by Eric Braun
Art: Chromatography Flower
Movement: Jump rope

Friday
Are all seeds the same?
Literature:  Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! by Nancy Wallace
Art: Sunflower 
Movement:  Duck, Duck, Goose

Writing Skill: Alphabet Review
Songs/ Finger Play:
Parts of Plants (Sung to: Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes)
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?
All kinds of plants that grow, grow, grow.
Do you know the parts of plants, parts of plants?

The roots hold the plant in place, plant in place,
The stem move water up the plant, up the plant.
The roots store food and the stem feed the leaves.
Roots and steam give food to the plant.

The leaves soak up the sun, soak up sun.
The flower grows into fruit, into fruit.
The sun helps the plant and the fruit has tiny seeds.
The sun helps the plant to grow, grow, grow.

2/3 Class Schedule: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Theme: Rainbows and Leprechauns

Monday:

• Circle Time: What is a Rainbow?
• Literature: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Art: Watercolor Rainbow
• Math: Color Matching

Tuesday: 

• Circle Time: What Makes a Rainbow?
• Literature: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
• Art: Fruit Loop Rainbow
• Math: How Many Colors Do You See?

Wednesday:

• Circle Time: What is a Leprechaun?
• Literature: What is St. Patrick’s Day by Elaine Landau
• Art: Yellow and Blue Makes a Green Leprechaun
• Math: St. Patrick’s size order

Thursday:

• Circle Time: How Can We Catch a Leprechaun?
• Literature: Colors: The Rainbow of the Natural World by Scholastic
• Art: Rainbow Mobile
• Math: Counting My Pot O' Gold

Friday:

• Circle Time: What is St. Patrick's Day?
• Literature: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• Art: Thumbprint Rainbow
• Math: How many colors?

This Week:

• Game/Movement: Catch the Leprechaun

Music:

• The Colors Song (Tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue.

·         I'm a Little Leprechaun (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little leprechaun
Dressed in green,
The tiniest man
That you ever seen.
If you ever catch me, it is told,
I'll give you my pot of gold!

Pre-k and k /St. Patricks Day and Community workers, letter v

Monday
Literacy: _____is very______.
Math: adding shamrocks
Art: pot of gold rainbow
Science: what is a rainbow?
Music:  listening to Irish music

Tuesday
Literacy: vacation
Math: pot of gold number roll
art: rainbow jello
Science: making rainbows
Music: Irish jigs

Wednesday
Literacy: A veterinarian can
_______.
Math: adding bears ways to make 5
Art: vet bag
Science: observing real X-rays
Music: BINGO with instruments

Thursday
Literacy: Villain (to go with characters in literature)
Math: adding bears making 5
Art: firetruck. (Please send in a milk carton if possible)
Science: what is fire
Music:  hurry hurry drive the firetruck

Friday
Field trip to Crossroads Mall
We will be visiting the vet clinic, pet store, QFC, post office, police station, bank and library.  Have your child dress warmly and pack a lunch that doesn't need heating.

3/4 Class Schedule: St. Patrick's Day & Community Helpers!

Mar 16-20
Monday
What is St. Patrick's Day?
Literature: What is St. Patrick's Day? by Elaine Landau 

Art: Shamrock Necklace
Movement: Airplane Tag

Tuesday:
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Literature: Clever Tom and the Leprechaun: An Old Irish Story by Linda Shute
Art: Rainbow Pudding
Movement: Back-to-Back

Wednesday
Grocers
Literature: Supermarket Managers by Mary Firestone
Art: Shopping Baskets
Movement: Basketball

Thursday 
Mail Carriers
Literature: Bunny Mail by Rosemary Wells 
Art: Writing Letters/ Cards
Movement:  Ship & Shore

Friday
Field Trip to Crossroads

Writing Skill: Letter Zz
Songs/ Finger Play:
What is My Job? (Sung to: Are you sleeping?)
What is my job?
What is my job?
Can you guess?
Can you guess?
[_________________]
Ex. I help people get well.
[_________________]
Ex. I help people get well.
Who am I?
Who am I?
* Other verses: I can fix the water pipes, I deliver letters, I make tasty meals for you. I keep you pets healthy. I can help if you get lost. 

Pre-k and k class. Community week of March 9-13

Pre-k and k class.    Community week of March 9-13

Monday
Literacy: city  I live in the city of _______.
Math: sorting nickels dimes and quarters
Science:  magnets
Art:  building a community with recycled materials
Music:  We are the People in your Neighborhood using instruments

Tuesday
Literacy:  My neighborhood has ___________.
Math:  coin sort
Science: magnets exploration
Art: continue building community with recycles materials
Music: People in Your Neighborhood with instruments

Wednesday
Literacy: ________protect our community.
Math:  making change with pennies and nickels
Science: exploring magnets
Art: police car free art
Music: drawing to music Flight of the Bumblebee

Thursday
Literacy:  writing letters to family or friend and prepare to mail next week
Math: pretend shopping with coins
Science: repel and attract
Art: fire truck from milk cartons
Music: hurry hurry drive the fire truck with instruments

Friday: writing letter to family or friend
Math: pretend shopping
Science: finding object attracted to magnet
Art: mailboxes
Music: drawing to music Adagio in G minor

2/3 Class Schedule:Community Helpers

Theme: Community Helpers
 
Monday: Librarians
Literature: Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling
Art: My book
Math: How Many Books on the Shelf?
 
Tuesday: Veterinarian
Literature: Victor and Vickki Veterinarian
Art: Doctor Bag
Math: Up and down the number line
 
Wednesday: Community Helpers
Literature: All Through My Town by Jean Reidy
Art: Who’s knocking on my door?
Math: Sorting and Classifying Tools
 
Thursday: Post Office
Literature: All Through My Town by Jean Reidy
Art: Letter Letters
Math: Stacking boxes from large to small
 
Friday: Chef
Literature: Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig
Art: Shape Pizzas
Math: How many squares, rectangles or triangles do I see?
 
Chant:
1-2-3-4 Who’s knocking at my door?
It’s a ________ (type of community helper)

3/4 Class Schedule: Community Helpers- Librarians, Veterinarians & Chefs

Mar 9-13
Monday
Jobs in the community

Literature: Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling
Art: Paper Dress up
Movement: Rhythm Sticks

Tuesday:
Jobs in the community
Literature: My First Dictionary Jobs People Do
Art: Construction Tool Belt
Movement: Jump Rope 

Wednesday
Librarians
Literature: Beverly Billingsly Borrows A Book by Alexander Stadler
Art: Popsicle Book Markers
Movement: Tunnel Tag

Thursday 
Veterinarians
Literature: Sally Goes to the Vet by Stephen Huneck
Art: Doctor Bag
Movement:  Runaway Bus!

Friday
Chefs

Literature: The Donut Chef by Bob Staake 
Art: Bakery Brownies
Movement: Tag

Writing Skill: Letter Xx & Yy
Songs/ Finger Play:
What is My Job? (Sung to: Are you sleeping?)
What is my job?
What is my job?
Can you guess?
Can you guess?
[_________________]
Ex. I help people get well.
[_________________]
Ex. I help people get well.
Who am I?
Who am I?
*Other verses: I can fix the water pipes. I deliver letters. I make tasty meals for you. I keep your pets healthy. I can teach you new things. I can help if you get lost.

Dr. Seuss week pre-k and k

Dr. Seuss week prek and k

Literacy: rhyming words for red
Math: counting with quarters
Science: exploring metals
Art: birthday mascot/The Birthday book
Music: Let it Grow

Literacy: rhyming words for dog
Math: changing nickels for quarters
Science: exploring metals with magnets
Art: truffela trees with lorax/The Lorax
Music: Seussical musical

Literacy: rhyming words for seed
Math: changing nickels for dimes
Science: what are magnets
Art: seed box/The Bippolo Seed
Music: Seussical musical

Literacy: rhyming words for hop
Math:  making all kinds of change
Science:  magnets/ attract and repel
Art:free art Dr. Seuss character
Music: Seussical musical

2/3 Class Schedule: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Theme: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Monday:

• Circle Time: Who is Dr. Seuss?
• Literature: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Fish Bowl
• Math: Fish Number Matching

Tuesday:

• Circle Time: Would you let a stranger into your home?
• Literature: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Thing 1 & Thing 2 Hand-prints
• Math: Sorting Hats

Wednesday:

• Circle Time: Why are trees so important?
• Literature: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Making Truffula Trees
• Math: Counting Truffula Trees

Thursday:

• Circle Time: What is something little that you could save?
• Literature: Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Horton Craft
• Math: Counting Truffula Trees

Friday:

• Circle Time: Was there a time when you didn't like something, but tried it anyway?
• Literature: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Making Green Eggs
• Math: Sorting Green Things

All Week:

• Fine Motor: Cutting Practice
• Game/Movement: Clean Up the Thing 1 & Thing 2 Mess! Game
• Cutting and gluing practice

Rhyme:

The more that you read, the more things that you know.

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

-Dr. Seuss