2/3 Class Schedule: Dr. Seuss

Monday:

• Literature: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
• Art/Fine Motor: Tissue Paper Fish
• Math: Fish Counting

Tuesday:

• Literature: Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog
• Art: Pinch and Stick PomPom Hat
• Math/Fine Motor: Cat in the hat dot

Wednesday:

• Literature: The Cat in the Hat
• Art: Thing One hand print
• Fine Motor: Letter Dot-Dot

Thursday:

• Literature: Hop on Pop
• Art:  Color Socks
• Math/Fine Motor: Counting Fish

Friday:

• Literature: Green Eggs and Ham
• Art: Green Eggs Puffy Paint
• Fine Motor: Letter Dot-Dot

This Week:

• Letter: W

3/4 Class Schedule: Dr. Seuss

Feb 22-26
Monday
Our Bodies

Literature: The Foot Book
Art: Rainbow Cookies
Movement: Tag

Tuesday:
Counting
Literature: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue
STEM: Rainbow play dough
Movement: Jump Rope 

Wednesday
Rhyme
Literature: Hop on Pop
Art: Free Musical Art
Movement: Back -to-Back 

Thursday 
Imagination
Literature: Oh, the Things you can Think! 
Art: Your own Dr. Seuss character
Movement: Jump Rope

Friday
The planet

Literature: The Lorax
Art: Planting a seed
Movement: Tag

Writing Skill: Letter Ww
Songs/ Finger Play:
Green Eggs & Ham (Movement Song)
Green Eggs & Ham, Green Eggs & Ham
I like mine fried nice and brown (Stand up and down)
Green Eggs & Ham, Green Eggs & Ham
Flip em, flop em, don't drop em! (Raising hands up and down)

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

3/4 Class Schedule: Dr. Seuss

Mar 2-6
Monday
Learning: 'You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!'

Literature: Oh, the Places You'll go Art: Rainbow Cookies
Movement: Sharks & minnows

Tuesday:
Rhyme: 'All Tall, we all are tall!'
Literature: Hop on Pop
Art: Pup in Cup
Movement: Jump Rope 

Wednesday
Characters: 'Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.'
Literature: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue
Art: Aquariums 
Movement: Simon Says

Thursday 
Caring for Earth: 'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.'
Literature: The Lorax
Art: Lorax Mustache 
Movement:  Back -to-Back 

Friday
Imagination: ‘Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Literature: Oh, the Things you can Think! 
Art: Free Musical Art
Movement: Tag

Writing Skill: Letter Ww
Songs/ Finger Play:
Green Eggs & Ham (Movement Song)
Green Eggs & Ham, Green Eggs & Ham
I like mine fried nice and brown (Stand up and down)
Green Eggs & Ham, Green Eggs & Ham
Flip em, flop em, don't drop em! (Raising hands up and down)

5 Little Cats
One little cat on a sunny day
Put on his hat and went out to play.
Two little cats when it started getting dark
Put on their hats and went to the park.
Three little cats when the sky was blue
Put on  their hats and went to the zoo.
Four little cats by the kitchen door
Put on  their hats and went to the store.
Five little cats on a sunny day
Put on  their hats and they all ran away.

Enrichment Classes Schedule: Sports & Games and Literacy (3/25, 3/26)

Tuesday, Sports & Games: Bowling

• Teams
• Mascots
• Art: Your own team mascots
• Skill Building Exercises: Warm-up Exercises & Scrimmage

Wednesday, Literacy:  If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss

• Balloon Animals
• Straw Cages
• Animal Clay
• 3D Zoo
• Your Favorite Zoo Animal

Enrichment Classes Schedule: Sports & Games and Literacy (3/18, 3/19)

Tuesday, Sports & Games: Bowling

• Field Trip to TechCity Bowl - 1:30pm

Wednesday, Literacy: Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book

• Sleep Bingo
• Bedtime snacks
• Discover words
• What makes you sleepy?
• Bedtime routine

Enrichment Classes Schedule: Sports & Games and Literacy (3/11, 3/12)

Tuesday, Sports & Games: Bowling

• Gear/Equipment
• Positions
• Art: Finger Paint Bowling Balls
• Skill Building Exercises: Holding & rolling the ball

Wednesday, Literacy: Daisy-Head Mayzie by Dr. Seuss

• Daisy Hat
• Growing Daisy Popsicle Craft
• Daisy Petals
• Our Daisy Garden
• Daisy-head Mayzie Short Movie Clip

3/4 Class Schedule: Dr. Seuss & Story Telling

March 3-7

Letter of the Week:  Yy

Monday:

Circle Time: ‘Today you are You, that is truer than true.’ Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! (March 2)

Literature:  The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew up to Become Dr. Seuss By Kathleen Krull & Happy Birthday to You! By Dr. Seuss

Art:  Paper Cupcake
Math: Candles on a cake
Letter work:  Yeti footprint

Sensory: Shaving Cream, Play-Doh

Movement/Game: Musical Birthday Candle

Tuesday:
Circle Time: ‘Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.’ Story Elements

Literature:  Green Eggs and Ham By Dr. Seuss

Art: Egg Carton Ladybug
Math: Sorting Eggs
Letter work: Yarn Y

Sensory: Pin the Eggs on the Plate 

Movement/Game: Balancing Eggs/ Pass the Egg

Wednesday: 
Circle Time: “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.’ Reading/Sight Words

Literature: I Can Read with My Eyes Shut  by Dr. Seuss

Art:  Decorate Reading Glasses
Math: Sorting & count Yellow objects

Letter work: Y for Yellow

Sensory: Sight Words

Movement/Game: One Word Stories, Bean Bag Toss as a Sight Word Game

Thursday:
Circle Time: ‘Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.’ Rhyme Time

Literature: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Art: Handprint Fish

Math: Patterns

Letter work:  Yoyo Trace

Sensory: Old Fish, New Fish Opposites

Movement/Game: Shark & Minnows

Friday:
Circle Time: ‘Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!’ Imagination
Literature:  Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! By Dr. Seuss
Art:  Creating Our Own Words

Math: Count the Birds

Letter work: a picture of You

Sensory: Sight Words

Movement/Game: One Word Stories, Bean Bag Toss as a Sight Word Game

Music for the Week: 

Green Eggs & Ham

Green eggs and ham. Green eggs and ham.

I like mine fried nice and brown.
(Movement: everyone who likes their eggs fried nice and brown, stand up and then sit down
I like mine turned upside down.
(Movement: everyone who likes their eggs turned upside down, stand and lean to the right and quickly sit back down.)
Green eggs and ham. Green eggs and ham.

Flip em, flop em, don't drop them.
(Movement: one group of children stands and then quickly sits when we sing "flip 'em" and the other group does the same for "flop 'em".)

5 Little Cats

One little cat on a sunny day
Put on his hat and went out to play
Two little cats when it started getting dark
Put on their hats and went to the park.
Three little cats when the sky was blue
Put on their hats and went to the zoo.
Four little cats by the kitchen door
Put on their hats and went to the store.
Five little cats on a sunny day
Put on their hats and they all ran away 

Pre-K/K Class Schedule: Dr. Seuss

Week of March 3-7
Theme: Dr. Seuss

Monday:
The Cat in the Hat
Centers: Literacy (Rhymes -at family) Math (count the stripes) Science (explore spatial sense)
Art: Cat & the Hat
Game: Candyland, Monopoly Jr., The Cat in the Hat

Tuesday:
Pets

Literacy: I wish for a pet...

Math: Pet graph

Art: Open-art pet animal

Game: Snap Circuits, Pengoloo

Wednesday:
Hortan Hatches an Egg
Centers: Literacy (-eg family) Math (time) Science (incubation period)
Art: Egg craft
Game: Dr. Seuss Puzzle, The Cat in the Hat

Thursday:
Green Eggs & Ham
Centers: Literacy (I will not eat...) Math (egg counting) Science (egg cycle)
Art: Green eggs & ham play-doh
Game: Candyland, Snap Circuit, Monopoly Jr.

Friday:
The Lorax

Literacy: I would protect and take care of...

Math: Number recognition truffula tree

Art: Truffula feather painting 

Game: Candyland, Monopoly, Dr. Seuss puzzle

2/3 Class Schedule (3/3-3/7): 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: Red Fish, Blue Fish Hand-prints
• Math: Counting Goldfish

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/Cat in the Hat Craft
• Math: Sorting Hats

Wednesday:

• Circle Time: Why are trees so important?
• Literature: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Art: Making Truffula Trees/Lorax Mustache
• 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/Green Collage
• Math: Sorting Green Things

This Week:

• Letter: Xx
• Fine Motor: Cutting Practice
• Game/Movement: Clean Up the Thing 1 & Thing 2 Mess! Game

Music:

•   "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" Song

We love you, Diffendoofer School, we definitely do.
There surely is no other school,That's anything like you.
You're gribbulous, you're grobbulous, each day we love you more.
You are the school we treasure, and unceasingly adore.
Oh, finest school in Dinkerville. The only one as well,
We love you, Diffendoofer School, much more than we can tell.
You are so diffendooferous, It gives us joy to say,
Three cheers for Diffendoofer School, Hip, Hip HOORAY!  
 
 

PM Preschool Schedule: Fire Safety & Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Theme: Fire Safety & Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Literature:
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Fireman Small by Wong Herbert Yee

Letter:
X is for X-ray
X is for Xylophone

Art:
Fire Flames Painting
Fire Badges
Truffula Tree Treats
Dr. Seuss Top Hats

Math:
How many truffula trees?
Gold Fish Estimation
Red Fish Blue Fish Patterns

Fine Motor:
Green Eggs & Ham Activity
Fire Safety Prewriting Activities

Music:

Wheels on the Fire Truck

The hose on the fire truck goes...
The siren on the fire truck goes...
The ladder on the fire truck goes...
The wheels on the fire truck goes...

3/4 Schedule: Fire Fighters and Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Theme: Fire Fighters and Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Literature:
Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms by Christine Kole MacLean
The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Alphabet:
X is for X-ray
X Marks the Spot Treasure Maps
Letter X mini book

Fine Motor:
“Don’t Cut the Fire Flame” (cutting practice)
Big Lines (handwriting practice)

Art:
Fire Extinguisher Puff Paint
Thing One, Thing Two Handprint
Truffla Trees
Dr. Seuss Hats
One Fish, Two Fish Bowl

Math:
Counting Fish in Fish Bowls

Movement:

Stop, Drop and Roll

Dramatic Play:
Fire Fighter Costumes

Music:

I'm a Firefighter

Sung to: "I'm a little teapot"

I'm a firefighter dressed in red,
With my fire hat on my head.
I can drive the fire truck, fight fires, too,
And help to make things safe for you.

2/3 Class Schedule: Fire Safety & Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Theme: Fire Safety & Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Literature: 

The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms by Christine Kole MacLean

Stop, Drop, and Roll by Margery Cuyler

Arthur’s Fire Drill by Marc Brown

Alphabet:

My Itsy Bitsy X Book

X is for X-ray

X is for Xylophone

Bingo Markers

Fine Motor:

Cutting Fire Flames

Putting out Fire (nozzle spray)

Art:

Truffula Trees

Thing 1 and Thing 2 Hand Print Art

Green Eggs and Ham

Fire Extinguisher Puff Paint

Fire Trucks

Sensory:

Felt Ladders

Movement:

Stop, Drop, and Roll

Music:

I Am a Fireman

Sung to: "I'm A Little Teapot"

I am a fireman dressed in red.

With my fire hat on my head.

I can drive the fire truck, fight fire too,

And help make things safe for you.

Did You Ever See A Fireman
Sung to: "Did you ever see a Lassie"

Did you ever see a firefighter, a firefighter, a firefighter,
Did you ever see a firefighter slide down a pole?
Slide this way and that way and that way and this way?
Did you ever see a firefighter slide down a pole?