September 28-October 1

Theme Concepts:
*Family members have role names: mother, father, sister, and so on.
*Some family members live together; some live in other places but are still family members.
*Grown-ups in a family take care of the children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
*Children sometimes get angry at parents and may feel that their parents don't love them as much as their siblings.
*Sometimes grown-ups in a family don't like things that children do and tell them to stop or be quiet.
*Families do things together that are fun.

Books This Week:

Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
Oonga Boonga by Frieda Wishinsky
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Small Groups:
-Name Matching - Students will look for their names among a group of others. They will then match letter tiles to the letters on their name cards.
-Color games - Students will match and label colors as they play color games. They will think of colored objects and find the corressponding colors.
-Ordinal sequencing - Students will talk about numbers and positions as they play a game. Students will play with clowns who wait in line at the circus tent and discuss the positions 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.
Art Projects
- students will create colorful prints using sponges, brushes and other mediums

Choice Time
-Dramatic Play- Taking Care of Babies and "painting" furniture
-Sensory Table- Water movement and bubbles

-Writing- Writing my name

-Dolls and blocks on the rug
-Mixing paint on the easel
-Math-Sorting and matching buttons
-Library- Books about families
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Five Green and Speckled Frogs
-Head Shoulders knees and toes
-If you're happy and you know it

-Old McDonald
-BINGO
-Down by the Bay

-Hands poem
-If your name starts with ____ raise your hand

-Open Shut Them