Safari Scout Newsletter - September 7th-10th

This is the first of many weekly newsletters for the school year. Within each newsletter you will find an outline of the planned activities for the current week. In addition to the outline, you could find reminders, announcements or class room requests. Such requested items may include tissues, hand soap, cooking ingredients or recycled materials for art projects


Theme – The theme for the next two weeks is “On a Safari!” We will help establish some class identity as we explore books and complete activities centered on our class name.
Story – The Kissing Hand, By Andrea Penn
Animal Boogie, By Debbie Harter
Greeting: As children arrive in the morning three to four activities will be available from which they can choose. This week the choices include:
- safari animals and vehicles on the rug
- play dough on the blue table
- Safari puzzles on the yellow table
- theme related books
Small Groups - During small groups the children will work on developing concepts, language building skills and cooperative play with their peers. Three activities will be planned for each week and the children will participate in a different activity each day.
Math Group – Students will match and count different safari animal counters
Language Group – Students will talk about their favorite safari animal and color a
picture for the class scene
Fine motor group – Students will glue and stick colored tissue paper to create a lion or a
tiger for the class scene.
Art Projects – 1) Students will use rollers to paint green grass and trees for the class scene
2) Students will use sponges to paint clouds and a blue sky for the class scene
3) Students will finger paint to create brown sand for the class scene
Choice: During choice time children can choose from a large variety of activities around the room. The room is broken into carefully labeled play areas. Before students play, they sit and discuss where they want to play and what they will do in that play area. This planning time allows them to engage in more meaningful and purposeful play. Some activities within each play area may change depending upon the theme. This week we have the following activities:
- Kitchen area - Play dough
- Sensory table with grass and safari animals - Books
- Safari animal painting on the easel - Safari animals on the rug
- Safari animal puzzles
Music:
1) The Freeze dance song 4) Walk like a rhino
2) Hop and stop 5) Leo the lion
3) The hat song 6) Willaby Wallaby Woo