Unit 2 -Friends

In Unit 2, children will be talking about friendship, how to be a good friend, and ways to resolve conflicts with friends. Through the story time books, children hear about the importance of being who you are, helping friends, enjoying special times together, and getting along. In addition to listening to stories, children will learn to idenify rhyming works and beginning letters and sounds in words, as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also participate in a variety of music, poetry, math, science, and art activities.
Theme Concepts:
-A friend is someone we like and want to spend time with. Friends like to do things together. They enjoy each other's company.
-We can have more than one good friend, and we might like to do some things with one friend and other things with other friends.
-Friends usually share with and help one another.
-Friends may have arguments and get mad at one another. Usually, friends work out their problems and continue to be friends.
-We can make new friends and also keep old friends.

Books This Week:
The Little Red Hen, Retold By Philemon Sturges

A Letter to Amy, By Ezra Jack Keats

Small Groups:
-Math- Students will develop counting skills while playing a dinosaur game.
-Science - Students will follow directions and make a real homemade pizza. They will engage in this multi-sensory activity while seeing, hearing, smelling feeling and tasting the pizza.
-Writing -Students will make a page for the Friendship class book. They will draw a picture of something they like to play with their friends.

Choice Time:
-Sensory Table- washing dishes with soapy water
-Writing- making stationary and sending letters to friends

- Math and manipulatives - stringing large beads
-Library- Books about friendship
-Easel - Painting pictures of pizza and decorating with "pizza toppings"

-Dramatic Play - Pizza party with friends!

-Rug - Role playing with poeple and doll houses

**Art table - We will begin learning about a new letter each week! This week we will learn about the letter "A". Students will make apple prints on the letter "A" and save the picture to create an alphabet book.** Please look around your house with your child to find something that starts with the letter "A." Send it in this week for show and tell!

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Juicy Apples

Eentsy weentsy spider

If your name starts with...

Down by the Bay

Ten Little Fingers

Come on and Join into the game

Alphabet Action Song

No School November 2nd

Due to a staff development day for teachers, students will not have school on Tuesday November 2nd! Please bring the Book Packs back on Wednesday! Thank you!

Pumpkins!!

This week we will learn about the Fall season as we explore pumpkins and leaves! Students will enjoy reading new books, taking a nature walk and completing various Fall projects!



Books This Week:
It's Pumpkin Time
Big Pumpkin
There Was an Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Small Groups:
-Fine motor - Students will decorate and lace a pumpkin
-Science - Students will enjoy a nature walk. We will collect leaves, acorns and sticks and use them to complete a Fall collage.
-Language and visual motor-Students will talk about the parts of a scarecrow and assemble the parts independently.
Math - Students will construct a 5 Little Pumpkins song board to use during music time.
Choice Time:
-Dramatic Play- Students will play dress up with various costumes and pretend to go trick or treating.
-Sensory Table- Pretend grass, creepy crawly bugs and magnifying glasses
-Writing- Students will draw pictures of their favorite dress up costumes
- Math and manipulatives - Jack-o-Lantern file folder game
-Library- Books about Fall and pumpkins
- Art table- Jack-o-Lantern pictures, spider webs and ghosts, and pumpkin patches
-Easel - water colors and Fall pictures
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
Way Down Yonder in the Pumpkin Patch
The Pumpkins are Here
5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate
3 Little Apples
APPLE

Parlee Farm!

October 18-22

OWL Unit 1- Week 5

Books This Week:
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Small Groups:
-Fine motor - Students will practice forming the first letter of their names using playdough and stencils. Students will also practice writing the first letters of their names using letter patterns.

-Science - Students will explore sound and make connections to our stories as they strum a guitar and rubber bands fastened over shoe boxes.
-Language -Students will develop rhyming skills as they recall rhymes from the song Down By the Bay and create a rhyme board
Choice Time:
-Dramatic Play- Students will pretend to take care of babies by reading them books, giving them baths and feeding them.
-Sensory Table- Water, water wheels and funnels
-Writing- Students will draw pictures of their favorite stuffed animals and make connections to the story Corduroy.

- Math and manipulatives - Alphabet puzzles
-Library- Books about families
- Art table- Students can write with chalk and use Q-tips to blend the colors and make new colors.

-Rug - Students can work together to build lego towers

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little Ducks

Old McDonald
3 Green and Freckled Frogs

Down By the Bay

The Wheels on the Bus
Stand Up Poem
Diddle Diddle Dumpling Poem
5 Juicy Red Apples poem

October 12-15

OWL Unit 1- Week 4
Books This Week:

Corduroy by Don Freeman
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Small Groups:
-Fine motor - Students will use different colored beads to create necklaces.

-Science - Students will learn about the properties of objects and make connections to our stories as they play with marbles and explore the sounds.
-Math -Students will develop one to one corresspondence skills as they play an animal counting game.

Choice Time:
-Dramatic Play- Students will pretend to take care of animals while pretending to run a veterinary hospital.
-Sensory Table- pasta and stringing pasta
-Writing- Students will use letter stampers to create their names
- Math and manipulatives - Paper dolls and fabric clothing

Library- Books about families and baby dolls. Students can pretend to read to the babies before going to bed.

-Easel - Students can use red and yellow paint to paint apples and they can mix the two colors to paint orange pumpkins.
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Old McDonals

-The Wheels on the Bus
-Stand Up Poem
-Diddle Diddle Dumpling Poem

-BINGO
-Down by the Bay
-10 Little Fingers poem
-If your name starts with ____ raise your hand
-Clap Your Hands

October 4-8

OWL Unit 1- Week 3

Books This Week:
Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Small Groups:
-Fine motor - Students will use scissors to cut out pieces of card stock and create a paper fan. They will use two colors of paper and talk about creating a color pattern for their fan.
-Science - Students will explore sounds by placing objects in different containers and comparing the sounds. They will make connections to the story Noisy Nora.

Pre-Literacy - Students will play alphabet bingo. They will learn about the initial sounds of many familiar animals and objects during this game.

Science - Students will make instruments using plastic water bottles, beans and beads. They will make connections to the story Noisy Nora.

Choice Time
-Dramatic Play- Students will make "cookies" using playdough and cookie cutters.

-Sensory Table- Water movement and bubbles
-Writing- Writing my name
-Marble maze on the rug
- Letter tiles and name cards
-Library- Books about families and baby dolls. Students can pretend to read to the babies before going to bed.
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
-Five Little Ducks
-The Wheels on the Bus
-Stand Up Poem
-Old McDonald
-BINGO
-Down by the Bay
-10 Little Fingers poem

-If your name starts with ____ raise your hand
-Clap Your Hands