Books this week

This is our last week of winter animals....bears hibernation etc. We will also talk about bullying and being kind to others

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Books this week

Books this week

This week we start learning about hibernation, migration, and active winter animals.

Science table

Our science table has different ways to explore animal tracks. Some children were exploring this table yesterday they really like the big animal tracks and magnifying glasses.

Math Chart

Here is our math chart. We will work on a new number each week

Today’s work

Today we are reading The Snowy Day. The children will create their own snowy day scene by painting with glue and shaving cream to make puffy white snow. Then take a doll house person to make tracks in the snow like Peter does in the story. And finally glue on their person.

For a story connection the children will think about what Peter does in the snow and what they do in the snow.

Make snow

Books for next week

Greeting song

Bear songs

New yoga poses winter theme

Jan Theme - Winter theme

Hello Preschool Families                                             January 2020

I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and had time to spend with family and friends, and here we are starting a new month and year! 

January we will be talking about Winter Animals, Animal Tracking, but mostly Hibernation.  We will also talk about sharing, being kind, and bullying.  Our first week back is a short two days so just getting them back into the routine and expectations. 

**Hopefully I can get a few photos posted**

Here is a list of things we will be doing this month:

New Vocab – Tracking, Hibernation, Active, Migration, Autumn, Sharing and Bully.

Science Table – We will have different animal tracks to investigate. 

Circle Time –

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Jan 9 we start our letter city (A&B) – please bring in a small item that begins with the letter A&B – have your child help look for this item.  Every Thursday we will have new letters to focus on.

Please make sure the items are labeled or in a baggie that is labeled. 

Along with this we may play a cookie monster letter cookie game after letter city.

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We also start our Math Chart - # 3, 5, 1, 7 .  A great way to see how numbers look.  We see the number word – THREE, 3, tally marks, counted objects, and what numbers come before and after the number.  I model it the first few times then give a chance for the children to help with the chart.

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  I have several books that we will be reading this month around animals, tracking, migration, active animals, and hibernation. 

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   We will watch a few short you tube videos that help explain

·        We will listen to a few EPIC BOOKS – that are read to the children but they see the book on the big screen.

·        We will go on a bear hunt at circle – I wonder if we will find a bear??

·        At our second circle we will talk about sharing, being kind to friends, and bullying.

Table work with Me:

·        Practice our hand writing books

·        Writing in our journals

·        Counting Dominos – placing the domino in the correct parking space

·        Working on patterns

·        Self portraits

·        Measuring teddy bears with unifix cubes

·        Feeding bears the correct number of fish

·        ABC – literacy games

·        Start math journals

Independent Work Jobs:

·        Lacing, big button pictures, Surveys, Which number is missing game, Syllable clip-it cards, stringing cheerios for the birds, opposite cards, pattern with penguins, number clip-it cards, sorting objects, and literacy work.

Motor Movement:

·        Animal tracks on the floor

·        Snowball bowling with blue cups

Dress up area:

·        House area for one more week

·        We will read The Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and turn the dress up area into a bear cave with the animals to act out the story with animals or puppets.

Block area:

·        Build animal homes

·        Penguins added

·         I can build it cards – these cards show a picture of a block structure and ask the children to copy the same structure.

·        Marble works

·        Vehicles

·        Road signs

·        Multicultural people and homes

Sensory tables:

DRY TABLE -Rice an animals for a couple of weeks then potato flakes and animals

WATER TABLE – Real snow(??) or Insta snow and animals, potato head pieces or water color paints

Art area:

·        Bear photos at the easel to paint bears

·        Snowy day project

·        Owl puppets

·        Migrating bird art

·        Animal outline – animals in winter

·        Bear hunt project

·        Bear blob faces

·        Free hand paint a bear

·        FREE ART AREA OPEN – the children are love to create their own master pieces!!!

What else is going on –

·        I will also introduce our listening center with books on CD to listen to for two friends to use at a time.

·        Playdough make animal tracks in dough – make bears and caves

·        Animal track rubbings with paper and crayons

·        AND MUCH MORE!!!

Dates to remember:

Jan 9 – Letter City A & B

Jan 9 – 10:30 Pam from Burnham Library

Jan 15 – 2:00 Pam from Burnham Library

Jan 16 – Letter City C & D

Jan 23 – Letter City E & F

Jan 30 – Letter City G & H

Feb 5 – NO SCHOOL