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
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We will listen to a few EPIC BOOKS – that are read
to the children but they see the book on the big screen.
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We will go on a bear hunt at circle – I wonder if
we will find a bear??
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At our second circle we will talk about sharing,
being kind to friends, and bullying.
Table work with Me:
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Practice our hand writing books
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Writing in our journals
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Counting Dominos – placing the domino in the
correct parking space
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Working on patterns
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Self portraits
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Measuring teddy bears with unifix cubes
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Feeding bears the correct number of fish
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ABC – literacy games
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Start math journals
Independent Work Jobs:
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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:
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Animal tracks on the floor
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Snowball bowling with blue cups
Dress up area:
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House area for one more week
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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:
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Build animal homes
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Penguins added
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I can build
it cards – these cards show a picture of a block structure and ask the children
to copy the same structure.
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Marble works
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Vehicles
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Road signs
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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:
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Bear photos at the easel to paint bears
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Snowy day project
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Owl puppets
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Migrating bird art
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Animal outline – animals in winter
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Bear hunt project
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Bear blob faces
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Free hand paint a bear
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FREE ART AREA OPEN – the children are love to
create their own master pieces!!!
What else is going on –
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I will also introduce our listening center with
books on CD to listen to for two friends to use at a time.
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Playdough make animal tracks in dough – make bears
and caves
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Animal track rubbings with paper and crayons
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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
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