March - Fairy Tales

Preschool Families

Welcome back from break.  I hope everyone had a restful week and that everyone comes back healthy.  Our theme for March and April will be fairy tales – The first short week back we will get the children back into a routine.  Talking about classroom rules and expectations.  To get us started we will read Jack and the Beanstalk and The Little Red Hen stories.  The next two weeks we will read Three Billy Goats Gruff followed up by two weeks of Three Little Pigs, one week of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the last week of April we will wrap up letter city with a Letter Celebration.

What will be going on in the classroom for March??

Three Billy Goats and Three Little Pigs

Books and greeting song to be posted – look for a pictures

Group time:

Different fairy tale stories – some may have a twist to the story – asking and answering questions.

What are the parts of a story?

Letter City – Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X

Math Chart # 2, 8, 9

You tube – short video on the stories we are reading

Mindfulness practice – belly breathing and finding our calm breathing

Retell fairy tales

Block area:

Goats and tolls

Building bridges

Block arches

Castles blocks

Goats, Trolls and bridge pictures taped on blocks to retell story

Different building materials for building Three Pig houses (small red legos for bricks, Popsicle sticks for sticks, and yellow shredded paper for hay)

Pigs and wolves

Dramatic play area:

Houses area

Three pig houses to retell the story

Pig and wolf masks

Gross Motor Movement:

Green troll feet to walk with

Hopscotch

Sensory Tables:

Toilet paper tube trolls – cut the hair

Hay

Build bridges using foam blocks in water table

Different animals in water table

Lavendar cloud dough

Playdough with letter stampers

Playdough building different houses

Literacy and Math areas:

Here are a few of the things we will be doing…

Math and writing journal

Hand writing without tears books or wooden letters

Math count clip it cards

Troll game – roll dice and place rocks on bridge

Beanstalk number match

Syllable clip it cards

ABC letter goat game

Sequence a story

Puzzles

Other Areas:

“Alone space”  I spy letter bottles, object bottles and bags

Listening center – different stories

Cozy space – stuffed animals to go along with stories

Puppet theater – fairy tale puppets to retell story

Science table – Light table, Fairy garden, Telescope and slides

Special snack – create 3 pig houses – look for a donation sign up soon

AND MUCH MORE!!!!!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Friday March 6 – 10:30 – Ms Pam from Burnham Library

Wed March 18 – 2:00 – Ms Pam from Burnham Library

Friday March 20 – NO SCHOOL

Thursday March 12 (afternoon) and Friday March 13 – I will be out for appointment.