We are getting ready to Celebrate the Harvest Moon - On October 29 the Lucky Ducks will dress
as they wish (costume, fancy, silly, or not at all) for this festive event. We will parade through central office as we celebrate the close of our Harvest unit, just like Possum does in Possum's Harvest Moon. Information about this event will be sent home on Wednesday.
We are continuing our unit Farm/Harvest. Some of the concepts that we will be covering will be:
- food is grown
- farming involves many different kinds of work
- seasonal changes relate to planting and harvesting
- people and animals harvest to have food for the winter
- people celebrate harvest
Some key questions that we will be answering will be:
- How does food grow?
- What are everyday jobs on the farm?
- What does the farmer do at harvest time?
- Why do animals harvest?
- Why do people celebrate the harvest?
This week we are reading:
Apples and Pumpkins - Anne Rockwell
Federick - Leo Lioni
The Little Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Anything
Next week we are reading:
Possum's Harvest Moon - Anne Hunter
Federick - Leo Lioni
Small groups from this week:
-sequencing pictures of a plant growing
-making lanterns (for our harvest celebration)
-farm bingo
-building the little old lady
-animal memory
Small Groups Oct - 26-30
Positional Book
What belongs on a farm
Celebrating the Harvest Moon
Choice Time
Easel: painting pumpkins
Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books
Sensory Table: farm animals in the hay
Writing Table: Open
Dramatic Play: Acting out Farmer Duck
Math - Counting Farm animals
Blocks - Cardboard colored blocks
Big Pumpkin on Cd
Art - Making 5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate
