Family Traditions - November
Family Project:
Please complete the sheet about traditions and return it to school along with 3-5 pictures of your family. Thank you.
This month we will begin our next unit, Family Traditions.
Theme concepts for this unit are:
-A family is a group of children and adults who care for each other.
-A family tradition is a special way of doing things
-Family traditions may be connected to ethnicity
-Traditions are observed with different frequencies
-Traditions can take many forms: food, activities, and clothing
-Traditions have common themes
Some questions we will answer in this unit are:
-What is a family?
-What is a family tradition?
-Why doesn’t everybody have the same tradition?
-Why are some traditions seasonal and some are not?
-What are your family traditions?
Nov. 6th- 10th (No School Thursday, November 9th or Friday, November 10th)
Books for the Week:
Full, Full, Full of Love by: Trish Cooke
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
Small Groups:
Journal Page - With my family I like to:
Sorting pictures of full/versus empty
November 13th- 17th
Books for the Week:
Bunny Cakes by: Rosemary Wells
A Carp for Kimiko by: Virginia Kroll
Small Groups:
Bunny Cakes shape matching
Making Patterns
Bunny Cake positional book
November 20th- 22nd: (No School November 23 + 24)
Books for the week
I know an old lady who swallowed a pie
Small Groups:
Thanksgiving Game
Matching numerals on turkeys
Choice Time:
Easel: Painting pictures of birthday cakes, turkeys
Writing: chalkboards, making a grocery list
Library: Thanksgiving and November Books
Sensory Table: water - filling and emptying cups
Dramatic Play Area: setting up a grocery store
Rug Toy: Click Roads
Blocks - Tinkertoys
