We are on to week 2 of getting to know you. We are continuing to learn about routines

and expectations.

Books This Week/next week:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin Jr.

DW's Guide to Preschool

Franklin goes to school

Small Groups:
Fingerpainting with brown paint to make a tree (Tuesday)

Ripping colored Paper (Wednesday).

Gluing the colored paper onto leaves (Thursday)

The purpose of these small groups are to work on fine motor skills as a pre-requisite

to writing. By making our fine motor skills stronger we will be more ready for other

tasks such as opening our snack.

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Kitchen

-Sensory Table-Sand and sandcastle shapes

-Art Table- coloring

-Blocks- soft foam blocks

-Library- Books about school

- Star Builders

- Rug - Doll Houses

- Table- Batcave

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little Ducks
ABCs

Happy and You Know it

We had a fantastic first day together.   We read the book Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes.

We sang many songs and played outside on the small playground too.

We will be getting to know each other and exploring our new classroom.
Today and next week we will focus on learning the new routine of the
classroom and learning more about each other.

Please remember to send in a daily snack and drink as well as an
extra set of clothes (to be kept all year) to school with your child.

Books This Week/next week:
Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric LitwinChicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin Jr.
DW's Guide to Preschool
Small Groups:
-feelings about school journal page- this will stay at school for their portfolio
-decorating birthday crowns
-duck craft
-making handprints
-playing with Mr. Potato Head

Centers
-Dramatic Play- Housekeeping
-Sensory Table-poptubes
-Art Table- coloring, water paint
-Blocks- soft foam blocks
-Library- Books about school

Songs, Word Play, and Letters
5 Little Ducks
Wheels on the Bus
Freeze Dancing
5 Speckled Frogs
Itsy Bitsy Spider

Welcome to the Lucky Ducks!

On Thursday, September 5th, Lucky Duck families are invited to come and see the Lucky Duck classroom. You can explore our classroom from 9-9:30.  We look forward to meeting all of our new friends.

Weeks 2 and 3

Things that Grow

Books for the weeks:

Make Way For Ducklings by: Robert McCloskey

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle

Bigger By: Daniel Kirk

The Ugly Vegetables by: Grace Lin

Small Groups for the weeks:

• Butterfly positional books
• What grows vs, what does not grow
• Special projects
• May journal page
• Counting book
• Stone Soup
• Mark the one is different
• Sequencing with plants
• Sequence the life cycle of a butterfly

Choice time for the weeks:

Easel: butterflies

Blue table: Spring coloring

Manipulatives: unifix cubes

Library Area: spring books

Sensory Table: beans and letters

Writing Table: IPADs

Dramatic Play: Making Soup

Rug Toy: Waffle blocks and Dinosaurs

Things that Grow

Reminder:

Our family party is May 9th, 2019 at 10:15

Things That Grow Week 1

During the last few weeks of school, we will begin our final unit for the school year

“Things That Grow”. In this unit, children explore how living things grow, using observations,

experiments and books. In this unit’s stories, children will hear about ducks who find a

special home, a new baby on a farm, a boy who grows from a baby to a school-age

boy and a girl who discovers the joys of growing vegetables. We will continue to work

on letters, letter sounds, and rhyming words and participate in other math, science,

music poetry and art activities.

Theme concepts for this unit:

• Living things grow and have life cycles
• Living things reproduce, and the offspring are the same kind of plant
• or animal as the parents
• Living things need food, water and proper living conditions to survive
• Immature living things need special care
• Living things interact, and among animals, there are predators and prey

Week of May 3

Books:

The Ugly Vegetables by: Grace Lin

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle

Bigger by:Daniel Kirk

Small Groups:

Coloring Book

Seed Sequencing

Alphabet Bingo

Special Projects

Choice Time

Dramatic Play: Tool/workbench

Sensory Table: Closed

Manipulatives: Puzzles

Art Table: Coloring vegetables

Rug Toy: cars

OWL Unit 5 Weeks 1 & 2

OWL Unit 5 Weeks 1 & 2

This week we will begin our next unit, Shadows and Reflections. In this unit, children explore shadows and reflections using observations, experiments, and books to learn about what makes a shadow and a reflection. During story time, children will hear about a girl playing by a still pond, a puppy who thinks he is a kitten, a crocodile collecting reflections in a pail, a sleepy boy who sees a shadow save a cat, and a raccoon who has an adventure with only his reflection as company. Children will continue to learn about letters, letter sounds, and counting concrete objects. 

Theme Concepts for this Unit

• Reflections are images thrown back from a shiny surface
• There must be light, or there can be no reflection
• Mirrors and still water reflect light well; dull surfaces do not
• If water is moving, its reflections are blurry and crooked
• Objects are opaque, translucent or transparent
• Shadows are dark areas made when an object blocks light
• The sizes of shadows vary, depending on how close an object is to the light source

Week of March 18

Books for the week:

Play with Me by: Marie Hall Ets

Raccoon on His Own by Jim Arnosky

Small Groups:

• 2 Day following direction activity
• Looking at ourselves in the mirror and drawing what we see

Choice time

Art Table: bingo markers

Manipulatives: beads

Library Area: Books about shadows and reflections

Sensory Table: Sand

Dramatic Play: Kitchen

Rug Toy: Bristle Blocks

Week of March 25th

Books for the week:

Play with Me by Marie Hall Ets

Raccoon on His Own by Jim Arnosky

Puddle Pail by Elisa Kleven

Small Groups:

• snake pattern
• sorting reflective and not-reflective
• beginning sound and animal memory

Choice time

Art Table: Reflective collage

Manipulatives: animal puzzles

Library Area: Books about shadows and reflections

Sensory Table: Looking for ducks hiding in reflective confetti

Writing Table: Ipads

Dramatic Play: Pet Vet

Block Area

Songs, Word Play and Letters

Clap Your Hands

Open, Shut Them

Itsy Bitsy Spider

BINGO

If You’re Happy and You Know It

What Are You Wearing?

Unit 2 - World of Color

Welcome back!  We hope had a wonderful vacation week.

We are continuing our unit on colors. 

This week we are reading:
Mouse Paint
The Lion and the Red Bird
Dogs Colorful Day

Activities
Dog's Colorful day - Students recalled how Dog obtained a variety of colors on his white coat such  as a red drip of jam

Making a book of colors = Students will color a picture to match the color word printed on the page.

Sequencing Dog's Colorful Day - Students will sequence the events of Dog's Colorful day.

Next Week"
Stuffed Animal Day on March 6th

Stories:
A Color of his Own
Mouse Paint
The World is a Rainbow

Activities:
Sorting Ice Cream Cones - Students will make different types of ice cream combinations
A roll and color game
Sorting by color or grading colors from lightest to darkest.

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - Airport
Writing Center - Stamping Color words
Math Sorting buttons
Science - Color mixing by sending painted cars down a ramp
Sand Table
Magna Tiles
Sticker Sorting