Farm Unit

Reminder: - October 3rd, 2019 at 6:30 Back to School Night for parents/guardians

Farm and Harvest Unit Weeks 1 & 2

We will now begin our first curriculum 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 related to planting and harvesting
• 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 people celebrate the harvest?

Week of September 29

Books for the Week:

Eddie’s Garden by Sarah Garland

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Small Groups:

Memory with Farm pictures

Bingo with sounds from the Farm

Coloring Pages-Handwriting without Tears

Choice Time:

Art Table: Making a farm mural

Blocks - Making farms with blocks and animals

Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books

Sensory Table: beans

Dramatic Play: Lemonade Stand

Rug Toy: Apple Picking Game - Roll the dice pick that many apples

Songs, Word Play and Letters:

BANANAS

What Are You Wearing?

ABC Rock

10 Red Apples

Big Pumpkin

Open, Shut Them

9-23-2019

We are off and running!  

This week will continue to reinforce classroom routines and expectations (pretty much all year this happens).  We are welcoming in fall into the Lucky Duck classroom with some wonderful activities such as apple picking.  Many activities/work that your child has completed has not made it home yet, as I am holding on to them for our upcoming Open House in early October.   More information will follow soon.

Small Groups:

Color Matching

Sorting Big/Small ducks

Decorating the first letter of our name.

Stories

Under the Apple Tree - Steve Metzger

Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes - Eric Litwin

David Goes to School - David Shannon

Choice Time

Lemonade Stand

Apple Picking 

Playdough - making apples for our numbered apple trees

Sorting Shapes

Sand Table

Decorating leaves 

Library 

Cars on the rug.

Life Skills- This is the first section of life skills we are working on.  

Instruction Following

1. When I call your name, stop what you are doing, look at me, and say "yes."
2. When I give you an instruction, do it right away.
3. When I give you instructions, do them right away.

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