October 14th

Stories
The Three Little Pigs - Retold by Patricia Seibert
Leaves, Leaves, Leaves  by  Melvin and Gilda Berger
Time to Harvest by Melvin and Gilda Berger

Small Groups
Tuesday - We created a farm scene by matching shapes.  This will be shared with you at conferences.

Wednesday - We played, "Where is the barn?"  Students took turns turning over a card with a farm animal to try and find the picture of the barn that was hiding.  We also used star builders to make our creations and some fun shapes.

Thursday- We will be creating ducks for our farm mural.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Blocks - Making homes for our animal friends with yellow blocks
Table - Playdough
Math - Shape sorting by placing foam shapes into correspondence barns with the same shape
Sensory - Rice
Rug - Cars

Week of October 7th

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our open house, it was great to see so many families.  If you missed our open house and have questions about our class or any time throughout the year, please feel free to ask. 

The stories we will be reading this week include:

Apple Farmer Annie   
"Filled with bright primary colors and pictures of America's favorite fruit, Wellington's enticing story follows Annie, a busy apple farmer. She picks, counts, sorts, bakes tasty treats, and sells her best apples." Penquin Random House


Apples and Pumpkins    "A young girl spends a glorious fall day picking apples and searching for the perfect pumpkin in this refreshed classic." Amazon


The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything  
"But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . clomp, clomp, shake, shake, clap, clap. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life! ... And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life!"  Amazon


Throughout this unit, we will be creating a mural of a farm scene - We will post a picture of this scene at the end of the unit.

Small Groups
We will be painting pigs to add to our farm scene - We will be using paint and shaving cream for this activity.

We will decorate fall pictures with stickers - we are working on placing one sticker in one dot to work on one to one correspondence.

We will be painting a large barn and silo together as a group.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Making pens for farm animals with blocks
Playdough Mats - rolling ball to add to  our apple trees
Math - Identifying the numeral and adding that many apples to our apple trees
Sensory - Rice
Table - Decorating acorns

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.