Pumpkin Carving

Tomorrow is our Harvest Soiree!

Check out our pumpkin pictures on our picture blog!

Farm & Harvest

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

Happy Harvest!

Back to School Night!

October 14th at 6:30

At 6:30 I will be reviewing our schedule through a slideshow presentation. After the presentation you will have an opportunity to explore the classroom and ask any classroom based questions. This is not a time for individual conferences but I will have a sign up for conferences on this night as well. Back to School Night is for parents/guardians only and not for students. Thank you.

This week we started 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 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?

Last week read:

Eddie’s Garden by Sarah Garland

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Next week we are reading:
Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

Small groups from this week:

-planting grass seeds

-Making textured animals- Children will choose an animal to decorate with materials that mimic the texture of that animal.

Small Groups Oct - 13-16

Sequencing Farmer Duck

What does Eddie's Garden need?

Sequencing pumpkins by size

Making Farm patterns

Choice Time

Easel: painting pumpkins

Library Area: Harvest/ Halloween Books

Sensory Table: finding pumpkins in the beans

Writing Table: Making a shopping list for the Farmer's Market

Dramatic Play: Farmer's Market

Ipad

Blocks - Making fences with farm animals

Pictures

We updated our picture blog with about 40+ pictures.  Enjoy!

This past week we earned our first class reward.  The Lucky Ducks selected extra playground time as their first reward.

This week we will be:

• Singing "Higgly Biggly Bumble Bee" while we tap the syllables in our names on a tambourine
• We are continuing our classroom reward program and our second preschool life skill.  When I give you a direction, do it right away.
• We are reading Under the Apple Tree, Fall Changes and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Small Groups will include:

Fine Motor - Cutting straws

Fine Motor - Sponge Painting the letter A

Literacy - Sorting & Matching Letters

Math - Counting blocks to match numerals

Art - Decorating a Maple Leaf

Choice Time:

Easel - Painting Ducks

Fine Motor - Making Straw Necklaces

Save the Date!

Back to School Night is on October 14th at 6:30.  Back to school night is an opportunity for you to learn about your child's day and our curriculum.  This event is for parents only.   

This week we will be:

• Singing "Higgly Biggly Bumble Bee" while we tap the syllables in our names on a tambourine
• Reading The Kissing Hand, All About Me and An Apple a Day
• Created an all about me book over two days.
• We are continuing our classroom reward program and our second preschool life skill.  When I give you a direction, do it right away.

Small Groups will include:

Name Puzzles - putting our names together with puzzle pieces

All About me - Creating an All about me book with some of our favorite things

Germs, Germs, Germs!   We will be discussing the important of washing our hands to wash away the germs. I will be placing my hand on a plate of glitter then give all of my friends a high five.  We will watch how the glitter moves from one friend to another just like the germs.  Then we will wash away all the germs (and glitter).  

Choice Time:

Sand Table:  Finding letters in our name hiding in the beans

Art:  Making a Raccoon Mask

Art:  Decorating the first letter in our name

Blocks:  Cardboard Blocks

Writing Center: Stamping

Table:  Alphabet Puzzles

Easel: Painting Ducks

It has been great getting to know each of the Lucky Ducks.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions at roofe@bpsk12.org

Week 2!

We had a wonderful first week of school together.

This week we will be:

• Singing "I have a friend" while we bounced and/or rolled a big therapy ball.
• Reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, DW's Guide to Preschool and The Kissing Hand
• Making Birthday Crowns - We are celebrating August and September birthdays this month
• We are continuing our classroom reward program and our first preschool life skill.
• We will be playing on the small playground

Small Groups will include:

How many Ducks in the pond?

Shape Matching to create a fall picture

How many apples?

Decorating the first letter of his or her name.

Are you asking you wondering - Where is your child's school work?  At the beginning of the year, many of the projects we complete are held at school to be used in your child's portfolio as well as to decorate the classroom and hallway.  Other activities are completed with manipulatives and have no paper component.  But not to worry we will be sending home their beautiful work throughout the year.  

Scholastic is due September 18, 2015.  You can access the webpage by clicking on the scholastic link to the right of this post.