Colors Are Everywhere

Theme: Colors Are Everywhere (Letter and Number review)

Date	Music & Movement	Small Group Activity	Circle/Activity/Religion	Books in Our Library Elmer the Elephant Go Away Big Green Monster Mouse Paint The Art of Colors Brown Bear, Brown Bear Planting a Rainbow A Color of His Own Little Blue, Little Yellow Is It Blue? Is It Yellow? Mary Wore Her Red Dress Harold and the Purple Crayon White Rabbit’s Color Books
Mon.	Sing and dance to Hap Palmer’s songs about color.	Let’s paint with just primary colors (red, blue and yellow). What colors can you make?	Book: White Rabbit’s Color Book Activity: Play color bingo Religion: Read and discuss the Seed story ‘Our Family Recycles and Reuses’
Tue	Sing and dance to Hap Palmer songs about color.	Let’s paint with just primary colors (red, blue and yellow). What colors can you make?	Book: Mouse Paint Activity: Color word match-up (a color word spelling game) Religion: Read and discuss the Seed story ‘Our Family Recycles and Reuses’
Wed.	Bean Bag Color Toss – (children will pick a card with a color on then toss their bean bag onto that color paper)	Create a color & shape college using scissors, construction paper in a variety of colors and glue	Book: The Art of Colors Activity: Color word match-up Religion: Review our Earth Day Songs. Talk about how we show love and care for others	Please Reinforce at Home: · Read & count everyday · Play ‘Color I Spy’. · Clap out words and names. · Measure everything around the house. · Continue with helping your child to memorize their address and phone number.
Thur.	Play Twister and sing songs with a “color” theme	AM: Black & White are colors too – Painting with black and white acrylic paints using a paint palette	Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activity: Children to retell Story with flannel story box Religion: Gospel storytelling – Jesus says, “Love one another.”
Fri.	Play Twister and sing songs with a “color” theme	Black & White are colors too – Painting with black and white acrylic paints using a paint palette	Book: Elmer The Elephant and Friends Activity: Sharing – Religion: Gospel storytelling – Jesus says, “Love one another.”

Theme: Colors Are Everywhere (Letter & Number Review)

Work Jobs · Pegs and peg Boards · Pattern Blocks · Unifix blocks · Shape sew cards · Teddy Bear counters · Foam puzzles · File folder games · Animal wooden puzzles	Free Art – see dramatic play – the art center and the dramatic play area will be merged together to create an “ART Studio”.	Blocks & Accessories · Small colored wooden blocks. · Rainbow window blocks · Auto garage · Trucks, tractors, buses and train · Unit blocks · Arches/Rainbow blocks	Dramatic Play Art Studio: easel, paints, oil pastels, paper, colored pencils, dot paints, and collage materials; mural paper on the wall for painting or drawing on, art display area.
Writing Center: Letter A--Y words to copy, lined paper, plan paper, color words, letter worksheets Sensory Tables- Shave cream and water colors Large blocks of ice, eye droppers, liquid watercolors		Gospel Theme: Jesus Commands us to love one another Religious Objective: The children will recognize that loving one another goes beyond our families. The children will continue to recognize recycling is a way to show love for our planet and its people. Prayer: Dear Jesus, we will share our time together by following your rule to love each. We will be thoughtful and respectful. We will also remember to take good care of the world around us. Prayer Table: family finger puppets and puppets
Overall Curriculum Objective: Involve children in a variety of activities, projects, and games that will increase their knowledge of colors and shapes. Practice estimating measurements, how long, how tall, how much - “I’m as tall as…” or “the lizard is 10 cubes long.” Provide opportunities for the children to clap multi/syllabic words. (clap out names, familiar words) Reinforce following multi-step directions.
Each of the following will be introduced in class this month through books, activities and music Artist: Stephanie Choo Music: Chinese Plant: Cherry Blossoms Act of Grace: Praying to the Angels		Continue Poem: The Earth I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green. With such a lot of nice fresh air All sandwiched in between

Color Song & Finger Plays

Colors

(Sung to: Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue

The Color I See

Red, red is the color I see. If you are wearing red then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your red then sit back down.

Yellow, Yellow is the color I see. If you are wearing Yellow then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your yellow then sit back down.

Go through as many colors as you wish

I Can Sing A Rainbow

Red and yellow and pink and green;
Purple and orange and blue.

I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Listen with your eyes, listen with your eyes, and sing everything you see.

You can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing along with me.

Red and yellow and pink and green; purple and orange and blue.

Now, we can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Colors up in the Rainbow

Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.
All the colors that we know, live up in the rainbow.
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.

Fred Red

Fred Red bumped his head, Had to be fed in bed.
Mellow Yellow is a funny fellow, He only eats yellow Jello.
Suesy Blue got the flu, Boo Hoo Hoo, Boo Hoo Hoo
Jean Green is so mean, She's the meanest I've ever seen.
Burple Purple is a nerple, Ollie Orange ate an orange.
John Brown went to town, He is such a silly clown.
Jack Black sat in the back, Willie White is always right!

Colors of the Rainbow

Red, and Yellow and Pink and Green, Purple and Orange and Blue
I can sing a rainbow.. . I Sing a rainbow... and so can you.

Red, and Yellow and Pink and Green, Purple and Orange and Blue
I Can Dance A Rainbow... I Can Dance A Rainbow... and so can you

Red is the Color of Food

Red is the color for an apple to eat.
Red is the color for cherries, too.
Red is the color for strawberries,
I like red food don't you?

Paint With Colors

I know my colors for painting fun, green like the grass and the yellow sun.
an orange pumpkin and white-white snow, a red rose and a black crow,
blue like a mailbox, brown like an ape, a pink pig and some purple grapes!

I can spell Red

R. . .E . .D, red, R . . .E. . .D, red.
I can spell red. I can spell red.
Fire trucks are red. Stop signs are red too.
R. . .E . .D, red, R . . .E. . .D, red.

Orange as a carrot

ORANGE as a carrot,
YELLOW as a pear,
PURPLE as a plum,
BROWN as a bear,
GREEN as the grass,
BLUE as the sky,
BLACK as a cat
RED as cherry pie

Beautiful Rainbow Came

One day the sun was shining bright (hold up right hand like blocking sunlight)
But some clouds came along and it became black as night
(Hold up left hand for the clouds)
Then the rain began to sprinkle onto the ground
(wiggle fingers for the rain coming down)
And soon it was raining all over the town.
But when the clouds had passed on by (move both hands to one side)
A big beautiful rainbow stretched across the sky
(make a rainbow arc with your hands)

When I See

When I See Red I put my hand on my head
When I see Blue I touch my shoe
When I see green I wash my face real clean
When I see yellow I wave to the fellows
When Orange is found I put my hand on the ground
When I see pink I think, I think, I think

Red is an Apple

Red is an apple
Yellow is the sun
Blue is the sky
And purple is a plum

Orange is an orange
Green is a tree
Black as the sky
I know my colors as you can see!

The Ocean & Tide Pools

Wow, it has been a long time. I had a rough 2009, my mother was ill and passed away in May. It seems I am getting back on track.

So here goes....

The Ocean and Letter O

Overall Curriculum Objective:
Introduce the letter N through stories, songs and activities.
Provide activities that require matching objects & creating pairs; classify b y group of mixed size and color.
Encourage students to care for their own bodies and dress & fasten their own clothing.
Introduce tide pools & oecan through songs, stories, games and art activities

Some books in our library
A House For A Hermit Crab
Star fish
Octopus
Swimmy
On The Beach
How To Hide a Octopus
Swimmy
Exploring The Seashore
The Rainbow Fish
The Bay
Shellfish Aren’t Fish
Over In The Ocean
Sharks

Monday & Tuesday:
Music: Sing about sharks and move like them too
Small Group: Create a letter 0 booklet with an O octopus and illustrate words that begin with O
Book: Olive Octopus
Activity: What begins with O songs - Write a class “Beach Story”

Wednesday:
Music: Make up our own lyrics to “1 little, 2 Little, 3 little fish, dolphin, sharks,….”
Small Group: Create a letter 0 booklet with an O octopus and illustrate words that begin with O
Book: Olive Octopus
Activity: What begins with O songs -Write a class “Beach Story”

Thursday:
Music: Make up our own lyrics to “1 little, 2 Little, 3 little fish, dolphin, sharks, ….”
Small Group: Create an Ocean collage
Book: Over In The Ocean
Activity: Sharing Day –Create fishy prints

Friday:
Music: “Angle Fish” dancing with scarves
Small Group: Sponge paint a tide pool scene
Book: Rainbow Fish
Activity: Sharing Day –Create fishy Prints

Work Jobs:
Cubes
Snape cubes
Connects
Snap Fish
Magnetos
Wooden puzzles
Floor puzzle –
Animal sequencing

Free Art:
Easel painting
Collage materials for creating beach scenes & tide pools
Play dough with tools
Watercolors
Markers, crayons, pencils, oil pastels

Block & Accessories:
Arks & pairs of animals
Boats
Fish, star fish, crabs
Sea shells & rocks
Curved blocks
Rainbow blocks
Legos

Dramatic Play: The Beach House: Sea Creatures, fishing poles, beach chair, kitchen furniture, food.

Writing Center: Letter O worksheets, Simple Dot-To-Dot, paper, pencils, space stencils, Words to copy pertaining to tide pools and the beach.

Water table- Water with sponges, sprinkler cans, “barge” (meat trays) and objects to put on the ‘barge’.

Sand table- Sand with small pails, shovels and shells

The Beach Story:
By:________________________

I went to the beach today,

The sun was as hot as _______________.

The sky was as blue as ______________.

The ocean as cold as ________________.

I swam in the water just like a ________.

I played in the sand and built a ____________.

While I was walking around, I found _______________.

I love to run on the beach like a _________________.

I had fun at the beach.


Songs & Finger Plays


Water Chant

Water, water everywhere
On my face and on my hair.
On my fingers, on my toes.
Water, water on my nose.

By Jean Warren

I’m A Little Fishy (sung to I’m a Little Teapot)

I’m a little fishy, I can swim.
Here is my tail and here is my fin.
When I want to have fun with my friends,
I wiggle my tail and dive right-in.

We’re Little Orange Crabs (sung to “The Farm In The Dell”)

We’re Little orange crabs,
Who live down by the sea.
And wherever we do go,
We’re quick as quick can be.

We’re little orange crabs,
Who like to run and hide.
And when you see us walking by,
It’s always side-to-side.

The Jelly Fish (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)

The jelly fish lives in the ocean,
The jelly fish lives in the sea.
The jelly fish lives in the ocean,
Oh, jelly fish swim by me.
Swim, Swim, swim, swim,
Oh, jelly fisy swim by me, by me.
Swim, swim, swim, swim,
Oh, jelly fish swim by me.

Let’s Take Care of Every One (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

Seaweed, sea stars, giant whales,
Coral, crabs and fish with tails.
They live in the ocean blue,
And make a web of life, it’s true.
Let’s take care of every one,
For our job is never done.

THEME: “B”unnies

Some books in our library
Peter Cottontail
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
P.J. The spoiled Bunny
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
I Love My Daddy Because…
Funny Bunnies
Guess How Much Love You
Home For A Bunny
Animal Homes
Where Ones There Was A Wood
Little Cottontail
Billy Bunny
The Nutty Nut Chase

Mon.
Music: Bunny Hop dance
Small Group: Create a B Booklet with a “B”unny and something “b”lue
Science: Slicing “B”ananas
Book: Bubble Bear/Funny Bunnies
Activity: B Feelie-Meelie box
Religion: Matching pairs – how they go together - an activity about choices

Tues.
Music: Bunny Hop dance
Small Group: Create a B booklet with a “B”unny and something “b”lue
Book: Bubble Bear/Funny Bunnies
Activity: B Feelie-Meelie box
Religion: Matching pairs - see Monday

Wed.
Music: Sing and act out bunny fingerplays & songs
Small Group: Draw a picture of bunnies & Dictate a story.
Book: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Activity: Find the bunny (a hide a find game)
Religion: Stories Jesus told - The Lost Sheep

Thurs.
Music: Sing and act out bunny fingerplays & songs
Small Group: Draw a picture of our bunnies, Midnight and Moonlight
Book: Billy Bunny
Activity: SHARING Bouncing Bunnies (Left & Right movement activity)
Religion: Gospel storytelling - Two sons in the Vineyard

Fri.
Music: Bean Bag activities
Small Group: Create a bunny paper bag puppet
Book: Guess How Much I Love You?
Activity: SHARING – Bouncing Bunnies
Religion: Gospel storytelling

Work Jobs:
· Unifix Blocks
· Lacing Letters
· Wooden puzzles
· Sorting fruit
· Floor Puzzles
· Shoe puzzle
· Fastening board
· File folder games

Free Art:
· College tray with items for creating “feeling figures”
· Glue, scissors and markers
· Stamps and stamp pads
· Lunch sacks and paper plates

Block & Accessories:
Wooden marble maze
Waffle blocks
Forest animals

Dramatic Play:
Farmers Market - baskets, cash register, play money, wooden fruits and veggies, shopping bags, adding machine

Writing Center: B words to copy, simple dot-to-dot, letter B writing sheets, paper, pencils and markers

Religious Theme: Jesus Teaches Us
Religion Objectives:
… The children will explore daily choices they make.
… The children will recognize Jesus told stories to teach us about God.
Prayer: “Thank you, Jesus for teaching us about God.”
Prayer Center: Matching games, Bible, Bible Stories

Overall Curriculum Objective:
Provide activities that promote proper scissor use and simple cutting and gluing activities.
Learn about bunnies.
Continue reinforcing left to right tacking and printing through movement games and songs.
Emphasis spelling and recognition of first names.

Monthly Themes:Each of the following will be introduced in class this month through books, activities and music:
Artist: Edgar Degas
Music: Classical/Ballet
Native flower: Poppy
Act of Grace: Sign of the Cross
Saint: Vincent De Paul


Songs

Baby Bunny

Baby bunny dressed in blue (Hold up two fingers like bunny ears)

Met another; then there were two. (hold up two fingers on both hands)

Bouncy bunnies to the left (Move fingers to left.)

Bouncy bunnies to the right (Move fingers to right.)

Bouncy bunnies get in bed (Put head on hands like sleeping)

Off to bed, you sleepy heads (pretend to sleep)


Bouncing Baby Bunny
Baby bunny bounces high (Jump high)

Baby bunny bounces low (Jump low)

Baby bunny blinks his eyes (Blink eyes)

Baby Bunny waves good-bye (Wave)



Here Comes a Bunny
Here comes a bunny, hip-hop-hop

See how his long ears, flip-flop-flop

See how his nose goes, Twink-twink-twink

See how his eyes go, winkl-wink-wink

Here is a bunny with ears so funny

And here is his hole in the ground

A noise he hears,

And he pricks up his ears

And jumps in his hole in the ground

Wonderful Worms

THEME: Wonderful Worms and other Creepy Crawlies


Some books in our library
Spiders
Mighty Spiders
The Fascinating World of Insects
Backyard Insects
A Picture Book of Insects
The Icky Bug Counting Book
Quick as a Cricket
Hey, Little Ant
Where’s that Insect
Bugs
Full Worm Moon
Eency Weency Spider
The Creep, Crawly Book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Grouchy Ladybug

Mon.
Music/Movement: “Spiders and Snakes” Walk like spiders
Small Group: Create W booklet with wiggle worms and water colors
Book: Worm’s Wagon
Activity: Sing “What’s the Sound that Starts these words?” using W words
Religious Activity: Thank you God for Spiders wed yarn toss game

Tue.
Music/Movement: Spider walk and rolly poly races
Small Group: Create W booklet with wiggle worms and water colors
Book: Worm’s Wagon
Activity: Sing “What’s the Sound that Starts these words?” using W words
Religious Activity: Thank you God for Spiders wed yarn toss game.

Wed.
Music/Movement: Butterfly dancing with scarves
Small Group: Create a caterpillar with egg cartons, paint, pipe cleaners, goolies eyes
Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Activity: Butterfly life cycle- Flannel Board
Religious Activity: Create a class list: “Why Did God Make Spiders?”

Thurs.
Music/Movement: Butterfly dancing with scarves and spider walking
Small Group: Surprise Paint Butterflies
Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Activity: Butterfly life cycle floor puzzle – Flannel board
Religious Activity: Gospel Story / Create a class list: “Why Did God Make Spiders?”

Fri.
Music/Movement: Sing the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and spider walk
Small Group: Create a worms with clay
Book: Miss Spider’s Tea Party
Activity: Spider web dot to dot/Sharing
Religious Activity: Gospel story

Sensory Table:
Soil and worms & pill bugs

Work Jobs:
Counting (plastic) flies
Buggy Bingo
Sequencing Insect Game
Ladybug Match-up
Wooden puzzles
File folder games
Pond life floor puzzle


Free Art:
Pastel paints,
College material for making bug.
Clay
Insect stencils
Insect stamps
Block & Accessories:
Frogs
Bugs
Lego’s
Marbled mazes

Dramatic Play:
Insect lab: lab coats, magnifying glass, microscopes, Bugs, twisters, glove, ect.

Overall Curriculum Objective:
Provide activities that reinforce rote counting to 20 and above, focus on the numbers 19 & 20. Introduce children to spiders, insects, bugs and butterflies.
Talk about their life cycles and their importance to the earth.
Learn the differences between spiders and bugs.

Religious Theme: We learn more about the insects and bugs God made for us.
Religion Objectives:
To help the children explore the world of insects and bugs and appreciate them as God’s gift to us.
To encourage the children to appreciate the ways that insects help us.
Prayer: “Thank you God for all your creatures, insects, bugs and spiders too. Amen.”
Prayer Center:
Thank you God for insects, bugs and spiders- Counting and sorting spiders and bugs. Bug file folder games

Each of the following will be introduced in class this month through books, activities and music:
Artist: Andy Warhol
Music: Irish
Native flower: California Fuchsia
Act of Grace: Holy Water
Saint: St. Patrick

Some ideas for experiences with your child at home.
Clap out words and names.
Cut paper
Count everything
Measure things around the house using a ruler

Fun With Dr. Seuss

THEME: Fun With Dr. Seuss

Some books in our library
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
And To Thank That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
Oh, The Thinks you can Think
Mr. Brown Con Moo! Can You?
One Fish, Two Fish
The Cat In the Hat
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket
Fox In Sox
Horton Hears a Who and other stories
If I Ran The Zoo

Mon.
Music: Rhythm instruments – following the beat
Activity: Make up a silly rhyme and illustrate
Book: The Cat in the Hat & The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Religious Activity: Learn the song “Let’s Pretend” – Take an imaginary carpet ride

Tues.
Music :Rhythm stick activities with rhyming words
Small Group: Color, cut and group Small, Smaller, Smallest worksheet
Book: Horton Hears a Who
Activity: Feelie-Meelie box of different sized items
Religious Activity: Learn the song “Let’s Pretend” – Take an imaginary carpet ride

Wed
Music: Rhythm stick activities with rhyming words
Small Group: Create Yertle the Turtle using paper plates and paints
Book: Yertle The Turtle
Activity: Examine Crackers the tortoise, what does her shell look like? What does it feel like”
Religious Activity:

Thur.
Movement: Bean Bag activities
Small Group: Design/create a bird college using feathers.
Book: Gerturde McFuzz
Activity: Sharing-feather blowing relays
Religious Activity: Gospel storytelling and action song

Fri.
Movement: Animal Actions
Small Group: Create our own whacky zoo
Book: If I Ran The Zoo
Activity: Sharing- Animal sound lotto
Religious Activity: Gospel storytelling and action song

Work Jobs:
File folder games
Wooden Puzzles
Sorting/counting teddy bears
Pattern blocks
Balance scale & items to weigh
Pom-Poms w/ spoons/tweezers

Free Art:
Easel Painting
College tray with items to create Seuss pictures
Markers & crayons
Scissor: straight edge & decorative
Play dough

Block & Accessories:
Doll house
Family figures
Furniture
Cars, trucks & Trains
Lincoln Logs
Legos

Dramatic Play: Book Store: Dr. Seuss Books, crazy hats, cash register, play money, book bags, couch and chair, cups and saucers

Sensory Table:
Oobleck, funnels, measuring cups

Writing Center:
Pencils, color pencils, stencils, lined paper, journals, easy sight words to copy(the, and, if, ran, you, me)

Overall Curriculum Objective:

Provide activities that allow the students to explore “division” by folding, use scales for weighing Provide activities that reinforce rote counting to 20 and above, focus on the numbers 19 & 20.
Encourage students to draw or write in their Journals and dictate stories.

Religious Theme: God gives us the gift of our imaginations
Religion Objectives:
To help the children be aware of God’s gift of imagination with which they can make many new things.
To affirm how well the children can use their imaginations.
Prayer: “Dear God, thank you for the gift of my imagination. Amen.”
Prayer Center:
Butterflies,
Butterfly books and puzzle

Bedtime Lesson Plan

I have a number of students who have been experiencing bedtime issues and nightmares so I decided to address this problem with this lesson plan.

THEME: “Q”uiet It’s Bedtime

Overall Curriculum Objective:
¨ Encourage the students to talk about their dreams and bedtime rituals.
¨ To introduce students to the letter Q through song and activities.
¨ Provide opportunities for the children to look at books and play rhyming games.
¨ Make available activities that reinforce one-to-one correspondence, and matching equivalent sets. Encourage jumping roping while reciting rhymes.

Books:
The Quiet Quail
We Can’t Sleep
The Dream Child
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear?
Goodnight, Sleep Tight
Just Go To Bed
Goodnight Moon
Sleepy Bears
Take a Nap
Good-Night Gorilla
Berenstein Bear’s In The Dark
Time For Bed
I Want To Sleep In Your Bed
The Monster Under My Bed

Mon. Jan. 21
NO SCHOOL – MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
ENJOY YOUR DAY OFF

Tues.Jan. 22
Movement and Music: Zig-Zag walking path to “Crooked Mile/Listen and move
Small Group: Q Books with a Quilts and Q-tip painting
Book: The Quiet Quail
Activity: Introduction to the letter “Q” with file folder game & file folder game
Religious: Learn class payer and sing “If Your Happy and You Know It”

Wed. Jan. 23
Music:Dance to “The Muffin Man” /Listen to Jazz, talk about the sounds and instruments we hear
Small Group: Q Books with a Quilts and Q-tip painting
Book: The Quiet Quail
Activity: Introduction to the letter “Q” with file folder game & File folder game.
Religious: Learn class prayer and sing “If Your Happy and You Know It”

Thurs. Jan. 24
Music: Create beats and play follow the leader using rhythm sticks
Small Group: Create “Sleepy Bear Dream Hats”
Book: Sleepy Bears
Activity: Sharing Day - Sing and act out “Lazy Mary”
Religious: Create a class book “Thank you God for Making me Happy: I can make others happy too.”

Fri. Jan. 25
Music: Use rhythm instruments while reciting nursery rhymes
Small Group: Illustrate a dream and dictate a story about it.
Book: The Napping House
Activity: Sharing Day – Act out “The Napping House” & “Lazy Mary”
Religious: Create a class book “Thank you God for Making me Happy: I can make others happy too.”

Parents are ask to reinforce at home:
¨ The letter “Q” and words that start with “Q”.
¨ Make up simple rhymes with your child.
¨ Read Everyday, talk about the story and make up your own stories.
¨ Recite nursery rhymes at home this week.
¨ Make up simple rhymes with your child.
¨ Find interesting things to count for example windows and doors in your home, how many Mac Donald’s you pass on the way home
¨ Encourage your child to talk about their dreams.

Work Jobs:
File folder games
Lego blocks
Animal lotto game
Links
Nursery rhyme puzzles
I Spy Puzzles

Free Art:
· Easel painting
· college material
· Play dough with animal cookie cutters
· Watercolors
· Stencils

Block & Accessories:
House
Cars/trucks/emergency vehicles
People figures

Dramatic Play:
Tent with sleeping bags and cuddly animals, housekeeping furniture, cribs & Dolls

Writing Center: Letter Q worksheets, Nursery Rhyme booklets, dot to dots, paper, pencils, sensory letters A – Q.

Religion Objectives: It is important to be happy and make others happy. We can ask Jesus to help us be happy by praying to him.
Recite the prayer: “Thank you, God, for helping us to be happy. Amen”
Prayer Center:
Our favorite things – children will put one of their favorite things on the prayer table, ie. Shells, flowers, book.
Poster “Be Happy”, “What makes you happy” class book

Each of the following will be introduced in class this month through books, activities and music:
Artist: Georges Seurat
Music: Jazz
Native flower: California Lilac

Pill Bugs, Pill Bugs Everywhere

Title of Activity: Pill Bugs, Pill Bugs Everywhere (Science Activity)

Age Group Recommended: Three to five year olds

Development Emphasis & Objectives:

Social/Emotional – work collaboratively with others as they hunt for pill bugs, ease fears of bugs as they become more familiar with them.
Cognitive/Language – describes, compare, classify and order in terms of observable characteristics and properties (number of legs, color, where the pill bugs where found, how many they found). Use of a variety of simple tools in their observation – magnifying glass, bug boxes. Raise questions, share and discuss what they found/discovered about the bugs.
Physical/Motor – use of fine motor skills and eye hand coordination in picking up pill bugs and using tweezers.
Creative - record observations and ideas through representation (drawing).

Materials Needed:
Sensory Table/Garden
pill bugs
Soil
Magnifying glasses
Bug Boxes
Crayons
Drawing Paper
Books with illustration and information about pill bugs (sow bugs)

Procedure:
1. If you do not have a garden, fill sensory table with soil and pill bugs you have found in your home garden, worms also if you like.
2. Read the story in “In My Garden” or any other story about bugs you might find in a garden.
3. Discuss with the students what lives in a garden and what their job in the garden is. (Pill bug-decomposition, worms-holes in the soil that helps get water and air to the roots of plants.
4. Distribute bug boxes, explain to the students that after they have examined the bugs that they must put them back in the garden or sensory tub.
5. If you have a garden it’s time to go on a bug hunt, if not have the students go to the sensory table. Explain to the children they must be gentle with the creatures they find.
6. If a student is frighten of bugs reassure them you will be there to help, provide gardening or rubber gloves, tweezers for those who might not wish to pick up the pill bugs with their bare hands.
7. Children can place one pill bug under a magnifying glass or bug box.
8. Once everyone has a pill bug, have the students examine the pill bug carefully. Ask questions such as; What does your bug look like? How many legs can you count? Does the pill bug have wings? What does your pill bug need to live?
9. While the students are looking at their pill bug, have them draw a picture of the bug and dictate to you about what they saw and/or how they felt.

Limits and Guidance Suggestions:
Some students may be fearful of insects/bugs and need lots of assurance.
Children will need to be reminded to be very gentle with the bugs.
Teacher should monitor the bugs/insects that the children a finding before they touch or pick them up.

Extensions of Activity:
Discuss what living things need to live.
Build a worm habitat.
Life cycles- Butterflies
Discuss the relationship between living things and their environment. How living things depend on other living and non-living things for some of their needs.