This week we will be talking about all things summer…we will be discussing vacations, beaches, swimming and whatever the kids can think of. We will have our field day on Wednesday (hoping for good weather 🙂
We will continue to do reviews all the while they are “playing” at the centers of their choice.
Here is a fun rhyming book about summer!!
This week we are going to be doing review and focusing on fun!!
The centers will be focused on the children’s choice where they will be able to choose some of their favorite centers. In dramatic play we will be focusing on things that remind of of summer. This week we will have an ice cream shop and on Thursday we will make sundaes/banana splits.
This is a fun time for the kids and us because we know it is the end of the year and they get to do some of their favorites and we get to see how much they have learned. We are reviewing the whole alphabet this week by playing games and ABC Bingo.
PM ONLY: This Thursday pack your kids lunch for them to eat at school. The kids are going to eat lunch with the Kindergarteners!!!! We will be eating lunch right at noon when everyone arrives.
Below is one book we will read about an ice cream shop:
The next 3 weeks we are going to be doing review and focusing on fun!!
The centers will be focused on the children’s choice where they will be able to choose some of their favorite centers. In dramatic play we will be focusing on things that remind of of summer. This week we will have a camp site and on Thursday will makes S’mores. Next week our dramatic play area will be turned into an ice cream shop.
This is a fin time for the kids and us because we know it is the end of the year and they get to do some of their favorites and we get to see how much they have learned. Review of letters this week is U,V,W,X,Y and Z.
Below is one book we will read about camping:
The kids have really been getting involved in this unit. Just last Thursday I thru out my iced tea bottle and one of the kids yelled at me because I didn’t put it in the correct recycle container!!
This week we will be talking about composting. In the sensory table we will have worms and dirt, in the dramatic play area it will be a flower shop. We will continue with our letter review of P,Q,R,S,T this week. We will continue making our paper mache Earth’s, and will be introducing the kids to addition and subtraction concepts.
Below is a great ABC book about composting.
PM only
last field trip this week is this Thursday
This week we will be learning about where the garbage goes that our garbage men take from the curb each week. This video will help our students understand the process of recycling and garbage.
Our vocabulary this week is crush, recycle, real and pretend. The weekly question is Where does trash go and What do workers do? We will be making an earth out of paper mache and have our own recycling plant in our room. We will be adding water to the shredded paper we made last week and will make our own paper out of recycled newspaper.
We are collecting water bottles (one per child). We are going to make sensory bottles that they can take home to play with!!
Important dates:
May 10-Last field trip of the year to the Dunham Tavern.
May 24-PM DAP students will come in early and have lunch in the gym with the Kindergarteners
May 30th- Field day
May 31- Last day with students
Our next unit is all about the 3 R’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!! We will be talking about Earth Day tomorrow and ways we can save the Earth. This unit we will be very busy: we will be sorting recyclables, making our own Earth out of paper mache, making our own paper out of shredded paper, cleaning up liter around the school yard, and of course the kids favorite part is putting dirt and worms in the sensory table just to name a few. This week we will be reviewing the letters F, G, H, I, and J. Our books this week are The three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle by Nuria Roca and Why should I recycle written by Jen Green.
This is our last week of our ball study. Our questions for the week include; what sport have you played that use a ball, what animals play with balls and finally, do heavy balls bounce ? The children have enjoyed playing with a variety of balls and sports this unit. We have golfed, played balloon tennis, creating ramps to see which items will roll down the ramps and finally painting with many different balls.
This week the story is the fable, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and the story Play Ball. Our Math unit is patterning and we will begin our review of the letters in the alphabet with A,B,C,D,E.
Reminder: This week is a three day week as DAP will be closed on Thursday, giving the staff the opportunity to go to the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children conference. This is an great way our staff can learn new things together. We will return on Monday our new unit Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!!
what it inside a soccer ball?
Our questions for the week are:
Can you make a ball? What do you think is inside these balls? Do you think a bubble is a ball? and Can this ball be opened? Each day the students are asked one of these questions regarding balls. It is fun to see what they think the answer will be? We then add up each group of answers to see which group (yes/no)has the most or least.
We will explore balls by looking inside baseballs, popping bubbles that are the shape of balls, looking inside a soccer ball and making predictions on what is inside a variety of balls. For math we will be sorting, we will be painting with balls of ice and beginning our projects for the art show. We will read a Ball for Daisy and Balls.
This is one of the stories we will read this week? It is a picture book about A Red Ball for Daisy. It will be fun for the students to write their own words for the book. See if your student can tell the story by looking at the pictures.
This week we will be picking up with our balls study. We will be investigating what and how they are made. With opening day for the Indians this week we will be reading books about baseball and Spring as well (hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will be able to get outside soon!!) . Our letters this week are W and X. Math we will be introducing early concepts of addition and subtraction.
PM class only: We have a field trip this Thursday to the Museum of Natural History. Please make sure your child arrives at school at 11:45 the bus leaves at 12:00 sharp.
We will be returning back to the curriculum this week and will be in week 2 of our ball study.
This week we will be painting with balls, strengthening our fine motor by putting pipe cleaners into plastic golf balls, in sensory table we will be doing sink or float experiments all week. We will have our own skee ball set up in dramatic play and will be keeping score. Our letters this week are U and V. This is when sign ups for recreation leagues start and all the kids get really excited because we expose them to many of the sport balls they will be playing.
