Families week 3

Families – Week 3


Children will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways families relate to and help one another. Through the Story Time books, children will hear about a boy who helps his family take care of his baby sister, a boy who realizes how much he has grown when a new baby arrives, a girl who behaves badly when she want attention, and a lonely stuffed bear who finds a new friend. Besides listening to stories, children will begin to recognize initial sounds in words and identify rhyming words as they build vocabulary and comprehension skills. They will also be participating in a variety of music, poetry, mathematics, science, and art activities during Center Time and in Small Groups.


Theme Concepts:
*Family members have role names: mother, father, sister, and so on.
*Some family members live together; some live in other places but are still family members.
*Grown-ups in a family take care of the children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
*Children sometimes get angry at parents and may feel that their parents don't love them as much as their siblings.
*Sometimes grown-ups in a family don't like things that children do and tell them to stop or be quiet.
*Families do things together that are fun.


Books this Week
Noisy Nora – by Rosemary Wells
Peter’s Chair – Ezra Jack Keats
Whistle for Willie – Ezra Jack Keats



Small Groups:
• Which Bear is 1st?

Animal Counting Game

• Apples on Top math counting book (This book will be shared among classmates. Each friend will have a chance to take it home and read it to their families).

• Making names with plastic tiles

• ABC Bingo

• Where is the pumpkin? - A positional book that will be kept in student’s portfolios.

• Ways to help your family – Students will select pictures of chores they can do to help their family at home.

• What does a baby need? – Students will sort pictures of what a baby uses versus a ‘big’ kid. This will be kept for student’s portfolios.

** Some of these small groups will be continued into next week.



Choice Time:


-Dramatic Play- Making cookies with playdough

-Sensory Table- Water Movement using water wheels

-Art Table- Marble Painting

-Science/-Technology – Playing with Ipods

-Blocks- Building with wooden blocks

-Easel- Coloring Mixing

-Library- Reading to Babies

-Rug – Marble Maze



Songs, Word Play, and Letters

-Old MacDonald

-Down by the Bay

-Bingo

- 5 Little Ducks

-If your name starts with ____ raise your hand

Poems:
Hands
Diddle Diddle Dumpling

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Please check for notes coming home this week:

We are going on a field trip to Parlee Farms.

We are starting a Book Pack program, in which books will be sent home to students on Thursdays and are expected to be returned on Tuesday.

Thanks,
Katie, Shannon, Moira, & Mary